Ryan Adams showed up on Live… on Jools Holland to perform Lucky Now. Check it out below, followed by Adams’ trick-or-treat “Night Sweats” promo-video (for his new album “Ashes and Fire”) featuring mega metal allusions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcG1PbHvtEs

We recently shared Kathleen Edwards‘ new songs, Change the Sheets and Wapusk, from her forthcoming album, “Voyageur.“ Voyageur was co-produced by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon.  Comes now the new song, Sidecar (via TLOBF).

Check Sidecar out below (while we wonder what that  pooch is doing in our spot above).  We’re hearing quite a departure from her beloved Americana strum (and drang).

Kathleen Edwards – Sidecar by Kathleen Edwards

Catch Kathleen Edwards on tour with Bon Iver on the following European dates:

October
26 –  Utrecht, Netherlands – MCV
27 – Brussels, Belgium – AB
29 – Paris, France – La Grande Halle de La Villette (Pitchfork Music Festival Paris)
30 – Cologne, Germany – E-Werk

November
01 – Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle
03 – Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene
04 – Stockholm, Sweden – Globen Annexet
05 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Falkoner
06 – Hamburg, Germany – Docks
09 – Leeds, England – O2 Academy
11 – Bristol, England – Colston Hall

We’re still reveling in the memories of Sunday night’s Paul Simon concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl.  Check out the only videos/audios we can currently find below.

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hym1afFEy5M&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Kodachrome

Sounds of Silence (good audio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gklGYQXVjFs

Slip Slidin’ Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmF1BnIu6aU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Here Comes the Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx2epKddx20&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Still Crazy After All These Years (including great, SNL-esque sax solo beginning at 2:41)

Beirut showed up on the Jimmy Fallon Show last night to perform their song, Santa Fe, off of their new album, The Rip Tide.  Check it out below courtesy of the Audio Perv.

We’ll write more later about the preternatural Paul Simon and his (and his phenomenal 9-piece band’s) powerful show at the Santa Barbara Bowl last night.  We can tell you (based on a straw poll) that the highlight for many was Simon’s acoustic covering of George Harrison’s, Here Comes the Sun. It was pitch and picture perfect.  At the end of the song, Simon looked to the heavens and voiced thanks to George (Harrison).

Check out last night’s rendering of Here Comes the Sun below (courtesy of Tad Wagner), followed by the show’s setlist.  Other massive highlights for us were Sounds of Silence, Peace Like A River, Hearts and Bones, and The Only Living Boy in New York.

Paul Simon–Here Comes the Sun (George Harrison cover)

Photos by Lefort

Setlist:

1. The Boy in the Bubble
2. Dazzling Blue
3. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
4. So Beautiful or So What
5. Mother and Child Reunion
6. That Was Your Mother
7. Hearts and Bones
8. Mystery Train
   (Junior Parker/Elvis cover) (segued into “Wheels”)
9. Wheels
   (Chet Atkins cover)
10. Slip Slidin’ Away
11. Rewrite
12. Peace Like a River
13. The Obvious Child
14. The Only Living Boy in New York
    (Simon & Garfunkel song)
15. Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
16. My Little Town
17. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
18. Gumboots
19. Encore:
20. The Sound of Silence
21. Kodachrome
22. Gone at Last
23. Here Comes the Sun
24. Crazy Love, Vol. II
25. Late in the Evening
26. Encore 2:
27. Graceland
28. Pretty Thing
    (Bo Diddley cover) (Sung by Jim Oblon (drummer)
29. Still Crazy After All These Years

In case you missed Austin City Limits this past Saturday, ACL is graciously streaming their show with The Decemberists and Gillian Welch (David Rawlings compris).  Check it out in its entirety below.

Watch The Decemberists / Gillian Welch on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits.

At the Bridge School Benefit Concert, Eddie Vedder invited the charming Regine Chassagne (Arcade Fire) out to sing the beloved chestnut Tonight You Belong to Me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyLQzWIP4Y4&feature=related

And then Beck (get back to your production duties!) joined for the Bryants’ (Boudeleaux and Felice) great  Sleepless Nights (if you like it, best covered by Gram Parsons in our ever-so-humble opinion).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX27xmD9sQU&feature=related

And finally Eddie covered Neil Young’s stupendous Don’t Cry No Tears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCwSdiP7GY4&feature=related

At the Bridge School Benefit Concert this past Saturday, Neil Young came out with Mumford & Sons to perform one of the Mumfords’ favorites of Young’s, Dance, Dance, Dance.  Great to see this great band humbled by greatness.  Mumfords are the perfect band for the spirit of the Bridge School Benefit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvCQ4s_Qo0A

And then below is Mumford & Sons performing Awake My Soul with additional female fiddle accompaniment from Sarah Neufield and Marika Shaw of Arcade Fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dZ2wYmOnsQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Check out Arcade Fire’s set at last night’s Bridge School Benefit Concert below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmLhL1s_jnU&feature=related

In case you missed it, for today only (Sunday) you can replay yesterday’s Bridge School Benefit Concert webcast below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az_13d5ss7U&feature=channel_video_title