November 2011
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Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing (Live) - Royal Albert...
Complete with psychedelia effects:
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You've Never Heard Patti Smith's 'Horses'?!
From npr.org: This is a recurring series in which we ask our unimaginably young interns to review classic albums they’ve never heard before. Charlie Kaplan is an intern for NPR Music.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/11/29/142891497/youve-never-heard-patti-smiths-horses?ps=mh_frhdl2
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Mumford & Sons - The Enemy (for Wuthering Heights)
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Liam Gallagher set to resume lawsuit against...
The legal fight between Noel Gallagher and brother Liam is back on, according to tabloid reports this morning (November 21).
Liam filed a lawsuit earlier this summer after his brother said in a press conference that he had pulled out of a headline performance at V Festival in 2009 due to a hangover, and that the band’s split was in part down to an argument over whether he could advertise...
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Bruce Springsteen Announces New Album, World Tour
Well, things are starting to heat up down on E Street. A lot of you have been hearing that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be on tour in 2012. That is absolutely correct. The European dates run from the middle of May until end of July and are being announced this week. Info on the US dates and the World tour dates will coming up shortly. In addition, we want you to know that the...
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This Is What Radiohead Sounded Like in High School
Not that many people have heard of the band On a Friday. The group, which consisted of a handful of British boarding school students, formed in 1985 in their native Oxfordshire, played a few venues around town, and recorded a few demo tapes in their five years performing under the On a Friday moniker. Then they signed a record deal and were forced to change their name to Radiohead, and you know...
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The Rolling Stones - Shattered (from "Some Girls,...
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4 reasons a song gets stuck in your head
Ever notice how some songs, no matter how annoying you think they are, get stuck in your head? Let’s try to explain:
Read more: http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/14/8800871-4-reasons-a-song-gets-stuck-in-your-head
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Grateful Dead PBS Celebration 1970-08-30
Grateful Dead PBS Celebration 1970-08-30 Easy Wind
Candyman Casey
Jones Brokedown Palace
Uncle John’s Band
Live in the studio sets by the Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service were broadcast simultaneously on TV and FM radio. The music was recorded on August 30, 1970.
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Joan Jett w/Foo Fighters - "Bad Reputation" Live...
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"Funkytown" covered by Old Computer Equipment
Although Lipps Inc. really isn’t our cup of tea, this robot cover of “Funkytown” is awesome. Enjoy.
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6-String Bass Cover of Radiohead's "Karma Police"
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Cee Lo co-writes song w/River Coumo (Lyrical...
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Watch Peter Gabriel's Performance on Live on...
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Watch Feist's Performance on Jimmy Kimmel
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Marketa Irglova: Tiny Desk Concert
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Rivers Cuomo Announces Pinkterton Diaries Book
Today, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo announced that he would be releasing The Pinkerton Diaries and a disc called Alone III. \
The Pinkerton Diaries is a book that chronicles Cuomo’s life from the day The Blue Album was released in 1994 through 1997, showing the time in his life where Pinkteron was put together. The 237-page hardback book will feature journal entries, letters, pictures, song...
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Roger Waters The Wall Live 4 Show Edit...
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CELEBRITIES AND THEIR VINYL
Everyone loves vinyl, right? Celebrities are no different. Here are a few like The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, and Patti Smith with theirs:
Read more: http://www.retronaut.co/2011/06/celebrities-and-their-vinyl/
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The Ghost Of Tom Joad (Bruce w/Tom Morello)
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First Listen: Kate Bush, '50 Words For Snow'
Here are 50 words for Kate Bush’s new album, 50 Words for Snow:
Powdery fantasia. Contemplative. Winter matins. Playful. Opium reverie. Grounded. Ghost story. Sensual. Artistic recalibration. Unhurried. Drummer’s holiday. Quiet. Ode to the white keys. Imaginative. Exploration of the lower register. Floating. Mother-son duet. Solitary. Snowed-in erotica. Collaborative. Joni Mitchell...
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'Stairway To Heaven' Turns 40: Celebrate With 7...
“Stairway to Heaven.” Those three little words have come to mean so much. Led Zeppelin’s eight-minute classic turns 40 this week, and it still sets the bar for headbanging chutzpah, if not sophisticated songcraft.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/11/12/142238146/stairway-to-heaven-turns-40-celebrate-with-7-covers?sc=fb&cc=fp
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Brian Eno, Micheal Stipe, & Stephen Colbert Sing...
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Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' helps digital album sales...
Digital albums sales in the UK this year have already passed the total amount sold in 2010. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has revealed that 21.3 million digital copies of albums have been sold in 2011, breaking the record set last year with two months of the year remaining, according to the Official Charts Company. They also report that this year, digital albums represented 26.2% of...
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John Wesley Harding: The Musical Side Of A Split...
“When I first started making music, I took a fake name to disguise the fact I was going to embark on what was bound to be a short, unsatisfactory musical career,” John Wesley Harding says. That was 23 years ago.
Harding recently launched a side career as a novelist, for which he uses his given name: Wesley Stace. But he’s continued to release music under his alias, a name he...
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Mazzy Star to Tour, Release New Album in 2012
On Oct. 31, dream-folk-pop duo Mazzy Star announced their return to music after a hiatus that endured for over 10 years with a double A-side single, Common Burn / Lay Myself Down. Since the group’s output has been sparse throughout their career, many fans feared this was the only new Mazzy Star material the world would get.
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First Listen: R.E.M., 'Part Lies, Part Heart, Part...
A two-disc, 40-song overview of R.E.M.’s career, Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage hits many key points in the band’s history. But, as often happens with compilations, they’re merely glanced at: This is a CliffsNotes rendering, not the full measure of a group that rose from the scruffy clubs of Athens, Ga., to show zillions of other bands a path toward creative —...
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Artists Celebrate Vinyl Records With Record Store...
On a recent evening, Gov’t Mule guitarist Warren Haynes sat back and listened to Van Morrison’s sweeping, improvisational gem Astral Weeks. While the frequent Allman Brothers Band and Dead contributor had cherished this iconic album for several decades, on this particular occasion, the 51-year-old devoured it with renewed awe. “It was a totally different listening...
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Full Album Stream: Noel Gallagher's High Flying...
Noel Gallagher’s new project Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will be releasing its self-titled debut on November 8th. Gallagher enlisted several longtime friends to round out the High Flying Birds, and he found the process to be more creatively fulfilling than the production of past Oasis records. “I was sick to death of writing out lyrics for other people. It was a very...
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Bruce Springsteen Plays Three-and-a-Half Hour Show...
It’s been a long two years since Bruce Springsteen wrapped up his last tour, so when he announced a two-night stand at Pittsburgh’s Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall with longtime friends Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers, fans traveled from far and wide to catch the show.
Read more: http://wbjb.org/k/1tl
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What if The Beatles wrote Staiway To Heaven (vid)
Australian Beatle cover band “The Beatnix” did an interesting cover of the Led Zepplin classic Stairway To Heaven in the early 90s
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Trey Anastasio Talks About His First Musical
A prolific songwriter, Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio quietly spent part of the past two years working on a score for a new musical – an adaptation of the documentary Hands on a Hardbody – which will debut this spring in La Jolla, California. With a book written by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright and dance numbers choreographed by Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan), Anastasio certainly isn’t...
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Elvis Costello sings with Elmo for "Monster Went &...
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Tom Waits: The Fresh Air Interview
Tom Waits recorded his new album Bad As Me, his first collection of all-new studio recordings in eight years, in his studio, which he calls “Rabbit Foot” for good luck. The space, a converted schoolhouse, still has class pictures dotting the walls of each classroom.
Read more: http://wbjb.org/k/1k5
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The Who's Townshend slams 'vampire' Apple
Pete Townshend, the legendary frontman behind British rock group The Who, attacked Apple’s online iTunes service for bleeding artists “like a digital vampire”.
Read more: http://wbjb.org/k/1k4
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T.REX - JEEPSTER(STUDIO LIVE)
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David Gilmour Talks About Wish You Were Here
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Are Vinyl Sales Really Much Stronger Than...
This week, the New York Times did a profile on Vince Slusarz, the corporate-attorney-turned-record-presser who owns Cleveland’s Gotta Groove Records. But one of the most interesting parts of the story was buried in a single quote toward the middle of the article.
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