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Listen: Download Free Live Superchunk Album Now!
This is cool. Superchunk are letting us download an 18-song live album, Clambakes Vol 7: Shut the F*ck Up!…No, We Love You – Live at the Corner Hotel 1996. The album was recorded live in Melbourne, Australia on November 23, 1996.
Singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan wrote of the new Clambake:
To celebrate our return to Australia, we take you back to the last show of our last visit and a Clambake recorded live at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne in November 1996. It sounds like this was a fun night and I’m sure it was—Smudge and The 3Ds were on the bill—so please excuse a few glitches in the recording and enjoy the energy circa ’96. Looking forward to seeing you again shortly.
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Watch: M.I.A. & The Roots Do “Come Walk With Me” On “Fallon”
Last night M.I.A. joined The Roots on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” for a performance of “Come Walk With Me” off her red hot new album, Matangi.
Watch: The Other (Black) Flag Takes A Sonic Stand
So as you know Greg Ginn has been out on the road with a version of Black Flag, and he recently made a new Black Flag album available to several streaming services.
Meanwhile, a renegade version of Black Flag, calling itself Flag, has also been on the road. This group features various former Black Flag members: Keith Morris, vocals; Dez Cadena, guitar/vocals; Chuck Dukowski, bass); Bill Stevenson, drums; plus former Descendents’ guitarist Stephen Egerton, who was never in Black Flag.
Here’s 15 minutes of their glorious noise:
Ex-Sonic Youth Frontman Forms New Band, Thurston Moore UK
Thurston Moore has formed a new band, Thurston Moore UK, which will open for Lee Renaldo and the Dust at London’s Garage on Nov. 21, 2013.
Moore continues to perform with his other band, Chelsea Light Moving; he currently lives in London.
He recently spoke about the influence of Lou Reed.
“Lou Reed is the all-time rock ‘n’ roll hero for people like me, who work on the margins of rock ‘n’ roll culture,” Moore told writer Keith Spera of The Times-Picayune. “He’s Elvis, Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Dylan, all together. He’s No. 1.”
Moore didn’t talk about his new band, but he gave a hint as to the point of name the band after himself.
“I was trying to get away from the ego-tripping thing, and any kind of spotlight on my name,” he said about calling his first post-Sonic Youth band Chelsea Light Moving. “But nobody knows who we are. Unless people are really trolling my Facebook, they don’t know that I’m in town. I think maybe the next record I do, I’ll call it Thurston Moore & Chelsea Light Moving.”
For more of Keith Spera’s story go here.
Chelsea Light Moving live:
Watch: Robert Plant & Sensational Space Shifters Do “Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters play “Rock ‘n’ Roll” at the 2013 BluesFest, Royal Albert Hall, London, October 31, 2013.
Here’s “Fixin’ To Die”:
Listen: Bob Dylan Milano Arcimboldi Concert, April 2013,
Listen: Neil Young “Live At The Cellar Door” Preview
Neil Young sounds great on this preview, which offers audio excerpts from 1970 of “Tell Me Why,” “Old Man,” “Bad Fog Of Loneliness” and “Cinnamon Girl.” There was such vulnerability in his voice back then.
Plus here’s a fan’s audience recording of Neil at Carnegie Hall that same year, 1970, singing “Tell Me Why.”
John Fogerty On Creedence Clearwater Revival: “the fine running machine was starting to get a little wobbly”
John Fogerty talks about why he’s playing the entire Creedence album Cosmo’s Factory, in an interview with the Washington Post that ran today.
“Well, it was actually an idea my wife said to me one day. . . ,” Fogerty said in the interview. “I went: ‘Gee, I don’t know, honey. Why would anybody want to do that?’ But the more I thought about it, what it did was it kind of placed you in that era. And it made you remember a lot of stuff that was around the album. I’m a fan, I buy albums, too. I sure remember sitting with Elvis’s first album, I don’t know how many thousands of times. Or Buddy Holly and the Crickets’ first album. And you sit there and you’re listening. You’re just in that place because it was so magical. And somehow that stays in you. That little chapter gets tucked away in your brain even though you live another 40 years. But somehow going and doing that, listening to the whole record puts you right back in that place you were all those years ago when you did it that way. . . . It’s a pretty fascinating phenomenon really.”
Talking about his role in Creedence, Fogerty said, ” I was a very strong leader, and I had a mountain, a whole roomful of musical ideas. So I was sort of an unstoppable force. Basically the hardest part was just getting the band up to speed musically so they could record and accomplish these songs. And also just to be in sync and on the same page, wanting to do it. As the success and time went on and got greater there was more and more dissension within the band. You mention how other bands are. What happens then is you spend half your time in the political realm, meaning, well, ‘I don’t know if I want to do that song.’ Or, ‘I want to come up with my own song.’
“That takes time,” Fogerty continued. “There’s a lot of time being consumed in bands where everybody’s having their say, then you have a meeting, you take a vote — you see what I’m getting at. But basically, Cosmo’s Factory was really the very end of me being very strong and very pure and very clear in my direction. And after that . . . the fine running machine was starting to get a little wobbly. Democracy’s a wonderful thing. But as we all know in America, it’s really hard to manage.”
For more, head to the Washington Post.
Check out Creedence live at the Royal Albert Hall, 1970:
Watch: Nick Cave & Bad Seeds Debut New Song, “Give Us A Kiss”
New one from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which they debuted in London earlier this week. Beautiful ballad.