Archive for October 8th, 2009
Brian Wilson Will Complete Unfinished Gershwin Compositions
October 8th, 2009
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Brian Wilson will reportedly complete at least two unfinished works by composer George Gershwin for an upcoming release, the Los Angeles Times reports. Wilson received authorization from the Gershwin estate to work on the unfinished songs, which are more than seven decades old. Wilson told the LAT he was “thrilled to death” by the prospect of completing Gershwin’s work, adding “I’m proud to be able to do it. Hopefully I’ll be able to do ...
Fricke’s Picks: Buckley Stripped Bare
October 8th, 2009
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Tim Buckley was just 20 and a few months away from making his second Elektra album, the baroque-pop treasure Goodbye and Hello, when he gave the stunning raw-folk performance — just voice and acoustic guitar, taped with a single mike on a machine usually reserved for field recordings — on Live at the Folklore Centre, NYC — March 6, 1967 (Tompkins Square). The intimacy is audible; a few coughs during “Cripples Cry” are ...
Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” Tour Returns March 2010
October 8th, 2009
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With the first leg of her Fearless tour wrapping up October 11th in Minneapolis — and America’s highways and arenas now free of arch enemy Kanye West after the cancellation of the “Fame Kills” Tour — Taylor Swift confirmed that the second leg of trek will kick off March 4th, 2010 in Tampa, Florida. Before journeying across North America on the 37-date trek, however, Swift will head Down Under for a five-concert tour of ...
Hype Monitor: Basia Bulat, jj, Kurt Vile
October 8th, 2009
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The Band: Basia Bulat
The Buzz: Canadian singer-songwriter returns with a second record that’s even stronger than her debut Oh, My Darling, applying her gently wavering voice to stark, dramatic folk songs.
Listen If: You still rep hard for 10,000 Maniacs’ In My Tribe.
Key Track: The harrowing “Gold Rush,” where Bulat sings like an old West widow, bemoaning her fate over taut bursts of violin and rollicking rhythms.
The Band: jj
The Buzz: Never underestimate the power of ...
Clip of Nirvana’s “School” From “Live at Reading” DVD Hits Amazon
October 8th, 2009
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Scorching footage of Nirvana performing “School” at the 1992 Reading Festival has been posted at Amazon. The video comes from the CD/DVD Nirvana Live at Reading that drops (together and separately) on November 3rd, the same day Sub Pop is reissuing the deluxe version of Nirvana’s debut album Bleach. Heralded as the one of the greatest Nirvana performances ever, the August 30th, 1992 Reading gig featured Kurt Cobain donning a hospital gown to ...
Modest Mouse’s Brock Calls New “Whale Song” Video a “Favorite”
October 8th, 2009
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When Rolling Stone caught up with Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock around the time the band released their Heath Ledger-directed video for “King Rat,” the singer-guitarist promised they were cooking up something equally eye-popping for the next clip from their No One’s First But You’re Next EP, “The Whale Song.”
“It’s probably going to be one of my favorite videos we’re ever done,” Brock told Rolling Stone. “It’s a weird song to choose because it’s long ...
Rarely Seen Led Zeppelin Images Surface in New Photo Book
October 8th, 2009
Photograph by Mike Randolph courtesy of Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times (Abrams Books)
In 1968, the members of what would soon be named Led Zeppelin were snapped outside a Scandinavian club by a fan. The images of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham are candid, slightly fuzzy and extremely rare, but now fans can check them out in the new book Good Times, Bad Times: A Visual Biography of the Ultimate ...
Dashboard Confessional Go Acoustic and Electric for Deluxe “Alter the Ending”
October 8th, 2009
For years, Dashboard Confessional fans have been locked in fierce debate over whether they prefer Chris Carrabba unplugged or with his full band. But die-hards will get to enjoy their hero both ways this fall: DC have revealed that the deluxe version of upcoming album Alter the Ending, due out November 10th, will be accompanied by a bonus disc featuring acoustic versions of the album’s 12 tracks.
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“Making an ...
Manic Street Preachers Return to New York With Hits-Packed Show
October 8th, 2009
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Near the end of their first New York show in 10 years, at Webster Hall on October 7th, singer-guitarist James Dean Bradfield of the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers hit the plaintive opening lick of the Small Faces’ 1966 British hit “All or Nothing,” leading the rest of his group into a verse and chorus of that mod-soul classic — a song about giving without quitting — before veering into the Manics’ ...
Kiss Piss Scandal: Man Arrested For Urinating on Fan at Concert
October 8th, 2009
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In what now seems to be an unfortunate trend at Boston rock concerts, a man was arrested at Kiss‘ TD Garden show on October 5th after urinating on the concertgoer standing in front of him. According to the BPDNews blotter, a woman was watching the Sonic Boom band in action when suddenly she experienced “a warm feeling on the back of her leg.” The victim turned around to see the source of the warmth, ...