A heretofore unreleased Velvet Underground recording, “I’m Not a Young Man Anymore,” went online today.
The song features a blistering guitar solo from Lou Reed.
It will appear on the expanded three-disc edition of 1968’s White Light/White Heat that will be released December 3, 2013. The album, co-curated by John Cale and Lou Reed before Reed’s death in late October, will include mono and stereo mixes of the entire album plus alternate and unreleased outtakes such as John Cale’s creep “The Gift.”
With the Cohen Brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis” about to reach the theaters, it makes sense that the music of one of the inspirations for the film should be back in circulation.
1962’s Inside Dave Van Ronk, the second album from the Greenwich Village folksinger who influenced Bob Dylan, is being released on vinyl.
Check out “House Carpenter,” which we recently heard by Bob Dylan on the Another Self Portrait album.
The drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton, a cornerstone of the modern West Coast jazz scene of the 1950s, died yesterday (Monday, November 25, 2013) in Manhattan.
“Hamilton had a subtle and melodic approach that made him ideally suited for the refined, understated style that came to be known as cool jazz, of which his hometown, Los Angeles, was the epicenter,” jazz expert Peter Keepnews wrote in the New York Times today.
“He was a charter member of the baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan’s quartet,” Keepnews wrote, “which helped lay the groundwork for the cool movement. His own quintet, which he formed shortly after leaving the Mulligan group, came to be regarded as the quintessence of cool. With its quiet intensity, its intricate arrangements and its uniquely pastel instrumentation of flute, guitar, cello, bass and drums — the flutist, Buddy Collette, also played alto saxophone — the Chico Hamilton Quintet became one of the most popular groups in jazz.”
Musicians who passed through Hamilton’s group included bassist Ron Carter, the saxophonists Eric Dolphy and Charles Lloyd and the guitarists Jim Hall, Gabor Szabo and Larry Coryell.
“Void” is off I Hate Music, Superchunk’s latest album.
According to the press release:
Directed by Scott Jacobson and starring Jon Benjamin, Jon Glaser, Ted Travelstead, and the whole Superchunk band, as well as band appearances from Ava Luna, Heliotropes, Lost Boy, and Weird Womb, the “Void” video celebrates the exuberance of a good rock show.
Young’s 1970 recording, Live at the Cellar Door, which is excellent, will be released December 10, 2013 but if you order it now from this site you can download the Cellar Door performance of “Old Man” immediately.
Photo from Robert Wilson’s Instagram page of the Royal Danish Theater.
Tom Waits and Robert Wilson are staging a play, “Death car,” based on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, according to The Eyeball Kid.
The play is scheduled to Premiere on November 7, 2014 in Copenhagen.
Apparently they’re casting the play right now. This went up the other day on Robert Wilson’s Instagram page:
“#casting #BONNIE & #CLYDE with Tom Waits in #Copenhagen at the #Royal #Danish #Theatre”
Self-portrait by Tom Waits.
Here’s The Eyeball Kid’s translation of a press release from the Danish Royal Theatre:
The production Death car reunites Tom Waits and Robert Wilson, who collaborated on productions like The black rider and Woyzeck, for the first time in 14 years.
Death car is inspired by the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a romantically involved couple of bankrobbers that defied authorities and caused a national media frenzy in the US in the 1930’s.
Their dramatic life is packed with feaurures that continue to fascinate present day audiences all over the world: a sheer lack of respect for banks and authorities, fast cars, weapons, violence, a love story, a desperate escape and their inevitable death.
The play is produced by Nicolai Vemming / UnlimitedArts in collaboration with the Royal Theatre and a number of international partners.
The play will move on to Germany, Norway and The Netherlands following the Copenhagen run, according to a Danish paper.
Spoon’s Britt Daniel photographed by Michael Goldberg, March 2001.
Drummer/producer Jim Eno is halfway through mixing a new Spoon album in Buffalo, NY, with Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips), according to Consequence of Sound.
The album will be the group’s eighth studio album and the followup to 2010’s Transference.
Recording began this past spring at Eno’s Public Hi-Fi Studios in Austin, TX, Consequence of Sound reports, and so far the group has recorded at least ten songs: “The Rent I Pay,” “Naff Bag,” “Millionaires,” “Let Me Be Mine,” “Modern Girls,” “I Ain’t the One,” “Fresh From Your Pages,” “Give Me It,” “They Want My Soul”, and an untitled song.
Cool excerpt from the new documentary, “The Punk Singer,” at Spin today.
The film is about former Bikini Kill leader/ current The Julie Ruin front-person, Kathleen Hanna, and in this clip Hanna and others talk about Nirvana and Hanna’s role.
Mazzy Star made their first TV appearance since the ’90s on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” last night. The lighting is murky as it always is when Mazzy Star perform. Adds mystery, you know. This is a beautiful rendition of “California” off their new and fourth studio album, Seasons Of Your Day.
Last night (Sunday, November 25, 2013), Beck oversaw a performance of Song Reader, the sheet music album he published with McSweeny’s. The show was at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles where Beck premiered “Wave,” off his upcoming album Morning Phase. He was backed the 61-piece Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by his father, by David Campbell.
Artists who performed Beck compositions included: Jack Black, Jarvis Cocker, John C. Reilly, Anne Hathaway, Jenny Lewis, Childish Gambino, Van Dyke Parks and others.
