Guess this is the sort of stuff you will find under the tree this Christmas - if you have been bad. I'd rather have a gift card, you know? Anyway - here are some new efforts from Big Superstars who are still trying to get your hard-earned money this holiday season, although you need it way more than they do. Norah Jones has sold a zillion albums but she has really put out only four, and The Fall is certainly her liveliest album to date. She's kinda wanting to [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Ben Shaberman's essay collection The Vegan Monologues is more than a book about not eating animals. Sherman touches on political, social, and environmental issues while recounting his own experiences, always in his humorous yet poignant voice. In his own words, here is Ben Shaberman's Book Notes music playlist for his essay collection, The Vegan Monologues : [...]
Story by Adam Daniels Photography by Dorothy Hong "Do you need a drink?"
"Yes, I need four double whiskeys and four PBRs." It was Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson's record release show at Williamsburg's Union Pool, and while he was among a roomful of friends, he was not at ease. Robinson's former fiancé obliged the request, assuming it was on behalf of the entire band. This was not the case. Robinson wasn't a household name in indie rock at the time. But he had a lot of the pieces in place [...]
Bob Dylan & band @ United Palace Theatre (on night 1) ( wflines ) "...this was the first show I've seen since guitarist Charlie Sexton rejoined the band. The setlist was phenomonal: they opened [night three] with a hard rocking, swagger heavy "Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking" (from Slow Train Coming ), followed by a loose "The Man In Me" (from New Morning , and also used in the opening credits of The Big Lebowski). The fans loved the semi-obscure picks. Then he played my favorite [...]
A long-awaited survey of the life and times of a cultural icon. Given Joan Baez's centrality to American cultural and political life over the past five decades, the greatest surprise about this documentary is that it wasn't made much sooner. While Bob Dylan's career has been the subject of a multitude of docs and bios, essays and retrospectives, Baez's work -- both as artist and activist -- has received comparably little scrutiny or contextualization. While her classic Vanguard albums have been carefully and conscientiously re-issued and re-mastered...
tUnE-YaRds @ Bowery Ballroom last night ( more by Dominick Mastrangelo ) Cave In today in NYC * Rakim @ BB King's * Ray Davies @ Town Hall * The Dig, Locksley @Mercury Lounge * Reigning Sound, A-Bones @ Maxwell's * Crystal Fighters @ Santos Party House * Bob Dylan, Dion @ United Palace Theatre [...]
In the spring of 2005 Bob Dylan hired some new guys for his band. Nothing unusual there; Dylan tends to switch around his band every year or so. Except then, for the next four and a half years he didn't change a thing. Since that spring fans grew a little more tired of those same five people with each passing leg of the so-called Never-Endi ng Tour. Were these guys the second coming of The Band or something, fans might have been more forgiving, but soon this lowercase-"b" band turned every [...]
This video for "Must Be Santa" comes from Dylan's 47th album, Christmas In The Heart . Despite its release in mid-October, I have given it a few warm weather spins and each time it just makes me warm and cherry to hear Dylan doing Christmas. All of the artist's U.S. royalties into the future from sales of Christmas In The Heart will be donated to Feeding America. Must Be Santa [...]
In just a few days, on November 23rd, there will be a new Animal Collective release upon us. And although we've only heard snippets of the Fall Be Kind EP in all it's polyphonic glory, we'd like to think that the sparkle and carnival whirring of "Graze" is a good indicator that nothing—save for maybe Bob Dylan's psychotic new Christmas album—is going to able get that sucker out of our hi-fi until the holidays have finally wound down. Check it out above. (via Stereogum )
A swagger around the rockblog-o-sphere brings us... - Glorious Noise opines that Jack White is the new Rick Rubin - And then there were Two - Ringo Starr has Paul McCartney guest on a few tracks for his upcoming LP (via Rock and Roll Daily) - MySpace gets Imeem for a steal, writes TechCrunch - I saw Tobin Sprout in his incarnation as EyesinWeasel back in October 2000 - Bob Dylan has put out [...]
Filed under: Count Five , Canada Blue Rodeo 's 12th studio effort, 'The Things We Left Behind,' is the roots-rockers first non-live double album in their 25-year career. In addition to being released digitally and on CD, it's also available on vinyl with a gatefold. The reason for that is because Blue Rodeo's two leaders, Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy, have been vinyl junkies since they were kids. Now the Canadian icons are revealing to Spinner the double LPs from their youth that left the most [...]
Vampire Weekend have just released a video for their previously announced single "Cousins," following last month's release of "Horchata." The track is available from XL digitally now, and will be available on 7" December 15th. It will also appear on their highly anticipated new record Contra , available January 12th. The Garth Jennings-directed video is a low budget but creative piece filmed in what appears to be a New York City alleyway. There's a brief moment about halfway in that references Bob Dylan's classic "Subterranean Homesick Blues" cue card video clip, and the track ends on a [...]
Billboard has finally gotten over some of its archaic charting methods (Catalogue albums, anyone?) and is going to include a 15 spot chart for fold music beginning 2010. This will cater to artists like Ani DiFranco, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and their fans. This also comes with the revamping of the Billboard 200. It's still confusing, but better. Posted in Beats, Yankee Panky Tagged: billboard, charts, folk
To celebrate its seventh birthday, Paper Bag Records has combined two of our favorite things in music: covers and free stuff. The Seven Year Itch, as Stereogum reports, is a new compilation of cover songs performed by twelve of label's artists, and can be obtained right this very second for free. Just click here . Launched in 2002, Paper Bag Records has emerged as one of he premier indie labels, and for good reason. In its first year, the label released the critically acclaimed You Forgot It In People [...]
Recommended Show: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009 SLEIGH BELLS @ LE POISSON ROUGE 158 Bleecker Street Manhattan, NY 10012 $8, 11:30PM Sleigh Bells are one of those bands that people have been buzzing about every since CMJ . A boy, a girl, a guitar, and an iPod: check them out tonight at Le Poisson Rouge before they get huge. Other shows going on tonight at listed after the jump. Reigning Sound @ Maxwell's Slighty Stoopid @ Terminal 5 Pretty Lights @ The Fillmore Times New Viking @ Union Pool Sleigh Bells @ [...]
A live version of 'Cousins', followed then by the recorded version have both been doing the rounds in the blogosphere over the past couple of weeks. Now Vampire Weekend have released the video to accompany the track. The video is a mixture of U2's 'The Sweetest Things' with Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and is two and a half minutes of VW goofing around. The tracks itself is much more upbeat than the previously featured 'Horchata' and I feel is some of Vampire Weekend's best work to date. It's catchy, [...]
Thursday, November 19, 2009 Joshua Radin at Webster Hall Flatlanders at Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown NY Dirty Projectors at Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Bklyn Slightly Stoopid at Terminal 5 Bob Schneider at World Cafe Live, Philly Bob Dylan & his band and Dion at United Palace Ray Davies performing with The Dessoff Chamber Choir at Town Hall [...]
Bob Dylan @ United Palace Theater - Nov 18, 2009 ( hightea ) Huffington Post : A lot of the acts from your generation seem to be trading on nostalgia. They play the same songs the same way for the last 30 years. Why haven't you ever done that? Bob Dylan : I couldn't if I tried. Those guys you are talking about all had conspicuous hits. They started out anti-establishment and now they are in charge of the world. [...]
It's the funniest Dylna music video ever! His straight long hair is quite amazing!
Concert attended and reviewed by Karen I 've never been to a Billy Bragg concert before. In fact I couldn't name you one song that he sings. My best friend Louise however has been a huge Billy fan for a very long time and has seen him six times so I went along with her to check him out. Oh I should let you know she's from Leeds. Billy's from Essex. This means nothing. Turns out Billy Bragg is pretty amazing and pretty effing funny! [...]
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