Tuesday Traffic Cop

Ok, get out the way, step to the curb, here's a bunch of rock bits coming through...

- I Rock Cleveland blog names its winners in off-the-cuff rock categories. Robert Pollard and Boston Spaceships win for "The Keith Richards Un-Memorial Award for Rock 'N' Roll Longevity"; J. Mascis wins for "The Golden Axe of Odin Award"; The Japandroids take the prize for "The New Kids on the Rock Block Award" and Yo La Tengo wins for "The Excellence in Awesomeness Award".

Check some Japandroids here:


- My older brothers used to listen to Rory Gallagher when I was growing up. He was a 60s-70s trad blues rock guitarist. PopMatters reviews a new double disc retrospective on the Irish guitarist. Watch a fine clip below.



- The Nation asks "Can Pop Music Survicde without a Mass Market or Mass Profits?" (via The Daily Swarm)

- Wilco main man Jeff Tweedy played Phoenix' Orpheum Theater the other night - I missed it - and Phoenix New Times music editor Martin Cizmar thought it was better than any other concert he saw in Phoenix this year. It probably didn't hurt that Tweedy was on Christmas vacation out here, or as Cizmar wrote... "The show was, Tweedy claimed, a way to pay for his family's visit to his sister's house for the holidays and whether or not that's true, there was an unusually joyous vibe for a concert, and Tweedy was in great spirits."

- On this date (December 29) a decade ago (1999) George Harrison was stabbed by a deranged intruder at his Friar Park estate. The knife narrowly missed his heart, and he was hospitalized with a punctured lung. George was the quiet Beatle. Watch him here rockin' the old Carl Perkins chestnut 'Honey Don't' from a 1987 club gig.




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