
[ mix cover image by Patrick Tsai ] June 2011 Mix 01 Intro 02 Low - Starfire 03 Manganese Madness - Dame 04 Otis Harris - You'll Like My Loving 05 Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi 06 Versus - Blade Of Grass 07 Heartbeat Hotel - Windowsill 1 08 Eternal Summers - Prisoner [...]
When I say that car journeys aren't the same when you get big, I quite specifically mean too big to lie down across the back seat and go to sleep. When we were kids we lived in Vienna, and used to regularly drive back to Manchester, via the Dover ferry, to visit my mum's family, who are all from there. In one of those turquoise things in the picture. In the words of Princess Leia: "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought." It was roughly a twenty-five to thirty-hour journey, I do [...]
60+ more Dylan covers, finishing up our series in which we posted one cover of every single Bob Dylan song.
Today's installment covers 45 songs - including what Dylan has claimed is his favorite cover ever!
The second in a five-part series that features covers of every single Bob Dylan song, in alphabetical order. Today's installment goes from F through J, for a total of over 50 more covers.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 1. Dark Fantasy - Mike Oldfield - In High Places 2. Gorgeous - The Turtles - You Showed Me 3. Power - Continent Number 6 - Afromerica - Cold Grits - It's Your Thing - King Crimson - 21st [...]

Having spent the week driving Loch Lomond around the country I figured that some sort of driving-themed nonsense would be in order for this week's podcast. Driving music (NOT in the Top Gear sense) tends to stick in your head, probably because when listening to it there is nothing else to do but sit and absorb the whole album. I know most musicians would probably blanche somewhat at the idea of having their work enjoyed over the thrum of wind noise, tyre noise and a grumbling engine, but a long drive is still probably one of the best [...]

( via ) There aren't many music sites better than The Rising Storm . And not that those guys are ever in a slump, but good lord have they been killing it as of late. Everything's a gem. Go visit and stay as long as you can. Make yourself a mix and play it loud while your dog ( Max or Brian? I say Max is the dog ) is sticking his head out the window. MP3: Hoyt Axton [...]

The Small Faces, the Pretty Things, the Zombies and the Move have seen numerous write-ups, send offs, and press in all the big-time (and small-time) classic rock publications. But of all the major British Invasion acts, none has been as ill-served and neglected in rock critic circles and the collector circuit as Manfred Mann. Mann and his group are usually thought of as a singles act, which is a cryin' shame as many of their albums are great if not better than that. Manfred Mann's Earth Band followed the excellent jazz rock explorations of Chapter Three ( Volume 1 is a stone cold classic). The self-titled Earth [...]
Shuffle Sundays is a weekly feature in which we feature a cover chosen at random. The songs will usually be good, occasionally be bad, always be interesting. All downloads will only be available for one week, so get them while you can.
A while ago a friend of mine got into an argument with her family about whether Manfred Mann wrote "Blinded by the Light." It seemed inconceivable that someone

Happening across the movie King Kong on cable the other night, something occurred to me - it might have been the most influential movie of my childhood. I'd seen the original version watching it on the late, late show when I slept over at a friend's house in second grade. Not long after, the hype began for the remake. It was nothing compared to the hullabaloo for some movies now – no cable, no internet – but it seemed to begin a year before and the scope and duration was something I'd [...]

Notes From Middle America is contributor Danny R. Phillips' monthly column. You can read past installments here . I have to ask. What happened to rock? Has it become passé or uncool for a band to struggle, tour, play shows night after night to build a fan base without the help of excessive internet buzz or douche bags in the "hip" magazines who supposedly have their fingers on the pulse of the American youth culture? If a band has to work hard to get what they have, is that far less important [...]

I know, I know, this has nothing to do with the SebastiAn, the Buster Keaton or James May but... actually, wait... I did hear about this album through James May. If memory serves, it was mentioned, briefly, in the excellent BBC telly-vision show "James May's 20th Century" (episode 5, "Inventing the Teenager", air date: July 24 2007). Yes, it's all coming back now. Residents of Bruce Street will have seen the episode several times and might have actually mistaken it to be on repeat. But this is all beside the point. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the [...]
This is of those "I read a at b blog & x at y blog & it led me to z sorta posts, and it may ramble on a bit, so get a nice cup of tea. It started at It All Started with Agnes relaying some amusing mis-heard lyrics, after correcting one of her own... you know, Desmond Dekker - me ears are alight - that kinda thing. I was, & still am, a little incredulous at some of the more ridiculous examples that abound [...]

Bob Dylan and the Band - " Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) - take 2 " from A Tree with Roots (1967/2001) and Manfred Mann's Earth Band - " Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) " from The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1996) Rock went through some profound changes in the 1970s: genres like jazz and funk seeped into mainstream sounds, musicians became more proficient with rock instruments, and new technologies like the synthesizer changed the timbre of popular rock. This shift is illustrated well by Bob Dylan's "Quinn [...]

I'm a little surprised at the size of the crowd tonight. I thought Quo were perhaps the biggest thing to hit the Arena since the Dalai Lama sold out five nights there in May... but I reckon there was only about 2500-3000 there, whereas a full arena is around 8000. The whole thing could have probably been staged at the Concert Hall, which would have been more appropriate because the average age of a Quo fans seems to be about 55 and a lot of them struggled to climb the steep steps of the Arena seating. Now I've [...]

Bruce Springsteen hasn't done too badly for himself, has he? A holder of eighteen Grammy Awards, which is, umm... more than I can say I have. With songs like Born To Run and Born In The U.S.A. (yeah, OK, we get it, you've been born. So have most of us), it's difficult not to appreciate the pure talent this man holds. Obviously, with any popular artist, there's a general feeling that once they've sold more than a million records, they're no longer cool. OK, maybe he's not cool. I still like his music. But [...]
Nov 13, 2008, 8:00am
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I just finished listening to the new Hostage EP, Shake It, and I couldn't help but do that myself (shake it). Shake It is definitely the stand out track on the EP. Hostage can hold it together keeping you pumping those fists into the air. With remixes of said track by AC Slater & Acid Jacks it can't get any better than that, or did it? I have a mix for you that Hostage put toegther for the prerelase of the EP featuring original tracks by the man and some of his great remixes. I also have [...]
Berlin's DJ Donna Summer (he of the Birthday Party crew , not former Three Dog Night backup singer) produces rowdy classic rock remixes with a liberal helping of the Amen break. Even ignoring the cocaine association, Manfred Mann's "Blinded by the Light" transposes to a natural house track, and with Chinese Democracy a rumored weeks away, I know at least I'm gonna be scrambling for any Appetite for Destruction throwbacks I can get my hands on this Fall. LISSEN YO. Manfred Mann's Earth Band "Blinded By the [...]