There's a Christmas song on here, but it's a really bleak one. In similarly-related news, if you're in the UK, perhaps you might want to buy the new Malcolm Middleton single today? It's really good, actually. If you like the music, you should use some of your hard-earned money to buy it. If you're in Rhode Island, maybe you might want to do that at Tom's Tracks, which is closing after 23 years on Thayer Street. The whole store's half off. 1. Tom Vek, Nothing But Green Lights [...]
John Lennon died 27 years ago, on December 8th, 1980; I was seven, and the event was meaningless. But since then, like every one of you, I've absorbed the Beatles canon -- which means, among other things, recognizing the loss of musical potential and statesmanship that marks Lennon's passing. Mostly, it's the statesmanship I recognize. Though each Beatle -- both the still-going and the dearly departed -- went on to a fruitful solo career after the band broke up, for me, the Beatles as a cultural phenomenon are as much more a sum [...]
dewey cox & the hard walkers are playing a sold out show in town tonight, not sure if they'll bust out anything from it's a cox christmas! , but if that's the kind of music you want to hear, check out our third holiday mix which includes tracks by the staple singers, clarence carter, rotary connection ("don't forget chicago") & harry nilsson...hope you like it. download: the leather canary xmas mix #3.zip 01. jesse malin - xmas [...]
Nov 8, 2007, 1:58pm
MVSW
Song Yeasayer ~ " Sunrise " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =4wvKD2L0zA4 Video The Beatles ~ " Here Comes the Sun " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =RuUhZxkr194 I felt like listening to some oldies this morning. beatles , beatles here comes the sun , Daily Dose , george harrison , here comes [...]
The Fabled Cover The asylum clan was down by the steel hearted barrel house durin' the last dawn and the topic of Bob Dylan came up. This certain non-doctor troubadour said, "I like Dylan as a song writer, but not as an artist." He preferred Dylan's songs performed by others. Verbal fisticuffs followed. Everyone is entitled to their very own righteous opinion, right? These days we can't stop talkin' 'bout that new Dylan biopic. Seven Dylans all on a few strips of celluloid. That's the word out there on the wire. Todd Hanyes [...]
For centuries, people thought the moon was made of green cheese. Then the astronauts found that the moon is really a big hard rock. That's what happens to cheese when you leave it out.-Deep Thoughts, almost by Jack Handey So, how's your week going? mp3: George Harrison :: What Is Life :: [...]
wes anderson's short film, hotel chevaliar , starring jason schwartzman & natalie portman is now available for free at itunes ...it serves as a prelude to anderson's much anticipated fifth feature, the darjeeling limited ...nice. download: peter sarstedt - where do you go to (my lovely) related: in other movie news, martin scorsese has signed on to direct a documentary on the life & times of george harrison...i'd say harrison was my [...]
First week of LLU is done. I'm sitting here, early Friday afternoon, studying. It's a relief that the week is done, but the rest of this year is building up to be insane. Enough about the boring life. I didn't really talk about the events that transpired this summer, so I'm going to do some backtracking in the upcoming months. pic: heycupcake So let's remember. A few weeks into the summer, I called up my good friend Judy Park [...]
Every good Beatles fan knows that Jeff Lynne wasn't just the Noel Gallagher of his day, pinching a few Beatle bits to stir up his own kind of success. Lynne, like Gallagher, was a true fanatic, and while Noel's had the opportunity to get on acetate with McCartney, have a chat with Harrison and employ Ringo's boy in his own band, Lynne had the chance to meet all four Beatles, produce three of them separately, and produce the first new Beatles music in 25 years. Of course, everybody knows about "Free As a Bird" and "Real Love," as [...]
Since I'm on vacation, it's a fine time to let someone else take the wheel for a bit, as one of you recently commented. So today we've got a special treat to the Fuel/Friends blog with a guest blog on a nice little set of demos from Beatle George Harrison . I'd been entirely unfamiliar with any of Harrison's solo work before I was recently tasked to try and unearth this set of demos from Harrison's All Things Must Pass album (1970). I was surprised at the gentle and warm acoustic loveliness, not being at all familiar [...]
My friends at Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else feature some nice Beatles covers of the songs "Hey Jude, " "She's a Woman," "Can't Buy Me Love," "I'll Cry Instead," "Yellow Submarine," "Dear Prudence, "George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord," "All You Need Is Love," Let It Be," "Eight Days a Week,"and John Lennon's song "Mother." These covers are by Maynard Ferguson, Chet Atkins, and others. To add to the Beatles love, I found a number of high quality Beatles images for your enjoyment. John Lennon: John Lennon and wife Cynthia Lennon in [...]
C'Mon Every Beatbox - Big Audio Dynamite Another Girl, Another Planet - The Replacements We're The Replacements - They Might Be Giants Curly Dub - Lee Scratch Perry After The Gold Rush - The Flaming Lips Blowing Bubbles - The Lightning Seeds [...]
Well well, I noticed from all the checks I was writing out last night to pay my bills at the ever present last second that it is indeed July, and thus, my monthly series get reset. So while I'm lighter in the wallet today, you all shall be a tad richer in music. "Vs." has quickly become my favorite of the monthly series, although "The Friday Five" usually elicits better response from readers, but as it's not Friday and I like "Vs." better anyway, here we go. This month's "Vs." is kind of unique [...]
TRUST The Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow Snapper : 1968 [Buy It] Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine, and the issue of trust came up. I noted that at times in our friendship - which has spanned eight years, three cities, various jobs and relationships - she has not trusted me. "Of course," she said, like I was stupid for not noticing sooner. "I'm sorry," I said, though I was lamenting more than apologizing. Why has she not always trusted me? Well, look. It's none of [...]
Most true music fans have a common pet peeve. The REMASTERED REISSUE!!! of an album they already own. Record companies are so privy to sell a record nowadays, they'll celebrate the 10th anniversary of any album it seems -- and yes, I will fight you on this, there is NO WAY that Stereophonics' Word Gets Around deserves a 10th Anniversary Edition. Maybe Performance and Cocktails . That's it. The problem is that it's frustrating to buy an album you already own, but it's also inherently frustrating to know that you now own the [...]
If the 115th Dream had a house band and were thinking of recording our debut LP Doctors Orders , Phil Spector would not be chosen as the producer. Don't get us wrong, he was the master of those booming visionary sounds. But, we don't need to be kooked up in Xanadu with the shrunken man and an armory of handguns. That's not our pill. But, the asylum stethoscopes will give credit where credit is deserved. From the Ronettes Be My Baby to John Lennon's InstantKarma , Phil Spector was the symphonic [...]
Four episodes in and the love keeps flowing from the seventies' jar. Not only the love but also the big names. That said, you should probably be told that this will indeed be the last 70s episode I do. Yes it's sad but options are getting a bit thin and besides, I'm sick to do death of this whole series. But fear not, in my self-righteous quest to help those less fortunate than myself, I will continue to the end. As I've mentioned before and probably never needed to, the 70s was experimental and confusing time (yes it IS possible [...]
This mix features an array of voices that have captured me. From the long ago love for George Harrison's voice (I bought his album Dark Horse on vinyl when it was released in ?) to the most recent crush on Liam Hayes sound, represented here with his song "Whose Blues" from the amazingly overlooked album, Fed . feist monarch the shins new slang (live w/iron & wine) broadcast black cat (this one's for JV in SF) lloyd cole & the commotions perfect skin teenage fanclub [...]
Any music magazine connoisseur (or Borders/Barnes and Noble/Insert cool bookstore here frequenter) knows that when it comes to thorough musical coverage, the British have us beat. Rolling Stone's been on a downward slide for years, and the dismal "recreating" of its website as something of a news/blog hybrid with too many ads and crappy "mix tape" lists everyday (I get really pissed off when I realize people are getting paid to write that tripe) is not helping its cause at all. I got into Spin for a little while, but its always [...]
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Ain't superstitious, but these things I've seen...
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