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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Listen: Wonder What Bob Dylan Sounds Like Live These Days?
Here’s a show that took place last night (Oct. 19, 2013) in Hamburg, Germany at the Congress Center Hamburg.
The band:
Bob Dylan – piano, harp
Tony Garnier – bass
George Recile – drums
Stu Kimball – rhythm guitar
Charlie Sexton on lead guitar
Donnie Herron – banjo, violin, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel
The set:
1. Things Have Changed
2. She Belongs To Me
3. Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
4. What Good Am I?
5. Pay In Blood
6. Waiting For You
7. Duquesne Whistle
8. Tangled Up In Blue
9. Love Sick
(Intermission)
10. High Water (For Charley Patton)
11. Simple Twist Of Fate
12. Early Roman Kings
13. Forgetful Heart
14. Spirit On The Water
15. Scarlet Town
16. Soon After Midnight
17. Long And Wasted Years
(encore)
18. All Along The Watchtower
19. Blowin’ In The Wind
You might want to check out my column about Dylan’s Another Self Portrait.
Or watch Dylan’s 1976 “Hard Rain” concert special.
Thank’s to Johanna’s Vision.
Banksy NYC Art Day #20: Boy, Sledge Hammer, Fire Alarm
Day #20 of Banksy’s “Better Out Than In” brings us this new piece, located in New York’s Upper West Side, done in the now classic Banksy silhouette style. No audio guide. Enjoy, if you can.
If you missed my previous Banksy posts, here’s an easy way to check them out: Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven, day eight, day nine, day ten, day 11, day 12, day 13, day 14, day 15, day 16, day 17, day 18, day 19. Plus: “A Consideration Of The Politics Of Banksy’s Syria Video,” “Source For Banksy’s ‘Concrete Confessional’ Revealed,” and “Banksy Update: NYC Mayor Attacks Street Artist.”
Return Of The Throwing Muses: “We wanted no further part [of] the recording industry”
Later this week the Throwing Muses return with a new album, Purgatory/Paradise, their first in ten years. The 32-track album comes with a 64-page book of essays and stories by Kirstin Hersh, plus photos and artwork by Muses’ drummer Dave Narcizo and Hersh.
“We’ve always lived in our own private world,” Muses leader Kirstin Hersh told The Independent, “and we might well have made this record and never released it, but we felt it was worthy of release.”
The group has spent the past decade “divorcing ourselves from the recording industry, which is collapsing. We wanted no further part in it,” Hersh said.
The new book/album is being published by HarperCollins’ The Friday Project Limited imprint.
For the entire story, head to The Independent.
Here’s are some old videos for your enjoyment.
Watch: Arcade Fire Play Brooklyn Warehouse
Arcade Fire performed last night at 299 Meserole, a Brooklyn warehouse. Naturally, fans shot video and you can check out some of it.
Read reviews at Pitchfork or Rolling Stone or Billboard or Consequence Of Sound.
Setlist:
1 “Reflektor”
2 “Flashbulb Eyes”
3 “We Exist”
4 “Normal Person”
5 “Joan Of Arc”
6 “It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus)”
7 “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”
8 “Afterlife”
9 “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)”
10 “Here Comes The Night Time II”
Listen: M.I.A. “Matangi” Cover Art Plus “Come Walk With Me”
Cover art for M.I.A.’s new album, Matangi due Nov. 5. In August 2013 on Twitter, M.I.A. described the album as as “paul simon on acid,” and also wrote, “no one in the industry collected blows in the last 3 years as much as me, this is a fuck you to them and a thank you to you.”
Here’s the single, “Come Walk With Me.”
And an old version:
Banksy NYC Art Day #19: Ants Going For The Honey, Baby
For Day #19 of Banksy’s “Better Out Than in” the artist has uploaded a video of ants chaotically running around a crack in a wall (or maybe it’s on the ground).
The camera eventually pulls back to reveal the partial outline of a woman’s body, with the crack strategically located, making this piece, located on Staten Island, a potential spoof of Gustave Courbet’s 1866 “L’Origine du monde.” Then again, perhaps Banksy is commenting on the reaction in NYC to his art. Or to anything that gets media attention. Or not.
If you missed my previous Banksy posts, here’s an easy way to check them out: Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven, day eight, day nine, day ten, day 11, day 12, day 13, day 14, day 15, day 16, day 17, day 18. Plus: “A Consideration Of The Politics Of Banksy’s Syria Video,” “Source For Banksy’s ‘Concrete Confessional’ Revealed,” and “Banksy Update: NYC Mayor Attacks Street Artist.”
Stone Roses’ Film Coming To U.S. Theaters, DVD
Remember The Stone Roses? Really? It was 24 years ago that the group released the album that put them on the map, The Stone Roses. It remains an awesome album, but 24 years ago is a long time. Still, when the group reformed in 2011 and toured in 2012, the world didn’t yawn.
In England the group sold 220,000 tickets in an hour. Rolling Stone praised The Stone Roses’ 2013 Coachella appearance.
“Throughout the Stone Roses’ performance, [John] Squire took the songs to unexpected frontiers with unhinged, dimensional lead playing that felt both retro and futuristic, moving from full-on boogie to spectral echoes within the same passage,” Rolling Stone reported.
A film, “The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone,” was made of the reunion tour. It was released in the UK earlier this year,but now it’s coming to the U.S. It’ll be in theaters beginning Nov. 6, 2013 and the DVD and Blu-ray will be released Dec. 3, 2013.
Reviewing the film in England’s The Independent, Anthony Quinn wrote: “‘The Second Coming’ would have been a better title for this documentary about the return of The Stone Roses, but they’d already used it for an album.
“Tickled to be the chosen chronicler of the band’s momentous reunion in 2011, director Shane Meadows (‘This Is England’) presents a fan’s view of the story, which proves to be good news and bad. He loves the music, and conveys something of its headlong energy in both rehearsal and live settings. Just to hear the opening bass rumble of ‘I Wanna Be Adored’raised the hairs on the back of my neck.”
Here’s a promo for the film:
Here’s the original video for one of the group’s best songs, “I Wanna Be Adored”:
Watch: Sleigh Bells Do “Jimmy Kimmel Live”
Watch the group perform the title track off the new album, Bitter Rivals plus album track “Tiger Kit.”
Watch: Entire 2013 Wilco Bonnaroo Set
Sit back and get ready for some live Wilco. Their entire June 2013 Bonnaroo set. Nineteen songs. Check the set list below.
1:08 Poor Places
6:07 Art Of Almost
13:25 I Might
17:18 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
23:20 Kamera
27:10 California Stars
32:15 Hesitating Beauty
35:57 Handshake Drugs
41:53 Shouldn’t Be Ashamed
45:23 Impossible Germany
52:49 Born Alone
56:55 Laminated Cat
1:02:40 Jesus, Etc.
1:07:07 Via Chicago
1:12:30 Whole Love
1:16:30 Heavy Metal Drummer
1:19:40 I’m The Man Who Loves You
1:24:15 Dawned On Me
1:27:45 A Shot In The Arm
Thanks JamBase!