Michael Goldberg is a distinguished pioneer in the online music space; Newsweek magazine called him an ‘Internet visionary.’ In 1994 he founded Addicted To Noise (ATN), the highly influential music web site. He was a senior vice-president and editor in chief at SonicNet from March 1997 through May 2000. In 1997, Addicted To Noise won Webby awards for best music site in 1998 and 1999, and also won Yahoo Internet Life! awards for three years running as best music site in 1998, 1999 and 2000. Prior to starting Addicted To Noise, Goldberg was an editor and senior writer at Rolling Stone magazine for 10 years. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Esquire, Vibe, Details, Downbeat, NME and numerous other publications. Michael has had three novels published that comprise the "Freak Scene Dream trilogy": "True Love Scars," "The Flowers Lied" and "Untitled" which can be ordered here. His new book, "Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey," can be pre-ordered from HoZac Books. In November Backbeat Books will publish "Addicted To Noise: The Music Writings of Michael Goldberg," which can be be pre-ordered here.
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Nirvana played Stabler Arena, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA on November 9, 1993.
Check it out:
Setlist:
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter 0:00:00
Drain you 0:05:17
Breed 0:09:02
Serve The Servants 0:12:10
About A Girl 0:15:34
Heart-Shaped Box 0:18:45
Sliver 0:23:30
Dumb 0:25:55
Come As You Are 0:28:30
Lithium 0:32:05
Pennyroyal Tea 0:36:50
School 0:40:28
Polly 0:43:26
Milk It 0:46:50
Rape Me 0:50:41
Territorial Pissings 0:53:27
Smells Like Teen Spirit 0:55:37
All Apologies 1:00:49
Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam 1:05:50
In Bloom 1:10:10
On A Plain 1:14:39
Scentless Apprentice 1:17:50
Blew 1:21:34
Marty Thau, who managed the New York Dolls and figured in the careers of Richard Hell, Blondie, the Ramones and Suicide, died on Feb. 13 in Richmond, Va. He was 75.
The cause was complications of renal failure, his daughter, Leslie Bernard, told the New York Times.
Writing about his discovery of the New York Dolls in early 1972, Thau wrote in a blog post:
At first I couldn’t get past the sight of them. They were visually remarkable. While everybody in America were wearing army coats and earth shoes, here were these guys decked out in leather and leopard skin with bouffant hairdo’s, black nail polish, lipstick, six-inch platform boots, chopped jeans, feather boa’s, armbands and pantyhose. It was a style beyond femininity and thrown together in such a way as to appear natural. Then I zeroed in on their music … loud and hard ghetto music about girls, sex, drugs, loneliness, heartbreak and the rites of teenage romance. In other words … real rock ‘n’ roll.
I had never seen or heard anything like it and instantly knew they made everyone else look tired, which at that time meant David Bowie, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Roxy Music. Betty and I looked at each other and smiled. One thought was spinning through my mind … “what would the world think of the Dolls indeterminable gender bending … is this too real?”
First song, “Shore Power,” off the Chris Robinson Brotherhood’s upcoming third album Phosphorescent Harvest. The album will be released April 29, 2014.
The song is a retro Stonesy rocker.
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Joseph Arthur’s new album, Lou, is a tribute to Lou Reed. The album will be released May 13, 2014.
Arthur has recorded 12 of Lou Reed’s songs including “Coney Island Baby” and the first single, “Walk On The Wild Side.”
In his liner notes Arthur writes:
“It’s odd dancing around death, odder still if the death you are dancing around is that of a legend. You just never know what’s appropriate and what’s not, what to share and what to keep inside. There is no blueprint. I loved Lou and we were friends. The last thing I would want to do is turn his life into an opportunity, but at the same time, what better way to honor the man and his music than to celebrate it and sing it and record it?”
More from Joseph Arthur’s liner notes:
“The three weeks of touring passed by quickly and suddenly I was home, snowed-in in my studio, holidays approaching, end of tour blues, all coupled with the fact that the day I got back to NYC was the final tribute show for Lou at the Apollo and I went almost without wanting to. I was tired of mourning him and it felt like I was done, but in truth, the real mourning was only just beginning.
Death, like life, works with your resistance and finally it wears you out and breaks you down and then you are too tired to do anything but face it.
I was home alone and there was nowhere to go.
I set up some mics.
A Coles ribbon mic
And a Wunder mic which is a version of a U47 (I used those two mics on the whole record). The ribbon gives it silk and warmth, the Wunder makes it hi-fi.
The first song I tried was “Coney Island Baby.”
And I liked how it came out.
But I also liked getting to hang out with Lou again.
This was the only way to get close.
I did another song and another still.
I made a rule:
No drums or electricity.
Lou was electric.
The only way I know to give new life to something as rich with life as Lou’s songs and recordings is to go about them in a completely different way.
Bill’s (Bentley) advice to just keep it simple and not overthink it kinda acted as my mission statement and in each song, I felt I revealed something new in it.
Making versions, not trying to outdo the originals (impossible), but rather versions that bring out something unheard before.
I felt I was doing that to some degree and I felt guidance in it.
I was saying goodbye. “
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Tapes from Led Zeppelin sessions for 1975’s Physical Graffiti will be auctioned at next month’s Marvels of Modern Music auction.
Rolling Stone reports that Amherst, New Hampshire–based RR Auctions says many of the songs on the tapes differ structurally from the ones that are on the album.
“The band recorded the songs at the Ronnie Lane’s Mobile Studio, which audio engineer Ron Nevison built in a 26-foot Airstream trailer,” Rolling Stone reports. “The tapes are part of the Ron Nevison collection, which is also auctioning rough mixes of Bad Company’s debut and four songs from Eric Clapton’s 1973 album Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert, as well as recordings by the Who, Ozzy Osbourne and Flo and Eddie.”
Listen to brief excerpts of the music:
Fragments of “Kashmir” and “Custard Pie”:
“In the Light”:
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Dylan at Newport, 1965. Is there more to say about it?
Maybe.
But today I’m digging the music. And I’m digging seeing Dylan along and with Michael Bloomfield on lead guitar, Al Kooper on organ, Barry Goldberg on piano, bassist Jerome Arnold and drummer Sam Lay, along with Barry Goldberg on piano, playing an amazing set.
I really love this version of “Maggie’s Farm.” Michael Bloomfield sounds terrific.
Portishead have begun writing their fourth studio album, Portishead’s Adrian Utley said today during an interview hosted by Quietusat the By:Larm Festival in Oslo Norway.
“We’re clearing our schedules so we can get on with it, otherwise it will be another ten years,” Utley said.
Utley said he spoke to Geoff Barrow last week about the album. “We were both really enthusiastic, and enthusiasm counts for a lot in Portishead world.”
The group’s third album, Third, was released in 2008.
Here’s a live performance of “Machine Gun,” a song off Third.
And here’s “Roads” from the group’s show at Roseland in New York, 1998.
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