John Richards

The Brian Jonestown Massacre will release a new self-titled album on March 15th. Anton Newcombe is working with real determination. The past five years have brought four albums from Brian Jonestown Massacre, one soundtrack record, and two LPs with Tess Parks.

Just about a year ago, BRMC was in the KEXP studio for a fine live performance. Watch that session here: www.youtube.com

"Blues From A Gun" reached Number One in the US Billboard Modern Rock charts thanks to William Reid's manic, unrestrained guitar playing.": www.gigwise.com

The Churchill Garden is from Lucerne, Switzerland. Krissy Vanderwoude, however, hails from northern Indiana: www.nwindianalife.com

Oh, that wonderful voice! One year after the death of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan, her band mates have announced their final album, "In the End," a collection of songs O’Riordan worked on prior to her January 15th, 2018 death.: www.rollingstone.com

Here's a tribute to The Sundays' "Blind" album: sloucher.org

"A thought that never changes remains a stupid lie... It's never been quite the same... No hearing or breathing... No movement, no colors, just silence..." Here are the lyrics to this wonderful song (Notice the last verse, particularly.): songmeanings.com

If you go to Fort Lauderdale in early March, you can go on an "80's Cruise" with OMD: www.songkick.com

The Love Language will "bees" at The Neptune Theatre on Friday, February 22nd, 2019. (That's next week!)

What's your favorite version of this song?: aquariumdrunkard.com

This "superduo," composed of Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, will be here in Seattle at Neumos on Sunday, March 17th, 2019.: consequenceofsound.net

"From fifth-grade transgressions to musings about how “nothing lasts forever,” Bazan lays bare his past, present and future selves in this third single from Phoenix." Read a discussion of this song and see the video here: www.pastemagazine.com

"I live for the silence when the... Snow shuts the city down... It takes the noise of a million more... And turns it into a very small town..." Aren't these lyrics apropos today?: genius.com

Chris Cornell received his third Grammy the other night. Read about it here: www.rollingstone.com

"Sweet Oblivion" was the band's highest landmark in terms of album sales, and was the closest they came to ever achieving mainstream success. "Sweet Oblivion" sold in excess of 300,000 copies on the strength of the song "Nearly Lost You."

You can hear Jenny Lewis at The Moore Theatre on Tuesday, May 21st, 2019.