New Sounds From Adult., Mark Lanegan, Vampire Weekend

    Road Tunes: music releases for the week of 05/14-05/20

    What will you be doing for the Summer? Vacationing on a tropical island? Riding your bike across the country, learning the secrets of organic farming? Leaving it all behind to go live in the desert, chewing peyote until you gain spiritual enlightenment and become one with the cosmos? Or just doing the same boring crap you do all year round, including obsessively consuming culture through TV, movies, and new releases? Speaking of which, here are this week's.

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    New Stuff From Bevis Frond, Mikal Cronin, Deerhunter

    Road Tunes: music releases for the week of 05/07-05/13

    This past week we witnessed the passing of two very different, but equally influential musicians, and one guy from Kriss Kross. Slayer co-founder Jeff Hanneman passed away due to liver failure brought on by being bit by a spider. That bite resulted in "necrotizing fasciitis" which sounds to us like a pretty heavy metal way to go. Influential reggae saxophonist Cedric "Im" Brooks (who worked with the Skatellites, but also recorded several classic albums, including Im Flash Forward and Grounation) suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 70, and Chris Kelly, one half of the flash-in-the-pan rap duo Kriss Kross died of a drug overdose at the tender age of 34. For those of us still living, here are this week's new releases.

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    New Stuff From !!!, Akron/Family, Dead Can Dance, Stooges

    Road Tunes: music releases for the week of 04/30-04/06

    With every band in the world out touring the festival circuit, hot new releases are on the wane. That's why this week brings us new albums from a couple of bands that have been around for over a decade, and a few more from some newly reunited old-timers. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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    5 Worst Career Decisions in Rock

    So you wanna be a rock 'n' roll star? Don't do what they did.

    As any AC/DC fan knows, it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll. The way to the bottom, on the other hand, is extremely short. Just ask Dale Evans, AC/DC's original lead singer who was ousted from the band after recording the band's first single ("Can I Sit Next to You Girl"). Or ask Pete Best about his career after he was ousted from the Beatles before their first single came out. But those folks were replaced because their bandmates found someone they liked better. What about the people who had the opportunity to be in a massively popular money-making band but-through nobody's fault but their own-missed the boat? These are there stories. (DUN DUN).

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    Neil Young Dreams Out Loud

    Famed rocker shares his dreams on his Tumblr page.

    If you know anything at all about Neil Young, you know that he is a bit of an iconoclast. He's a musical maverick who has taken his extremely successful career to some very strange places at the expense of even greater fame and fortune. He's released over 35 albums, directed five films, and written an autobiography. And now he has once again gone where no rock star has gone before by publishing his dream journal on Tumblr for all the world to see.

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    40 Years Ago: Faces Release "Ooh La La"

    The brilliant swansong, recorded as the band was falling apart

    In order to truly appreciate how great Faces were, one has to forget about everything Rod Stewart did subsequently. It's not an easy task, but it's worth while because in his day, Stewart was one of the greatest rock singers around. And from 1969-1975 he fronted one of rock's most legendary bands.

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