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We love the fact that over the last five years, Record Store Day has become a runaway success, thanks in part to loads of special and exclusive releases specially designed to get music fans out to brick and mortar stores. In anticipation of its sixth year, which will take place on Saturday, April 20th, the organization has named Jack White as this year's official Record Store Day Ambassador. White, who owns and operates Third Man Records in Nashville, posted a fantastic must-read note on Record Store Day's official website , where he urges people [...]
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have added a new date to their ‘Wrecking Ball’ tour in 2013. Springsteen and co had been set to travel to Europe during the summer, with seven UK and Irish shows already previously announced. The Boss has now confirmed an eighth, heading to Leeds Arena on 24 July. The legendary musician released latest album Wrecking Ball in March 2012 and has been touring relentlessly since. The aforementioned live dates are as below: June 15 – Wembley [...]
A chance encounter with Asheville bluegrass quintet Town Mountain and their twangy, countrified cover of I’m On Fire at this weekend’s Joe Val Bluegrass Festival – a dark and yet surprisingly charming version of the Bruce Springsteen classic song that chugs along like a train through the psyche – reminded me how deeply this particular classic is embedded in our national songbook. And a check back at our own archives confirms it: in the last twelve months alone, we’ve posted no less than four separate covers of the song, from Shakey Graves ' bedraggled grungefolk [...]
A chance encounter with Asheville bluegrass quintet Town Mountain and their twangy, countrified cover of I'm On Fire at this weekend's Joe Val Bluegrass Festival - a dark and yet surprisingly charming version of the Bruce Springsteen classic song that chugs along like a train through the psyche - reminded me how deeply this particular classic is embedded in our national songbook. And a check back at our own archives confirms it: in the last twelve months alone, we've posted no less than four separate covers of the song, from Shakey Graves ' bedraggled [...]
Mark Martyre , Canadian singer-songwriter, late last year unveiled the album Down, Record. This release sounds as if Bruce Springsteen with his raspy vocals decided to put out a solo acoustic album, modelling the guitar and harmonica stylings of Neil Young . It is gratifying to see modern artists continuing to produce exceptional folk albums. In Martyre's words about his release, "I’ve always paid attention to the lyrics in the songs I listen to. It’s always been an important part to me. I tried to keep the music simple, and give the lyrics, [...]
Filed under: 47 Second Review Amazon Cuff the Duke have always suffered from a bit of a Rodney Dangerfield complex in the Canadian music hierarchy. They don't have enough hockey-related songs to be as populist as the Tragically Hip , frontman Wayne Petti can't match Joel Plaskett for aw-shucks hoser charm, and the CBC will never love them as much as the Weakerthans , no matter how much they romanticize Oshawa, Ontario. [...]
Filed under: News , Awards AP Photo, Evan Agostini The Black Keys are already winning at the 2013 Grammy Awards. The blues duo won Best Rock Song for "Lonely Boy" off their most recent album El Camino . Singer Dan Auerbach has also won for Best Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
Kanye West, Jay-Z, Drake, Miguel, Trent Reznor, Skrillex, and Usher were among the early winners at the 2013 Grammy Awards' pre-show telecast. Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne collaboration "Niggas in Paris" won both Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance. Meanwhile, Drake's Take Care won Best Rap Album. Miguel's "Adorn" won Best R&B Song and Usher's "Climax" won Best R&B Performance. Skrillex was the big winner in the Dance/Electronica category. Bangarang won Best Dance/Electronica Album and [...]
About five months ago while on a roadtrip and listening to Nebraska Foxhound ( Chris Kasper and Kiley Ryan ) agreed that someday they would like to perform that entire album live. That day came this past Tuesday at The Fire when Foxhound played Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska in its entirety. As much as I wanted to hear a set of Foxhound originals I was glad that I witnessed this special performance by Foxhound. As Kasper explained, Nebraska is the only Springsteen album without the E-Street Band [...]
Bruce Springsteen was honored as the Grammy's 2013 MusiCares Person of the Year in Los Angeles last night, and the festivities included an all-star tribute concert featuring Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith, Mumford and Sons, Alabama Shakes, and The Daily Show' s Jon Stewart, among others As Hidden Track points out , a pair of clips from the concert have since surfaced online, including footage of Neil Young & Crazy Horse covering "Born in the U.S.A". There's a also a montage from the UK Telegraph , which features short clips of Mumford [...]
Filed under: News Getty Images LOS ANGELES (AP) - Be it concert or charity auction, Bruce Springsteen can bring any event to a crescendo. Springsteen briefly took over auctioneering duties before being honored as MusiCares person of the year Friday night, exhorting the crowd to bid on a signed Fender electric guitar by amping up the deal. The 63-year-old rock 'n' roll star moved the bid north from $60,000 by offering a series of [...]
Each Grammys weekend, the music world comes together to celebrate the MusiCares Person Of The Year with a dinner, auction and tribute concert. This year, MusiCares, which is the health and human services organization affiliated with The Recording Academy, honored New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen at the L.A. Convention Center. Not only did the likes of Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Sting, the Alabama Shakes, Jim James and Tom Morello and Mumford & Sons pay their respects to The Boss by covering one of his songs, but Springsteen himself closed out the evening with a five-song set. [...]
The Grammy Awards return this Sunday night, which means it's time to use all that pent up frustration on your television. But even though you might get upset that your favorite band didn't win this year, why not channel that anger towards something that warrants it? Today's Rock it Out! Blog episode highlights five rock bands and artists who have been seriously snubbed by the Grammys. Let us know which one boils your blood the most in the comment section down below. Make sure to follow Rock it Out! Blog on Twitter and Facebook , and [...]
Divine Fits en vivo desde la cabina de Triple J Durante su visita a Australia, Divine Fits visitaron la estación de radio Triple J y presentaron un cover acústico a Bruce "El Jefe" Springsteen . La canción que tocaron fue "Hungry Heart" de 1980. El super grupo formado por Britt Daniel , Dan Boeckner y Sam Brown rindió un gran tributo al músico de Nueva Jersey, véanlo a continuación.
Divine Fits covered The Boss' "Hungry Heart" for their Like A Version cover when they stopped in to Triple J . It's a rather good pairing. Find it below.
When Spoon and Wolf Parade melded their indie rock super powers to form Divine Fits at the beginning of last year, the music world rejoiced in the blessing it had received. But take the immense talent of Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner and crew, and use it to cover Bruce Springsteen 's sorrow-laced suburb wail of "Hungry Heart" and even the most hardened heart will yearn for something more again. The track is courtesy of Australia's triple j tv and their "Like a Version" series - you know the ones [...]
Two years ago, Steve Stoute, music industry mogul and owner of the Translation advertising agency, bought space in the New York Times to run an open letter to NARAS, who runs the Grammys, taking them ... read more �
Bruce Springsteen's " Hungry Heart " is one of those songs that will continue to turn arenas into pits of ecstasy until long after we're all dead. When I saw Springsteen a couple of months ago, he played that song second, stage-dove during it, and then played for another three hours. That guy! In a recent session for the Australian radio network Triple J, the Britt Daniel/Dan Boeckner/Sam Brown supergroup Divine Fits played their version of the song, stripping it down to acoustic instruments (plus one electronic doohickey). Daniel's vocal suited the song surprisingly well, and I like how Brown's [...]
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