Old Man Birthday

Old Crow Medicine Show fire up the season with OCMS XMAS, a rowdy, rootsy holiday record that turns their string-band joy into a new Christmas tradition.

He is an Alabama cowboy, a male camellia lady, a godfather of grunge. On the occasion of his 60th birthday on November 12th, 2005, Neil Young played three days in the NBC late night show from talk master Conan O'Brien to present his album Prairie Wind. He staged himself as long-haired grandfather, patriarch of a widely ramified musical family between LSD-, country-, blues-, heavy metal- and grunge-rock. However he didn't forget that he is an outlaw and that he has to make a stand against the whole world. No, this man can't stop, he loves his country and provokes with statements about patriotism and against the Bush administration as well as with the essential question what remained from the dream of the hippie generation. This man is not getting any older. Whilst other rock musicians in his age confine themselves to serve the nostalgic wants of their fans, Neil Young tries to prevent that. This man has no need to acknowledge any guilts. Neil Young was always older and that's why is now younger than anybody else. Long may you run! [Amazon]

Dean and Gene Ween were barely out of their teens when they recorded GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, and it shows: it's juvenile in the best sense of the word, mixing their sprawling sense of humor with punk, heavy metal, and a surprising amount of pop literacy. At a whopping 23 tracks long, the album features a lot of noodling and lots of whacked-out pop, including "Nan," a dweeby tale of unrequited love, and the jazzy "Never Squeal," which shows off Ween's musical prowess and versatility…

The fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files commenced airing on the Fox network in the United States on October 4, 1996, concluding on the same channel on May 18, 1997, and contained 24 episodes. Following the filming and airing of the season, production began on The X-Files feature film, which was released in 1998 following the show's fifth season.

The fourth season of the series focused heavily on FBI federal agents Fox Mulder's (David Duchovny) and his partner Dana Scully's (Gillian Anderson) investigation of an alien conspiracy, which is protected by the mysterious Syndicate. Midway through the season, Scully is diagnosed with terminal cancer, a result of her previous abduction, and Mulder begins to lose his faith in the idea of extraterrestrials. The season ends on a cliffhanger, with the purported suicide of Mulder.