Here's an extended edit of one of Can's crown jewels, complete with an intro, outro and some extended breaks. Only the intro & outro are quantized. MP3: http://www.mediafire.com/?9n5u wzzck9iy2f4 WAV: http://www.mediafire.com/?lphj nllotrs5kjv
New York collective Phenomenal Handclap Band return with their sophomore album, and it's a curious beast. You know when they travel to the future in the Bill and Ted films, and it's basically the 1980s except it's the future? That's pretty much what this album is. Except with the 1970s. And no Keanu Reeves, which is a shame. It's all disco grooves, funk guitar, layer cake production and vocal arrangements that sound like a computer has been fed a load of ABBA, Blondie and Scissor Sisters and programmed to compose something. Read more..
for some damn reason during my 3 year stint in nola i didnt go to jazz fest. its not for lack of trying, but it just never worked out in my favor. well, this year its gonna happen as bruce and the rest of the gang are playing said fest on 4.29 - which i believe closes out the first weekend. i cant wait, but also i know its gonna be a fuckin madhouse. still im sure its gonna be awesome. 1. jazz musician 2. [...]
Bill Fay's is a name that has crept back into the underground consciousness in recent years due to some unexpected word-of-mouth publicity which has culminated in a series of commendable reissues of the artist's work. Going into Time of the Last Persecution , however, I was unaware of such recent windfalls and totally unprepared for what I was delving into save for having read a record store tag-line which compared him to Ray Davies and Bob Dylan, or something along those lines. Sounded like hype of the highest order, but I was willing to take a chance; it was [...]
All pictures copyright by Danny Fields Today's awesome feature (from November) comes from Slutever.com, which treats the world to a wonderful essay about Danny Fields , the legendary rock and roll exec, promoter, PR cat, manager and friend to the 1960s and 1970s underground. "If there was ever someone who could be credited for creating cool, it's Danny Fields. Manager of the Ramones, editor at the iconic 16 magazine, one of Warhol's glitterati, and the man responsible for signing the Stooges and MC5 (on the same day), since the [...]
Wanted to put this up again, because it's fantastic and there were a couple requests for it. Happy Sunday afternoon. Always been a fan of Zevon. Listening to Excitable Boy as a kid got me started. As I became old enough to understand just how funny, disturbing and moving the lyrics were was when I realized the genius of Zevon. If you've never spent any time with his music, this is a great place to start. Here's a Warren Zevon show from The Record Plant in Sausalito in July of 1978. [...]
top of the day after thanksgiving, or for those of you anywhere else, the day after a thursday. my thanksgiving was lovely and relaxing. we went to the wife's new restaurant/hotel, the renaissance marriott in baton rouge. took some pics of the event with my new panasonic lx5, which is a super awesome camera, btw. thanks to my father for purchasing it for me. i had to sell my g12, which is also a great camera, and really sucked being without one. woke up this morning with "san diego serenade" in my head and thus [...]
Open Road was Donovan's first album of the 1970's. Here he was backed by a sympathetic group of the same name (Open Road) and this change made all the difference. Gone are the psychedelic trappings of previous years and in their place are a collection of sharp Celtic influenced folk-rock tracks. The lyrics and backing band are straight forward and direct, giving this album a back to the basics feel (there are no sitars, horns, harpsichords or elaborate studio productions) - so in the case of Open Road , less is more. While there are no [...]
While not as solid as some of the Auteurs and Black Box Recorder mastermind's past conceptual dabbles, Nine and a Half ... is a marvel all the same. Reviewing a Luke Haines release is destined to put the critic at a disadvantage. No matter the magnitude of praise heaped upon it, we will never deem a release as ingenious as the mastermind behind the Auteurs and co-mastermind behind Black Box Recorder does. When the critic is an American, the disadvantages are even greater: as deft a songwriter as Haines is (and he's one of the deftest that [...]
[Gotcha Covered] - Cosmo Jarvis covers Grateful Dead // A new favourite covering an old favourite… Jarvis delivers a fine version of the Dead's Friend Of The Devil from their album American Beauty (1970).
There's sweet justice in the recent consensus that George made the best post-Beatles solo album. I still maintain that Paul had the best career overall, but then Ringo was involved in this awesomeness , so the whole debate is bound for stalemate. Of the many gems on All Things Must Pass , this one manages to constantly, if quietly, amaze. Kinda like George himself. George Harrison - Run Of The [...]
No one can blame you if you dismiss Slade's Play It Loud out of hand. After all, Slade was the original hair metal band, launching a thousand ill-begotten covers, their originals just as bombastic, screeching and spelling-challenged. Yet, the Slade catalogue is full of buried treasures; nearly every one of the band's 70s albums contains at least one song worth the price of admission, from "Gudbye to Jane" to "How Does It Feel," and in the case of Play It Loud , an entire album's worth of great songs. Released in 1970, Play It [...]
Rick Sings Nelson , Rick Nelson's first studio album with the pioneering Stone Canyon Band, really does deserve the reputation of "stone-cold classic". Expanding tenfold upon the razor-sharp music and harmonies of the Stone Canyon's debut record, In Concert , Rick Sings Nelson was actually the singer's first album of wholly original material (hence the title). It's unbelievable that it took him this long start laying his songs on the public like this, because they're pretty great, and certainly miles above lots of the crud he had been running through for the preceding [...]
Quite reasonably described in recent reviews as "acoustic death metal" and "too weird for folkies, too folky for weirdos", it would be hard to identify any album from the sixties/seventies cusp that was more wilfully intended to alienate the mainstream record-buying public than this totally unique progressive folk effort by Comus. First Utterance was, and still is, "difficult". Fortunately today an appreciative audience exists for "difficult" stuff like this. Kent-based art students Roger Wootton and Glenn Goring had played acoustic covers of Velvet Underground numbers in London folk clubs, thereby alienating the contemporary folk audience as [...]
I trust that on this near-November Wednesday, you're all as keen to groove to some Uruguayan psych-pop as me. These guys may not be Os Mutantes, but they take me to a grainy, blurry Tropicalia wonderland all the same. I bet that 40 year ago, some well-meaning middle class hippies in Uruguay were rocking out to this while hatching idealist impossible schemes, bless 'em. Limonada - Dejenme Dormir
Blue Mountain Eagle is a band with a tediously convoluted history. Though originally construed by former Buffalo Springfield drummer Dewey Martin as the New Buffalo Springfield, they went through a long series of lineup changes during their brief existence, the end result of which was Martin's rather ironic expulsion. A pretty-much-inevitable lawsuit taken out against the band by Stephen Stills and Neil Young effectively barred them from performing under their rather awkward, hand-me-down moniker, so the group took on the name of a newspaper one of the guys had picked up while on tour. What may have seemed [...]
[ SPOILER ALERT: Prog Rock '70s history Geek Out full straight ahead. You have been warned. ] ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ----------- French-Canadian Genesis tribute group The Musical Box , which has been recreating Peter Gabriel-era Genesis concerts for nearly 20 years now, brought its spectacle to Phoenix over the weekend, and it was (again!) terrific. The Musical Box is currently performing Genesis' much-loved 1974 " The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway ". It is a full-on recreation of what American audiences might've seen in 1974 and 1975 when [...]
Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi seized power in a military coup in 1969. After rebels finally take his home town of Sirte, the former leader was reported dead by the Libya's National Transitional Council. Let's see how Lybia's dictator Muammar Gaddafi has changed in 30 years. Post 1969 picture of Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (AFP/Getty Images) [...]
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