Videos
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band at the Cabot, December 2nd 2024
I’ve long been a fan of Preservation Hall – a New Orleans institution dedicated to protect, preserve, and perpetuate traditional jazz. The full Preservation Hall Jazz Band is some 60 members strong, currently, but this sextet is out touring a Creole Christmas celebration. (upcoming dates). Left to right, that’s Clint Maedgen on saxophone and vocals…
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David Byrne, American Utopia – can’t wait
David Byrne, American Utopia – can’t wait
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Laura Marling Covers Dylan
(via Paste)
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Steve Martin & Edie Brickell “Won’t Go Back”
Loved their last collaboration – looking forward to the release of So Familiar. Official Store Amazon
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Daft Labeouf
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Joseph Arthur at the Me & Thee
It was great to see Joseph Arthur at our little local coffeehouse, the Me & Thee.
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Androgynous
(via Stereogum) And they love each other so, closer than you know . . .
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Love Love Love Love Love
(via Stereogum) New track from the Violent Femmes’ upcoming Happy New Year EP, due out on Record Store Day (4/18).
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Laura Marling – Strange
(via Stereogum) Stereogum shared this video (which they found via DIY) of Marling doing another new tune from her upcoming album Short Movie. Other tunes previously previewed (also discovered via Stereogum): and
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FourFiveSeconds
(via everywhere) Rihanna, Kanye West, and Sir Paul McCartney – first single from Rihannah’s new album. What is Sir Paul doing here? As Cuepoint’s DJ Louie XIV put it, it looks like: Paul McCartney, the founder of modern music as we know it, is now thrilled just to be the guitar player in Rihanna’s band.
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Talking Heads at the Capitol Theatre 1980
(Via Aquarium Drunkard) – Talking Heads live in New Jersey in 1980. Also from Aquarium Drunkard – Talking Heads Live in Rome 1980:
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Colin Meloy “Carolina Low” Live at WFUV
Colin Meloy “Carolina Low” Live at WFUV
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José González Covering TLC’s “Waterfalls”
(via Stereogum via Pitchfork) Love it – there’s also a cover of John Lennon’s “Woman” from later in the show, starting at 51:05:
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New Mary Gauthier
My wife and I were just talking the other day about it being time for some new music from Mary Gauthier, and today I got an email that she announced her new album, Trouble and Love, due out in May, and included this video of her performing one of the songs from it. The audio…
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Best Cover Songs of 2013
Paste today put out their list of the 15 best cover songs of 2013. It’s got some of the expected items – Fiona Apple’s “Pure Imagination” from the creepy chipotle ad, for example – but also a few I really dug: The first is Iron & Wine, Glen Hansard, Kathleen Edwards, and Calexico doing The…
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Elvis Costello Friday
Two quick Elvis Costello videos. First a9bove), the lead single from the upcoming album in collaboration with The Roots, “Will You Walk Us Uptown”: Second, a video from the ONE project, Elvis Costello with Mumford & Sons, doing Bruce Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad “(with a bit of Woody Guthrie’s “Do-Re-Mi” thrown in for…
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Chucklehead Farewell Show, Mama Kins, November 1997
Fantastic video, with remastered audio, of the Chucklehead Farewell show at Mama Kin, in November 1997 (above). Video cuts out in the middle for ~30 minutes but it’s well worth watching all the way through. (New version posted which doesn’t cut out). If you just want audio, check out the Board Tapes list on Chucklehead.com…
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David Byrne & Jherek Bischoff – “Eyes” Video
Via Stereogum Earlier this year, composer and member of Amanda Palmer’s Grand Theft Orchestra Jherek Bischoff released a massive orchestral album Composed, featuring guest appearances from David Byrne, Tropicalía luminary Caetano Veloso, and others. Byrne’s cut, “Eyes” is a sweeping strings soundscape punctuated with a modern take on 1950s pop. The video is filled with…