Fifty years ago, Bob Dylan made his first television appearance in the U.S. on WBC-TV, New York. The show was taped in March 1963 but didn’t air until May of that year.
“Blowin’ in the Wind”:
“Man of Constant Sorrow”:
“Ballad of Hollis Brown”:
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Today Arcade Fire performed “Afterlife” on on the UK’s “Graham Norton Show.”
Check out the spiffy new outfits and face paint.
The National have made a Thanksgiving video for “Bob’s Burgers,” the animated TV show.
The group has done a remake of “Gravy Boat,” putting a dark, possibly vegan spin on it.
In the video, a group of sailors sing the ode to gravy, now turned into a dour funeral march, including the daft chorus, “Sailors in your mouth,” and are ultimately eaten by the Belcher family, equating the eating of animals with the eating of humans.
Check the video here.
Other vegan news this week: Former Vice-President Al Gore has gone vegan joining former President Bill Clinton.
And Morrissey offered a full-bore rant against President Obama for the annual turkey pardon, which Morrissey calls “Thankskilling.”
On the Morrissey fan site True To You he writes:
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Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit. And President Obama laughs. Haha, so funny!
As Ingrid Newkirk from PETA points out, turkey ‘meat’ is one of “our nation’s top killers”, causing heart-attacks and strokes in humans due to saturated animal fats and cholesterol. And President Obama laughs.
Further, the meat industry is responsible for 51% of human-caused greenhouse-gas emission, therefore the embarrassingly stupid White House ‘turkey pardon’ is open support for a viciously cruel and environmentally irresponsible industry.
And President Obama laughs.MORRISSEY
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Mazzy Star made their first TV appearance since the ’90s on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” last night. The lighting is murky as it always is when Mazzy Star perform. Adds mystery, you know. This is a beautiful rendition of “California” off their new and fourth studio album, Seasons Of Your Day.
Check it out:
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This performance was broadcast on VH1 a few days ago but if you missed it, it’s cool. There’s a great raw DIY quality to the whole thing. Check out the guitar playing.
I saw Haim for the first time when they played the Treasure Island Music Festival last month.
I hadn’t heard the slick soul-pop of their recordings which was good because they don’t match this rock quartet live. Yeah, I did say rock quartet ’cause Haim has gone rock in a serious way.
This “Saturday Night Live” performance gives you sense of what they deliver live.
Danielle Haim — she’s in the middle with the cool red SG guitar — has a distinctive, compelling way of singing, you can really hear during this performance of “The Wire.”
Here they are on SNL performing “Don’t Save Me.”
Last night Sleigh Bells performed “Minnie” off Bitter Rivals on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.”
Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina have filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in hopes their two-year prison sentences will be overturned.
Both women claim they were unfairly punished for performing a protest song against President Vladimir Putin in a Moscow church last year, the Australian Associated Press reports.
This latest legal move on the part of the Pussy Riot members is supported by the country’s Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin.
Both women are due to be released in March of 2014.
Meanwhile, a few days ago Tolokonnikova’s husband Pyotr Verzilov finally got to see her after being unable to see or speak to her for over three weeks. Ten hours after the couple spoke Verzilov did an interview with Aljazeera America.
Check out the TV interview:
Arcade Fire in France performing on Le Grand Journal today.