Tuesday night at Citibank Hall in São Paulo, Brazil, Eddie Vedder played a new song which fans are calling “I Won’t Hold On.”
Click on the first link to listen, and the second to download.
Thanks Stereogum!
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The Arctic Monkeys participated in the Australian radio network Triple J’s “Like A Version” cover series, covering the Arctic Monkey’s “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards.”
The Arctic Monkeys’ acoustic version is quite good.
Arctic Monkeys, “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”:
And the original.
Tame Impala, “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”:
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Fifty-three years ago, in May of 1961, Bob Dylan performed somewhere in Minnesota and played a bunch of classic folk and blues songs.
His set was recorded and has been circulating as a bootleg for years.
Below is the only recording of Dylan playing the Reverend Gary Davis’ “Death Don’t Have No Mercy.”
On his website Dylan expert Olof Björner wrote:
In an interview Jaharana Romney, formerly Bonnie Beecher (interview by Markus Wittman, May 1989) talks about the song Why’d You Cut My Hair?:
“He came to my apartment and said, ‘It’s an emergency! I need your help! I gotta go home an’ see my mother!’ He was talking in the strangest Woody Guthrie-Oklahoma accent. I don’t know if she was sick, but it was an unexpected trip he had to make up to Hibbing and he wanted me to cut his hair.” He kept saying, ‘Shorter! Shorter! Get rid of the sideburns!’ So I did my very best to do what he wanted and then in the door come Dave Morton, Johnny Koerner and Harvey Abrams. They looked at him and said, ‘Oh my God, you look terrible! What did you do?’ And Dylan immediately said, ‘She did it! I told her just to trim it up a little bit but she cut it all off. I wasn’t looking in a mirror!’ And then he went and wrote that song, ‘Bonnie, why’d you cut my hair? Now I can’t go nowhere!’ He played it that night in a coffeehouse and somebody told me recently that they had been to Minnesota and somebody was still playing that song, ‘Bonnie, Why’d You Cut My Hair?’ It’s like a Minnesota classic! And so I’ve gone down in history!”
This tape may therefore come from a coffeehouse performance. The circulating tape is known as Minnesota Party Tape 1961.
Here are some of those songs.
“Ramblin’ Round”:
“Death Don’t Have No Mercy”:
“It’s Hard To Be Blind”:
“This Train Is Bound For Glory”:
Harmonica solo:
“Talkin’ Fish Blues”:
“Man of Constant Sorrow”:
“Bonnie, Why’d You Cut My Hair?”:
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On May 5, 2014, Dave Grohl and his band, Foo Fighters, played a secret show at Washington, DC’s 9:30 Club to celebrate Big Tony Fisher of Trouble Funk’s birthday.
Here are clips that a number of fans shot. Some of the footage is fantastic, some so-so.
“Times Like These”:
“Times Like These” (alternative view):
“Pretender”:
“There Goes My Hero”:
“Generator”:
“Cold Day In The Sun”:
“Monkey Wrench”
“Monkey Wrench” (another view):
“All My Life”:
“Foo Fighters:”
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In a way, Neil Young’s latest release, A Letter Home, and all the hoopla about recording with the primitive Voice-O-Graph machine is itself quite absurd.
But even so, this takes it to a new level.
From Willard’s Wormhole:
String Theory (2014)
Neil & Jack, On The Road AgainThe second in a series of Limited Edition releases from Jack White’s Third Man Records is this audiophile Deluxe Edition of Neil Young’s greatest hits, as played into an empty CMI standard #211 Cylinder-size tin can, held aloft by Neil…
Read the rest at Willard’s Wormhole.
You’ll be glad you did!
And don’t miss this info about the Deluxe edition.
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He may be touring the world.
And recording new albums.
And OKing the release of archived recordings.
But Bob Dylan is also putting his art out into the world in a major way.
This week his “Drawn Blank Series” is not only being exhibited at the Ross Art Group gallery in New York.
At the same paintings based on the original drawings he did some years ago are on exhibit at Weatherby Fine Art in Perth Australia.
And of course last October, Halcyon Gallery in London had Dylan’s “Mood Swings” exhibit, in which iron works by Dylan were exhibited along with paintings and signed limited editions.
Dylan created more than 300 drawings during his 1989-1992 world tour, and later reworked many of them in watercolour and gouache.
Here are some of Dylan’s paintings:
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This is a cool song, “Cherry Licorice,” from the Felice Brothers.
It’s off their upcoming album, Favorite Waitress, due June 17.
The video is awesome.
Video by Josh Rawson; “Xmas” paintings by Ian Felice.
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Watch Courtney Love go wild in her new video, “You Know My Name.”
Directed by Maximilla Lukacs.
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Dig Savages new a-side, “Fuckers,” which along with the flip,a cover of Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream,” was recorded at the group’s November 6th, 2013 performance at London’s Forum.
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Coming May 19 is a new Guided By Voice’s album, Cool Planet.
Here’s another track off it, “Table at Fool’s Tooth”:
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