A Jackson Browne tribute album, Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne, is coming in 2014, and here’s a preview. Lyle Lovett performing “Rosie.”
Thanks Rolling Stone!
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Atoms For Peace, “Before Your Very Eyes,” live at Studio Coast, Tokyo Japan.
Filmed by MTV Networks Japan on November 23, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.
Thanks Pitchfork.
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Jim Fouratt shot video of the Lou Reed memorial. I posted individual clips previously but now he’s put together an hour and forty-five minute video.
Jim Fouratt writes:
“THIS A IS A LOW RES GOOD AUDIO DOCUMENTATION OF MOST THE PERFORMANCES AT THE Memorial includes Laurie Anderson, Mo Tucker, John Cale , Patti Smith , Debbie Harry, Paul Simon, Antony, John Zorn, Jenny Muldar, Lenny Kaye , Mark Ribot, Hal Wilner + others , .I made it for myself and share it with all LOU fans who were not able to attend Let me put the memorial into context : In the Buddhist tradition it takes days 49 days for the spirit to leave the body.It is called “bardo.” Like Jewish Shiva, Irish wakes and different cultural rituals, it is a time for the living to share stories and simply just sit together to help each other and most importantly help the spirit be fully freed into into the Cosmos, December 16 was the fiftieth day and at the Apollo Theater a celebration of Lou Reed’s life and work took place with his friends and family gathered with his wife the artist Laurie Andersen all saying goodbye, good speed Lou”
Thanks for posting this Mr. Fouratt.
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Jim Fouratt shot video of the Lou Reed memorial and has been generous in posting many clips so that those of us who were not part of the inner circle could still experience what was a glorious tribute to an important artist.
Here is a clip that is not part of my previous post.
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Beyoncé has premiered the video “Grown Woman” at Pepsi’s website, but that’s not the big deal.
The track is really something, the singing is terrific and the video is both amusing and artful, making use of footage shot of the singer as she grew up. It’s retro and modern at the same time.
Watch it here.
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Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and the Pernice Brothers’ Joe Pernice have recorded an album, Lime, together under the name, The New Mendicants. It will be released January 28, 2014.
According to the Pernice Brothers website:
They’re called The New Mendicants, named I would imagine, for the Mendicant Friars, an order of Catholic monks who depend entirely upon charity for their livelihood.
Meanwhile, lower in this post you can hear a Christmas song from the guys, plus a track off the album.
Ands Joe Pernice tells Brooklyn Vegan that a new Pernice Brothers album, to be titled either Spread the Feeling or It’s a Long Way Up, will be released in 2014 as well.
The New Mendicants – A Very Sorry Christmas
The New Mendicants – Sarasota
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Jack White and Brendan Benson reunited on stage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and performed “Hands’ and “Steady As She Goes.” Here are some fan-shot videos.
Thanks Consequence of Sound!
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On July 31, 1961 journalist Robert Shelton (who went on to write “No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan”) wrote an article in the New York Times about a new folk music program on WRVR in New York called “Saturday Of Folk Music.” The show was broadcast from Riverside Church, NY on July 29, 1961.
Deep into the article he wrote:
Among the newer promising talents deserving mention are a 20-year-old latter-day Guthrie disciple named Bob Dylan, with a curiously arresting mumbling, country-steeped manner…
Bob sang three songs by himself, “Handsome Molly,” “Naomi Wise,” and “Poor Lazarus”; played harp on “Mean Old Railroad” with Danny Kalb (who would later go on to play guitar and sing in The Blues Project), singing, and wrapped things up dueting with Ramblin’ Jack Elliot on a doo-wop joke song, “Acne.”
Saturday Of Folk Music
1 Handsome Molly
2 Naomi Wise
3 Poor Lazarus
4 Mean Old Railroad
5 Acne
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Bob Dylan In Session – Saturday Of Folk Music – 1961
And if you know what you’re doing, you can save the file to your desktop.
Later that year (October 1961) Bob appeared on “Oscar Brand’s Folksong Festival,” a weekly radio show broadcast every Saturday at 10 p.m. on WNYC-AM 820 in New York City.
Oscar Brand is a folk singer who has recorded over 100 albums; his radio show was been going now for 66 years. Dylan appeared on it in advance of his Nov 4, 1961 Carnegie Chapter Hall concert.
“Sally Gal”:
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Last night Haim performed “The Wire” and “Forever” on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live.’
“The Wire”:
“Forever”:
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that the imprisoned Pussy Riot members will be freed under an amnesty but described their protest against him in a church as “disgraceful behaviour,” NDTV reported.
The amnesty will also free 30 people arrested in a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil — before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics in February 2014.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina are serving two-year sentences for a protest at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which included the filming the music video “Punk Prayer – Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!”
Putin said the amnesty was passed to mark the 20th anniversary of Russia’s post-Soviet constitution, and not with the Greenpeace protesters or Pussy Riot in mind.
At an annual news conference today Putin said:
“It (the amnesty) is neither linked to Greenpeace, nor this group (Pussy Riot).”
But Putin also said, “I was not sorry that they (the Pussy Riot members) ended up behind bars,” Putin said. “I was sorry that they were engaged in such disgraceful behaviour, which in my view was degrading to the dignity of women. They went beyond all boundaries.”
For more of the story go here.
Pussy Riot-Punk Prayer:
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