February 2013
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Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light (Conan O'Brien)
How the "Wish You Were Here" artwork came to be
If you’ve ever seen the album art for Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, you’ve probably come to understand why the band is as well known for their album covers as they are for their music.
Read more: http://tunedinturnedup.com/2013/02/01/fun-fact-14-man-on-fire/
The 10 Most Annoying Concert Behaviors
Going to rock concerts has always meant dealing with a bunch of unruly people, many of them very drunk – but it seems like lately things have been worse than ever. Attention spans are at an all-time low, and the ubiquity of smartphones has resulted in a huge percentage of the audience at any given show barely paying attention to the action onstage. Here are the 10 most annoying behaviors at rock...
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Cage The Elephant - Shake Me Down
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Dean Ween and Les Claypool will soon have their...
So. You already watch Mob Wives and Moonshiners and River Monsters, and you’re going to start watching a fishing show too. According to Glide’s Hidden Track blog, Mickey Melchiondo, a.k.a. Dean Ween — formerly of weirdo-rock duo Ween — leads a secret life as a charter boat captain, and he’s teamed up with Les Claypool of Primus for a reality show that will “fuse sportfishing with music and...
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Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
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Iron & Wine Announces 'Ghost on Ghost' Album
It’s been a little while since beard-sporting folk guy Sam Beam released a new album from his Iron & Wine project. After last year’s George Michael covers, however, he’s announced a proper follow-up to 2011’s Kiss Each Other Clean.
Read more: http://exclaim.ca/News/iron_wine_announces_ghost_on_ghost_album
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Lenny Kravitz crashes the VOP Choir in New Orleans...
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Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins to Induct Rush Into...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced the majority of the speakers for its 28th annual induction ceremony. Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins will induct Rush, Don Henley will induct Randy Newman, Jennifer Hudson and Christina Aguilera will team up to honor the late Donna Summer and John Mayer will induct the late Albert King.
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The Roots and Elvis Costello Plot Collaborative...
The Roots’ work on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has given the hip-hop group a chance to appear alongside an array of artists passing through the talk show studio. This includes Elvis Costello, with whom the group are reportedly plotting a collaborative LP.
Read more: http://exclaim.ca/News/roots_elvis_costello_plot_collaborative_album
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Wanna Buy the Church Where Arcade Fire Made Neon...
Last fall, news surfaced that Arcade Fire were working on a new LP for 2013, but not at the church where they recorded 2010’s The Suburbs and 2007’s Neon Bible.
Read More: http://pitchfork.com/news/49218-wanna-buy-the-church-where-arcade-fire-made-neon-bible-and-the-suburbs/
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Radiohead's Thom Yorke: I'll sue David Cameron if...
Thom Yorke has threatened to “sue the living shit” out of David Cameron if the prime minister uses a Radiohead song in a future election campaign.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/17/radiohead-thom-yorke-david-cameron
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Tom Waits Photography Book by Anton Corbijn Due...
If you’ve been waiting for that long-delayed Tom Waits photo book by Anton Corbijn to arrive, then we’ve got some good news for you: Waits/Corbijn ‘77-‘11 is finally due to be released on May 8 through publisher Schirmer-Mosel.
Read more: http://exclaim.ca/News/tom_waits_photography_book_by_anton_corbijn_due_this_spring
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Heart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy...
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Johnny Marr on the Smiths, Morrissey and putting...
With the release of his first solo album The Messenger, the former Smiths guitarist talks about finally embracing his old sound, David Cameron and why he and Morrissey don’t talk any more
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/11/johnny-marr-smiths-morrissey-politics-pop
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Indie Music Grabs 32.6% Of U.S. Album Sales In...
According the A2iM, The American Association For Independent Music, Billboard and SoundScan stats show that independent labels grabbed 32.6% of U.S. album sales in 2012.
Read more: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/01/indie-music-grabs-326-of-us-album-sales-in-2012.html
January 2013
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Perry Farrell working on Jane's Addiction musical
Perry Farrell has revealed that he is working on a Jane’s Addiction musical, stating that he thinks people are moving away from traditional gigs and festivals as the only way to hear bands performing live.
Read more: http://www.nme.com/news/janes-addiction/68034
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The Black Keys: 'We're dying to make a new album'
The Black Keys >are entering the recording studio this week to begin work on their brand new studio album. The band, who released their seventh album ‘El Camino’ in 2011, aim to finish the recording in March with a late 2013 release date provisionally in place. Speaking toMojo about their plans, guitarist Dan Auerbach said: “We’re going to start making the new album in...
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Sony Releases Limited Edition, 86-Track Bob Dylan...
Last year, about 100 lucky Bob Dylan fans in Europe came across a pretty amazing find on record store shelves: a four-CD set titled The 50th Anniversary Collection. The set contains 86 Dylan songs recorded in 1962, including numerous takes of “Mixed Up Confusion,” “Sally Gal,” “That’s All Right, Mama” and “Baby, Please Don’t Go.” Contrary...
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Paul Weller: 'No way will The Jam ever reunite'
Paul Weller has confirmed that he will never reform The Jam as “it would be absurd”. The Modfather said he admires bands like The Rolling Stones who keep rocking into their late-sixties but admits he couldn’t do it, as he doesn’t want to be performing songs that are over 30 years old.
Read more: http://www.nme.com/news/paul-weller/68025
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Deep Purple Confirm New Album
Deep Purple recently confirmed that on 30th April this year, are going to release a new album, after numerous rehearsals in Europe. Not that they recorded, but they even mixed the entire project in Nashville with the producer Bob Ezrin.
Read more: http://www.zmemusic.com/feature/news/new-deep-purple-album-312013/
London's Olympic Stadium to reopen as music venue
London’s Olympic Stadium in Stratford, East London, is set to reopen in July 2013 with a series of rock concerts, reports BBC News.
Read more: http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/67975
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Led Zeppelin vs The Beatles - Whole Lotta Helter...
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Video: R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
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Video: Alice In Chains - I Stay Away
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Video: Weezer - Hash Pipe
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Microscopic picture of a guitar string.
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Frank Zappa's Estate License Unreleased Live Album
After Universal Music launched a reissue campaign last year, it’s been a particularly good time to be a Frank Zappa fan. Now, the late artist’s estate have sweetened the pot with an unreleased live album.
Read more: http://exclaim.ca/News/frank_zappas_estate_license_unreleased_live_album
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BBC Sound of 2003: Where are they now?
The top five acts on the BBC Sound of 2013 new music list will be revealed next week. The first list was BBC Sound of 2003, when 10 new artists were tipped for the top.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20780642
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Dave Grohl to debut another supergroup at Sundance...
Foo Fighters man Dave Grohl will debut a new supergroup, named Sound City Players, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, reports Rolling Stone.
The show, due to take place on January 18, will see Grohl take to the stage with guests and musicians featured in his documentary on the now-closed Sound City recording studios in Van Nuys, California, which will premiere at the annual film...
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Video: Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet
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Ben Gibbard, Zooey Deschanel Finalize Divorce
Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel have finalized their divorce with documents filed in a Los Angeles court citing irreconcileable differences as the reason, Us Weekly reports. Initially introduced by their mutual manager, the couple married in 2009 but parted last November in a split described as “mutual and amicable.”
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34th Blues Music Award Nominees Announced
The Blues Foundation has announced the nominees for their 34th annual Blues Awards, set to take place in Memphis, Tennessee on May 9, 2013.
Acoustic Album
Billy Boy Arnold Sings Big Bill Broonzy - Billy Boy Arnold
Blues on Solid Ground - John Primer
Deeper In The Well - Eric Bibb
Not Alone - Ann Rabson w/ Bob Margolin
Talking Guitar - Paul Rishell
Acoustic Artist
Carolina Chocolate Drops
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Allman Brothers Band Lay Out Plans For 10 Night...
Things in life that are guarantees: Death, Taxes and The Allman Brothers Band playing a March Multi-Night Run at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Over the course of 16 the band will play 10 shows there and the tickets are on sale on Friday, 01/11 @ 10AM EST from www.ticketmaster.com , www.beacontheatre.com or if you haven’t discovered the internet yet you can still charge by phone at...
December 2012
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Ravi Shankar teaches George Harrison how to play...
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Nirvana reunion! Song: "Cut Me Some Slack"...
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Led Zeppelin - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1970...
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John Entwistle - Won't Get Fooled Again (Isolated...
An isolated bass track of The Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again, filmed in Sheppard’s Bush, London, England. Skip to 0:18 for the music to begin
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Nick Drake - Pink Moon
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Paul McCartney ‘to replace Kurt Cobain at Nirvana...
Wednesday 12 Dec 2012 8:19 am Music
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Paul McCartney will perform a new song he has been working on with Grohl and Novoselic (Picture: EPA)
Sir Paul McCartney is to front Nirvana for one night only, it has been reported, when surviving members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic reunite for the first time in 20 years.
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Just Stevie Wonder in the studio with a young...
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Arcade Fire are in the studio with James Murphy
Arcade Fire are working on their new album with James Murphy. Back in October (2012), former LCD Soundsystem frontman Murphy denied that he was producing the band’s follow-up to 2010’s ‘The Suburbs’. He said at the time: “That’s not necessarily true. We don’t work like that. Because I work with friends, if I have time and they’re doing something and...
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THE NIGHT THE WHO PLAYED UNION (NJ) CATHOLIC
The gymnasium at Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains has been the site of countless basketball games and physical education classes during the school’s 50-year history. But for one night — Nov. 29, 1967 — backboards and jump shots took a backseat to backbeats and rim shots when the gym was transformed into a concert hall for a new rock band riding in with the British Invasion: The Who
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October 2012
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Tori Amos In Concert
Twenty years after Little Earthquakes, the groundbreaking artist re-imagines a handpicked collection of songs from her catalog in an orchestral setting. Experience these new arrangements of classic favorites in an exclusive concert from New York City, broadcast live by NPR Music.
Watch the concert:...
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Diana Krall Brings Sexy Back In Time
When listening to Diana Krall’s fun, smart new recording Glad Rag Doll, it’s helpful to consider a question recently posed by Gyp Rosetti, the sensitive psychopath lending sparks to this season of HBO’s Prohibition-era series Boardwalk Empire.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/10/04/162285539/diana-krall-brings-sexy-back-in-time?sc=ipad&f=124289519
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Video: Beth Orton - Magpie
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Rodriguez: The rock icon who didn't know it
He was more popular than Elvis, but humble 70s singer-songwriter Rodriguez didn’t know about his fame in South Africa for 40 years. Bob Simon tells the story of how Rodriguez went from obscurity to stardom, decades after he cut his first album.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57526420/rodriguez-the-rock-icon-who-didnt-know-it/?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel
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The Velvet Underground & Nico [Full Album]
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Val Emmich admits to not singing where we normally...
Val Emmich said on his blog that he doesn’t sing around the house, in the shower, or in the car. He says his singing is just a byproduct of his songwriting.
Read his blog post:http://valemmich.com/post/32744111391/what-do-you-mean-when-you-say-you-dont-enjoy-singing
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Listen to Mike Doughty's "Country Roads" (John...
