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Joanna Newsom on Austin City Limits Tonight
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Uniquely gifted chamber-poppy singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joanna Newsom can be seen on tonight’s PBS’ Austin City Limits broadcast. If you need an introduction to Newsom, you can read our review of her phenomenal concert at the Lobero Theater in 2010 HERE. You can also get to the ACL info at the link HERE. Never mind that other act on the show (bunch o’ Fleet Fokkers–J. Tillman’s departure announced today is just the beginning of the rats leaving the shite ship). Newsom’s songs are so dense, long and involved that she only manages the following three otherworldly songs in the episode: a cover of the Decemberists’ Bridges and Balloons (heard below), Have One on Me, and Good Intentions Paving Company. Hang in and pay attention–you won’t be disappointed. Check out a preview of the show below.
Joanna Newsom “Bridges and Balloons” from Austin City Limits on Vimeo.
Jan
The Avett Brothers Cover Bob Dylan for Amnesty International on Jimmy Fallon
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The Avett Brothers showed up on Jimmy Fallon last night and covered Bob Dylan’s One Too Many Mornings. The song is off of the upcoming album Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International. Check out more details on the album and stream it HERE (it’s gonna be good–K’NAAN covering With God On Our Side?? Check out the songlist after the video below–there’s something for everybody). And then watch the Avetts below while we eagerly await the 2012 release of their next Rick Rubin-produced album.
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International:
Disc 1
01. Raphael Saadiq – Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
02. Patti Smith – Drifter’s Escape
03. Rise Against – Ballad of Hollis Brown
04. Tom Morello The Nightwatchman – Blind Willie McTell
05. Pete Townshend – Corrina, Corrina
06. Bettye LaVette – Most of the Time
07. Charlie Winston – This Wheel’s On Fire
08. Diana Krall – Simple Twist of Fate
09. Brett Dennen – You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
10. Mariachi El Bronx – Love Sick
11. Ziggy Marley – Blowin’ in the Wind
12. The Gaslight Anthem – Changing of the Guards
13. Silversun Pickups – Not Dark Yet
14. My Morning Jacket – You’re A Big Girl Now
15. The Airborne Toxic Event – Boots of Spanish Leather
16. Sting – Girl from the North Country
17. Mark Knopfler – Restless Farewell
Disc 2
01. Queens Of The Stone Age – Outlaw Blues
02. Lenny Kravitz – Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35
03. Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli – One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
04. Blake Mills – Heart Of Mine
05. Miley Cyrus – You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
06. Billy Bragg – Lay Down Your Weary Tune
07. Elvis Costello – License to Kill
08. Angelique Kidjo – Lay, Lady, Lay
09. Natasha Bedingfield – Ring Them Bells
10. Jackson Browne – Love Minus Zero/No Limit
11. Joan Baez – Seven Curses (Live)
12. The Belle Brigade – No Time To Think
13. Sugarland – Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You (Live)
14. Jack’s Mannequin – Mr. Tambourine Man
15. Oren Lavie – 4th Time Around
16. Sussan Deyhim – All I Really Want To Do
17. Adele – Make You Feel My Love (Recorded Live at WXPN)
Disc 3
01. K’NAAN – With God On Our Side
02. Ximena Sariñana – I Want You
03. Neil Finn with Pajama Club – She Belongs to Me
04. Bryan Ferry – Bob Dylan’s Dream
05. Zee Avi – Tomorrow Is A Long Time
06. Carly Simon – Just Like a Woman
07. Flogging Molly – The Times They Are A-Changin’
08. Fistful Of Mercy – Buckets Of Rain
09. Joe Perry – Man Of Peace
10. Bad Religion – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
11. My Chemical Romance – Desolation Row (Live)
12. RedOne featuring Nabil Khayat – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
13. Paul Rodgers & Nils Lofgren – Abandoned Love
14. Darren Criss featuring Chuck Criss and Freelance Whales – New Morning
15. Cage the Elephant – The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
16. Band of Skulls – It Ain’t Me, Babe
17. Sinéad O’Connor – Property of Jesus
18. Ed Roland and The Sweet Tea Project – Shelter From The Storm
19. Ke$ha – Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
20. Kronos Quartet – Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Disc 4
01. Maroon 5 – I Shall Be Released
02. Carolina Chocolate Drops – Political World
03. Seal & Jeff Beck – Like A Rolling Stone
04. Taj Mahal – Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
05. Dierks Bentley – Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) (Live)
06. Mick Hucknall – One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
07. Thea Gilmore – I’ll Remember You
08. State Radio – John Brown
09. Dave Matthews Band – All Along the Watchtower (Live)
10. Michael Franti – Subterranean Homesick Blues
11. We Are Augustines – Mama, You Been On My Mind
12. Lucinda Williams – Tryin’ To Get To Heaven
13. Kris Kristofferson – Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
14. Eric Burdon – Gotta Serve Somebody
15. Evan Rachel Wood – I’d Have You Anytime
16. Marianne Faithfull – Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Live)
17. Pete Seeger – Forever Young
18. Bob Dylan – Chimes Of Freedom
Jan
More Kathleen Edwards on CBC
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Check out more Kathleen Edwards as she performed Soft Place to Land from her new album ‘Voyageur‘ in CBC’s Studio 211.
Jan
The Head and the Heart–On AllSaints Basement Sessions
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Not to confuse you with more “basement” sessions, but the folks at fine Brit-clothier, AllSaints Spitalfields (they of the signature sewing-machine storefronts as seen above in San Francisco and the videos below), like to further evince their good taste via their “Basement Sessions” recordings of band performances (all of which can be found HERE). AllSaints recently released the performances of Seattle’s The Head and the Heart, which can be viewed below. We don’t know about the new tank-top-brandishing, Freddy Mercury-lookalike look of lead singer, Jon Russell (perhaps AllSaints can provide a makeover), but check out the highly recommended playing and singing of this up-and-coming band.
Check out the band performing Down in the Valley, Ghosts and Sounds Like Hallelujah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h879OlZfwY&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbZM4iJFfVs&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l4KmKfF-XE&feature=relmfu
Jan
Sleepover Shows–Lydia Loveless
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Sleepover Shows recently released a session with up-and-coming singer-songwriter, Lydia Loveless. Loveless’ indie-Americana album, Indestructible Machine, deservedly showed up on a lot of Best of 2011 lists. Check Loveless out below performing her songs Bad Way to Go, Learn to Say No and More Like Them. Not a bad way to go, indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NNFx3a1Gu4&feature=uploademail
Jan
Kathleen Edwards on Letterman Show
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Last night Kathleen Edwards and band performed the first single, Change the Sheets, from her new album Voyageur on the Letterman Show. Check out Edwards’ verve and drive on this song. We’re not sure what’s up with the dueling microphones, but her skyward-looks and foot-stomping intensity are captivating. And Dave is so taken with Edwards that he volunteers to accompany the band on tour as their stylist. Check it out below, courtesy of The Audio Perv.
Jan
Two Door Cinema Club on Studio Q
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Irish band, Two Door Cinema Club, performed their single, Something Good Can Work, from their album, “Tourist History” on CBC’s Studio Q. The boys can sing, and complete with a couple o’ cardigans no less. Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X__IrNQVao&feature=uploademail
Jan
St. Vincent Goes Costello on Conan
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Perhaps in retaliation for Lana Del Rey being selected over her for the music slot on SNL last weekend (yes, it’s a reach, but it’s all we can conjure as explanation), St. Vincent evoked Elvis Costello’s infamous SNL performance on Conan last night. She began Costello’s great Radio Radio before stopping and announcing “I’m sorry ladies and gentleman, there’s no reason to play that song,” and then performing her song Cheerleader. Check it out below courtesy of the Audio Perv.
Jan
Kathleen Edwards Performs “Change the Sheets” on CBC’s Studio 211–Updated
One of our favorite female singer-songwriters, Kathleen Edwards, showed up to play a private show in CBC’s Studio 211. Check out her broadened sound as she performs the lead single, Change The Sheets, from her new album “Voyageur,” which was co-produced by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and released today. Edwards will also perform tonight on the Letterman Show to coincide with Voyageur’s release.
Update: After, check out Edwards and band performing Empty Threat.
Jan
Lana Del Rey on SNL
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You can’t say we haven’t warned you. In only her third live performance setting in America, internet-upstart Lana Del Rey performed on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Check out her performances of Blue Jeans and Video Games below courtesy of the Audio Perv. Time will tell.
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