It’s another good musical week for the Biography Channel which will air several musical profiles this week including an extended two-hour program dedicated to Frank Sinatra airing Thursday, August 6
This week we’ve got arguably the first love song that The Talking Heads ever recorded. This track was originally released on the 1983 album Speaking In Tongues. Click here to view the video of this song from Stop Making Sense.
Did you know that the studio recording of this tune had members of the band not playing their primary instruments? It was: Jerry Harrison (bass), Tina Weymouth (guitar), and David Byrne (keyboards).
The Contestants:
The Arcade Fire: Arcade Fire have the advantage of being the only band this week that has performed this song with David Byrne. That performance from New York City, was released on vinyl as the B-Side to the Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) single promoting the band’s 2004 album Funeral. Source: Neighborhood #3 Vinyl Single
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/arcadenaive.mp3]And some video of the band performing the song by themselves:
READ ON for the rest of this week’s Cover Wars contestants…
Alejandro Jodorowsky is many strange things to many outraged people, so it makes sense that clarity of purpose doesn’t appear to rank high on his artistic agenda. And that’s the hook right there. With the advent of this third season, 3.0 if you like, we drift away from the essence of what is known, and move further towards a more obscure angle—if that is actually possible when one is trying to focus on a rational discussion of film.
Well, that was all hoity toity and the usual heaping of pretension mixed in with foggy dissonance, but what does it mean? Indeed. What does anything mean? As we head out on a third voyage into the Great Cinematic Unknown with more than a little bit of tongue in cheek, and a heady nod towards experimental versus populist films, the nail on the head in this discussion becomes obvious, especially in light of this week’s Hidden Flick.
Before tripping on to the path of Jodorowsky’s scandalous The Holy Mountain,
READ ON for more on this week’s Hidden Flick…
In an effort to keep his vocal pipes in top working condition between tours with The Who, the band’s charismatic front man, Roger Daltrey, will head out for 29 city
Phish performing the second show of a four night run at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO on July 31, 2009.
Back in 1985, I bought JFA's Live 1984 Tour LP. It's energy was as unbounded as the possibilities of my new found favorite genre and it quickly found itself in steady rotation on my turntable. Nearly a quarter century later, a new piece of live JFA vinyl is spinning in my basement and it's hard to believe that it still has much of that same thrashy skate punk energy.
Tiny Engines is a brand new label, but they already have a second fantastic 7" under their belts.
This year’s Garcia Birthday Edition of Stormy Mondays is the tail end of a widely circulated JGB late show from March of 1978 – a real classic. We pick up
It seems sort of easy to take indie-rock Godfathers Yo La Tengo for granted when you live in and around the band’s home base of Hoboken, NJ. The husband and
