Two clips from Bob Dylan’s performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, November 26, 2013. This is not the greatest video or audio, but it gives you an idea of what it was like. “All ALong the Watchtower” sounds pretty great.
“All Along the Watchtower”:
Here’s a portion of “High Water (For Charley Patton)”:
Here are a few reviews:
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Three short stories written by the late J. D. Salinger found their way online following an eBay auction of a bootlet book titled “Three Stories.”
The stories are “Paula,” “Birthday Boy,” and “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls.”
At the Reddit website, there is an intense discussion about the situation. This is apparently what the person who leaked the stories had to say:
It took me many weeks of research to find that this book existed and many more weeks to acquire it. I will confirm and take with that take responsibility to the claim that these are accurate to the originals.
Not much is verifiable to the origins of this book I have here. At least I will not confirm anything. What I do know is that someone with access to the originals compiled them together in this self-published collection. There is a single UPC symbol on the back that leads no where. Other than that, it’s existence is not well documented.
Enjoy.
Also posted at the site:
The book “Three Stories” seems to be a copy of a collection originally released in 1999. An eBay who sold a first edition of this collection said the following:
Ebay Seller seymourstainglass wrote:
Paperback. 47 pages. On Copyright page it says printed in London in 1999. Copy number 6 of 25.
3 short stories written by JD Salinger never published at all and that remain in The Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin Untitled or “Paula” (1941)The untitled manuscript at the Ransom Center is less a story than a series of scenes not yet sewn together. Whether or not this is some form of Salinger’s lost story “Paula” is pure speculation. However, in a letter dated October 31 (1941), Salinger states that he is “finishing a horror story (my first and last) called ‘Mrs. Hincher.’ ” Undoubtedly a reference to the story described here, Salinger’s letter dates its completion to late 1941 or early 1942.
“The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls” is largely regarded as the finest of Salinger’s unpublished works. While not having had the opportunity to revue all of the author’s unpublished materials, it is hard to imagine a more important work among them
“Birthday Boy” (1946?)The short story “Birthday Boy” is accompanied by a letter from Salinger to John Woodburn which refers to “both sets of proofs”. Although undated, the letter probably dates to 1951, the year that Woodburn published The Catcher in the Rye. However, it’s also likely that the letter does not reference Catcher, but a short story sent to placate the editor instead. Salinger’s relationship with Woodburn was brief and somewhat bizarre.
Images of the First edition http://i.imgur.com/98bfQ8K.jpg
Printing/Copyright details http://i.imgur.com/T7nymsT.jpg
For more, head to The Guardian or the New York Times.
If you want access to the stories, you might fish around here.
The videos are shaky but the audio is pretty good. I love “Shipbuilding.”
Elvis at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. November 21, 2013.
Plus some of the other songs he performed.
Rock legend John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival fame, has purchased a 20-plus acre estate in Thousand Oaks, California, for $8.9 million, the Real Estalker reports.
Fogerty apparently bought the Hidden Valley estate in May 2013 under the name of a trust that also owns his Beverly Hills mansion, a property that he was reportedly trying to sell this summer for $23.5 million.
His new home has huge irrigated fields and a 22,000 gallon cistern. The main residence is 13,053 square feet, and there’s a swimming pool, spa, 12-car garage and a private water well.
More details and photos here.
“Fortunate Son”
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In a Facebook post reprinted below, Ron Reyes, an early Black Flag singer (he’s on the “Jealous Again” EP) who was brought back by Greg Ginn for the latest incarnation of the pivotal American hardcore punk combo, recounts how he was fired from the group last Saturday night.
Reyes writes that skateboarder Mike Vallely, who sang with the band at a 2003 reunion show “comes on stage stares me down, takes my mic and says ‘You’re done, party’s over get off it’s over…’
“The writing was on the wall,” Reyes continues, “since before we played our first show. So many things went wrong from the start. I was into things like having a good drummer, rehearsing and spending time on things like beginnings and endings of songs, being a little less distracted with tour life and a little more on the ball. You know things that would make our efforts worthy of the name Black Flag…”
Read Reyes Facebook rant here.
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Zane Lowe’s 100 Hottest Records of 2013:
A-C
Wild for the Night (feat. Skrillex) – ASAP Rocky
Attracting Flies – AlunaGeorge
Echelon (It’s My Way) – Angel Haze
Afterlife – Arcade Fire
Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High – Arctic Monkeys
Love More Worry Less – Bipolar Sunshine
Carry Me – Bombay Bicycle Club
Shadow Moses – Bring Me the Horizon
Carry Me On (feat. Chrom3) – Brookes Brothers
Rango – Catfish and the Bottlemen
Be Your Toy – Cerebral Ballzy
Lost and Not Found (feat. Louis M^ttrrs) – Chase & Status
The Mother We Share – CHVRCHES
Get Away – Circa Waves
You & I – Crystal Fighters
D-I
Human – Daughter
Baby I Call Hell – Deap Vally
White Noise (feat. AlunaGeorge) – Disclosure
You & Me (feat. Eliza Doolittle) (Baauer Remix) – Disclosure
Earthquake (feat. Dominique Young Unique) – DJ Fresh & Diplo
Bloodsports – Drenge
Headlights (feat. Nate Ruess) – Eminem
Alive – Empire of the Sun
The Paddington Frisk – Enter Shikari
The Phoenix – Fall Out Boy
Awkward – FIDLAR
Recovery – Frank Turner
Cool Like Me – Fryars
Hate or Glory – Gesaffelstein
Ready for Your Love (feat. MNEK) – Gorgon City
The Wire – Haim
Call Me in the Afternoon – Half Moon Run
Isis – Hot Natured
Messiah – I See MONSTAS
J-L
Man I Need – Jagwar Ma
What Doesn’t Kill You – Jake Bugg
Retrograde – James Blake
Holy Grail (feat. Justin Timberlake) – Jay Z
Run (feat. Pusha T) – Joel Compass
My Yout (feat. Maverick Sabre) – Joey Bada$$
Love Me Again – John Newman
The War – Josh Record
Crying for No Reason – Katy B
Easy Easy – King Krule
Beautiful War (Radio 1 Session) – Kings of Leon
EDM Death Machine – Knife Party
Master Hunter – Laura Marling
Calling – Lewis Watson
Salient Sarah (feat. Sampha) – Lil Silva
Strong – London Grammar
Backroads – Lonely the Brave
M-R
Bring the Noize – M.I.A.
Oblivion – M83
Beggars – Mallory Knox
Bath in Black – Marika Hackman
I’m Aquarius – Metronomy
Don’t Forget Who You Are – Miles Kane
Panic Station (Madeon Remix) – Muse
Came Back Haunted – Nine Inch Nails
There Will Come a Time – Noah & the Whale
I Found Love – Palma Violets
Follow Baby – Peace
Entertainment – Phoenix
Chain My Name – Poliça
My God Is the Sun – Queens of the Stone Age
Waiting All Night (feat. Ella Eyre) – Rudimental
Walk Like a Man – Ruen Brothers
S-T
Young Blood – Saint Raymond
Nirvana – Sam Smith
Too Much – Sampha
She Will – Savages
Reload (Original i.e. Non Vocal Version) – Sebastian Ingrosso & Tommy Trash
Booyah (feat. We Are Loud & Sonny Wilson) – Showtek
Elastic Heart (feat. The Weeknd & Diplo) – Sia
Rollercoaster (feat. Sam Frank) – Skream
Turn It Around (feat. Kele) – Sub Focus
Get Down Low – TC
Chocolate – The 1975
Fly – The Child of Lov
Shot at the Night – The Killers
Hearts Like Ours – The Naked and Famous
One Way Trigger – The Strokes
Blue Collar Jane – The Strypes
Melody Calling – The Vaccines
Kiss Land – The Weeknd
Your Body Is a Weapon – The Wombats
Sunset (Jamie XX Edit) – The XX
Fragment Two – These New Puritans
Children of the Sun (feat. John Martin) – Tinie Tempah
Hold Me – Tom Odell
Holding on to You – Twenty One Pilots
Changing of the Seasons – Two Door Cinema Club
V-Z
Diane Young – Vampire Weekend
Love Is To Die – Warpaint
There Goes Our Love Again – White Lies
Afterglow – Wilkinson
Blackout (feat. Shakka) – Wretch 32
Sacrilege – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Lived a Lie – You Me at Six
Middle Sea – Yuck
In February 2012 Lou Reed appeared at the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania and was interviewed by Rolling Stone’s Anthony deCurtis.
It’s short but interesting, particularly the end where Reed talks about the difference between Dylan’s songwriting and his own. Use the “more” link on the player for other clips including Reed talking about Andy Warhol and Laurie Anderson.
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The National have made a Thanksgiving video for “Bob’s Burgers,” the animated TV show.
The group has done a remake of “Gravy Boat,” putting a dark, possibly vegan spin on it.
In the video, a group of sailors sing the ode to gravy, now turned into a dour funeral march, including the daft chorus, “Sailors in your mouth,” and are ultimately eaten by the Belcher family, equating the eating of animals with the eating of humans.
Check the video here.
Other vegan news this week: Former Vice-President Al Gore has gone vegan joining former President Bill Clinton.
And Morrissey offered a full-bore rant against President Obama for the annual turkey pardon, which Morrissey calls “Thankskilling.”
On the Morrissey fan site True To You he writes:
Thankskilling
26 November 2013Thankskilling
Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit. And President Obama laughs. Haha, so funny!
As Ingrid Newkirk from PETA points out, turkey ‘meat’ is one of “our nation’s top killers”, causing heart-attacks and strokes in humans due to saturated animal fats and cholesterol. And President Obama laughs.
Further, the meat industry is responsible for 51% of human-caused greenhouse-gas emission, therefore the embarrassingly stupid White House ‘turkey pardon’ is open support for a viciously cruel and environmentally irresponsible industry.
And President Obama laughs.MORRISSEY
26 November 2013
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A notebook page on which Bruce Springsteen worked on his trademark song, “Born To Run,” is going up for auction at Sotheby’s and is valued between $70,000 and $100,000.
The page reveals that the song didn’t come fully formed onto the page. Rather, much of the original lyric was reworked.
Check out a larger version of the notebook page here.
Here’s a line that didn’t make it:
They live in fury chasin’ the bad kind of fools glory down a killer’s highway into mainlined [scribbled word] of the sun.
Here are some lines that in revamped form did:
I looked out cross my hood + saw the highway buckle neath the wheels of a gold Chevy 6.
I was headin for the place were good girls die in the arms of wild angels in one last kiss.
There’s also this alternative version of that last line:
I was headin for the place where wild angels die in an everlasting or neverending kiss.
If this is of interest, there’s an article in the New York Times to check out.
Here’s the released version:
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A new Guided By Voices album, Motivational Jumpsuit, will be out February 18, 2014 of Fire Records.
Here’s a taste:
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