Interesting how David Carradine's people want you to know he died with a rope around his junk. From today's follow-up in the Post:
"Carradine, 72, was found naked in a closet in an upscale Bangkok hotel on Thursday with cords around his neck and his genitals. The police are checking DNA found on the cords, but [...]

Crooked Beat just got in a huge shipment of reggae vinyl. I am told that the shipment includes over 100 LPs and about 80 CDs—a lot of King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, Scientist, Keith Hudson, Dillinger, and quite a few Prince Buster records.
"A lot of stuff that people have been asking for," says Crooked Beat's owner [...]

The ridiculously named Major Lazer (Diplo's collab with Switch) will be playing a free show at the Rock & Roll Hotel on June 20. Press folk have already started building up the legend that is Major Lazer:
"Major Lazer is a  collaboration between the two, as disciples of Jamaican born commando, Major Lazer (Who has lasers [...]

Today we passed on the news that Orpheus Records has officially closed for real. We just got off the phone with Owner Rick Carlisle. Apparently, Carlisle decided to close up shop on Saturday afternoon.
"I'm closed," Carlisle says. "Saturday was my last day. I didn't actually decide until two o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday. I [...]

Orpheus Records has officially closed for real. The store had been going out of business for over a year. The store had been on life support due to some serious limbo with whatever tenant was set to fill its Clarendon space. We applauded the store's going-out-of-business sale. And chronicled its various going-out-of-business bargains and sad [...]

I got some great news in my in-box last night, former Apes members Amanda Kleinman, Jeff Schmid, and Erick Jackson have dusted themselves off, and re-grouped as Midnight Kids with a slinky new vocalist and Gypsy Eyes boss Kalani Tifford on bass. Amanda K. and Co. have ditched the Apes' bombastic Fraggle rock for more [...]

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Sublime Frequencies strikes again. This record should be huge in your world. Red Onion should get this in tomorrow.

Bruce Springsteen fans have a lot invested in the Jersey man. They may have had a lot more invested in last night's show at the Verizon Center. Tickets sold out in minutes. Then a company sold tickets they didn't quite have. Anyone who had a ticket was lucky. This was no mere Dad Rock.
And Springsteen [...]