Electronic singer/songwriter James Blake stops by the Theatre of Living Arts tonight. In April, Blake released his sophmore album Overgrown . The new album brings back Blake's beautiful voice and rhythmic electronics. Tickets and information for the all ages show can be found here . Below, check out the music video for "Retrograde" off of Blake's new album Overgrown . Singer/songwriter and producer Todd Rundgren plays the Trocodero tonight. Rundgren has helped produce songs for artists such as Meat Loaf and The Band, [...]
Todd Rundgren plays The Trocadero tomorrow night, Saturday, May 11. On our last count, since 1970 when he launched his solo career, Rundgren has released 23 albums, including his new record State . That said, while Todd's solo recording output has been prolific (including his pre solo work with Nazz as well as the band Utopia), I think Rundgren purists (counting myself as one), would agree that the work from his debut, Runt , through the early Eighties, is the best of his oeuvre. With that, here's [...]
Baby, you're a Beatles fan: The monthly readers poll for April 2013 is dominated by Fab Four-related stuff - though, ultimately, Deep Purple's terrific new effort topped the newest Something Else! list. A concert souvenir from Ringo Starr's latest guest-packed edition of his All-Starr band charted highest among the Beatles stuff last month, as the ever-affable drummer was joined by [...]
Todd Rundgren is back on the charts with his new electronica-laced Cherry Red release State, the first time since 2004. But there's a twist: He landed on the Billboard dance/electronic charts. "Having an album on any sort of a chart lately is a refreshing experience," Rundgren says in the attached video. As for debuting on the dance polls, he added: [...]
Todd Rundgren held an online fan chat Sunday to discuss his newest studio effort, and an upcoming tour to start in May. He'll also hold another edition of "Toddstock," this time celebrating his 65th birthday, in June outside of New Orleans. Rundgren said the recording for State, which he handled alone, "took about three months in the studio," though he [...]
Welcome back to Friday, folks! And what a week it has been. Our hearts go out to everyone in Boston, and may the second bomber be apprehended soon so Bostonians can go back to being awesome, as they've proven to be yet again in the face of these horrible events, ...
Don't let the goofball demeanor fool you: Ringo Starr is the model of consistency these days, as solid and professional a frontman as there is - and maestro of one of the last decades' most reliably entertaining guest-packed tours. So the question for any All-Starr concert comes down to the chemistry among the patch-work amalgam of musicians he assembles on [...]
Todd Rundgren's State offers an ultra-contemporary fusion of rock and electronica, while Mike Keneally revisits his thrilling 2012 collaboration with XTC's Andy Partridge, adding previously unheard music, demos and remixes. Elsewhere, we have intriguing new improvisational efforts from Dave Douglas and John Medeski (with a straight-forward solo piano release, no less), singer-songwriter stuff from Kat Parsons, and a new slice [...]
Todd Rundgren's State ping pongs between electronica and full-on rock - sounding like a mash up of the synthesized experiments of 20112s (re)Production and the grinding riffs of 20082s Arena. And so we have the purpled forebodings of "Imagination," then the bark and strut of his scronky "Serious" - which, actually, took me back even further, all the way to [...]
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Although Dark Side of the Moon is the most widely remember album released in March of 1973, there were actually quite a few additional albums of note that were released that month. My overview of a few those albums is provided below. I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane. ****************************** ***** Johnny Winter - Still Alive and Well Still Alive and Well was a comeback album of sorts for Johnny. It served as a notice to the world that he was still a [...]
MUSIC NEWS- Rocker Todd Rundgren returns to the road with a brief USA tour this spring to promote the release of his upcoming new album, "State." The Philadelphia native, having recently finished up a Japanese run, will begin the stateside...
Those familiar with the first Rogue’s Gallery issued back in 2006 might approach news of a follow-up collection, Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys , with a mixture of delight and apprehension. This curious enterprise, the brainchild of Pirates of the Caribbean team - specifically, Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski, and producer Hal Willner - brings the light of day to largely traditional songs of the sea that otherwise might have remained in Davy Jones’ locker. The performers lend a whole new meaning to that familiar title, Various Artists, as the [...]
Six Of The Best is a semi-regular feature that pokes, prods and persuades your favourite bands, bards and barometers of hip opinion to tell us six of the best tracks they’ve ever heard. The tracks could be mainstream million-sellers or they could be obfuscatingly obscure, it doesn’t matter. The only criteria set is that, aye, they must be Six of the Best . Think of it like a mini, groovier version of Desert Island Discs… Number 13 in a series [...]
Todd Rundgren, responsible for releasing one of the greatest double albums of all time (Something/Anything), not to mention more than a handful of classic records (A Wizard A True Star, The Hermit of Mink Hollow), is releasing a new album, STATE, on Tuesday, April 9th. He plays the Trocadero on Sunday, May 5th. Tickets go ... Continue reading
I got sucked into The A-Team on cable. Three hours later, I had watched about an hour and a half more of the exploits of Hannibal Smith and friends in movie form than I had ever watched of the television series. As I was a kid at the time The A-Team initially aired, I was well aware of it. It was enormously popular for awhile and I imagine I undoubtedly checked it out for ten or fifteen minutes on a Tuesday night. (with five, six channels and no cable, [...]
Yo La Tengo - I Saw The Light (Todd Rundgren cover)
The Nazz, Todd Rungren's first band, was formed in Philadelphia in 1967. Their self titled first album was released in 1968 and Open My Eyes was released as the first single from the album. Neither the album nor the single achieved significant sales but a Boston DJ liked the B-side of the single, Hello It's Me, and put it on his stations playlist. Hello It's Me got picked up by other stations and the Open My Eyes/Hello It's Me single ended up reaching #66 on the singles chart. Let's listen.... While the Nazz version [...]
Couldn't we just tell you about these five covers of the Something/Anything smash? We can't keep them bottled up inside.
As 2012 has come to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. Steve Kilbey is best known as the frontman of Australian legends the Church, whose "Under The Milky Way" was one of the defining alt-rock singles of the late '80s. [...]
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