“Certainly, country is one of the last bastions of good songwriting — and of singing in tune. As long as we’re on the charts. Any chart will do. Country music is now akin to what my generation was listening to in the ’60s and ’70s.”

Don Henley in Rolling Stone on the Eagles shift in sound to country

Related breaking music news: The Eagles turn down an offer to play at next year’s Super Bowl (maybe they can get the Dixie Chicks to fill their slot).

Happy birthday to Art Garfunkel and FM radio.

I know a lot of you younger kids don’t have any idea what I’m talking about.

FM radio was what we listened to waaaaayyy back in the 90’s before iPods and sattelite radio. Ask your history teacher or older brother. It was great.

Stone says that the Van Halen reunion with David Lee Roth is going to happen this time. For real. Seriously, this time no one is backing out of it (unless Wolfgang grades begin to slip then all bets are off…)

“Hey Party-People,

Weezer is just polishing up a batch of songs for a recording session that is going to start at the beginning of July. This will be the final recording session for our 6th album which we aim to put out in the first half of 2008. We hope you are all having good times.

Love,

R-dawg”

-from Weezer.com