What does it really take to be one of the most recognized muses in rock ‘n’ roll? Just ask fiery haired Pamela Des Barres, the world’s most famous groupie. Before TMZ and Perez Hilton reported on the escapades of celebrities, the now 62-year-old California girl set off to meet her idols and was doing plenty of kissing, but no telling, at least until she published her world renowned memoir in 1987, I’m With The Band. Finally, she dished on what it was really like to be with some of music’s most influential artists, including Mick Jagger, Keith Moon, Jimmy Page, and Jim Morrison. Yet, it wasn...

The Old 97's debut in 1994 and its acclaimed follow-up a year later on Bloodshot Records established Rhett Miller, Murry Hammond, Ken Bethea and Philip Peeples as indie-rock's favorite cowpunks. After signing with Elektra in 1997, the Dallas quartet recorded a trio of artistically restless albums that found Miller refining his emotional lyricism and the band tightly coiling around power pop arrangements. Rhino shakes its caboose with a collection of classic tracks from the band's first seven years. Hit By A Train: The Best of Old 97's is available from Rhino on June 20.

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Hollywood Records has announced a May 9th digital release for Scrubs, the companion album to the hit NBC comedy. The soundtrack will be available exclusively through iTunes, where it will be featured on the site's TV Show section - a first for the mega-popular music online destination.

The cutting-edge album spotlights the best musical moments from the Emmy award-winning series, including songs from New York City rock act Elefant ("Why"), singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur ("In The Sun"), country rockers The Mavericks ("I Want To Know"), Old 97's lead singer Rhett Miller ("Our Love") and ...

Verve Forecast is proud to announce the release of Rhett Miller's second solo album, The Believer, due in stores on February 28th 2006. A follow-up to the highly acclaimed The Instigator, the new record is brimming with, as Blender said, "knock "em dead songs." Already widely-loved for his work as frontman and main songwriter of the hard-charging rock "n" roll quartet the Old 97's (of which he is still a member), The Believer takes its predecessor's achievements several steps further, with a dozen deeply felt, craftily melodic tunes that demonstrate the Texas-bred artist's knack for using a...

Verve Forecast is proud to make its South By Southwest party debut with a showcase on Friday, March 17, 2006. Taking the stage at Eternal (418 East 6th Street) will be Verve Forecast recording artists Brazilian Girls, Jamie Cullum, Jackie Greene, Rhett Miller, Susan Tedeschi and Teddy Thompson. The lineup demonstrates the wealth of talent and diversity on this eclectic label.

Ranging from rock to jazz to dance to blues and more, the artists on Verve Forecast, a label of The Verve Music Group, represent different styles, influences, and attitudes, but all create intelligent, sophistic...