Rolling Stone’s Rock&Roll Daily posted links to two Tom Waits appearances on David Letterman from the early/mid 80’s. Their point was how similar Letterman’s interviews were only a year apart, but even more astounding is Waits’ performance of “Frank’s Wild Years” off Swordfishtrombones, which has always been a highlight for me from that record. And […]

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The new Cursive record, Mama, I’m Swollen, will be out March 10, 2009 via Saddle Creek. It’s the band’s sixth studio album and follows the sorely underrated Happy Hollow from 2006. With Cursive’s penchant for heavy-handed, thematically driven song cycles, chances are good that Mama, I’m Swollen will follow suit, though that title, as awesome […]

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