New Music!

[Gazoo]

If fans got last years remasters, why release these??  ('Cause they'll sell too)
Beatles’ original 1973 compilations, 1962-1966 (‘Red’) and 1967-1970 (‘Blue’) have been remastered for CD release Oct 19.  Both 2CD packages include expanded booklets with original liner notes, newly written essays and rare photos: http://beatles.com/#/news

The "Blue" comp was the cassette my uncle Mike bought me for my fifth birthday.  That was that starting moment for my lifelong Beatles fanhood, for which I am ever grateful.  I still have that cassette, if not anything to play it on.

[sundaygal]

Ooh.  This is a gorgeous cover by The Raveonettes of I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv_rQ2c3Fa8

[RGMike]

Just heard a song called "Home (is Wherever I'm With You)" by Edward Sharp (?) on The Peak -- me likey. Have not heard it on KFOG but it would sure be an improvement on the usual Airborne Snow Playtrol stuff.

[RGMike]

Quite old but NTM: "This World Today is a Mess" a killer track by a woman named Donna Hightower, apparenly a cult fave (beloved in Europe) from the '50s & '60s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptOL1L4LGKI

http://schuon25-xi.blogspot.com/2007/05/donna-hightower.html

[radical347]

Just heard a song called "Home (is Wherever I'm With You)" by Edward Sharp (?) on The Peak -- me likey. Have not heard it on KFOG but it would sure be an improvement on the usual Airborne Snow Playtrol stuff.

Kelly has been playing this on the side show for the past few months.  Ok in small doses, but could see this getting way old if I was subject to it more than once a week.

[Gazoo]

Just heard a song called "Home (is Wherever I'm With You)" by Edward Sharp (?)

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.  Listening to it now - yeah, fun in small doses.

The new Usher is surprisingly earwormy for me: "Hot Tottie" (his misspelling of "hot toddy").

[Gazoo]

First, some fantastic new music that reminds me more than a bit of Fastball: Fitz & the Tantrums (cute name, heh), "Breakin' the Chains of Love":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIEIOJdi5I

Heard it on Nic Harcourt's latest podcast, all fab stuff, which you can hear on demand at http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/sc .

And now some old stuff newly reissued: Rhino gives us the best Head yet!  The Monkees' film gets the Blu-ray multidisc treatment.  Product at http://www.rhino.com/shop/product/the-monkees-head-deluxe-edition-handmade .  Micky discusses it: http://www.rhino.com/article/interview-the-monkees-micky-dolenz?eml=rn/092010/mickyvideo

[Tinka Cat]

Heard it on Nic Harcourt's latest podcast, all fab stuff, which you can hear on demand at http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/sc .

yes!  I used to listen to his KCRW show stream quite a bit, "Morning Becomes Eclectic" -- lots of interesting things there.

[RGMike]

not new, but NTM: the TSU Toronadoes, who played on Archie Bell's "Tighten up", doing their own "Getting the corners"  -- similarities not coincidental.

http://bluebeatinmysoul.blogspot.com/2010/07/tsu-tornadoes-getting-corners-what-good.html

[RGMike]

Miss Rubina Flake is working on an album of Beatle covers:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/roberta-flack-meets-a-big-yellow-taxi/

[Gazoo]

Miss Rubina Flake is working on an album of Beatle covers:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/roberta-flack-meets-a-big-yellow-taxi/

Promising - and I wonder if she chats with neighbor Yoko about the project.  But why "Yesterday"?  It's been done more than 2,500 times by this point; what more can really be brought to it?  I'm hoping for: "Carry That Weight," "For No One," and of course "Let It Be."

[Gazoo]

not new, but NTM: the TSU Toronadoes, who played on Archie Bell's "Tighten up", doing their own "Getting the corners"  -- similarities not coincidental.

http://bluebeatinmysoul.blogspot.com/2010/07/tsu-tornadoes-getting-corners-what-good.html

Y'know, it would be really phenomenal if someone could collect all the great music blogs out there and cobble an ad hoc encyclopedia around them.  In essence, Wikipedia meets All Music Guide.  (As to why we'd want such a thing: Wikipedia is facts; AMG is one person's critique with the record buyer/collector in mind.  This would be an assembly of essays.)  It'd be freely accessed under Creative Commons license and become a relatively authoritative contribution to the Alexandrian library of pop culture.

Just a thought.

[urth]

On my way home tonight I was listening to KBOO, our local community station, and heard a generous selection of tracks from Wake Up!, the new record from The Roots with John Legend. Lemme tellya, it sounds effin' great. It was inspired by Obama's 2008 campaign, and is a bunch of '70s politically-themed soul covers selected by Legend and ?uestlove of the Roots. Includes an incendiary version of Compared to What, as well as Wake Up Everybody (paging Alicat!), Donny Hathaway's Little Ghetto Boy, and Marvin Gaye's Wholly Holy to name just a few. I gotta go into Portland on Friday for a few errands, and I think I gotta get into Music Millennium and grab a copy.

http://www.theroots.com/tracks

[RGMike]

On my way home tonight I was listening to KBOO, our local community station

I bet their Halloween programming is AWESOME! 

[urth]

On my way home tonight I was listening to KBOO, our local community station, and heard a generous selection of tracks from Wake Up!, the new record from The Roots with John Legend. Lemme tellya, it sounds effin' great. It was inspired by Obama's 2008 campaign, and is a bunch of '70s politically-themed soul covers selected by Legend and ?uestlove of the Roots. Includes an incendiary version of Compared to What, as well as Wake Up Everybody (paging Alicat!), Donny Hathaway's Little Ghetto Boy, and Marvin Gaye's Wholly Holy to name just a few. I gotta go into Portland on Friday for a few errands, and I think I gotta get into Music Millennium and grab a copy.

http://www.theroots.com/tracks

So I did pick this up today, and it's as good as I'd hoped. So far I think my fave track isn't one of the ones mentioned above, but rather a lengthy (nearly 12 minute) cover of Bill Withers' I Can't Write Left-Handed. Exceedingly great.