Category Archives: streaming music

Video: Watch Angel Olsen’s Latest, ‘Windows,’ Right Now!

New video from Angel Olsen. Beautiful song.

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Video: Watch Band Aid 30 – ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ & Donate To Fight Ebola

Today a rough version of the video for the new Band Aid 30 version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” was aired and showed up on YouTube.

The purpose of the new version is to raise money to fight Ebola in Africa.

Artists include One Direction, Rita Ora, Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, Chris Martin, Elbow, Seal, Jessie Ware, Fuse ODG, Sinead O’Connor, Angelique Kidjo, Olly Murs, Paloma Faith, Robert Plant, Underworld, Roger Taylor, Clean Bandit, Foals and Bono.

The song will be available to download, costing 99p, from 08:00 GMT on Monday. A CD version will be released in three weeks, costing £4.

You can pre-order here.

For more of the story from the BBC, head here.

New version:

New version – with horrifying footage at the beginning:

DONATE £3

TEXT ‘AID’ TO 70123

DONATE £5
TEXT ‘AID’ TO 70060

http://www.BandAid30.com

And here’s the original version:

Video: Johnny Depp & Haim Join The New Basement Tapes to Sing Dylan Songs at Ricardo Montalban Theatre

Johnny Depp, Marcus Mumford & Jim James.

Last night (Nov. 13, 2014) the band T Bone Burnett put together to turn a bunch of lyrics Bob Dylan wrote in 1967 while recording the Basement Tapes in upstate New York into an album, performed songs from the new album, Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes, at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Los Angeles.

That band, dubbed The New Basement Tapes, consists of Marcus Mumford, Elvis Costello, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James and Rhiannon Giddens. For the show, they were augmented on a few songs by the three women of Haim, and Johnny Depp.

Rhiannon Giddens and the Haim sisters.

Here you can see them perform “Kansas City,” with Marcus Mumford on lead vocal, “Duncan and Jimmy” with Rhiannon Giddens singing, “Card Shark, with Taylor Goldsmith taking the lead and some of “Married To M Hack,” which Elvis Costello sings.

“Kansas City”:

“Duncan and Jimmy”:

“Card Shark”:

“Married To My Hack” (partial):

Plus here they are with Elvis on vocals singing “Lost On The River” on Jimmy Fallon. This aired on NBC on November 10th, 2014.

And here’s Marcus Mumford taking the lead on “Kansas City” on Ellen today.

Setlist:

Down on the Bottom – Jim James vocals
Spanish Mary – Rhiannon Giddens vocals
Liberty Street – Rhiannon Giddens vocals
Married to My Hack – Elvis Costello vocals
The Whistle is Blowing – Marcus Mumford vocals with Haim on backing
vocals
Diamond Ring – Taylor Goldsmith vocals
Nothing to It – Jim James vocals
Lost on the River – Elvis Costello vocals
Florida Key – Taylor Goldsmith vocals
Stranger – Marcus Mumford vocals
Hidee Hidee Hidee Ho – Rhiannon Giddens vocals
Hidee Hidee Hidee Ho (alternate version) – Jim James vocals
“Unreleased track” – Elvis Costello
Kansas City – Marcus Mumford Vocals with Johnny Depp on guitar and Haim
on back-up vocals
Duncan and Jimmy – Rhiannon Giddens vocals with Johnny Depp on guitar
and Danielle Haim on shakers

– Encore break –

When I Get My Hands on You – Marcus Mumford vocals
Lost on the River – Rhiannon Giddens
Card Shark (unamplified) – Taylor Goldsmith vocals
Quick Like a Flash – Jim James vocals
Golden Tom – Silver Judas – Elvis Costello vocals

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Video: Bob Dylan Sings ‘Desolation Row,’ Milan, Italy, Nov. 14, 2011

Dylan in Milan.

Bob Dylan and band performing “Desolation Row” at the Assago Forum in Milan, Italy, November 14, 2011:

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Audio: Hear Amos Lee & the Forest Rangers Cover Bob Dylan’s ‘Boots Of Spanish Leather’ Right Now

The Forest Rangers.

Amos Lee and the Forest Rangers cover Bob Dylan’s “Boots Of Spanish Leather” on the latest episode of “Sons Of Anarchy.”

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Video: The Julie Ruin Blast Off at The The Troubadour – Nov. 6, 2014 – ‘This Is Not a Test, ‘ ‘Radical Or Pro’ & More

The Julie Ruin at The Troubadour, Los Angeles CA last night (Nov. 6, 2014).

“V.G.I.:

“Friendship Station”:

“South Coast Plaza”:

“Kids In New York”:

“Radical Or Pro”:

“Oh Come On”:

“Ha Ha Ha”:

“Run Fast”:

“This Is Not A Test”:

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Audio: Bob Dylan at the Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis – Nov. 2014 – “Things Have Changed,’ ‘She Belongs To Me’ & More

Dylan and band in Oakland, CA. Photo by Michael Goldberg,

On November 4, 2014, Bob Dylan and his band performed at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis.

Check out three songs: “Things Have Changed,” “She Belongs To Me” and “Beyond Here Lies Nothing.”

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Audio: Previously Unreleased Velvet Underground Track , ‘I Can’t Stand It’ + ‘I’m Waiting For The Man’

Coming later this month is a 6-CD deluxe edition of the Velvet Underground’s incredible third album, which is titled The Velvet Underground.

The box includes two CDs recorded live at The Matrix in San Francisco in 1969 plus a previously unreleased album dating back to 1969. Read more about it here at Consequence Of Sound.

Meanwhile check out two tracks from the set:

Until Nov. 7 at 1 am you’ll need to listen to this first one here.

“I Can’t Stand It”:

“I’m Waiting For The Man”:

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Video: Stream 3 ‘New Basement Tapes’ Songs by Jim James, Rhiannon Giddens & Elvis Costello

Three videos songs from Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes.

These are tremendous.

The footage is from the Showtime documentary “Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued” that will air on Showtime on November 21.

The documentary was directed by Sam Jones, who is best known for the Wilco Documentary, “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco.”

Jim James, “Down On The Bottom”:

Rhiannon Giddens, “Hidee Hidee Ho #16”:

Elvis Costello, “Six Months In Kansas City”:

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Video: Neil Young’s New ‘I Want To Drive My Car’

New video for Neil Young’s “I Want To Drive my Car” off his Storytone album.

Check it out.

Thanks Thrasher’s Wheat!

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