Browsing the archives for the music category
Share Thom Yorke & Flea (and two others) In A Band That Sounds Nothing Like Radiohead Or The Chili Peppers My wife is a bit of a Radiohead fan. She’s particularly enamoured of Jonny Greenwood, but her love extends to Thom Yorke and his new band, Atoms For Peace. I really love this song, Ingenue, [...]
Share Radiohead Live From The Basement Because We Separate Like Ripples On A Blank Shore (In Rainbows) There are few bands that have grown and matured as well as Radiohead. It’s been 20 years since Creep, and almost every album they’ve released has been a new direction, and sound. Kid A is mindblowing still, 13 [...]
ShareOctober 25, 2012 La Trabendo Club The Rolling Stones are back, and they seem to be pulling it off. The Stones have been around for 50 years. Can you believe that? Goddamn. I’ve posted some awesome live Stones video before, if you recall. Mick, Keith, Charlie, and Ronnie, are performing a small handful of giant [...]
ShareYoung Artist On The Rise You Heard It Here First I like this. Take listen and see if you like too. Simple as that. Adrian “Grizzly” Hickerson makes really interesting beats. Love him. Make him your god.
Share John Paul Jones Completely Dismisses Reporter At Led Zeppelin Celebration Day Press Conference at MoMA in NYC Led Zeppelin is in New York City today, to receive Kennedy Center Honors, from President Obama (time makes everyone respectable) and to promote their upcoming movie, Celebration Day. Today (October 9, 2012) at the press conference held [...]
ShareLive on Le Reservoir 2003 Thom Yorke Solo Piano This entire show is spectacular. Radiohead were invited to appear on Le Reservoir (French music program) but there wasn’t enough room on the tiny stage to accommodate everyone, so Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood decided to play as a duo. They retooled all the songs to [...]
ShareFriday, Sept. 21, 2012 London. Page, Plant, Jones Good stuff, Maynard. Led Zeppelin’s surviving members sat together for a press conference promoting their upcoming release, Celebration Day. There were no alarms an no surprises, but it was nice to see them together again, for likely the last time. The takeaway from the event was, it’s [...]
ShareCelebration Day Theaters In October, DVD/Blu-Ray In November Led Zeppelin are finally releasing their amazing 2007 reunion show, and it’s about goddamn time. This project was ready to go a year ago, but the boys couldn’t agree about releasing it. It’s ok though, because it’s going to be awesome. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul [...]
Share Radiohead Is One Of The Greatest Bands Ever Jonny Greenwood Is The New George Martin This video is incredible. Radiohead can be so fucking complex that it would take fifteen King Crimsons and a Rush to match the effortless complexity of most of The King Of Limbs (their newest album, which until recently I [...]
ShareLast Po’ Man July 29, 2012 I took a look at TBL.com this week, the same fellow who wrote Feather In The Wind, to catch up on Led Zeppelin related news. As usual Robert Plant and John Paul Jones have been doing cool shit all over the place, and Jimmy Page got his picture taken [...]
ShareRemember This? Pink Floyd Played Wonderfully In 2005, Pink Floyd played together, for the last time, at Live 8. After 20+ years of bitter recrimination, Roger Waters joins the rest of the boys onstage. And it was great. Roger’s voice sucked, but it was a great set. When they did Comfortably Numb, everybody in the [...]
ShareYou Forget So Easy Radiohead Live In Poland 2009 I really like Radiohead. I don’t listen to them 10,000 times a day (in fact 4 years ago I wrote about how I wished I liked Radiohead more), but my wife does, and for good reason. They’re one of the best bands around. Jonny Greenwood is [...]
ShareNotorious BIG Es Muy Bueno I grew up in New Hampshire, in the 80′s. Rap didn’t permeate the hard rock bubble of Boston Metro, probably because the most ethnic group we had were the French Canadians. They spoke differently and we mocked them ceaselessly. Anyway, I didn’t listen to the blacks growing up, therefore this [...]
ShareAleks Bakman Is A God Of Overkill Holy Shit. This Thing Is Sexy Someone posted a link to One Degree Of Freedom’s amazing, gorgeous, insansely priced, audiophile turntable, on one of my Zeppelin groups today. Oh My God. From the cheesiness, and amateur nature nature of the site design, I 100% believe in the awesomeness [...]
ShareNow & Again I Still Wonder To Myself Was It Her Sweet Love, Or The Way That She Could Sing? This is one of my favorite songs in the world. Bessie Smith by The Band. It’s provenance is murky (as written of in this blog). Levon Helm (rest in peace) doesn’t sing it, but he [...]
ShareBad Week For Rock And Roll [UPDATE: Levon Helm Has Died. Rest In Peace. 4/19/11.] One of the most iconic voices in rock, Levon Helm, the drummer for The Band, is dying of terminal cancer. He’s the voice that “Pulled into Nazareth, feeling bout half past dead”. He’s the voice that Drove Old Dixie Down. [...]
ShareSwan Song Artist “British Janis Joplin” Led Zeppelin was not unique in having their own record label (Swan Song) during their heyday. Where they were different from most other vanity labels, is in the success of their other artists (Bad Company, Dave Edmunds, The Pretty Things). Before the drugs took over, Peter Grant and Jimmy [...]
ShareZef is the Dubstep of 2012 And Die Antwoord Is 2012′s Skrillex All the hipsters in Portland are ga-ga over Die Antwoord. They’re a group from South Africa, and they’ve got charm for your ears. They look stupid but the songs stick in your head. My friend Mike turned me on to Die Antwoord a [...]
ShareThis song is great. It’s wonderful. It stands on its own. Robert Plant may have been a bit strident with his “Led what?” bullshit of his early solo career, but that’s because he had an honest solo career for years before he gave in and starting squeezing lemons again (lighten up, baby. I’m in love [...]
Share12/31/82 Oakland Coliseum In honor of Miss Etta’s passing, I present you with one of the neatest little surprises I’ve found. On New Year’s Eve 1982, the Grateful Dead (a pop music combo) played a gig in the land of Bill Graham. Apparently, from the comments I read in myriad (more than you would think) [...]
