New Zealand’s 4th most popular musical comedy band, Flight Of The Conchords, have put together a fantastically hilarious mockumentary about their experience at SXSW called A Texan Odyssey. So, if
If you aren’t able to attend Wilco’s five night “bust ’em all out” residency, you’ll still get a chance to listen to one show as it happens. Audio of tonight’s
Over the last few years our neighbors to the North have been exporting some of the most buzzed about bands around. So much has been written about these acts, that I won’t waste your time rattling off a laundry list of them. There is one band though that has been greatly overlooked among the art-rock and indie-pop that we’ve been eating up like plates full of poutine (and coincidently happen to be rather huge in their native land) – Sam Roberts Band.
Despite the rather mundane moniker the band has been nominated for multiple Juno awards – Canada’ version of the Grammy’s – for their last two albums; raking in a trifecta of them in 2004 for Artist, Album and Rock Album of the year for their major label debut We Were Born In A Flame. While I would normally avoid most things that resemble a radio-friendly mainstream rock band, it’s really hard to not like these guys. So don’t be a hoser and read on eh…
A little over a year ago longtime HT contributor DaveO and I were brainstorming column ideas, when he uttered the words “Cover Wars.” Pushed for details Dave suggested that we layout some basic facts for two or three different cover versions of the same song, and let the readers judge which version is better.
Considering our slogan used to be “my band can beat up your band,” we thought it was a fitting column. The time has finally come for the first edition of Cover Wars. Listen to all three versions of the “sequence,” read Dave’s notes and then cast your vote for the best of the batch. Take it away, Dave…
B-Side? Medley? Let’s just call it the Abbey Road “Sequence,” as that’s what the great folks over at “rec.music.beatles” have come up with. Speaking of RMB, it’s a great resource for all things Beatles.
Instead of writing a history of the album’s B-Side, I will direct you to two pieces that tell the tale of The Beatles’ true final album. First, the RMB article that goes into many details regarding the musical composition of the sequence. Second, the wikipedia entry for Abbey Road where you can learn such fun facts such You Never Give Me Your Money was written in part about The Beatles financial problems with Apple, or how Golden Slumbers is musically based on a Thomas Dekker piece from the 17th-century with the same name.
Read on for DaveO’s notes on the three versions, and to cast your vote for who does it best…
HT Contributor Eliot Glazer has tremendously terrible taste in music. But he makes everything sound so damn appealing, so we allow him this soapbox… On October 31, 2007, I felt
Pictures by Bob Lange of The New York Dolls, We Are The Fury and Rude & the Rekkless at Rams Head Live, Baltimore, MD 2/12/08
I’m going to take you back a bit. Not back when Steve Earle was a guitar town hero in Nashville, hung up on heroin, behind bars, or even “just another country-rock artist.” I’m going to take you back when I first heard a Steve Earle song.
Hot on the heels of 2006’s profound and critically acclaimed solo journey From A Late Night High-Rise, ambient folk/rocker Matthew Ryan enjoys the company of longtime band Vs The Silver
It’s hard to imagine anyone not getting sucked into Vampire Weekend’s whole-hearted goodness, and in fact, I’d be concerned about anyone who didn’t. Hype may be one thing, but it’s hard to argue with a solid record that guarantees a good time with every spin.
Doughty knows what he’s best at and that propensity makes Golden Delicious comfort food for those that like their lyrics and melody on the quirky side.
