Bob Dylan and Van Morrison sing an awesome version of “Knocking on Heaven’s Door,” Birmingham, England, June 24, 1998:
Plus Dylan and Van jamming in Greece in 1989. Really cool footage and music.
“It Stoned Me”:
“Crazy Love”:
“Foreign Window” and “One Irish Rover”:
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Check out these videos from the recent SXSW tribute show.
Lucinda Williams, “Pale Blue Eyes”:
Sean Lennon, “What Goes On”:
The Black Lips, “Run, Run, Run”:
Suzanne Vega, “Walk On the Wild Side”:
The Fleshtones, “Real Good Time Together”:
Sharon Needles, “Candy Says”:
The Baseball Project (Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon, R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Mike Mills), “Sister Ray”:
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Check out this new song, “The Root,” from Kim Deal.
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Yesterday REMHQ brought to my attention this video of R.E.M. playing ‘I Know Your Name” at The Point Depot, Dublin, February 2005.
On Record Store Day a new live R.E.M. album, Unplugged: The Complete 1991 And 2001 Sessions, will be released.
Plus “Losing My Religion” from Unplugged in 2001.
Here’s the tracklist for the Unplugged album, which will first be released on vinyl:
1991 Unplugged
Side One
1.”Half A World Away”
2.”Disturbance at the Heron House”
3.”Radio Song”
4.”Low”
Side Two
1.”Perfect Circle”
2.”Fall on Me”
3.”Belong”
4.”Love Is All Around”
Side Three
1.”Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
2.”Losing My Religion”
3.”Pop Song 89″
4.”Endgame”
Side Four
1.”Fretless”*
2.”Swan Swan H”*
3.”Rotary 11″*
4.”Get Up”*
5.”World Leader Pretend”*
2001 Unplugged
Side Five
1.”All The Way To Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star)”
2.”Electrolite”
3.”At My Most Beautiful”
4.”Daysleeper”
Side Six
1.”So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)”
2.”Losing My Religion”
3.”Country Feedback”
4.”Cuyahoga”
Side Seven
1.”Imitation of Life”
2.”Find the River”
3.”The One I Love”*
4.”Disappear”*
Side Eight
1.”Beat a Drum”*
2.”I’ve Been High”*
3.”I’ll Take the Rain”*
4.”Sad Professor”*
* Not included in original television broadcast
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Interpol in Newcastle, England last night performing two new songs: “Anywhere” and “My Desire.”
Sound is a bit iffy but still…
“Anywhere”:
“My Desire”:
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The original Veruca Salt — Nina Gordon, Louise Post, Steve Lack and Jim Shapiro — are back together, as I reported last December, and have recorded two new songs, “The Museum of Broken Relationships” and “It’s Holy,” with their original producer, Brad Wood.
“It’s been great working with VS again – literally 20 years after our first time in the studio,” Wood told me today. “The new songs are unabashed rockers and I think the fun they are having is evident in the mixes. Seriously good fun and cathartic, too.”
On his Facebook page Wood posted: “The return of VS… Start camping out at your favorite record store because this is happening on Record Store Day, April 19th. The Bitch is Back.”
The new songs will be on a three-song 10″ to be released by their original label, Minty Fresh, along with the group’s original hit, “Seether,” Pitchfork reports.
The band’s website is “under contruction.”
Watch the original video for “Seether” and remember how good Veruca Salt were:
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Check out this video, courtesy of Doom & Gloom from the Tomb, of Sonic’s Rendezvous Band performing “City Slang” live at the Second Chance in Ann Arbor, MI, in 1977.
Of course that’s Asheton on drums.
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The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas and his backing band the Voidz ripped through some loud and nasty new songs last night at the Chevrolet Courtyard, SXSW.
Stereogum reports:
If you saw Casablancas during his first solo tour, then you already know the deal: It’s exceedingly weird to see him onstage with a bunch of hired guns backing him up, even if the newly added billing suggests he’s trying to create more of a “me & my band” vibe this time around. (The Voidz lineup is different than the group he toured with for Phrazes.) Even if there was a veneer of imitation and rich kid play-acting to it, the Strokes were one of the last great “band as gang of friends that eventually spontaneously combusts,” a band that genuinely looked and acted the part of real rock stars together. Given, it’s getting to the point that if the Strokes are still together in any fashion, you get the sense they’re just going through the motions to get back to their other things anyway. Which is fine; Casablancas’ solo work’s been pretty great so far. It’ll just take some adjustment to get used to seeing Casablancas playing “Ize Of The World” or “Reptilia” (which we didn’t hear last night, but they played at one of the previous shows) with a mulleted and mustachioed guitarist rather than Albert Hammond, Jr. and Nick Valensi next to him.
For more of this review head to Stereogum.
“Ego”:
“2231”:
“Ize of the World”:
“Biz Dog”:
“The Phantom of Liberty (Arabic Jam)”:
“River of Brakelights”:
“Dr. Acula”:
“Glass”:
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Great ballad from The Hold Steady. “The Ambassador” is off the new album, Teeth Dreams.
Performed during the Public Radio Rock showcase at the SXSW day stage.
Great video, great audio.
Plus “The Weekenders”:
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Bob Dylan is a fan of the late bluesman, Blind Willie McTell. We’ve all heard the song Dylan wrote about McTell.
Today I’ve got the official version of McTell’s “Delia,” as sung by Dylan on World Gone Wrong, and a live version too from 1992.
“Delia” is an incredible song, and the way Dylan sings in on “World Gone Wrong” is heartbreaking.
I’ve also included a beautiful version of “Delia” performed by Jolie Holland, who also happens to be a huge Dylan fan. I executive-produced this video when I was Editor in Chief of MOG.
And I’ve got two versions of “Delia” by McTell himself.
Bob Dylan, “Delia,” off World Gone Wrong:
Bob Dylan, “Delia” Sydney, April 15th 1992:
Jolie Holland, “Delia,” live in her New York apartment:
Blind Willie McTell, “Delia” early version:
Blind Willie McTell, “Delia” 1949 version:
Finally, Bob Dylan’s own composition, “Blind Willie McTell”:
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