New video for “No Below” off Speedy Ortiz 2013 album, Major Arcana.
The group consists of singer/guitarist Sadie Dupuis, drummer Mike Falcone, bassist Darl Ferm, and guitarist Matt Robidoux.
Thanks Brooklyn Vegan!
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In 1971 Life magazine sent staff photographer Ralph Morse to photograph the wild rock ‘n’ roller, Little Richard. This was, of course, long after Little Richard’s ’50s heyday. He scored 15 Top 10 R&B hits in 1955, ’56 and ’57 starting with “Tutti-Frutti.”
A photo shoot took place and then… nothing.
Today, 42 years later, the photos can be seen at Life’s online site.
They’re pretty cool.
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Another previously unreleased Velvet Underground track from the multi-disc White Light/ White Heat due out next Tuesday.
Thanks Rolling Stone.
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I was listening to this wonderful and mysterious song that Dylan cut with The Band, and which finally was released on the “I’m Not There” soundtrack in 2007.
I thought you might dig it too.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that he backed proposals for an amnesty for thousands of prisoners, and his rights advisor says that could free the two imprisoned Pussy Riot women, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina.
“I agree… that such actions must be pacifying,” Putin said in televised comments.
“This amnesty can only apply to individuals who did not commit grave crimes or crimes involving violence against representatives of the authorities, by this I mean law enforcement officers,” Putin told Mikhail Fedotov, head of the presidential rights council, an independent advisory body, and Russian human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.
“I agree with you that such actions should underscore the humanism of our state,” Putin said, “but they certainly must not … give anyone the impression they can commit a crime today and count on forgiveness from the state tomorrow.”
Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina are due for release in March after serving two-year sentences for Pussy Riot’s “punk prayer” protest against Putin in Russia’s main cathedral in February 2012.
The amnesty could free up to 100,000 prisoners, Fedotov said, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
Fedotov told journalists the amnesty could free the Pussy Riot members.
“I think that yes of course,” Fedotov said. “After all that [what the Pussy Riot members did] was not a violent crime.”
For more, head here.
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In 1994 Verruca Salt arrived in a blast of red hot punk energy. “Seether” was a hit, and their album American Thighs, produced by Brad Wood, was terrific.
“Seether”:
And then everything went wrong. They signed with the big New York management company, Q Prime (Metallica, Def Leppard) and recorded a glossy second album that had nothing to do with the indie rock of American Thighs.
“Number One Blind”:
Nina Gordon went solo, and the band wasn’t the same without her. And Verruca Salt faded away, a one-hit wonder.
“Victrola”:
This past March 15 the original lineup of Verruca Salt — Nina Gordon, Louise Post, Jim Shapiro, and Steve Lack — announced they were reforming: “or now let’s just say this: hatchets buried, axes exhumed” they posted on Facebook.
Now they’re recording a new album with Brad Wood (yes!) producing, Brooklyn Vegan reports.
And soon Nina Gordon and Louise Post with perform together for the first time in 15 years. On December 18 as part of Second City’s 2013 24-Hour Improv & Music Benefit in Los Angeles, Verruca Salt will once again rock the house. They hit the stage at 10 AM CST (11 AM EST) and, like the rest of the benefit, will be broadcast live online, Brooklyn Vegan reports.
I interviewed Veruca Salt for my online magazine, Addicted To Noise, back in 1995 following their success with “Seether.”
Overview: Veruca Salt Want To Tear Your Playhouse Down
Part 1: Veruca Salt’s Nina Gordon “Seethes” With Anger
Part 2: Veruca Salt’s Nina Gordon Tells All (Well almost)
Part 1: Veruca Salt’s Louise Post Discovers Her Calling
Part 2: Veruca Salt’s Louise Post Stands Tall And Rocks Out
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Here’s NME’s Top 26 albums of 2013. For the rest, head to NME.
1. Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
2. Kanye West – ‘Yeezus’
3. Queens of the Stone Age – ‘…Like Clockwork’
4. Foals – ‘Holy Fire’
5. Savages – ‘Silence Yourself’
6. Daft Punk – ‘Random Access Memories’
7. Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Push The Sky Away’
9. Laura Marling – ‘Once I Was An Eagle’
10. David Bowie – ‘The Next Day’
11. Jon Hopkins – ‘Immunity’
12. MIA – ‘Matangi’
13. Drenge – ‘Drenge’
14. Vampire Weekend – ‘Modern Vampires Of The City’
15. Peace – ‘In Love’
16. Jagwar Ma – ‘Howlin’’
17. Waxahatchee – ‘Cerulean Salt’
18. Hookworms – ‘Pearl Mystic’
19. Disclosure – ‘Settle’
20. The National – ‘Trouble Will Find Me’
21. Iceage – ‘You’re Nothing’
22. Deerhunter – ‘Monomania’
23. Chvrches – ‘The Bones Of What You Believe’
24. Parquet Courts – ‘Light Up Gold’
25. Haim – ‘Days Are Gone’
26. Factory Floor – ‘Factory Floor’
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Robert Christgau, who knows what the New York folk scene was like way back when has a great story about the new Cohen Brothers film, “Inside Llewyn Davis” that just went online. The piece is mostly about the authenticity of the film, and what that means.
Christgau writes:
“When you read about the scene you see this mania for authenticity,” says Joel Coen, describing what enticed him and his brother Ethan into making Inside Llewyn Davis, a film about folksingers in Greenwich Village just before Bob Dylan touched down and took off. But Coen isn’t really praising the folksingers’ authenticity — it’s their mania that fascinates him. In the very next sentence he goes on: “You have these guys like Elliott Adnopoz, the son of a neurosurgeon from Queens, calling himself Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. In the film we have a character who sings and plays a guitar, wears a cowboy hat and calls himself Al Cody. His real name is Arthur Milgram.”
For the rest of the story, head over to Rolling Stone.
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Last night Jeff Tweedy performed “Acuff-Rose” for the final encore at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City. Dig this fan video.The song is off Uncle Tupelo’s fourth and final studio album, Anodyne.
The person who posted the video wrote:
Jeff told the crowd to be quiet, b/c he completely went acoustic for this song only. The random, obnoxiously-annoying drunk girl next to us, didn’t understand his instructions. Great show regardless!
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From the upcoming film, Another Day, Another Time, which will document a concert held in September at New York City’s Town Hall celebrating the release of the Cohen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis.
Jack White, “We’re Going to Be Friends”:
Thanks Consequence of Sound.
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