Jane Wiedlin (Go-Gos, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer) announces book signings for 'TMI: Memoirs of a Go-Go' in November

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and The Go-Gos cofounder Jane Wiedlin announces the first round of book signing events surrounding the release of her forthcoming tell-all tome TMI: Memoirs of a Go-Go. The book releases via Hachette Book Group / Da Capo Press on November 10th. All current signing events are listed below, with additional dates announcing soon.

Jane Wiedlin was born in Wisconsin and moved to California’s infamous San Fernando Valley, home of Valley Girls, at age six. She was an avid music fan from that moment on, exposed to the greatest rock and pop songs of the 1960s by her older siblings.

In high school she was enamored with the glitter rock scene ie David Bowie, Marc Bolan, etc. At the time glitter/glam rock was a small musical movement in the US with equal parts music, clothing and attitude. 

Jane attended Los Angeles Trade Tech College, where she learned the nuts and bolts of the fashion industry, with the aspirations of becoming a designer. In 1976 she discovered the punk rock scene in nearby Hollywood. Most of the kids in the scene were former glitter rockers, the punk scene basically following that same format of music, clothing and attitude. It attracted rebels, misfits, malcontents and artists.

Jane started designing punk clothes, learned to play guitar and started writing songs — something she could never have dreamed of as a girl. In 1978 she formed the Go-Go’s, and with their poppy punk sound, the band grew popular up and down the West Coast. In 1981 the Go-Go’s signed to indie label IRS Records, helmed by the legendary Miles Copeland. Against all odds, after a year of release, the album, Beauty and the Beat, went to #1 on the Billboard charts.

When the Go-Go’s disbanded in 1985, Jane started her solo career, recording five albums. The band reformed in the 90s and have been together ever since.

Jane’s new autobiography, TMI, Memoirs of a Go-Go is out November 10th, and a new album of protest song covers, called ¡ I PROTEST! produced by Jane, is shortly to follow.

Jane is a loudmouth activist, both for animals, women and politics. She spends her free time saving dogs, writing, reading and napping.

JANE WIEDLIN - BOOK SIGNINGS 2026:

11/09 West Hollywood, CA - Book Soup

11/12 Malibu, CA - Private event

11/14 San Francisco, CA - The Booksmith

11/16 Plainville, MA - An Unlikely Story

11/19 Washington, DC - Politics & Prose

12/08 Palm Springs, CA - Cultural Center

Artist: Jane Wiedlin

Album: I Protest!

Label: Candy Shop 

Release Date: February 2027

01. Uprising (Muse) 

02. Machine Gun (Yungblud)

03.  I Thought I Was An Atheist (ShyScarf)

04. Not See (Bryan Andrews)

05. Barefoot and Pregnant (Gwen Levey & The Breakdown) 

06. The Doll People (Sofia Isella)

07. Feed The Machine (Poor Man’s Poison)

08. American Jesus (Bad Religion)

09. Not Mad Enough (Smith & Myers) 

10. Low (Cracker)

https://janewiedlin.com

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RICKSHAW BILLIE'S BURGER PATROL drop Ca$h Grab album everywhere now, headlining tour starts in December

"I guarantee you, it will be jammed firmly in your head for days on end." -- Metal Injection

“An instant earworm.” — Metal Sucks

“As ridiculously awesome as their big, dumb moniker would imply… churning out lumbering cascades of clobbering, trucker hat riffage that toe a slobbery line between Dinosaur Jr., Primus, Pantera and ZZ Top.” – Decibel Magazine

"Epically catchy... Imagine the ear-wormy fuzz-rock riffage of Dinosaur Jr. if it was played on an eight-string guitar with super heavy low-end." -- Revolver Magazine

"Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol have a winning formula: the most unflinchingly massive guitars you've ever heard in your life paired with surprisingly melodic, laid-back vocals." -- Consequence of Sound

Austin trio Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol release their fourth album Ca$h Grab today on LP, CD, cassette, download and all streaming platforms. Ca$h Grab is available to order on LP/CD/MC HERE. Hear/share Ca$h Grab on all DSPs HERE.

RBBP also recently announced December headlining tour dates, ahead of more extensive dates in early 2027 to be announced soon. Fans can get tickets HERE for all shows. Please see current dates below. 

Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol further the sarcastic tone of their previous album’s title Big Dumb Riffs to double down with Ca$h Grab. The irony here — and perhaps the point — is that Ca$h Grab is the band’s most introspective and lyrically vulnerable songwriting to date. 

Of course, the band still bludgeons with thunderous 8-string guitar, growling bass chords and pummeling drums throughout. But these songs are as bassist Aaron Metzdorf explains,“more pop song forward, while still in the idiom of heavy music.”

The album finds the trio — vocalist/guitarist Leo Lydon, drummer Sean St. Germain and bassist/vocalist Metzdorf — expanding their mastery of heavy, hook-filled riffs and rhythms couched in earworm melody that would make Green Album era Weezer jealous. Following the Spartan Primus-meets-Pantera rhythmic ruction in 2 minutes or less of Big Dumb Riffs, the band lets melodies lead the battlefront this time around. In so doing, the lyrics are more personal and revealing, juxtaposed with twisting notes that nod to influences from Built To Spill and Sugar style indie pop to early 90s-era Rush. 

“The heavier parts are even heavier, but more fleshed out. And the heaviness is not just in a guitar riff, but heavy lyrics, heavy melody,” Metzdorf says. “Some of the heaviest parts of the whole album are Leo's vocals. While the poppier stuff has a more prominent role on this one.”

Ca$h Grab kicks off where the last album left off: The slow burn quiet/loud dynamic of “Freakshow”, seemingly the end result of the quasi-psychotic conceit of the previous disc’s “In a Jar,” both of which are sung by Metzdorf, who sings lead on 5 of the album’s 14 tracks. Vocalist/guitarist Leo Lydon really showcases the versatility in his singing, belting out high notes like never before on songs like “Fate Is”, “Peaches” and the title track. And while his vocals soar, Lydon’s 8-string guitar rumbles with menacing low end while intertwined with Metzdorf’s thick, heavily distorted bass chords. The band’s secret weapon, St. Germain pulls it all together with his innovative beat substitutions and explosive, syncopated hooks delivered with an effortless groove and fun loving smile. 

In the two years since Big Dumb Riffs, the band toured relentlessly, both as a headliner and supporting The Sword, Death From Above 1979, Pigs x9, King Buffalo and more. Their meticulously curated annual Big Dumb Fest in Austin and headlining dates continue to sell out and the band’s ever growing rabid fanbase proves that RBBP’s iconic reign has just begun. 

Ca$h Grab is available on LP, CD, cassette and download/streaming, released on October 23rd, 2026.

RICKSHAW BILLIE’S BURGER PATROL - LIVE 2026:

11/28 Silverado, CA - Silverado Festival 

12/04 Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves

12/05 Tyler, TX - Stanley’s Famous Pit BBQ

12/06 Memphis, TN - Hernando’s Hideaway

12/09 Indianapolis, IN - Black Circle

12/10 Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups

12/11 Louisville, KY - Zanzabar

12/12 Asheville, NC - Eulogy

12/14 Orlando, FL - Will’s Pub

12/15 Tampa, FL - New World Brewery

12/16 St. Augustine, FL - Cafe Eleven

12/17 Pensacola, FL - The Handlebar

12/18 New Orleans, LA - Siberia

12/19 Houston, TX - Bad Astronaut 

RICKSHAW BILLIE’S BURGER PATROL - LIVE 2027:

May 07 Oslo, NO - DesertFest Oslo

Artist: Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol

Album: Ca$h Grab

Record label: RBBP / Permanent Teeth

Release Date: October 23, 2026

01. Freakshow

02. I Doubt It

03. Peaches

04. Fate Is

05. Punisher

06. Follow Through

07. Bury Me in Denver

08. Ca$h Grab

09. The Disappearing Man

10. No Juice

11. Bough Down

12. Talking To You

13. Couple Skate

14. Lush

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www.rickshawbilliesburgerpatrol.com

rickshawbilliesburgerpatrol.bandcamp.com

Raymond J. Lustig (Juilliard prof., composer, Manicburg) shares new psych-pop single FFO: Squeeze, Soft Boys, Zombies, Syd Barrett, et al.

"Here, Lustig turns toward something closer to psychedelic pop and alternative rock, although his instinct for unusual arrangements hasn’t gone anywhere." -- It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine

"Underground art-rock channeling Ron Mael (Sparks)." -- Echoes & Dust

NYC Grammy nominated musician Raymond J. Lustig shares a new single from his forthcoming album Welcome today on all platforms. "No Need To Fear" is available to hear and share on all DSPs HERE. 

The previous single "Corrientes 3000" premiered earlier via MAGNET Magazine HERE.

Ray Lustig is 1/2 of NYC songwriting duo Manicburg and an award winning professor in composition at Julliard. Yes, THEE Julliard, school of performing arts. But this isn’t stuffy Classical music nor icy neo-Classical navel-gazing. Ray’s music shares more with psychedelic post-punk, Manu Chao, Tom Waits, Radiohead and other hard to categorize works of intricate composition. 

Welcome is his latest solo album exploring realms of alternative/indie rock coming hot on the heels of his choral opera Semmelweiss. The first single “That’s The Moment” is a hooky, electronic-infused psychedelic pop tune. 

Lustig's work transcends and integrates many genres, as composer, performer, producer, and bandleader. From symphonic works to experimental opera, instrumental music, to alternative rock and electronic music, his music maintains an artistic and sonic signature across strikingly different forces, an emotional intensity not about loudness but often quiet and constant.

While his early career was set in the world of Juilliard and Carnegie Hall, he has moved steadily “downtown” and around the world, working with international musicians ranging from underground rockers to modular synthesists, jazzers, traditional folk instrumentalists, and classical virtuosi.

With New York-based Italian artist Luigi Porto he started the band Manicburg, which released its debut album in 2024, and continues to tour and record.

His choral opera SEMMELWEIS was staged in a 2018 production by Hungarian director Martin Boross. In 2026 Lustig and co-producer Maximilien Hein reimagined the music of the opera as a concept album taking the form of a song cycle. It met with global critical acclaim.

His latest album, WELCOME, due out in the autumn of 2026, takes his solo music again in the direction of alternative rock, with a lush electronic and compositional palette, exploring different angles of anxiety and fear in a menacing world, a serial tale of psychedelic peril.

Lustig has collaborated with American Composers Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Metropolis Ensemble, Budapest Operetta Theater, the Bartok Plusz Opera Festival, the American Opera Project, cellist Joshua Roman, tenor Nicholas Phan, pianist Blair McMillen, classical guitar ensemble Duo Noire, director Martin Boross, aanimator John W. Lustig, and more. He has taught composition and analysis at The Juilliard School and served on the Pulitzer Prize selection committee.

Ray’s work has been honored with the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP’s Rudolf Nassim Prize for his orchestral work UNSTUCK, the Aaron Copland Award from Copland House, the Juilliard Orchestra competition, the New Juilliard Ensemble competition.

Lustig is part of a growing scene of artists and musicians based in the far-northern neighborhoods of Manhattan, and hosts monthly music parties in his studio there.

Welcome will be available on LP and digital on November 20th, 2026 via Respirano Records. 

Artist: Raymond J. Lustig

Album: Welcome

Record Label: Respirano Records

Album Release Date: November 20, 2026

On the Web:

raylustig.com

instagram.com/raylustig 

facebook.com/raymondlustig 

raymondjlustigmusic.bandcamp.com

open.spotify.com/artist/raymondjlustig