This is Kanye's best offering in quite some. Plus, who doesn't at least like the idea of King Crimson.

Here's the original...

Slash has new song, new video and...who knows...maybe even a whole new album of songs? Check out the video for "By The Sword"; it starts out very un-Slash. Spoiler Alert: Regrettably, Slash never punches the lead singer in the face.

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Good, fast rock n' roll.

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This video is frustrating as hell. Good song though.

Seen and heard on Stereogum, deserves a H/T. Their post covers just how close tabs are being kept on new songs off High Violet - which I love.

Here's "Afraid of Everyone" and "Conversation 16," performed live at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. "Afraid of Everyone" is my favorite song I've heard off the new record so far.

Looking Back at Rock Photographer Jim Marshall's Greatest Photos

Pieced together for your listening pleasure by The Top 13. It's a predictably NBA and boxing heavy list. Hard to say which tune I think is the worst, but my favorite has to be 'Must Be The Money' by Neon Deion.

Worst Songs By Professional Athletes

I like exactly one song by Health - and it's the song that everyone else likes. The rest of their noisy catalog to date does nothing for me, but, if it's any consolation I like 'Die Slow' a whole lot.
 
Despite past shortcomings, the band is back on my radar for two reasons:

In the meantime, the highly conceptual Javelin managed to find a way to cut through the blare and create one hell of a great remix of Health's 'In Heat', check it out:

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Let's hear it for Cuyahoga Community College, the Tri-C just became the most rock n' roll Community College in the land.

From the NYT:

Some of the most interesting items at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, like Buddy Holly’s high school diploma and Jim Morrison’s death certificate, are usually hidden in storage as part of the library and archive. But by the end of the year those items will have a new home in a high-tech $35 million building the museum will share with Cuyahoga Community College, about two miles from the hall’s lakefront headquarters, The Plain Dealer reported.

The A.P. story also notes that Cuyahoga and the Hall plan to collaborate on some projects, such as training interns how to preserve old recordings - presumably, by handling some of the truly great relics of rock n' roll yore. That. Rules.

Rawk-duo Japandroids made their nationally televised debut on Fallon last night, and it ripped.

On the whole, this was a quality episode of Jimmy Fallon - Japandroids, Bill Heder, and Rahzel reunited with The Roots in their house band duties. Watch the whole thing on Hulu.