Friday, December 13, the Green Ray festival in Lisbon, Portugal, curated by Animal Collective’s Panda Bear will take place. Below is his “Green Ray Mix,” which features music by artists playing the festival, including Actress, Gang Gang Dance’s Brian DeGraw as bEEdEEgEE, and Eric Copeland.
Tracks in the mix:
1. niagara — kraftor
2. eric copeland — a little tit
3. actress — the lords graffitti
4. ron morelli — no real reason
5. marcellus pittman — a mix
6. bEEdEEgEE — bricks
7. gala drop – drop
8. panda bear — ponytail
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Daryl Hannah (second from left) and Neil Young (center), with Athabascan Chipewyan Chief Allan Adam, left, during a visit to the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation in Janvier in September. Photo via the Edmonton Journal.
Neil Young will perform four “Honor The Treaties” benefit shows in Canada to raise money for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) Legal Defense Fund.
The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is suing Shell Oil to stop the corporation from undertaking additional oil sands extraction projects the Indian group says will encroach on lands and resources protected by an 1899 treaty.
In September Young spoke at a press conference in Washington D.C. with Senators Harry Reid and Debbie Stabenow.
”I am against the Keystone pipeline in a big way,” Young said. “The fact is, Fort McMurray [Alberta] looks like Hiroshima. Fort McMurray is a wasteland. The Indians up there and the native peoples are dying. People are sick. People are dying of cancer because of this. All of the First Nations peoples up there are threatened by this. Their food supply is wasted, their treaties are no good. They have the right to live on the land, like they always did, but there’s no land left that they can live on. All the animals are dying.”
Supporting Young at all four dates is Diana Krall.
The shows will take place in Toronto (Jan. 12), Winnipeg (Jan. 16), Regina (Jan. 17) and Calgary (Jan. 19).
Maria Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.
It now appears that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot are likely be pardoned on December 12th as part of a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Russian constitution, the Russian newspaper Izvestia reports.
In total, some 25,000 prisoners will be pardoned including 30 or so Greenpeace activists, Izvestia reports.
Izvestia is basing the news on a draft of an amnesty bill by Russian President Vladimir Putin that has been submitted to the Russian parliament that the newspaper obtained.
Although the bill does not name individuals, according toe the draft version, among those who will be pardoned are women who have young children and who have not committed violent crimes. That would include Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina.
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More of Robert Plant’s “Adventures in Hi-8,” a documentary of his 2003 trip to Mali loaded with music. This episode of “Zirka” begins with a performance of “Win My Train Fare Home.”
With “Inside Llewyn Davis” opening last week, the album that inspired the film’s title has been reissued on vinyl as it was originally released in 1964, long before the advent of the CD and the MP3.
Recorded during the same April 1962 sessions that produced Dave Van Ronk’s first album for Fantasy Records, Folksinger, Inside Dave Van Ronk predominantly features folk standards such as “House Carpenter,” “Kentucky Moonshiner” and “Shanty Man’s Life.”
Van Ronk was an influence on Bob Dylan, who learned Van Ronk’s version of “House of the Rising Sun” and covered “House Carpenter” as well. Van Ronk recorded several Joni Mitchell compositions and helped bring attention to the brilliant Canadian songwriter before she became popular.
Check out these songs off Inside Dave Van Ronk courtesy of Concord Music Group.
This is the entire show Jeff Tweedy did at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, November 17, 2005.
Set list:
1. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
2. Muzzle of Bees
3. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
4. Wait Up
5. (Was I) In Your Dreams
6. Remember the Mountain Bed
7. Lost Love
8. Please Tell My Brother
9. Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard
10. Sugar Baby
11. My Words
12. Someday Some Morning Sometime
13. Summer Teeth
14. She’s A Jar
First encore:
15. Sunken Treasure
16. Not for the Season
17. He’s Back Jack-Whistling Jesus
18. War on War
19. Heavy Metal Drummer
Second encore:
20. The Lonely 1
Thanks Tulser John!
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Photo of Ke$ha & Flaming Lips via Consequence of Sound,
Here’s a rip of The Flaming Lips, Ke$ha, and New Fumes covering The Stone Roses’ “Elizabeth My Dear.” It’s off the Lips’ Stone Roses covers album, The Time Has Come To Shoot You Down…What A Sound.
Thanks Consequence of Sound!
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Coming soon: The North American version of Mogwai’s Rave Tapes’ deluxe-edition box set, which is available exclusively through SubPop.com.
From Sup Pop’s press release;
“Rave Tapes is set for a Jan. 21 in North America via Sub Pop, with the European release available on Jan. 20 via Rock Action. The record will also be available via Spunk in Australia and Hostess in Japan and SE Asia. Rave Tapes was recorded over the summer in the band’s Castle of Doom studio in Glasgow and reunites the band with Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will co-producer Paul Savage.”
Dig these Mogwai tracks.
“Remurdered”:
“The Lord Is Out of Control”:
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