Yesterday The Julie Ruin released this video for “Just My Kind.”
Filmed in various different locations including New York, Australia, the Catskill Mountains and Hawaii. Kathleen Hanna filmed some of it, as did Brendan Kennedy, editor Carmine Covelli, and Hanna’s husband, Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.
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This rare cover of Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Keep It With Mine,” released on the English folk band Peggy Wager’s 1972 long out-of-print album, Light Of Other Days, just surfaced.
It’s a beautiful rendition by this Penny Wager, which was comprised of Ann Rhodes (vocal, Organ) and John Wilson (vocal, guitar), accompanied by Steve Hope (electric guitar) and Brian Murray (Bass).
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Donovan is a running gag in the Bob Dylan documentary, “Don’t Look Back.”
Here is the triumphant scene in which Donovan gives it his best shot, playing his “To Sing For You,” and then all Dylan has to do is play “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” and it really is all over. For Donovan.
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On Lou Reed’s birthday, March 2, 2014, Radio Valencia featured major Velvet Underground fan Jonathan Richman DJing an epic two-hour Lou Reed show.
You can listen right now.
Here’s the playlist:
We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together by The Velvet Underground from Another View (1969/1986)
Velvet Underground by Jonathan Richman from I, Jonathan (1992)
White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground from White Light/White Heat (1968)
I’m Waiting for the Man by The Velvet Underground from The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
Jonathan discusses Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground I
I Heard Her Call My Name by The Velvet Underground from White Light/White Heat (1968)
Venus in Furs by The Velvet Underground from The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
Some Kinda Love by The Velvet Underground from The Velvet Underground (1969)
Jonathan discusses Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground II
What Goes On by The Velvet Underground from 1969: The Velvet Underground Live (1974)
Heroin by The Velvet Underground from 1969: The Velvet Underground Live (1974)
Jonathan discusses Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground III
Foggy Notion by The Velvet Underground from VU (1969/1985)
Sweet Jane by The Velvet Underground from Loaded (1970)
Jonathan discusses Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground IV
Sister Ray by The Velvet Underground from White Light/White Heat (1968)
Thanks Doom and Gloom From the Tomb!
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Check out this new Echo and the Bunnymen song, “Market Town,” off the new album, Meteorites, set for a June 3, 2014 release.
Sounds good.
You might have to wait a moment or two for the SoundCloud player to load.
Thanks Consequence of Sound!
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I’ve been going through old interviews recently, putting together a collection of my music journalism, and I came across an interview that Jaan Uhelszki and I did with Patti Smith.
In August of 1996, two months after the release of her first album in eight years, Patti Smith sat down for an interview with us for my online magazine, Addicted To Noise.
Patti had a history with both myself and Jaan. She’d known Jaan when Jaan worked at Creem, and I’d interviewed Patti in 1975, before the release of her debut album, Horses.
We had a long conversation with Patti. I’ve pulled out the part where she talks about Bob Dylan. She had gone out on the road with Dylan at the end of 1995. At one point during the interview she said that she felt Bob Dylan was a big reason for why she became an artist.
Patti Smith: I’ve always felt that if there wasn’t a Bob Dylan I don’t know if… I think you have to give back what you’re given. I’ve been inspired and influenced by a lot of great people and I think it’s important, if you have any gifts at all, you have–if you’re given a gift, you have to give of it. One can’t hoard it. I think that is one thing Fred [‘Sonic’ Smith] and I were really talking about after being pretty reclusive for so long, that we did have a certain responsibility and I often, I deeply encouraged Fred, who was one of the most gifted people I ever knew to share his gifts with others and it’s regrettable it didn’t happen.
Some people are very comfortable with their gifts, somebody like Robert Mapplethorpe was very comfortable with them and used them daily. Worked daily. Other people are plagued by their gifts and I feel myself I have a little more of a better balance of comfortable plagued-ness, I have a little bit of plagued, I often feel dogged yet most of the time I feel blessed.
Jaan Uhelszki: The Dylan tour. How did it come about and did you stay in touch with him after you first met him at the Bottom Line in the seventies?
Patti Smith: No I hadn’t talked to him in some time. Really as I gleaned from Bob himself, he really felt that it would be good for me to come back out. He thought that I should come back out, and he said really nice things from onstage. I think that he feels I was a strong influence on things, and he thinks I should be out here–out in the front. He was very encouraging to me. I wasn’t really ready to work then, I really didn’t have a band. We’d been recording but I wasn’t really prepared to do anything. But I was so happy that he asked, that we decided to do it and you know we were a little rusty and rag tag but the people seemed happy and he was happy. My main mission on that small tour–it was only ten dates–was to crack all the energy, to crack all the atmosphere and get the stage ready for him. So we had our time before him and that was my prime directive was to get the night as magic as possible, so when he hit the stage, ’cause he hits a lot of them, that maybe it would feel a little more special than normal. And I think we did a pretty good job and I know that he was happy.
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Here’s a song, Little Willie John’s “Fever,” off Leon Russell’s new album, Life Journey.
Thanks Billboard!
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Paul Krassner is smart and funny and each year he comes up with predictions for the next year.
In case you don’t know Krasner’s rep, he founded the political satire magazine The Realist in 1958.
Krassner was a friend of the controversial comic Lenny Bruce and edited Bruce’s autobiography, “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.”
Somehow I missed Krassner’s predictions for 2014 when they were first published on January 10, 2014, but if you like I missed them too, then read on.
Paul Krassner writes:
* Steve Jobs, the late founder and chief designer of the Apple Empire, will be honored posthumously by the Wall Street Journal for morphing the concept of planned obsolescence from a negative aspect of capitalism into a shrewd marketing virtue.
* Toddlers who can turn the pages of an electronic magazine on iPad with the swipe of a finger will get frustrated and have tantrums trying to turn the pages of a physical print magazine.
* Millennials will enjoy watching Avatar on their iPhones.
* Google’s chief executive, Larry Page, will retract his prognostication that “Eventually you’ll have an implant, where you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer.”
* Jeff Bezos, who is now the owner of both Amazon.com and the Washington Post, will arrange for subscribers to pay extra for having their copies of the Post delivered by drones.
* Chelsea Manning — formerly Bradley Manning — will escape from prison with the aid of wealthy supporters. She will be flown to Russia, staying with fellow whistle-blower Edward Snowden until she finds a place of her own. However, Vladimir Putin will interfere with Manning’s asylum, threatening to throw him out. But Manning’s attorneys will then convince President Putin that, since Manning is of the transgender persuasion, having intercourse with a male individual would legally be considered a heterosexual act.
* Dan Savage — the gay activist who successfully led a mass online prank, landing the word Santorum listed on Google as “1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum [infamous for homophobia]” — will reveal potential presidential candidate Ted Cruz as a user of Viagra, and although Cruz will fail to obtain an erection, his right arm will stiffen and go straight up.
Read the rest of Krassner’s predictions here.
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Recording is nearing completion for Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes, an album of songs based on lyrics that Bob Dylan wrote in 1967 during the time he recorded the original “Basement Tapes” with the future members of The Band, according to a press release from Big Hassle Media.
“These are not B-level Dylan lyrics,” T Bone Burnett, who is producing the album, told The Los Angeles Times Monday. “They’re lyrics he just never got around to finishing.”
Artists involved in the new album are Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops) Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons) and Burnett.
The album is being recorded at Capitol Studios. The musicians have had to write new music to go with the two-dozen lyrics that Dylan wrote.
As of Monday Burnett told the Times that they’d cut 48 tracks including the title song, “Lost On the River,” “Florida Key,” “Card Shark” and “Hi-De-Ho.”
Burnett said he and Costello are going for the magic of the original “Basement Tapes” sessions, which took place in a house in upstate New York, in terms of its creative process.
According to the L. A. Times:
One intriguing facet of the current project is the collaboration among the participants. Each has come up with his or her own music for many of the lyrics, resulting in multiple versions of the same songs and allowing a perspective on the ways different artists respond to Dylan’s lyrics. Each artist takes the lead on the tracking of his or her song, and all provide suggestions and whatever instrumental and vocal support the others require, with Burnett overseeing final production.
“It runs the gamut from everybody having a blast in the studio to being really serious about doing things right,” Giddens told the Times.
Dylan gave Burnett, who was part of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review back in 1975, his blessing to make an album with the lyrics. “Great music is best created when a community of artists gets together for the common good,” Burnett said in the press release. “There is a deep well of generosity and support in the room at all times, and that reflects the tremendous generosity shown by Bob in sharing these lyrics with us.”
There will be a Showtime documentary titled, “Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued,” directed by Sam Jones (the Wilco documentary, “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart”). The film will focus on the making of Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes and provide context regarding the original “Basement Tapes.”
“The discovery of these previously unknown Bob Dylan songs that were thought lost since 1967 is the stuff of Hollywood fiction and a find of truly historical proportions,” Jones said in the press release. “It is a unique opportunity to film T Bone and these great artists as they collaborate with a young Bob Dylan, and each other, to create new songs and recordings. These days and nights in the studio have been nothing less than magical.”
“Lost On the River,” interestingly enough, is the title of a Hank Williams song.
Dylan, of course, has long been a huge Hank Williams fan.
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The Pains of Being Pure of Heart have released a video for “Simple and Sure,” a song off their upcoming third album, Days of Abandon, which is out April 22, 2014.
The video was directed by Bangs.
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