Not the famously lost “Sweet Sister Ray” (which exists only in a 1968 Lester Bangs review of a San Diego VU show) but a song no one even knew was lost: “I’m Not A Young Man Anymore,” which you can listen to below and download in many places.

Word still is that Calvin Johnson is coming to town tomorrow. He’s supposed to be stopping in at Zephyr, but K Records doesn’t seem  too sure. Nobody in the know has heard anything of a venue change, but the folks who handle booking at Zephyr aren’t in at the moment.
Chances are Calvin will turn up [...]

The stairs heading down to the Echoplex are almost as scummy as that wall from the Masque, but the place was all punk admiration inside: moms showing their sons how cool they used to be, aging punks making it out to their first show in years. But it was heartwarming, all the teenagers stuffed up [...]

@ TEMPLE BAR
SAT | NOV 3

The members of Tinariwen play Saharan desert blues like they invented them, and as far as this world music neophyte knows, maybe they did . . . though the music itself sounds like it comes from a time and place much older than anything our American innovators knew about. “World [...]

JAIL WEDDINGS by LONNIE NGUYEN
@ QUE SERA
FRIDAY | AUG 31
What a great show and I liked it all, too: Woman, the band split international-playboy-style between NYC, USA and Mexico City, DF, and led by an able Australian—Beefheart splatter guitar over caveman rhythm section and split ursine vocals; sounded like Link Wray catching up to Black [...]

@ ZEPHYR
SAT | AUGUST 18
Surprise from Riverside’s one-man Pegasissy with a thrift organ for tones and beats and heaving reverb on the vocals that sounded like Timmy Thomas—the singer who demonstrated in 1972 that drum machines actually do have soul—through a Rallizes vox-box. Waiting for the hand of Arthur to come down and tap him [...]