November 2011
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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.
Read more: http://wbjb.org/k/1tn
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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)
