If you liked the official Live From the Keystone albums, do yourself a favor and pick this one up.
In the beginning stages of a lengthy three-month tour that stretches from Toronto to Australia, Oberst and his band took the stage following openers Coco Rosie and Tilly and the Wall. Representing his great record label, Saddle Creek, and backed by a six-person band of relatively fresh faced musicians, Bright Eyes appeared as a band of “gifted kids.”
Wilco, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Hot Heat and Interpol are among the artists that have contributed rare or previously unreleased tracks to a double-disc compilation that will raise funds for Asian tsunami relief.
The 26-track set sprang from a partnership with Filter magazine and Urban Outfitters, which will on Feb. 28 begin exclusively selling the album at its retail outlets and Web site. The UNICEF Tsunami Relief Fund will receive 100% of the proceeds from sales of the collection.
Among the notable inclusions here are Interpol’s “Slow Hands” remixed by Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Franz Ferdinand’s “Matinee” remixed by Headman and previously unreleased tracks from Hot Hot Heat (“Apt. 101”), Rilo Kiley (“American Wife”), Clinic (“Fingers”) and Earlimart (“Lullaby”).
Live tracks have been turned in by Wilco (“Jesus, Etc.”), My Morning Jacket (“The Bear”), the Futureheads (“Piece of Crap”) and French Kicks (“The Trial of the Century”), while the Queens Of The Stone Age track “Hangin’ Tree” is presented in an early version recorded as part of the Desert Sessions series.
In related news, Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard will join with Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painter leader Mark Kozelek, Jonathan Richman and Crooked Fingers’ Eric Bachmann tomorrow (Jan. 28) for a tsunami relief benefit at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall.
Here is the track list for the Urban Outfitters CD:
Disc one:
“Love Song,” Death Cab For Cutie
“Slow Hands” (Britt Daniel mix), Interpol
“We Are Nowhere and It’s Now,” Bright Eyes
“Hangin’ Tree,” Desert Sessions 7/8
“Jesus, Etc.” (live), Wilco
“Apt. 101,” Hot Hot Heat
“The Trial of the Century” (live), French Kicks
“Piece of Crap” (live), Futureheads
“The Bear” (live), My Morning Jacket
“Heaviest Heart,” Magnet
“American Wife,” Rilo Kiley
“Fugitive Motel” (RDJ2 mix), Elbow
“Fingers,” Clinic
“In a Funny Way,” Mercury Rev
Disc two:
“Matinee” (Headman remix), Franz Ferdinand
“Huddle Formation” (radio session), the Go! Team
“Nacher Anthem,” Grandaddy
“Take My Temperature,” Kaiser Chiefs
“Lullaby,” Earlimart
“I Disappear,” the Faint
“Barnowl,” Caribou
“Lost at Sea” (remix), Eisley
“Everyday,” Dios
“Isabel,” Juana Molina
“The Song the Sinner Sings,” Adam Arcuragi
“A Guitar and a Heart,” M83
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Classic rock trio Cream is reuniting for a four-show run at London’s Royal Albert Hall this spring. The May 2-3, 5-6 shows will constitute guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker’s first on-stage appearances together since Cream’s 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Tickets for the run will go on sale Monday (Jan. 31). Cream’s final shows were held at Albert Hall in 1968.
“Live, Cream was a great, hardworking band — Eric was supreme and Ginger the most musical drummer alive — and those original live albums were very good, probably the best records of their kind up to that point,” Bruce told Billboard in 1997, prior to the release of the boxed set “Those Were the Days.” “But our studio recordings were probably more important, although there you can tell that each one of us had a different idea of what Cream should be.”
Clapton is up for two Grammys at the 47th annual ceremony on Feb. 13: best traditional blues album for his Duck/Reprise set “Me and Mr. Johnson,” and best pop collaboration with vocals for his rendition of the Beatles’ “Something” with Paul McCartney, released on the live album “Concert for George.”
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Ryan Adams, ever the prolific singer-songwriter is on tap to release three new records in 2005. Produced by Thomas Schick and co-produced by and engineered by Thomas Gloady, Cold Roses is scheduled to be released on April 19th. Jacksonville, another album produced by Schick and Gloady is scheduled for release in 2005 as well. And 29, produced by Ethan Johns ( Kings Of Leon, Ray LaMontagne) will be released later in 2005. North American & European tour dates in spring, summer and fall.
Visit ryanadams.com for more information.
Although Phish is only a memory, group members Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon have signed on for separate appearances at the fourth Bonnaroo festival, to be held June 10-12 in Manchester, Tenn. Anastasio and his solo band will perform what is billed as a “very special late night show” on a date to be announced, while Gordon will play a set with New York improvisational act the Benevento/Russo Duo.
Other newly confirmed additions to the Bonnaroo lineup are Mouse On Mars, Tea Leaf Green and the Old Crow Medicine Show. Organizers promise additional “major acts” to be added in the weeks ahead.
The Dave Matthews Band, Modest Mouse, Joss Stone, Toots and the Maytals, the Allman Brothers Band and Gov’t Mule lead the list of previously announced performers for Bonnaroo, tickets for which go on-sale tomorrow (Jan. 29) via the event’s official Web site.
This year’s on-sale is a month earlier than the three previous years, which organizers say is a reaction to market conditions. “We felt this would be a year to get out there early,” says Jonathan Mayers of promoter Superfly Presents.
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Legendary rock drummer Jim Capaldi died today (Jan. 28) after a brief fight with stomach cancer, his publicist said.
The 60-year-old Capaldi, born in England of Italian immigrant parents, died in his sleep at the London Clinic in the early hours with his wife and family at his bedside.
Capaldi, whose driving rock rhythms and songwriting ability helped make groundbreaking band Traffic a household name in the 1960s and ’70s with — among others — Steve Winwood and Dave Mason — also had an illustrious solo career.
“Steve rang me when he heard this morning. He is very upset. They were very close and had plans to record and tour again. He was praying Jim would recover from his illness,” Winwood’s manager Mick Newton said.
Capaldi was inducted with Traffic last spring into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, just five months before being diagnosed with terminal cancer. A reunion tour was in the works but was scotched last August due to Capaldi suffering what at the time was described only as a “severe gastric ulcer.”
When Traffic finally broke up in 1974 after releasing 11 albums, Capaldi busied himself with solo projects. Traffic eventually reformed to tour in 1993-94, and Capaldi toured in 1998 with fellow band founder Mason.
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