Consider it confirmed. John posted all about the attack on the Dag Nasty messageboard (where he is a frequent contributor). His wife has subsequently posted news post-surgery (which went even better than expected).
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Benefit shows and auctions are being set up to help defer some of the costs.

New York City has a surprisingly paltry number of decent records stores. Most of them are too small, too expensive, and too limted in their scope. If you have a car and live in NYC you owe it to yourself to visit Vintage Vinyl in New Jersey (not far from the Menlo Park Mall off of Route 1). m The st...

Picking a song off of Everybody's Rockin' or Landing on Water or Are You Passionate? is like shooting fish in a barrel, so I'm gonna have to go with "Mother Earth" as the worst song on an otherwise very good Neil Young album. And when his new record is released in September, I may have to change my ...

My two cents:
Sonic Youth's cover of "Computer Age" (Neil Young) is most excellent, but my hands down favorite cover is Joan Jett's version of "Roadrunner". Hell, it's one of my favorite songs of all-time.

I was in a band that opened a four band bill with the Buzzcocks headlining. We were the 'locals' on the bill. We would sell our t-shirts for ten bucks which we thought was a reasonable price (they cost us maybe $6 to make). The Buzzcocks tour manager told us that we would have to charge the same amo...

chinchin says: Is the recording available somewhere on the web? I say: Is the recording available somewhere on the web? but seriously folks, I have been searching since December for this stuff and to no avail. John Peel wins again. I downloaded the show from one of those bit torrent websites. There...

So, I just finished listening to the Shellac Maida Vale Session that was recorded (and broadcast) in December and I only recognized 5 of the 8 songs they did. The others may be covers, new songs, or some ridiculously obscure song previously released only on a limited edition 7" given away with a Dut...

Pick just about any track off Rod Stewart's first four solo albums.
Seriously.

This will only be amusing to those die-hard Simpsons fans among us: I remember watching the International Noise Conspiracy in Hoboken back in '01 when the singer went into this long winded rap about brotherhood, solidarity, "the man keeping us down", blah, blah, blah, in rather broker English. When ...

I decide to post this in "General Discussion" as it strikes me as a decidedly un-techy endeavor. I am looking to purchase a portable digital recorder - something I can plug a half way decent mic into to record my band's practices (and the occasional show) and then easily download the recording onto ...