Twenty eight years ago today, the first of what would turn out to be two multi-day US Festivals — envisioned by their organizer, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, as ‘Woodstock West’ — opened in blistering 110-degree heat at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernadino County, Calif.

The third-annual Record Store Day is set for April 17, and this year’s exclusive releases include a reissue of Rhino’s 4LP Joy Division vinyl box set, a blue-vinyl reissue of R.E.M.’s ‘Chronic Town’ and fresh vinyl reissues from Sonic Youth, Joe Strummer and the Ramones.

Australia’s Hoodoo Gurus today announced a May 11 U.S. release date for their ninth studio album, ‘Purity of Essence,’ which the band is teasing with a six-part web mockumentary that pokes fun at Metallica’s self-help doc ‘Some Kind of Monster.’

[tweetmeme]Few things are more reminiscent of ’80s pop culture than the type of celebrity do-goodery that sprouted up in the aftermath of the earthquake that smashed Haiti last week, particularly in the form of “Hope for Haiti,” Friday’s star- studded, multi-network telethon featuring George Clooney in the Bob Geldof role, and old hands Bono, Bruce [...]

Boston modern-rock radio station WBCN (104.1 FM), aka “The Rock of Boston,” will be pulled off the air next month and survive as a Web-only outlet, its owner announced today in a surprise move.
Launched as a classical-music station in 1958, BCN gained initial fame in the ’60s and ’70s for its progressive/underground format, then — [...]

Reissuing old albums in deluxe vinyl pressings is all the rage these days, but it’s not often you see what online wax retailer Insound is doing: reissuing a pair of classic 7-inches from The Replacements and Ramones.
On June 9, the Web shop will kick off a new series of reissued punk and indie 45s by [...]