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This cover – at least the first three minutes – nearly equals the original. Certainly the yin to Sabbath’s yang. Enjoy! – Mark Erickson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpFOtZm9Fc0
Thanks to John Moe for this: Rosanne Cash backed by John Munson, Janey Winterbauer and more. Sandra Bernhard and John Moe provide background amazement in the occasional shot.
“Catching up with a so-called one-hit-wonder band 29 years down the line is a little like checking in on a former beauty-pageant winner or somebody who got kicked by the president…” – Complete review is here.
Every conversation about music by everyone over the age of 25 goes like this. “I’m with Peter Stampfel. I’d say that “Pop Music” [in the post-Beatles sense] peaked in 1966. Though I think it [and commercial radio] did enjoy a glorious last hurrah in 1984!” – Tom Kipp .
Diamond Life. I’m still bemused by the take up on UK artists in the US, to the point of having to ask friends like East Portland Blog to tell me what’s famous “over there”, and then even more bemused to find you’re all down with Jessie J (as well you might be) but have scant …
Love the unusual texture of this tune. Caution: Frequent Obscenities and N-words. If that bothers you, don’t listen.
In my life, Tangled Up in Blue definitely had the early lead, but as I got older the aural suggestions of spontaneity heard on the studio version of Abandoned Love appealed to me more and more until it has finally eclipsed Tangled Up in Blue as fave Dylan jam. And here’s Tangled Up in Blue. …
By the numbers “Run the World ( Girls)” has been viewed 11.5 million times and inspired only 96,000 reviews of which 1/3 were negative. The tea leaves seem to read that Beyonce did not strike deeply into our emotional core with her inspirational vanguard on this one. The video certainly had a good budget, the …
Steve Stav has an excellent interview with musician Thomas Dolby on his website, Intermittent Signals. Stav says this interview is “in the top three” of his most interesting interviews in his 15 year journalistic career. Here are some choice excerpts: Windpower And Floating Cities – An Interview With Thomas Dolby By Steve Stav …My hardcore …
From the Ezra Pound-influenced, capital letter-stingy, and sadly no longer updated, website, Life…in Haiku – News, theology and minutiae…all in a pseudo-haiku form, here is: what is the worst way to lose a game of wiffle ball? one – swing and a miss two – grounding or flying out three – strike out looking And …
Dear London5000, I just posted the video below from the fine British Band, Enter Shikari. It’s one of the hottest vids in the UK right now. Surprisingly, since they seem so young, vital and exciting, there’s very little publicity about them on this side of the pond. Do you have a sentence or two which …
People say Skynyrd was nothing more than a bar band. My favorite rock groups were mostly all bar bands at first, which is why they became so good at playing. “Freebird” is still one of my very favorite songs, as it is pure melodic muscle, great driving lead/rhythm guitars, and a simple, everyman’s lyric, sung …
Not only do the bride and groom play Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” at their wedding reception, they smoke it: The entire wedding had a Beatles theme and bride and groom, Annette Ortiz-Diaz and Dennis Diaz, each play in OC area bands. Together they formed an all-Asian Metallica tribute band called Trapped Under Rice. As reported …
Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for this: The Paris Review has a great interview with Michael Azerrad by Dawn Chan wherein he looks back on his classic 2001 tale of 13 indie bands from 1981-1991, “Our Band Could Be Your Life.” “The most lasting significance of the eighties American indie scene might have been the way …