The Best Show

OSEES’ new album ‘Intercepted Message’ is out this week, and they’ll be on tour this fall.

Midge Ure, Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Melissa Etheridge, Ryley Walker, Ron Sexsmith, HEALTH, Matthew Caws of Nada Surf, and more also paid tribute to the legendary singer/songwriter, who passed away at the age of 81.

JLCD Soundsystem honcho James Murphy was the guest on Tom Scharpling‘s The Best Show on Tuesday night (8/8) for a nearly three-hour, freewheeling conversation….

Fenway Park organist Josh Kantor (who’s also in baseball-themed indie rock supergroup The Baseball Project with members of R.E.M. and The Dream Syndicate) plays renditions of indie rock songs at Red Sox games. His latest to surface online are New Pornographers and Aimee Mann…

Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their classic The Best Show’s classic ‘Rock, Rot & Rule’ bit at Brooklyn’s new Murmrr Theatre on October 21. That show sold out and they’ve just added a late show to the night…

One of the most famous bits on Tom Scharpling‘s The Best Show on WFMU was when Ronald Thomas Clontle (in actuality Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster) appeared on the show in 1997 to promote his music guide Rock, Rot & Rule, a book which the author called “the ultimate argument settler”…

Comedian and ‘Difficult People’ star Julie Klausner couldn’t be contained by 10 things. Music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, people, and more.

Real Estate frontman Martin Courtney released his first solo album, Many Moons, today via Domino. As I’ve written before, the record isn’t all that different from what Real Estate do, but Martin’s strapping on the acoustic — plus nice use of mellotron — give Many Moons a lovely, light touch…

As you may know, Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster, the brains behind the newly relaunched The Best Show, have a 16-disc box set of the best bits from the show’s WFMU days coming out via the Numero Group in March…

As mentioned, Tom Scharpling‘s much loved, much missed The Best Show makes its return tonight (12/16) in live podcast form with the whole gang (Mike, Gary, Roy, Vance) in tow…