The Browns have already lost to the Vikings. They've already lost to the Broncos. They've already lost to the Ravens, the Bengals, and (blech) the Steelers. They've already lost to the flu.

And now they've lost to Jay-Z.

Early this morning, following last night's Jay-Z concert at Quicken Loans Arena, Browns cornerback Eric Wright ran his car off the road and, according to some reports, flipped it three times. Fortunately he was treated and released from the hospital. The car? No reports on its health, but most likely it's going on injured reserve, being a Mercedes and all.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Wright will be able to play football Sunday or anytime soon. Being able to walk after a car accident isn't the same as running around on the football field. We'll find out soon enough if Wright is actually all right.

In the meantime, maybe ...

Euclid Library page James Bagwell plans to freeze his nose off tonight at Blink-182's concert at Blossom. He's a braver man than I. Or younger. Or something. Anyway, here's his report heading into his first concert:

I’m about as excited as a Cleveland Browns/Indians/Cavs fan after one of the teams wins a championship. If you’re from Cleveland, well, you know that’s pretty excited.

For those you of who aren’t familiar with Blink-182, here’s a brief overview. They are a punk rock band from California, consisting of frontmen Tom Delonge, Mark Hoppus, and drummer Travis Barker. In 2005, they split due to unsolvable tension between Delonge and the rest of the band. In 2008, after Barker’s plane crash, they reformed and set up the tour they are currently playing.

The concert was originally on September 2, but after DJ AM, a close friend to the entire band, was found ...

At least I got this shot of Gin Blossom's singer Robin Wilson before security confiscated my camera.

Apparently they don't allow cameras at Cain Park Amphitheater in Cleveland Heights. Or maybe it's they don't allow flash cameras. Or maybe they don't allow cameras that they can see you using after they already told you not to use it. Something like that. Like I care. At Friday's night's Gin Blossoms and Tonic show, I got my shot and I got my musical fix. It was quite an interesting night.

I went to the show because of Tonic, not because of the Gin Blossoms. (Sorry, Gin Blossoms, I like you, I enjoyed you, but I just saw you in November at the House of Blues.) Back in 2004 Tonic decided to take a break that turned into a breakup. But now they are back with a reunion tour and forthcoming ...

By now you've seen the crazy wedding dance video from a couple in Minnesota who decided to get a bit creative with the traditional wedding procession. Instead of just marching down the aisle, groom Kevin Heinz, his bride Jill Peterson, and their groomsmen and bridesmaid danced down the aisle.

Within days their YouTube video has hit nearly 8½ million views. They've been written up everywhere from their hometown newspaper to New York Magazine to the Telegraph of the United Kingdom. They've been on both the Today show, reprising the entrance, and Good Morning America, and the CBS Evening News.

But here's what I want to know -- how does this video affect Chris Brown's career?

You see, the song the couple danced down the aisle to is "Forever", Brown's 2008 song that finished 10th on the Billboard Hot 100 that year and made the charts around the ...

I've got to wonder what sold more over the last week, fireworks or Michael Jackson memorabilia. Three Michael Jackson albums show in current the iTunes Top 10. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that sales of Jackson CDs are up 4,000%, with 422,000 sold the week that ended June 28.

Give the Euclid Public Library credit for a tiny portion of those sales. We can't keep anything MJ-related on the shelves right now. Soon we'll add a few more things that we won't be able to keep on the shelves: Multiple copies of The Essential Michael Jackson; History -- Past, Present, and Future; Gold; The Ultimate Collection; 20th Century Masters (Jackson 5); Bad; Blood on the Dance Floor; Dangerous; Invincible; Love Songs; Greatest Hits; Number 1's of both Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5; and Off the Wall.

 ...

According to The Onion last year, the members of Twisted Sister are now willing to take it.

But we'll pretend just for today that they still are in their full in-your-face rocking glory from 1984. Because today, 25 years later, Twisted Sister's multi-platinum "Stay Hungry" album is being re-released as a two-disc set.

If you were a rock & roll teenager of the '80s, you loved Twisted Sister videos. They were mini movies, featuring Mark Metcalf, the guy who played Niedermayer in "Animal House," parodying his character. "We're Not Gonna Take It" pissed off every parent in the suburbs when a guitar-playing teen riffed his Niedermayer-ish father through the upstairs window after sitting through a minute long spitting-and-screming lecture, before morphing into Dee Snider and taking over the house.

You remember -- "Is that a Twisted Sister pin? ON YOUR UNIFORM??"

Niedermayer was back in the sequel video ...

Michael Jackson died at age 50 on Thursday.

As if you hadn't heard.

You heard it through the TV, the radio, through Facebook status updates, through Twitter, through text messages, through newspaper web sites, through message boards -- basically through anything where words can be conveyed. It ranks among the most shocking celebrity deaths in the past 50 years, right alongside Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy Jr., John Lennon, and Princess Diana. All of those people were known worldwide, extremely popular, and fairly young when they died. JFK Jr., Lennon, and Princess Diana died from tragic events (plane crash, murder, car crash), while Presley and Monroe died due to drug addictions.

Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest. The cause is being determined by an autopsy today.

While that takes place, I'll use this space to rank my Top 10 Michael Jackson songs. This isn't where I debate greatness, influence, ...

There's no better place for music in Cleveland than the Barking Spider Tavern near Case Western Reserve University.

There really isn't. And it doesn't matter who is playing. I've heard rock and roll there. I've heard country. I've heard jazz. I've heard Irish music. I've heard a guy who can spin marbles in a big metal pan and make it sound like music. Located between Bellflower and Juniper just off Ford, it's a little brick and wood building that has a bit of a log-cabin feel. Large doors on either end of the squarish building can be opened on perfect summer (or spring) nights like Wednesday night, allowing anyone to sit on a picnic table outside and listen to some fine music while having a beer or other beverage.

And when you have performers like Oliver Buck and the New Madrids -- who played on the Euclid Library ...

Things I learned when I kicked off my summer concert series Monday night at the Beachland Ballroom's sold-out Hold Steady show ...

1) My iPhone doesn't really work as a concert camera. The iPhone's great and all, but as a camera in darker places it might as well be a flying car, better in concept than reality. The beauty of the iPhone is that I can download a Facebook application and instantly upload pictures from the show to my page. But what good is that if you upload crummy pictures? I could send instant messages, tweets, update Facebook, vomit when getting Indians updates, and even look up Hold Steady lyrics on the Internet thanks to my iPhone. But I couldn't get a quality picture.

2) It's a lot tougher to work security at a Metro Station concert attended by hundreds of teenage girls than it is a black-metal concert attended by ...

These music supergroups have a way of sneaking up on a guy.

First it was Tinted Windows. This sugary power-pop band employs Adam Schlessinger of Fountains of Wayne (one of my all-time favorite bands) on bass; guitarist James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins on lead guitar; drummer Bun E. Carlos from underrated Cheap Trick; and former Hanson lead singer -- yes, that's Hanson -- Taylor Hanson.

Tinted Windows put out some fine ear candy in April and are currently touring the United States. Sadly, they won't be in Cleveland anytime soon. (Neither will Fountains of Wayne -- grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!)

Now there comes word of Chickenfoot. It's not the newest gimmick food from KFC. Instead it's another supergroup with some names familiar to anyone who has ever listened to a rock-and-roll record: Sammy Hagar as lead singer, Michael Anthony (from Van Halen) on bass, Joe Satriani on lead guitar, ...

What were you doing 25 years ago today?

If you were a rock fan, you might very well have been heading to your local record store for the biggest album of the year -- Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." Yes, 25 years ago today The Boss released what most still regard as his biggest album. It spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billbord charts and hit the top spot in seven other countries. It didn't leave the Billboard 200 until almost three years had passed. More than 25 million copies have been sold in the 25 years since.

"Dancing in the Dark" became the biggest smash, hitting No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Six other songs made Billboard's Top 10. The video for "Dancing in the Dark" made Courteney Cox a star. She later went on to success in the sitcom, "Friends." Annie ...

I must have been suffering from writer's block lately because I haven't put anything up for a couple weeks. I'm certainly not suffering from music block, though. There's still plenty of that floating around.

First of all, I downloaded Coldplay's FREE live album from their website. You should, too. The download will be available until the end of Coldplay's current tour near the end of July. That gives you plenty of time to get on board.

After that, I went over to Wilco's site, where the band is streaming it's new album, Wilco (The Album). Can't download that one, but you can't put it in one browser and open up another -- say, to write a blog entry -- and listen. It's due out in CD form on June 30.

Then I bought my tickets for Gavin DeGraw's next show at the House of Blues downtown. Sure, I've ...

The Tri-C JazzFest starts this weekend, which is probably a whole lot more exciting to you than it is to me. I don't hate jazz. I'm not against jazz. I kinda like jazz sometimes. I even played softball for the House of Swing team a couple years. Still, I hate to say it, but I have to be honest -- jazz, I'm just not that into you.

Plenty of others are, though, which is why there's shows taking place all around town through next weekend. George Benson, Buddy Guy and John Scofield, Cecila Smith, and the Fountain of Youth Band are among the performers at various sites. Even a library is getting into the act. The East Cleveland Public Library will play host to four different Jazzfest performances in its Greg L. Reese Performing Arts Center.

Make sure you check out Cleveland's National Public Radio affiliate WCPN ...

I celebrated a special birthday recently. I'll let you figure out which one. If you read along it's easier than a Sudoku puzzle. The answer is within the following list of songs, all of which were No. 1 on the Billboard chart on my birthday (April 10) throughout the years.

Some years I had some good stuff to listen to. A lot of years I didn't. Put them all together and I've got my very own Ryan Seacrest American Top, ahem, 40. We're counting down from No. 40 ...

(OK, actually we're counting down from No. 41 because I started on the day I was born, so that give us an extra song.)

41) 1990: I'll Be Your Everything by Tommy Page

-- In 1990 the Cincinnati Reds were my everything. (Sorry, Indians.) I lived and died with Reds, quite often falling asleep with the radio next ...

I'm not a huge fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Shhhhhhhhh, don't tell anyone. You're not really supposed to say that around here.

I don't like touring the Rock Hall all that much because it's kinda boring in there. I mean, really, how many different Jim Morrison pantsuits or pictures of Pink Floyd can I look at? (Although I do like The Wall exhibit with the stuffed dude sitting in his chair watching Pink Floyd on TV.) Plus it's another structure that separates us from the lakefront almost everywhere between Edgewater Park and Lake County.

I do like the Rock Hall concept, though. It brings concerts into Cleveland throughout the year, including a free series once a week throughout the summer. It sponsors lectures and panel discussions. It's Landmark Series designates different sites around the country as rock-and-roll landmarks. And,about once a decade we actually get to play host to ...

It's Butch Walker Day.

What Butch Walker Day consists of:

* Pure awesomeness

* Total joy

* Greatness

* Fun, fun, fun

* Very little sleep

Yes, tonight at The Grog Shop in Cleveland Heights, Butch Walker makes his return to Cleveland after nearly two years away. I've been to just about every Butch show that's come through town the last six years or so. There was the one at the House of Blues a few years ago where Butch came out into the crowd with only his acoustic guitar and hushed the crowd and got them to sit down all around them while playing a soft song. There was the one at The Cambridge Room which my friends and I made the rookie mistake of not buying tickets before the show sold out, yet still managed to sneak in. There was the one where he opened ...

I learned something new the other day. I learned that "meh" is now an official word. I learned this when someone asked me what I thought of the new U2 CD, "No Line on the Horizon". I learned this when I told her, "meh". I learned this when she asked, "What does 'meh' mean?' I learned this when I looked up the definition of "meh" on the Internet and found out that the Collins English Dictionary added "meh" to its upcoming 30th anniversary edition.

For those of you who don't know, "meh" joined the mainstream thanks to The Simpsons, notably when Lisa and Bart responded with it when Homer offered to take them to a theme park. They preferred to watch television. It snowballed from there. And now it's in the dictionary.

So now there's a couple ways to find out what "meh" means. One, look ...

I always thought my band would be named My Dining Room Table. It would be a band with fuzzy guitars and kind of a mumbling singer with hair that covered his eyes when he sang. He would wear skinny jeans and ripped-up t-shirts. The drummer would have real long hair and wear shiny shoes. There would be two guitar players who would stand at opposite sides of the stage and not do much more than sway back and forth. The whole band would be kind of a laid-back affair, but of course the music would be so awesome that the audience stood at attention for the entire show.

Wikipedia had other ideas. The latest Internet meme allows Wikipedia to randomly name your band, while other website give you an album title and cover art. So here's mine:

My band is A.F.C. Wimbledon. Our album is called "For That ...

People tell me all the time, "Your blog is so awesome! I read it all the time and then pass out like I've just come down off a sugar high." And I say, "Why, thank you. It really is awesome, isn't it?" And they say, "Yes it is. It is so awesome I'm sure you know all the other awesome music blogs out there. What are some good ones?"

So now I reveal to you, dear sugar-high-like-passer-outers, some of my favorite blogs that don't have the initials MML ...

Stereogum is a really good blog, especially if you have a bushy beard and wear glasses. It consistently gets votes for music blog of the year from various sources. It finished second in the 2008 Weblog Awards  to Glide Magazine's Hidden Track, which is a bit more diversified in its musical tatstes. Hidden Track also posts a lot of music news, including a recent bit ...

As a student at John Carroll University, I learned a few things:

* Jesuit means priest who likes beer.

* Some professors like it if you call them by their first name, but it's weird.

* There was a band called The Smiths that played really depressing songs that girls loved.

The guy who fronted that band, Morrissey, is still around. He's just released his ninth solo CD, "Years of Refusal". And based on some of the song titles he's still providing that same mopey music that girls who attended John Carroll really, really like: "Something Is Squeezing My Skull", "One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell", and "It's Not Your Birthday Anymore."

So it looks like Morrissey's still putting out really depressing songs that girls love.

Nothing tops "How Soon Is Now?" for depressing Smith's lyrics, though. A song about people needing love concludes with ...