I like First Aid Kit’s two previous indie albums of chamber-folk.
Now the Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg have signed to a major and this album, Stay Gold, their third, will be out on Columbia on June 10, 2014.
Meanwhile you can check out the whole album at NPR’s First Listen.
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Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration took place on October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
An amazing group of artists assembled to offer tribute to Bob Dylan.
The first video below, is the first half of the concert.
The second video is an eclectic mix of songs from the entire concert but it does include George Harrison, Neil Young, Tom Petty and others that are not in the first video.
Part One:
Misc. songs:
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There’s a great overview of recent music books by Howard Hampton at the New York Times today.
He covers books about the Allman Brothers, Alex Chilton, Kiss, Bob Dylan and Earth, Wind & Fire, plus rock journalist Lisa Robinson’s memoir.
All rock biographies/memoirs agree on one point. As Gregg Allman tells it in “One Way Out,” an exhaustive oral history of the Allman Brothers Band by Alan Paul, escaping the workaday lot of “a shock-absorber washer-jammer in Detroit . . . is why I became a musician in the first place.” Or as Joey Ramone sang: “It’s not my place in the 9-to-5 world.”
Whatever form the music might take, it promised a palatable alternative to the routine assembly-line life. Learn how to play an instrument, be able to clutch a mic and project some personality or attitude, and you too might ascend from the pits of menial-labor, desk-job drudgery, or the “Do you want fries with that?” service industry. Not only were shimmering nonunion perks like sex, drugs and fame on the table, but you could sleep until the afternoon, not be penalized for lapses in hygiene or deportment and, with luck, get paid to be utterly irresponsible. What wasn’t to love?
You didn’t even have to be a musician to tap into that life. In 1969, you could be a young substitute teacher in Harlem who started working after school in the office of a syndicated music writer/D.J./would-be record producer named Richard Robinson, and in no time find yourself skating down a yellow brick road of free record albums, concert tickets and record company buffets straight into the spanking new field of rock journalism (while marrying the boss in the process, a union that would also stick). As Lisa Robinson says in her winning THERE GOES GRAVITY: A Life in Rock and Roll (Riverhead, $27.95), she wasn’t like the “boys who had ambitions to become the next Norman Mailer”: She took over her new husband’s column and was off to the races.
A dedicated Manhattan girl, she adopted a very laissez-faire, New Orleans attitude to the rock circus — let the good times roll over you and leave the existential-metaphysical-political implications to others. Robinson wasn’t a partyer, though. She came for the music and the warped conviviality of the milieu (a professed “drug prude,” she passed on the cocaine hors d’oeuvres). Observing Mick Jagger or Robert Plant in their offstage habitats was almost as entertaining as seeing Keith Richards or Television’s Tom Verlaine play sublime guitar licks.
By the ‘70s, Robinson was writing a cheeky gossip/fashion column she called “Eleganza” for Creem magazine. This led to her being hired as the press liaison for the Rolling Stones’ 1975 Tour of the Americas…
Read the rest of this review here at the New York Times.
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New Pixies video, “Silver Snail.”
Worth your time.
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So you already know that Neil Young has written a second memoir, and that it’s being publishing this fall.
What you didn’t know, was what the cover was gonna look like, only now you do thanks to the folks at Thrasher’s Wheat, who posted this photo that, in turn, was first posted to Instagram by rockbookshow.
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I attended a show by Bob Dylan at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on November 1, 1979.
Dylan had just released Slow Train Coming so I figured we were in for his new gospel songs.
The show was a disaster. I’d seen Dylan with The Band five years earlier at the Oakland Coliseum and that was really something.
For this show, Dylan had the wrong band and I was shocked at the mediocre performance. (The next night, Nov. 2, 1979, was recorded and you can hear the entire set below, and it sounds much better than what I remember of the show I attended.)
But then, at the end, with many already gone from the theater, Dylan returned, took a seat at the piano, and played a beautiful song I’d not heard before, “Pressing On.”
The solo performance of “Pressing On” that night was spectacular.
The song ended up on Saved, but that recording doesn’t touch what I heard live.
Here is a better version from a show in Toronto at Massey Hall, April 20, 1980:
And here’s a performance of “To Ramona” with Jerry Garcia on guitar. This is from Dylan’s return engagement at the Warfield. For those 1980 shows he was once again singing some of the songs that made him famous.
Here’s the entire November 2, 1979 show at the Warfield:
Part One:
Set list
Gotta Serve Somebody
I Believe In You
When You Gonna Wake Up
When He Returns
Man Gave Names To All The Animals
Precious Angel
Slow Train
Covenant Woman
Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)….
Part Two:
Set list
Solid Rock
Saving Grace
What Can I Do For You?
Saved
In The Garden
Blessed Be The Name
Pressing On
Bob Dylan with Jerry Garcia, November 16, 1980, Warfield Theater, San Francisco:
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