I was sitting in the Portland airport Tuesday, putting my clothes back on after going through security, when a paid advertising supplement fell out of my copy of The Oregonian, Portland's daily newspaper. That was how I learned that July...Rob Kasper

In the six months i've been presenting this Fake Beatles series, i've made passingreference to Los Shakers, a group from Montevideo, Uruguay, that deserves so much more. It would help if you would indulge this writer and consider all the various and sundry mop-wigged subjects of the past 12 volumes, as worthy as they are, a mere prelude to this, the main attraction. For Hugo, Osvaldo, Pelin and Caio are the Realest Fake Beatles to ever record and, like their role models (but unlike practically every other Moptops manqu), they were as uncannily accomplished at bringing forth the psychedelic Pepperisms as the Merseybeat.My WFMU colleague Jeffrey Cobb once said that if Beatles were a language, Los Shakers would be exceedingly fluent in said tongue.  read more »

In a $7.1 million deal Duvel Moortgat Brewery of Belgium is buying the assets of Liefmans Brewery of Oudenaarde, Belgium. Liefmans, founded in 1770, had declared bankruptcy and stopped production in late 2007.

As part of the deal Duvel now owns all of the machinery, brands and recipes for making Liefmans brown ales and fruit beers. The beers will go back into distribution shortly.  read more »

Mark your calendars July 16th Mackenzies Bar in Minneapolis . Cask beer and a keg of Two!

This sounds good… $2.50 Summit taps all month long. Stub & Herb’s has Summit Extra Pale Ale and Oatmeal Stout on tap and will tap the ESB and Pilsener soon.