Updated 9/22/11 with Soundboard Abbey Road. With Furthur putting the exclamation point on their Abbey Road adventure earlier this week, Deadheads were all abuzz about the collision of worlds between The Beatles and The Dead.  And as a result, a couple of new mixes surfaced which give us reason to celebrate and contemplate the affinity [...]

I typically post these link roundups on Fridays, but didn’t get around to it last Friday and had too many could links to not share this week.  So here’s your first ever Monday Linkafication: Chicagoans!  North Coast Music Festival is this weekend.  Here are five reasons why you should go. Don’t you love it when [...]

We’re resurrecting Symphony Sunday for a couple more weeks before we finish the series. The Beatles made liberal use of horns and strings on their late period recordings. One might argue that the ability to replicate these sounds contributed to the end of their run as a live band. But, that doesn’t stop Cheap Trick, [...]

The curator of our the I Love Charts tumblog offers his top ten song charts – Beatles, Clash, Ramones all make the list My Morning Jacket jams out a little on their newest tune Whoever writes the FAQ pages for Phish festivals certainly knows how to tickle my funny bone.  the latest for Super Ball [...]

We took a week off from Linkafication last week, but that just means that this week’s is just that much linkier. The Barn’s favorite music industry crank Bob Lefsetz tears into Jon Bon Jovi, who has some misdirected hate for Steve Jobs.  And the world keeps on turning. Robbie Robertson finds a new backing band:  [...]

Well, that timing worked out just perfectly.  After tackling an Abbey Road song, in order,  each day of their Spring Tour, Furthur arrived at The Beatles’ two album closing musical suites just in time for Phil Lesh’s 71st birthday.  Tucking the so-called Sun King and Golden Slumbers in the middle of a beefy second set [...]

We had so much fun with our Talking Heads video feature and the Yo Gabba Gabba vs. MTV chart, we’ll stick with videos at least one more time. This time, the clinging for relevancy folks at myspace offer a classic vertical timeline of the music video, from 1964 to the present.  Beatles?  Check.  Michael Jackson?  [...]

Today marks thirty years that the world has been without John Lennon. We choose to remember him on this day and honor the duality of his legacy:   the Working Class Hero, artist and poet who put aside his ego and declared his principles on the world’s stage…

After much wringing of hands and rampant speculation, The Beatles back catalog was finally released this week on the Itunes Music Store.  As momentous of an occasion as Apple is making this out to be, you may be wondering… after purchasing these tracks on vinyl, eight-track, cassette, CD, and mini-disc, in their original, reissued and [...]

More music related charts and graphs from around the web.  These two come courtesy of GraphJam.