December 2011
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What Would The Coachella 1969 Line-Up Look Like?
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Baba O'Riley Piano Cover -- All one man
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They were all amazing artists who died this year.
A great dedication to great songwriters and musicians we lost this year:
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/22/magazine/the-music-they-made.html
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21 Famous Musicians' High School Yearbook Photos
While Rocks Off was seeking out the best rock star yearbook photos for this blog, we came to a conclusion: Everyone was ugly in their yearbook photos, except Gwen Stefani and Beyonce Knowles. Everyone else looks weird as hell, or nothing like their current selves. Being humane, we won’t post rapper Lil’ Jon’s yearbook pic. You can do that evil all by yourself. Jonathan Mortimer...
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Adele to leave London to protect her voice
Adele is preparing to leave London so she can protect her voice, according to reports. The ‘21’ songstress went under the knife to have vocal chord microsurgery in America last month, in order to stop recurrent bleeding from a benign polyp.
Read more: http://www.nme.com/news/adele/61041
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Paul McCartney to release new album in 2012
Paul McCartney has revealed that he will release a new album in 2012. The Beatles legend has announced that the as-yet-untitled LP will be released on February 6 next year and will feature guest appearances from Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder.
Read more: http://www.nme.com/news/paul-mccartney/61060
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Radiohead, Foo Fighters, No Doubt to headline...
A poster claiming to list the acts playing at next year’s Coachella festival in California has leaked online. The poster says that Radiohead, Foo Fighters and No Doubt will be heading up the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which takes place in Indio across two weekends next spring (April 13-15, 20-22).
Read more: http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/61062
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Free Download: Blitzen Trapper's Gentle 'Christmas...
Many bands reimagine traditional holiday songs when writing original Christmas tunes. Portland, Oregon’s Blitzen Trapper, on the other hand, wrote the melodic “Christmas Is Coming Soon” about all the aspects of small-town life – and a hick Santa.
Download now
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Foo Fighters confirm plans to write new album in...
Foo Fighters have confirmed they are planning to head into the studio to record a new album in 2012.
The band only released their latest studio effort ‘Wasting Light’ in April of this year and frontman Dave Grohl has revealed on the band’s official blog he has already started compiling ideas for new songs.
Read more: http://www.nme.com/news/foo-fighters/60974
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The Greatest Rock & Roll Christmas Songs
Most rock fans assume that all Christmas music is terrible. They’re mostly right, but every once in a while a Christmas miracle happens — and a great holiday song gets produced.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/the-greatest-rock-and-roll-christmas-songs-20101216#ixzz1gbuLcy6X
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The FBI Files of James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix
Read the 24 page FBI report for guitar legend Jimi Hendrix.
Read more: http://vault.fbi.gov/james-marshall-jimi-hendrix/james-marshall-jimi-hendrix/view
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Ryan Adams - If I Am A Stranger - Live On...
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If you were to make a Beatles cake, this is what...
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Paul Simon's "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes"...
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NEW SHINS ALBUM (PORT OF MORROW) COMING MARCH 2012
The Shins are excited to announce their fourth album, Port of Morrow, to be released March 2012 on Aural Apothecary/Columbia Records.
Read more: http://www.theshins.com/news/new-album-port-morrow-coming-march-2012
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The REAL First Chord of "A Hard Day's Night"
Giles Martin (son of George) shows to Randy Bachman the first chord of A Hard Day’s Night.
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Foo Fighters fans shake Auckland
What does it take to make the ground shake under Auckland? Just 50,000 dancing Foo Fighters fans packed into Western Springs stadium, according to GeoNet.
Read more: http://entertainment.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=8390215
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First Watch: Talking Heads, 'Chronology'
Talking Heads wasn’t always the tight, internationally famous rock band we think of today.
A new DVD documentary, Chronology, features footage of the band from its early days as a rough trio opening for the Ramones at CBGB, and continues through Talking Heads’ induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. The documentary features classic performances, interviews and...
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Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line (1982)
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Matisyahu Shaved His Beard, Denounces Hasidic...
This morning I posted a photo of myself on Twitter. No more Chassidic reggae superstar. Sorry folks, all you get is me…no alias. When I started becoming religious 10 years ago it was a very natural and organic process. It was my choice. My journey to discover my roots and explore Jewish spirituality—not through books but through real life. At a certain point I felt the need to submit to a...
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Black Keys: Why We Won't Stream 'El Camino'
When the Black Keys’ latest album, El Camino, hit stores last week, it was conspicuously absent from major streaming services such as Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody and MOG. As it turns out, this was a deliberate move by the band, who have opted to withhold the record from such services for financial reasons. “[Streaming services] are becoming more popular, but it still isn’t at a point where...
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Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me - from Budokan...
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When Eric Clapton met Jimi Hendrix
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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Will Pay Hubert...
The funeral for Chicago blues great Hubert Sumlin, the longtime guitar player for Howlin’ Wolf who died Sunday at age 80, will be paid for by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Sumlin’s partner, Toni Ann, posted the news online. “God bless the Rolling Stones,” she wrote.
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Jimmy Page (of Led Zeppelin) playing a genre of...
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The National & Bon Iver perform "Vanderlyle...
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The Gaslight Anthem Feat. Bruce Springsteen -...
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Andrew Bird with Yo Yo Ma (video)
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Chuck Berry's Cadillac A-Rollin' To The...
When rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry navigated his music career, he didn’t rely on agents or record labels; he drove himself to his own business meetings and concerts in his fleet of Cadillacs.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/03/143049687/chuck-berrys-cadillac-a-rollin-to-the-smithsonian
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The Flaming Lips collaborate with Yoko Ono on...
The Flaming Lips have joined forces with the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band to record a version of ‘Atlas Eets Christmas’, which was originally released on the Flaming Lips’ secret 2007 Christmas album.
Read more: http://www.nme.com/news/the-flaming-lips/60824
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Rolling Stone: Readers' Poll: The Best Christmas...
You can try and avoid it as much as you want, but over the next month you’re going to be inundated with Christmas music. It seems like the Christmas Music Industrial Complex grows exponentially bigger every year. Arenas are packed with groups like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, who actually split into two camps so they can cover more ground in December. Countless artists – from Justin Bieber...
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12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular...
Here’s the most disappointing post about music you’ll see all day: http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/12-extremely-disappointing-facts-about-popular-mus
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Google Street Views of Famous Album Covers
ere’s a great Photo-Set of famous Album Cover-Locations found on Google Streetview, we have the original “Pauls Boutique” (Beastie Boys), Eric Claptons “461 Ocean Boulevard”, Led Zeppelins “Physical Graffiti”-House and many more.
REad...
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Adele’s Charity Doesn’t Extend To Crappy Beers
TheSmokingGun.com has gotten a hold of Adele’s tour rider, which happens to include a request for non-North American beer. There are other oddities in the rider, but something like bite size candy bars are pretty par for the course
Read more: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/adele-tour-rider-563891
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Stone Temple Pilots Guitarist Dean DeLeo Talks...
Stone Temple Pilots’ seminal debut, Core, sold eight million copies and spawned the radio hits “Sex Type Thing,” “Plush” and “Creep.” Now, with the 20th anniversary of its release approaching, the ban Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/stone-temple-pilots-guitarist-dean-deleo-talks-core-reissue-club-tour-20111202#ixzz1ffNfBY1o
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The Black Keys on NPR
The Black Keys’ last album — Brothers, a winner of three Grammys — sold more than half a million copies. Now, the blues-inspired rock duo is trying for a harder sell: its old minivan. The band’s new album, El Camino, is named for the band’s 1994 Chevrolet coupe utility vehicle, which is currently for sale on The Black Keys’ website. Both the van and the music are a little...
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Tori Amos Performs with String Quartet in...
Tori Amos stepped outside of her comfort zone for her latest album, Night of Hunters, a classical song cycle. Her tour in support of that record also finds her stepping outside of her typical patterns, albeit in a more minor way, with a string quartet augmenting the arrangements of a majority of the songs in her set. Though her show touches on a few selections from Night of Hunters, the concert is...
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'Once' And Again: A Love Story Gets A Second Life
Once, the much-loved 2007 Irish indie, was kind of the little movie musical that could. Made on a shoestring budget in Dublin, it starred songwriters Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as thinly veiled versions of themselves, and it was as much about the love of making music as it was about the budding but unfulfilled love between the two central characters.
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SRV and Double Trouble Live at El Mocambo...
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Live at El Mocambo Complete Show
“Testify” (Isley Brothers)
“So Excited” 3:29
“Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” (Jimi Hendrix) 7:34
“Pride and Joy” 14:18
“Tell Me” (Howlin’ Wolf) 18:50
“Mary Had a Little Lamb” (Buddy Guy) 21:55
“Texas...
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Moby In Concert: Moogfest 2011
Few artists have survived the constantly mutating world of dance music from era to era quite like Moby. Hear Moby perform a full concert, recorded live at Moogfest in Asheville, N.C.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/24/141657328/moby-in-concert-moogfest-2011
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Black Keys Perform on SNL
The the new Black Keys album “El Camino” out today we figured we’d throw up the band’s performance from Saturday Night Live.
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Spoon - The Underdog
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John McCrea, lead singer of Cake compains about...
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Hubert Sumlin Dead at 80
Hubert Sumlin, the longtime collaborator with Howlin’ Wolf whose playing on such songs as “Wang Dang Doodle,” “Spoonful” and “Backdoor Man” influenced generations of guitarists died Sunday in New Jersey. He was 80.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hubert-sumlin-dead-at-80-20111204#ixzz1ffMhw25v
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Electronic Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They...
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The Cranberries - Dreams
With their new CD a couple of months away we thought you’d like this classic Cranberries tune:
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The Black Keys "Selling Out"
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The Story Of...Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
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Axl Rose and Bruce Springsteen perform "Come...
Axl Rose and Bruce Springsteen perform the Beatles’ “Come Together” at the 1994 Hall of Fame Inductions Ceremony, when John Lennon was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a solo artist.
