A Nudge in the Right Direction
- Do you want an early Jeff Tweedy acoustic show? Berkeley Place has got you covered with a Dec. 29th, 1994 show with special guest Jay Bennett.
- Itching to hear Nelly Furtado join Anne Murray for a studio version of the Monkees’ “Daydream Believer”? Thought so. Check out Hi-Fi Heart.
- Aikin at Licorice Pizza has some live Kiss from their ’79 tour rehearsal, and some Janis Joplin from the 1969 Texas Int’l Pop Festival.
- Steve at Maybe We Ain’t That Young Anymore is in full on P-Funk discovery mode, and posts a nice Parliament show from 1978 at the Howard Theater in D.C.
- New Blogger Alert! Java John has a new music blog, Spill the Beanz (http://spiltbeanz.blogspot.com). Here he is taking a look at David Bowie’s Pin-Ups album. Off to a good start, Java John….
- There’s always a plethora of cool shizz goin’ on over at Popdose. Let’s see… Jeff looks back at the New Monkees, Mr. Malchus reveres Jeff Buckley’s version of “Hallelujah” with a very personal touch (such a great song), and the Popdose Guide to the Call.
Stoned in Belgium: Brussels Affair
This, my friends, is the Stones in arguably their finest form. They were touring in support of their latest album, Goats Head Soup, the follow-up to 1972’s Exile on Main Street (a tough album to follow!). Mick Taylor absolutely shredded up the stage with his lead guitar work. You’ll hear it all first hand in this great quality show.
This was intended to be an official live album, but in the early 70’s the Stones were still bound to to an agreement with their former record label (Dekka/ABCO). So the first post-Dekka official live album didn’t come out until ’77 (Love You Live), seven years after they left Dekka.
One of the great musical memories I have are the years in my late teens when I was discovering the Rolling Stones catalog, particularly their albums from the 70’s – and even more particularly – the greatness of Exile and Sticky Fingers. So to come across a show like this for the first time is really a treat.
And if you’re a young ‘un or just new to the Stones, fasten your seatbelts…
The Rolling Stones
Brussels, Belgium
October 17, 1973Nov 17, 2011: The show is now part of the Goats Head Soup Deluxe Box Set.
1. Brown Sugar
2. Happy
3. Gimme Shelter
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
6. Dancing With Mr. D
7. Angie
8. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
9. Honky Tonk Women
10. Midnight Rambler
11. All Down the Line
12. Rip This Joint
13. Jumping Jack Flash
14. Street Fighting ManBuy:
Help Take Hip-Hop to the Super Bowl
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Internet buzz can take you a long way, maybe even to a 60 second clip during the Super Bowl. That buzz is reaching a fever pitch for the New York based Indian influenced Hip-Hop act Nivla Feat. P.Oberoi. The crew is one of three finalists for the chance to win a record deal with Interscope Records and more importantly 60 seconds of premium air-time during the Super Bowl. Mixing traditional Indian melodies over slick beats and a flow that just does not stop the group stands to bring a breath of fresh air to a by in large stale Hip-Hop scene.
You can place your vote at www.crashthesuperbowl.com
Buy: “Be Easy (Koi Naa)”
Link: Official Site | MySpace
Jumping on the Band (of Horses) Wagon
I’m late to the Band of Horses bandwagon. I guess my inclination is to shy away from the darlings of the indie critics and hipsters. Well, I made a mistake for not checking these guys out earlier. Since the beginning of the year, Cease to Begin has been on regular rotation over here in the House of Ickmusic. Lead singer Ben Bridwell’s voice is the key for me – gentle and soothing.
The album is top notch from start to finish, but it’s this track – the finale – that I could literally put on repeat for a day straight and never tire of it.
Band of Horses – Window Blues
Buy: Cease to Begin
Links: Official Site
LastFM takes it to the next level
If you’re here, you love music. And if you love music, you should be on LastFM – a free social music networking site. Especially with this morning’s news…
LastFM, which CBS bought last year, just announced a major deal with all four major labels, and thousands of indie labels, that will allow you – the music fan – to go to LastFM, and listen to any song you want, in its entirety. Pretty sweet, if you ask me.
Okay, so what is LastFM? What all does it do? I turned a few friends on to it over the last few months who had never heard of it, so there are probably bunches of you fine people out there who don’t know about LastFM. So here goes…
The first thing you want to do is sign up for LastFM. It’s free.
The next thing you’ll want to do is download their software (PC or Mac, it doesn’t matter). What the software does is it ties in to your music player, whether it’s iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, whatever – and keeps track of the music you listen to.
When you go to your profile page, you’ll find “charts” of the music you’ve been listening to, your top artists, your top songs, etc. Pretty sweet in itself. But that’s just the beginning. This is where the networking part comes in to the picture. Based on what you’re listening to, it shows you other LastFM members with similar interests, and displays them as your “Neighbors”. You can check out their profile pages to see what they’re listening to. You can send them invitations to be your “Friend” too. Friends can send recommendations to other friends, send private messages, etc.
Then there’s the Recommendations feature. By just typing in an artist, LastFM will start playing full tunes of similar artists – a great way to discover new music. It’s pretty sweet. I know this sounds like an advertisement, but it’s not. I’m a music GEEK, and this is music geek heaven, in my opinion. And now that they’ve made a deal with virtually the entire music industry (refreshing to see), this takes LastFM to another level.
Just think, any song you want to hear – in its entirety – for free. I am GEEEKED!
So check out my LastFM presence. If you sign up, send me a friend invitation. The more, the merrier!
That was my LastFM pitch.
Next Up: I have a ton of friends who still visit web sites one by one to check them out. This cannot stand! So coming soon… “Bloglines, Google Reader, and RSS Feeds: Get Fed!” or “You Still Check out Web Sites One by One? WTF?”
Nobody Knows (including me) by Faces
One of the neglected bands in my life has been Faces (and Small Faces before them). But thankfully, they keep popping up from time to time, reminding me to get my act together. Wohlman included this great track in one of his most recent transmissions (if you haven’t listened to one, you need to. Your musical horizons will expand). It’s a Ron Wood / Ronnie Lane composition that was included on the Faces album First Step. It was the first record after the breakup of Small Faces, and actually reads “Small Faces” on original pressings of the album. The lineup was Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagen, and Kenney Jones.
This song has been around as long as I’ve been alive fercryin’ out loud (since 1970), and I heard it for the first time y-e-s-t-e-r-d-a-y. Great song, I recommend earphones. You’ll hear old Rod in one ear, and who I’m assuming to be Lane in the other. Am I right on that one?
Faces – Nobody Knows (Amazon)
On the Town this Weekend with Todd Snider
Well, crap in a basket and call me Pappy, it’s almost Friday! And hey, Todd Snider is coming to town! If you’re in the Phoenix area, and you’re free on Sunday night (a long weekend for MLK Day), join me, the wife and some friends down at the Last Exit Bar & Grill in Tempe. $15 to see Todd Snider? I’ll take it….
I’m looking forward to seeing him. He’s a singer/songwriter from Nashville (originally from Portland, Oregon) with a sharp, witty sense of humor – a performer sort of in the same vein as John Prine. His debut was on MCA way back in 1994 – Songs for the Daily Planet. Seven other studio albums have followed, all the way up to his latest, 2006’s The Devil You Know.
Quality entertainment, folks. Check out a few tunes.
Todd Snider – Combover Blues – priceless lyrics about getting older… [from Peace, Love and Anarchy (Rarities, B-Sides and Demos, Vol. 1)]
Todd Snider – All My Life (mp3) – a nice love song – [from Happy to Be Here]
Todd Snider – Enough (mp3) – one of my favorite rockin’ harmonica solos along with Bruce’s “Promised Land” and Steve Earle’s “More Than I Can Do” – [from Step Right Up]
- Check out Todd Snider’s stuff in the amazing no-DRM 256kpbs Amazon MP3 Store (includes a couple of free tunes): Todd Snider on Amazon
- Todd tours his ass off. Check out his tour page, it’s likely he’s coming to or near your town: http://www.toddsnider.net/tour.html
- Todd’s Official Site
Stephen Colbert’s Prince Dance
[dailymotion id=x412dv]Thanks Gonzo.
Girls Love Winter
The third single from Magic has hit iTunes with some bonus goodies. For $3.00 you get “Girls In Their Summer Clothes (Winter Mix)”, “Girls In Their Summer Clothes (Live)” (which features a great sax break and a hell of a sing along) and the video clip. Well worth the price of a grande non-fat vanilla latte for a little summer love in the midst of winter.
The Sex Pistols’ Last Show
Thirty years ago yesterday, the Sex Pistols ended their ill-fated U.S. tour with this show at San Francisco’s Winterland – a venue which would close later that year (marked by a New Year’s Eve finale show by the Grateful Dead – available on CD as The Closing of Winterland).
In early January, the Pistols embarked on their first U.S. tour with a string of dates through the Deep South – purposely booked by their manager Malcolm McLaren to create an atmosphere of tension and hostility. Mission accomplished! Sid Vicious was deep into his heroin habit by then, and increasingly hostile to the audience. Fights would break out, people would attack him on stage. It was ugly. Johnny Rotten was increasingly disillusioned during the tour. He was disgusted by Sid’s behavior, and found himself more and more isolated from Steve Jones and Paul Cook (the other members of the band).
By the time they made it to San Francisco for their January 14th show, enough was enough. After the final song, a cover of the Stooges tune “No Fun” (not coincidental, it would seem), Rotten famously exclaimed: “Ever get the feeling you’re being cheated? Good night.” And walked off the stage. That was it for the band – at least in that incarnation.
The Sex Pistols
Live at Winterland, San Francisco
January 14th, 1978God Save The Queen
I Wanna Be Me
Seventeen
New York
E.M.I.
Belsen Was A Gas
Bodies
Holidays In The Sun
Liar
No Feelings
Problems
Pretty Vacant
Anarchy In The U.K.
No Fun
