On Tuesday, The Dead Weather played a blistering show at the 9:30 Club, and NPR webcasted the event . You can still stream the concert, as well as the entire Horehound album, on the NPR Live Concerts page , but it might be a while before the concert podcast is available for download. The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother (Live)(mp3) The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
However we pine for our Pixies , we always have Frank Black/Black Francis . He was recently on MPR's The Current , where he played things like this. Anyone else planning on catching the Doolittle tour? Black Francis - Velouria (Pixies)(Live on The Current, 7-10-2009)(mp3)
Watch Dinosaur Jr. perform The Cure's Just Like Heaven on Playboy.com (no worries - it's a nudity-free page) . No, I did not find this whilst websurfing. The Uncovered series will feature new videos, exclusively created for Playboy.com, on the second Monday of each month for 10 consecutive months. Featured musicians include Black Lips, A Camp, The Dears, Drive-By Truckers, Phosphorescent and more. The complete lineup, which will be available August 1, will include the following exclusive covers: A Camp (Nina Persson of The Cardigans) performing "Psycho" by Leon Payne Murray [...]
Anna Ternheim already won 2009 Swedish Grammys for "Best Female Artist" and "Album of the Year" for her (U.S.) forthcoming debut, Leaving on a Mayday . No wonder she gets so much love - how can anyone frown at a bass line this cute and playful, and words that tug at the insides like this? This is what you call an instant hook. Anna Ternheim - What Have I Done (mp3)
Sonic Youth, live at the 9:30 Club, 7 July 09 (mp3 podcast) - via NPR.org. Stream the concert here .
The Eternal . Das Mitch went to the Sonic Youth show at the the 9:30 Club last night as the rest of us followed along on NPR's online broadcast . He took the shot above with his cell phone. Kim looks ghostly and ethereal, and that looks like some sort of torn-open blood portal behind her. Forget the piper. I'm following the rock specter, the phantom of dissonance. Here are two mp3s from that performance, in all their stream-ripped glory. Sonic [...]
The Do. What do you do when your influences are "Bela Bartok, BECK, Jimi Hendrix, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Nico, Igor Stravinsky, Kiss The Change, Bird, The Last Poets, Coltrane, Bjork, Monte, Muddy Waters, Mingus, Eminem, The WuTangClan, Lauryn Hill, Betty Davis, Queen, The Beatles, Tom Waits, Art Pepper, Frank Zappa, Young marble giants, Duke Ellington, The White Stripes , Peaches, Michael Jackson, Joanna Newsom, Patti Smith..."? Perhaps a better question is, what don't you do? Behold the range of The Do . The Do - Tammie (mp3)
...and also about obsession. The Mr. T Experience - A Song About A Girl Who Went Shopping (mp3) From The Mr. T Experience 's Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood (1989).
R.E.M.'s debut album, Murmur , was Rolling Stone's 8th best album of the 80's, just behind Michael Jackson's Thriller , and was RS's best album of 1983. No wonder its Deluxe Edition release was so highly anticipated last year, and with its rousing live bonus disc, it earned a 10.0 on the notoriously stingy Pitchfork . Their sophomore record, Reckoning , was released as double disc Deluxe Edition last week, quiet as a murmur. If not Murmur's equivalent (Pitchfork will probably give this deluxe treatment a nine-point-something), Reckoning was [...]
Okkervil River is on tour through September, and were recently taped for an episode of Austin City Limits on PBS. If you're really lucky, you have tickets to see them with Wilco. Last week, they played an in-studio set for KCRW, and this was the second song from that set. Okkervil River - Pop Lie (Live on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, 6-25-2009)(mp3) Download the entire uncompressed FM recording here (.flac torrent) , and impress your friends with the Pop Lie [...]
You can download (mp3 podcast) or stream the recent in-studio performance (recorded 4-23-2009) by Phoenix on KEXP here .
Michael Jackson's albums are the Top Music Sellers on Amazon.com If you follow The Smudge, you know that if you get just one (assuming that you already have Thriller), I recommend Off the Wall (Special Edition) .
Those vinylphiles (or is it digiphobes?) at Norton Records have released another winning amalgam of 45 rpm rarities, digitized it, released it for our convenience, and ironically titled the epic collection I Still Hate CD's: Norton Records 45 RPM Singles Collection Vol. 2 . I get what drives purists to hate CDs and other digital formats - the same cold, hard metallic data storage devices that are also great for holding (egad!) work references, educational software, spreadsheets, databases, and infinite other forms of anti-art. There's the impersonality of bits, the miniaturization of cover art, [...]
I hate, hate, hate to see you go. Thank you for the music and the memories that went with it. See you in the big Hitsville in the sky. Jackson 5 - Never Can Say Goodbye (mp3)
Listen to the in-studio session here .
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The Smudge of Ashen Fluff
Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Bison - Quill
