Monthly Archives: November 2013

Touché Morrissey, Johnny Marr To Tell His Side Of The Smiths’ Story

books, Music, music business, news, Writing, , , , , ,
Cover of Johnny Maar’s solo album.

Johnny Marr says he’s got his own publishing deal for an autobiography, Brooklyn Vegan reports. In an interview with the music blog Marr said:

There is gonna be one, yeah. I’ve had so many offers and so many people advising me that my story is worth it, but I understand it’s something that I have to do. I’ll do it in the next couple of years. I’m into from the stance that I want it to be so thorough that I don’t make a record or tour whilst I was doing it. It is gonna happen, and I’ve already made an agreement with a publisher for it, so I will get it done.

Meanwhile, Putnam Books will publish Morrissey’s Autobiography in the US in a hardback edition on December 3, 2013. The book, published in October of this year in the UK, is a major hit, selling 35,000 copies during it’s first week and topping Amazon’s UK bestsellers chart.

Read more of the Brooklyn Vegan interview here.

Jimmy Page Says Remastered Led Zeppelin Albums Will Contain Previously Unreleased Recordings

interview, Music, music business, news, , , , , ,

Jimmy Page says there are Led Zeppelin recordings the public has never heard before, but next year we’ll get to hear them.

In an interview tonight (November 14, 2013) with TeamRock Radio’s Nicky Horne at the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour at London’s Roundhouse, Page explained that he’s remastered all of Zep’s studio recordings, and each album will be rereleased next year with a second disc of previously unheard material.

Each of the albums has been remastered but it also has a companion disc with it. Let’s take, for example, “Led Zeppelin III” — that’s remastered from analog from the original thing. I know everybody does that, but what they don’t do… I revisited all the working mixes that were done at the time. There’s different versions. Say, for example, there’s “Since I’ve Been Loving You” — there’s an incredible version of that which is totally different, it’s really raw in its approach, it’s quite dramatic, it’s cool. That’s one little item of it, but what it gives is a companion disc to “Led Zeppelin III.” It’ll come out in its own box and all the rest of it. Each disc will give a really intimate picture of the group. That’s the idea that I’ve had with it and I think it’s successful.

Listen to the Jimmy Page interview:

Bob Dylan Awarded France’s Legion d’honneur

Music, news, politics, , , , , , ,
Dylan and French culture minister Aurélie Filippetti. Photo via The Guardian.

On Wednesday France’s culture minister Aurélie Filippetti gave Bob Dylan France’s highest honor, awarding him the Legion d’honneur. According to the New York Times: “Mr. Dylan, 72, spoke briefly after the presentation, saying that he was ‘proud and grateful’ to have received it.

Dylan has quite a collection of awards. According to the New York Times: Dylan was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in May, and has “a long list of honors that includes the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012), the National Medal of Arts (2009), a Pulitzer Prize special citation (2008), the Prince of Asturias Award from Spain (2007) and so on, back to the Tom Paine Award in 1963. He has been honored by France before: in 1990, he was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.”

For more including some controversy:

Live: Arcade Fire Announce 28 Date North American Reflektor Tour

live, Music, news, , , , , , ,

Arcade Fire will hit the road beginning March 6, 2014 in Louisville, Ky. More dates will likely be added.

All shows on sale November 22.

Reflektor Tour Dates:

March 6 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum Center

March 8 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center

March 10 – Auburn Hills, MI – The Palace of Auburn Hills

March 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Consol Energy Center

March 13 – Toronto, ON – Air Canada Centre

March 14 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre

March 16 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena

March 17 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center

March 18 – Bridgeport, CT – Webser Bank Arena

April 9 – Houston, TX – CWM Pavilion

April 10 – Austin, TX – 360 Amphitheater

April 23 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center

April 26 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre

April 27 – St. Louis, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

April 29 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center

May 1 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena

May 2 – Atlanta, GA – Aaron’s Amphitheatre

July 30 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre

August 8 – Seattle, WA – The Gorge

August 11 – Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place

August 12 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome

August 14 – Winnipeg, MB – MTS Centre

August 17 – Washington, DC – Verizon Center

August 19 – Boston, MA – Comcast Center

August 22 & 23 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center

August 26 – Chicago, IL – United Center

August 30 – Montreal, QC – Parc Jean Drapeau

Hundreds Turn Out For Lou Reed Memorial in New York

Music, news, Video, , , , , ,
Photo of memorial via Rolling Stone, by Jessica Lehrman.

It was billed as a gathering in which Lou Reeds music would be played, and that’s just what it was. Hundreds of Lou Reed fans came together for the event, which was held at at the Paul Milstein Pool and Terrace at Lincoln Center.

It began with the loud electric guitar and pounding of drums from the title track of Reed’s 1982 album The Blue Mask. Other songs that filled the air: “Sally Can’t Dance,” “Femme Fatale,” “Heroin,” “I’m Waiting for the Man,” “Waves of Fear,” “Sunday Morning,” “I Love You, Suzanne,” “Pale Blue Eyes,” “Dirty Blvd.” and “Sweet Jane,” “Sister Ray,” “Think It Over,” “Walk on the Wild Side,” “All Tomorrow’s Parties” and “Set the Twilight Reeling.”




Here’s some video:

Lost Tapes Found Dept.: 1970 Grateful Dead Show From Family Dog at the Great Highway

Music, news, , , , , ,

Tapes in possession of Jerry Garcia’s wife Carolyn Garcia, better known as Mountain Girl, will be released on November 29th, Black Friday.

The album, Family Dog at the Great Highway – San Francisco, CA 4/18/70, is comprised of an 80 minute show the Dead performed at the Family Dog at the Great Highway in San Francisco on April 18th, 1970.

According to Rolling Stone, the album will include six songs performed solo by Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, a founding member of the band who died in 1973.

For more head to Rolling Stone.

Track list:

“I Know You Rider”
“Don’t Ease Me In”
“Silver Threads and Golden Needles”
“Friend of the Devil”
“Deep Elem Blues”
“Wake Up Little Susie”
“Candyman”
“Cumberland Blues”
“New Speedway Boogie”
“Me and My Uncle”
“Mama Tried”
“Katie Mae”
“Ain’t It Crazy (The Rub)”
“Roberta”
“Bring Me My Shotgun”
“The Mighty Flood”
“Black Snake”

While you wait for the new album, here’s a set the Dead played November 2, 1969 at Family Dog at the Great Highway:

Listen: Howe Gelb’s “Vortexas” Features Bonnie “Prince” Billy

Music, news, streaming music, , , , , , ,

This track is off Howe Gelb’s just released new album, The Coincidentalist. In addition to Bonnie “Prince” Billy, the album features guest appearances by M. Ward, former Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and Giant Sand bassist Thøger Tetens Lund.

Or listen to the entire album:

Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is in Siberian Hospital, Not Penal Colony

Music, news, politics, , , , , ,

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is at a hospital in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, her husband told Rolling Stone today.

After more than three weeks of no contact, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova finally spoke to his wife who is in Krasnoyarsk’s Tuberculosis Hospital No. 1. Tolokonnikova does not have tuberculosis.

“She was in good condition. She said her conditions were OK,” Verzilov told Rolling Stone. “She’s not sick right now, she’s just having procedures and tests related to the hunger strike.”

Tolokonnikova told her husband that during the past three-plus weeks that she’s been out of sight, she wasn kept from having contact with the outside world.

“She said conditions and treatment were OK,” Verzilov said, “but that the one thing was she was in very strict isolation.”

Russian authorities have not revealed where Tolokonnikova will serve the remainder of her sentence, although Verzilov told Rolling Stone he had been told that she might remain at the hospital.

Head to Rolling Stone for more.