Lauryn Hill’s first show since she was released from prison took place November 27, 2013 at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC.
Excellent review over at Consequence of Sound.
Sound is funky on this cell phone video, but you get a sense of the scene.
“Consumerism”:
“Lost One”:
Here’s a short clip in which Hill’s son raps:
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Two clips from Bob Dylan’s performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, November 26, 2013. This is not the greatest video or audio, but it gives you an idea of what it was like. “All ALong the Watchtower” sounds pretty great.
“All Along the Watchtower”:
Here’s a portion of “High Water (For Charley Patton)”:
Here are a few reviews:
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The videos are shaky but the audio is pretty good. I love “Shipbuilding.”
Elvis at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. November 21, 2013.
Plus some of the other songs he performed.
Last night (Sunday, November 25, 2013), Beck oversaw a performance of Song Reader, the sheet music album he published with McSweeny’s. The show was at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles where Beck premiered “Wave,” off his upcoming album Morning Phase. He was backed the 61-piece Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by his father, by David Campbell.
Artists who performed Beck compositions included: Jack Black, Jarvis Cocker, John C. Reilly, Anne Hathaway, Jenny Lewis, Childish Gambino, Van Dyke Parks and others.
Read a review at Rolling Stone.
Beck performing “Wave”:
Anne Hathaway and Jenny Lewis performing “Last Night You Were A Dream”:
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Dylan played the Opera House Theater in Blackpool, England last night, November 24, 2013 — the third of three shows. You can listen below to the entire concert.
Set list
Things Have Changed
She Belongs To Me
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
What Good Am I?
Duquesne Whistle and
Waiting For You
Pay In Blood and
Tangled Up In Blue
Love Sick
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Simple Twist Of Fate
Early Roman Kings and
Forgetful Heart
Spirit On The Water
Scarlet Town
Soon After Midnight
Long And Wasted Years
All Along The Watchtower and
Roll On John
Roll On John
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At the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena last night Eddie Vedder did a solo rendition of “After Hours” as a tribute to Lou Reed.
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John Martyn’s Solid Air, released in 1973, is one of those timeless albums, an album that stands outside of time but also brings me back to those free-spirited years when I was a college student living at UC Santa Cruz.
I saw Martyn once, opening for Traffic, but that tour didn’t launch a career for him in the U.S.
Now a mammoth multi-CD box, The Island Years, has been released and Rob Young has written an informative review that provides a great overview of the late folk-rocker’s music.
Check it out at Uncut.
Here’s what might be his best song, “May You Never.” A live version from 1973:
Here’s the album version:
No lights, no photos. Still, the photos the band’s photographer took are cool. and you get a sense of the live trip from the audio on this video.
Brooklyn Vegan pulled together a nice story with excerpts from the New York Times and Washington Post reviews. Check it out.
The terrific English post-punk combo Savages performed at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall earlier this year.
Here’s a 40-minute blast of the group in action.
Thanks Sound Opinions and NPR.
Eleanor Friedberger performed at the Judson Memorial Church during CMJ 2013. These videos were recorded October 18, 2013 by Seattle’s KEXP.
“Stare at the Sun”
“My Own World”
“Heaven”
“I Don’t Want to Bother You”
Plus 23 minutes of leanor Friedberger from July 2013.