Tom Waits For No One

Google has opened a digital music store as it aims to compete directly with Apples widely popular iTunes. While the price points are roughly the same(99 cents to $1.29 per song), it has scored a minor coup by offering an official copy of the Rolling Stones classic(and much bootlegged) 1973 concert from Brussels. As any Stones fan knows, the '73 tour was momentous and featured the great Mick Taylor at the top of his vibrato game at the tender age of 23. Important to know:the Brussels release is actually the evening show, not the well circulated afternoon show, so the material is very new to many people. At $4.99 it's a steal and will be followed by four other official "bootleg" releases this year. Good job Rolling Stones, now clear the hurdles and release the documentary Cocksucker Blues.

Are you a sad literary type and having no luck on those ubiquitous online dating sites? Looking for a colon to wrap around your dangling participle? Well you may be in luck as npluspersonals seeks to fill the dearth in online personals for charming intellectuals. Sample postings include "nihilist seeks not quite nothing."

For the truly wonkish or underemployed here is a complete video of rock critic Greg Kot moderating a discussion on the mechanics of music promotion and the state of the concert business.

Are Nirvana, Soundgarden, and the Smashing Pumpkins now (gulp) considered classic rock? They, along with other 90's music heroes, have been popping up on classic-rock radio sandwiched between 'Skinnid(as they say here in Maine) and Journey. A startling and wrong development writes Jason Heller in the a/v club.

Paging the Coen brothers or David O Russell.....the New York Times has unearthed a wacky plot to aid the recently killed Quaddafi brokered by a former CIA agent, a Republican strategist, and a Kansas City lawyer. My long forgotten pamplet, How To Survive Bloody Coups & Influence People,was also completely ignored during the recent Arab Spring.

Detectives in Los Angeles are reexamining the 1981 Natalie Wood drowning after new evidence surfaced.(ok that was in poor taste) Speaking of waves, Surfin' by the Beach Boys turns 50 as  Jim Fusilli of the Wall Street Journal takes a look back.

Finally, an autograph of 19th-century baseball legend King Kelly is expected to fetch big bucks writes Steve Henson in his excellent piece on baseballs first superstar.