Review: Various Artists, 'Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International'
Our review of the stellar new collection of Bob Dylan covers in support of Amnesty International.
Back in November, I wrote about the three-night So Cal Punk Rock festival GV30 that Goldenvoice promoter Gary Tovar was planning in December. Well, GV30 happened two weeks ago, and I'm sharing some clips below from the show. Classic SoCal punk bands all played - TSOL, X, Bad Religion, The Descendants, Black Flag, Social Distortion, The Vandals, The Dickies and others all kicked out their fast and furious songs for all the kids. Punk rock rules! Here's Bad Religion doing 1981's "We're Only Gonna Die": The LA Times wrote : [...]
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Bad Religion will be playing 2 more shows in Australia this February, in addition to the previously announced Soundwave festival dates. These "Sidewave" dates will occur February 27th and 29th, in Melbourne and Sydney, respectively. Also performing both shows will be Strung Out , Street Dogs , and The Menzingers . Tickets will go on sale December 22nd.
► Tori Amos does the first of two nights at the Orpheum Theatre behind her latest release "Night of Hunters." Her short film for "Star Whisperer" is worth 10 minutes of your time . ► Deadmau5 and James Murphy are joined by Proxy and Eye for "HARD x Mouth Taped Shut" at the Hollywood Palladium. ► The second night of GV30 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium boasts a lineup including Bad Religion, Youth Brigade and T.S.O.L. ► The second night of the 10th annual Hohotel Holiday Benefit at the [...]
It wasn't too long ago that we posted about this monster Bob Dylan tribute album featuring some awesome covers from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age , Silversun Pickups , The Gaslight Anthem , Bryan Ferry, Pete Townshend, Sinéad O'Connor, Elvis Costello, Fistful of Mercy , Bad Religion and Cage the Elephant to literally name just 10 of them! Today though, you can stream Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International in full, including a cover from Ke$ha. In case you're [...]
It wasn't too long ago that we posted about this monster Bob Dylan tribute album featuring some awesome covers from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age , Silversun Pickups , The Gaslight Anthem , Bryan Ferry, Pete Townshend, Sinéad O'Connor, Elvis Costello, Fistful of Mercy , Bad Religion and Cage the Elephant to literally name just 10 of them! Today though, you can stream Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International in full, including a cover from Ke$ha. In [...]
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International, the group has released a massive compilation called Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International . The four disc compilation, featuring 75 tracks, can be streamed for free over at Amnesty's Facebook page . The album will be released on January 24th with all the profits going to Amnesty International. Included in this compilation are bands like Queens of the Stone Age, The Gaslight Anthem, My Morning Jacket, Cage The Elephant, Silversun Pickups, Dave Matthews Band, Tom Morello, [...]
As previously reported, Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International is the name of Amnesty International's 75-track, 4-disc Bob Dylan tribute album , comprised of new or previously unreleased Dylan covers from Adele, My Morning Jacket, Queens of the Stone Age, Silversun Pickups, The Gaslight Anthem, Patti Smith, Dave Matthews Band, Sting, Joan Baez, Bryan Ferry, The Who's Pete Townshend, Sinéad O'Connor, Elvis Costello, Pete Seeger, Fistful of Mercy, Bad Religion, Mark Knopfler, Cage the Elephant, and, of course, Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha. The collection will be released in North [...]
Ci sono anche Adele , Patti Smith , Pete Townsend, Ke$ha, The Gaslight Anthem, Sting, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, Sinead O'Connor , Kris Kristofferson, B ad Religion , Marianne Faithfull, My Chemical Romance , Bryan Ferry , Pete Seeger fra gli artisti che compariranno nella accolta che celebra i primi cinqunt'anni di Amnesty Internationa l . La raccolta, dal titolo " Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International ", contiene [...]
Last month we told you of an upcoming Bob Dylan tribute album being put together in celebration of Amnesty International's 50th anniversary. At the time, My Morning Jacket, Adele, David Matthews Band, and Ke$ha were among the confirmed participants. Now, the set's entire tracklist has been revealed, and Ke$ha's cover of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" is just the beginning of the insanity. Spanning four discs and 75 tracks (!!!) , Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International packages together new or previously unreleased Dylan covers from artist of all different genres [...]
Gary Tovar , the LA promoter who started Goldenvoice , which became the huge promoter behind the Coachella music festival every spring in Indio, CA, has announced GV30 , a punk rock festival on Dec 16-18 at the Santa Monica (CA) Civic Auditorium to celebrate Goldenvoice's 30th anniversary of existence. Think of it as a pretty rad office party. From the blurbsters "Gary Tovar brings you GV30; three shows in honor of Goldenvoice's 30th Anniversary featuring Social Distortion, Bad Religion, Descendents and more. The artists and line-up for [...]
The promoters of the Australia and New Zealand-focused Soundwave Festival have announced the second batch of bands for the forthcoming Australian and New Zealand festival. First, promoters have noted that the Courtney Love-fronted Hole have dropped off the bill due to a dispute about their placement among the headliners (i.e. below System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, and Marilyn Manson) As a replacement, the lineup has added Bad Religion , Strung Out , Staind, Wednesday 13 , Unearth , The Pretty Reckless, Cathedral, [...]
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