Monthly Archives: January 2014

Listen: Four Tet, Jarvis Cocker Contribute to ‘Sun Choir’ & ‘Boats’ Benefit Albums

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Marram Featuring Jarvis Cocker and Margaret Bennett, “Falling from the Sun” (from Sun Choir):

Four Tet, “Gillie Amma, I Love You” (from Boats):

From the Everything Is New Project website:

Sun Choir is an album of new music by Edinburgh-based band Marram, recorded with and for the Light Of Love Children’s Choir, and featuring collaborations with renowned musical personalities from around the world, including Jarvis Cocker, Owen Pallett, doseone, White Hinterland, and Margaret Bennett.

BOATS – a 29-track double album featuring exclusive tracks from Four Tet, Dan Deacon, Bear in Heaven, Califone, Deerhoof, El Guincho, Gang Gang Dance, Lucky Dragons, Julian Lynch, Max Tundra, No Age, The Ruby Suns, Rustie, Son Lux, Sun Airway, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Taken By Trees, Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), YACHT, and many, many more. Each artist on BOATS created their songs using samples of the Light Of Love Children’s Choir, originally recorded for Marram’s Sun Choir.

The albums benefit Scottish Love in Action, a charity that provides food, clothing, education, and medical care to children in southeast India.

More info here.

And here:

Both albums will be released January 20, 2014.

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Coachella 2014 Lineup: Arcade Fire, OutKast,The Replacements, Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2014, April 11-13 and April 18-20.

Day 1: OutKast, The Knife, The Replacements, Broken Bells, Zedd, Girl Talk, Ellie Goulding, Chromeo, HAIM, Neko Case, AFI, Martin Garrix, Bonobo, Bryan Ferry, The Glitch Mob, The Afghan Whigs, The Cult, Bastille, Flume, Aloe Blacc, Jagwar Ma, A$AP Ferg, Grouplove, Woodkid, Carnage, Shlomo, Gareth Emery, Michael Brun, MS MR, Kate Nash, Hot Since 82, Damian Lazarus, GOAT, Nina Kraviz, Anthony Green, Duke Dumont, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Solomun, ZZ Ward, Anti-Flag, Caravan Palace, Flatbush Zombies, Deorro, Waxahatchee, Title Fight, Davide Squillace, DJ Falcon, Dum Dum Girls, Austra, Tom Odell, Dixon, Wye Oak, Crosses, Mako, The Preatures, The Bots, Gabba Gabba Heys

Day 2: Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age, Skrillex, Pharrell Williams, Lorde, Foster The People, Pet Shop Boys, MGMT, Empire Of The Sun, Fatboy Slim, Nas, Kid Cudi, The Head And The Heart, Sleigh Bells, Cage The Elephant, City And Colour, CHVRCHES, Dillon Francis, Capital Cities, The Naked And Famous, Temples, Mogwai, Warpaint, Solange, Washed Out, Future Islands, Ty Segal, DARKSIDE, Banks, Tiga, Bombay Bicycle Club, Holy Ghost!, Netsky, RL Grime, Galantis, Foxygen, White Lies, Graveyard, The Internet, Laura Maula, The Dismemberment Plan, Headhunterz, Blood Orange, GTA, TJR, Cajmere, Guy Gerber, Nicole Moudaber, MAKJ, Bear Hands, The Magician, Young & Sick, Unlocking The Truth, Saints Of Valory, Carbon Airways, UZ, Syd Arthur, Bicep, Drowners

Day 3: Arcade Fire, Beck, Calvin Harris, Neutral Milk Hotel, Disclosure, Lana Del Rey, Motorhead, Alesso, Duck Sauce, Little Dragon, Beady Eye, Flosstradamus, The Toy Dolls, The 1975, Adventure Club, Big Gigantic, Chance The Rapper, Laurent Garnier, Krewella, Rudimental, STRFKR, Fishbone, Trombone Shorty, AlunaGeorge, Art Department, Flight Facilities, Frank Turner, John Newman, Maceo Plex, Superchunk, Bombino, Daughter, Bad Manners, Surfer Blood, Lee Burridge, Poolside, Classixx, Showtek, James Vincent McMorrow, Bo Ningen, Aeroplane, Ratking, Jhene Aiko, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, Factory Floor, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Anna Lunoe, The Martinez Brothers, Scuba, John Beaver

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Audio: Free Antique Six-Song Live Set from Spoon

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Photo via Magnet magazine.

In 1997 Spoon went to Houston and played a six-song set at the Rice University campus radio station KTRU.

Now, 17 years later, you can listen, or even download for free. Well, not totally free. You need to submit your email address, which goes to KTRU.

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Audio: 40 Years Ago Bob Dylan & The Band Play Toronto

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Photo via Manhattman.com.

Forty years ago, on January 9, 1974, Bob Dylan and The Band began the first of a two-night run at the Maple Leaf Gardens in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The 1974 tour had begun just six days earlier at Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Illinois. The first Toronto show was Dylan’s fifth performance of the tour.

It was, of course, Dylan’s first tour with The Band since they had stormed through Europe together, dismaying many fans with some of the most exciting rock ‘n’ roll ever played on this planet.

Here’s a recording of “As I Went Out One Morning,” from the second night at the Maple Leaf Gardens.

It’s from a bootleg of the show, As I Went Out One Evening.

According to www.bjorner.com this is the only time Bob Dylan has ever performed “As I Went Out One Morning” live. (I’ve included the setlist for the January 9, 1974 show below the video clips.)

Plus here are some covers of “As I Went Out One Morning”:

Thea Gilmore:

As I Went Out One Morning by Thea Gilmore on Grooveshark

Dirty Projectors:

Woven Hand:

Mira Billotte:

January 9, 1974 setlist:

1.
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
2.
Lay Lady Lay
3.
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
4.
It Ain’t Me, Babe
5.
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
6.
Ballad Of A Thin Man

These next were performed by The Band sans Dylan.

Stage Fright (Robbie Robertson)
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Robbie Robertson)
King Harvest (Has Surely Come) (Robbie Robertson)
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever (Don Hunter – Stevie Wonder)
I Shall Be Released
Up On Cripple Creek (Robbie Robertson)

Dylan returns to the stage:

7. All Along The Watchtower
8. Ballad Of Hollis Brown
9. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
10. Just Like A Woman
11. Girl From The North Country
12. Wedding Song
13. Nobody ‘Cept You
14. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

The Band again:

Rag Mama Rag (Robbie Robertson)
When You Awake (Richard Manuel – Robbie Robertson)
The Shape I’m In (Robbie Robertson)
The Weight (Robbie Robertson)

Dylan returns:

15. Forever Young
16. Something There Is About You
17. Like A Rolling Stone
18. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)

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Audio: Speedy Ortiz’s New Single, ‘American Horror’

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Listen to the new single from Speedy Ortiz, “American Horror,” off their upcoming Real Hair EP, set for a February 11 release.

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Audio: Thee Silver Mt. Zion’s Latest Single, “Take Away These Early Grave Blues”

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New single from Thee Silver Mt. Zion, “Take Away These Early Grave Blues”:

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Video: Neil Young at Carnegie Hall, Jan. 7, 2014 + Full Show Audio

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Photo via theuofmusic.

Neil Young at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium in New York City, January 7, 2014.

Here’s the setlist.

By the way, if you want to download the entire January 6 and 7 shows, go here and look around.

(Also check my posts with videos from the January 6 show here, the January 9 show here and the January 10 show here.)

“On The Way Home”:

“A Man Needs A Maid”:

“Goin’ Back”:

“Ohio”:

“Southern Man”:

“Southern Man” (another video)”

“Mr. Soul”:

“Needle Of Death”:

“Harvest Moon”:

“Flying On The Ground Is Wrong”:

“Heart Of Gold”:

“Comes A Time”:

“Comes A Time” (another video):

“Comes A Time”:

“Long May You Run”:

“Long May You Run” (Another video):

And from the January 6 show:

“Hank To Hendrix”:

“Only Love Can Break Your Heart”:

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Audio: My Imagined Bob Dylan Album

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Bob Dylan has released at least three of the best rock albums. Period.

Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde and John Wesley Harding are classics.

And his earlier albums, particularly Bringing It All Back Home, are exceptional too.

But Dylan has recorded many songs, and many versions of songs, that have not been officially released, or have only turned up decades later on the official bootleg series releases.

So sometimes I think about the albums that might have been.

Here’s one of my imagined Dylan albums, comprised entirely of tracks that didn’t make it onto official studio albums.

1 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window:

2 Roll On John (1962)

Roll on John by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

3 Freeze Out (later titled “Visions of Johanna,” 1966):
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4 She’s Your Lover Now (solo piano version, 1966):

5 Let Me Die In My Footsteps (outtake, early ’60s):

Let Me Die In My Footsteps (Unedited) by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

6 She Belongs To Me (outtake, 1965)

7 I’ll Keep It With Mine (Blonde On Blonde rehearsal, 1966)

I'll Keep It With Mine (Rehearsal) by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

8 Blind Willie McTell (1983):

Blind Willie McTell by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

9 Desolation Row (Outtake, 1965):

Desolation Row by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

10 On A Rainy Afternoon (hotel room jam, 1966):

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Video: Neil Young Performs ‘Needle Of Death’ at Carnegie Hall + More Videos — Jan. 6, 2014

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Photo of Neil Young at Carnegie Hall via New York Times website.

Neil Young performs Bert Jansch’s “Needle of Death” and other songs, January 6, 2014, at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium in New York City.

Here’s the setlist.

Here’s the New York Times’ review.

(Also check my posts with videos from the January 7 show here and the January 9 show here.)

“Hank To Hendrix”:

“On The Way Home”:

“Only Love Can Break Your Heart”:

“Love In Mind”:

“Mellow My Mind”:

“Someday”:

“Old Man”:

“Ohio”:

“Ohio” (different perspective)”:

“Southern Man”:

“Needle Of Death”:

“Heart of Gold”:

“Comes A Time”:

“Long May You Run”:

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Portlandia’s Carrie Brownstein Leaves Open Possibility of Sleater-Kinney Reunion

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Photo via Stereogum.

“Portlandia” star Carrie Brownstein suggested during an interview posted at Stereogum today that the Sleater-Kinney story isn’t over yet.

Asked if Sleater-Kinney will reunite, Brownstein said:

I’m not sure. It’s a hard question. This is something I was actually talking about with Tavi Gevinson who does Rookie Mag. I’m such a fan of hers and her writing, and we were having coffee in Portland and we were just talking about how when something is very tied to a certain time in your life — it’s sometimes hard to reenter that at a different age or with a different perspective. So, it’s like finding a way into the container that is Sleater-Kinney, finding a way of entering that with something that isn’t necessarily as urgent as it was for me when I was 22. What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records and they all felt different. It was a band that was able to encapsulate different sensibilities because we were focusing on it as music and art and not as a statement. That was something other people ascribed to it more than we did. So I would be curious. I think we have more to say. I think we ended at a time when it wasn’t tapering off, actually. I would be curious to know what the rest of the story is with that band.

Read more of the interview here.

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