New Music!

[Gazoo]

Could have gone in the List thread, too: Spinner's Top 25 of 2011 so far:

http://www.spinner.com/2011/06/28/best-songs-of-2011-so-far/

[RGMike]

Could have gone in the List thread, too: Spinner's Top 25 of 2011 so far:

http://www.spinner.com/2011/06/28/best-songs-of-2011-so-far/

glad to see Raphael Saddiq on there; I'm liking that CD, tho' my fave on it is "Movin' Down the Line", a Marvin Gaye hommage.

[RGMike]

NTM and delightful, from an unlikely source: KT Oslin (the '80s "older woman" country artist known for songs like "'Eighties Ladies") apparently teamed up with Raul Malo of the Mavericks about a decade ago and they wrote some songs together (including this one) and he produced as well:  "Live Close By, Visit Often" and ode to no-strings-attached relationships.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1116g83uiE

[Wayback]

Sly Stone will release his long-awaited solo effort, I'm Back! Friends & Family, on August 16.  The 11-track album includes re-recorded versions of many of his influential band's biggest hits plus three previously unreleased tunes and three CD-only bonus mixes, and features guest appearances by classic rock stars and other artists.  Among the release's many contributors are The Doors' Ray Manzarek, Heart's Ann Wilson, Jeff Beck, blues-rock great Johnny Winter and funk legend Bootsy Collins. I'm Back! is Stone's first collection of new material since his 1982 disc, Ain't but the One Way.  The singer has long struggled with drug issues and various other legal troubles. 
The track list for Sly Stone's I'm Back! Friends & Family:
1. "Dance to the Music (featuring Ray Manzarek)
1. "Everyday People" (featuring Ann Wilson)
2. "Family Affair"
3. "Stand!" (featuring Carmine Appice & Ernie Watts)
5. "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" (featuring Johnny Winter)
6. "(I Want to Take You) Higher" (featuring Jeff Beck)
7. "Hot Fun in the Summertime" (featuring Bootsy Collins)
8. "Dance to the Music" (Extended Mix)
9. "Plain Jane"
10. "His Eye Is on the Sparrow"
11. "Get Away"
12. Dance To The Music (Club Mix)(Bonus CD Only)
13. Family Affair (Dubstep Mix)(Bonus CD Only)
14. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Electro Club Mix)(Bonus CD Only)

Copyright 2011 ABC News Radio

[RGMike]

Sly Stone will release his long-awaited solo effort, I'm Back! Friends & Family, on August 16.  The 11-track album includes re-recorded versions of many of his influential band's biggest hits plus three previously unreleased tunes and three CD-only bonus mixes, and features guest appearances by classic rock stars and other artists.  Among the release's many contributors are The Doors' Ray Manzarek, Heart's Ann Wilson, Jeff Beck, blues-rock great Johnny Winter and funk legend Bootsy Collins.

well, at least most of the collabs are with folks who are more-or-less contemporaries of his, so it isn't quite the record-company cash-in project that, say, Santana's have been... but stiil, I gotta say: I'm skeptical about this. He's only written THREE new good songs in 30 years?

[RGMike]

kind of appropriate since AL didn't play Chumbawumba today: TMBG covering "Tubthumping"!

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/06/7026205-best-noon-thing

[ggould]

kind of appropriate since AL didn't play Chumbawumba today: TMBG covering "Tubthumping"!

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/06/7026205-best-noon-thing

like!

[Gazoo]

Sly Stone will release his long-awaited solo effort, I'm Back! Friends & Family, on August 16.  The 11-track album includes re-recorded versions of many of his influential band's biggest hits plus three previously unreleased tunes and three CD-only bonus mixes, and features guest appearances by classic rock stars and other artists.  Among the release's many contributors are The Doors' Ray Manzarek, Heart's Ann Wilson, Jeff Beck, blues-rock great Johnny Winter and funk legend Bootsy Collins.

well, at least most of the collabs are with folks who are more-or-less contemporaries of his, so it isn't quite the record-company cash-in project that, say, Santana's have been... but stiil, I gotta say: I'm skeptical about this. He's only written THREE new good songs in 30 years?

Two, if that; "His Eye Is On the Sparrow" is a traditional, I believe.

That said, having been burned by Sly, I have zero expectations for this.  Betcha the date gets pushed back.

[Tinka Cat]

a few folks on this board would prob dig this MoWest Anthology.

Various Artists
Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown's MoWest Story 1971-1973 [Light in the Attic; 2011]



- just heard this on NPR's All Things Considered:
"The Strange Sound Of Motown's Early Hollywood Years"
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/14/137854223/the-strange-sound-of-motowns-early-hollywood-years

- the release is reviewed on Pitchfork:
http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15514-our-lives-are-shaped-by-what-we-love-motowns-mowest-story-1971-1973/

[RGMike]

I figured *somebody* would do a cover of "Out of Work", but I thought it would be a country guy (Kenny Chesney, you missed an opportunity), not a "beach music" artist doing a note-for-note Gary "US" Bonds imitation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rxhdD5UBk0

[RGMike]

Phineas & Ferb featuring... SLASH??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF_lPMNa9jw

[darryl]

kind of appropriate since AL didn't play Chumbawumba today: TMBG covering "Tubthumping"!

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/06/7026205-best-noon-thing

I find AV Club's Undercover series is a little uneven (since I barely know any of the artists and not even that many of ths songs), but yeah, TMBG + AV staffers kill this one.

And unlike many commenters, I thought the Titus Adronicus's cover of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" was actually interesting, except for the lousy sound mix. Apparently TMBG's John Flansburgh liked it too, hence their offer to do Tubthumping.

Matt Nathanson ("the most mainstream artist ever to grace our round room") does a decent job w/ "Little Red Corvette", I think. I especially liked the guy accompanying him, esp his vocals after the guitar solo. Iron and Wine's coverable of George Michael ain't bad.  I liked Low covering Toto.  Apparently Of Montreal covering The White Stripes' "Fell In Love With A Girl" is supposed to be weird for them. But it sounded like a pretty straight cover to me.

[RGMike]

NTM: OMD meet Ree-Ree.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129830323

[RGMike]

listening to WEHM on Eastern Lawn Guyland -- they just played the new Jayhawks song "She Walks in So Many Ways" -- very nice. Is KFOG spinning it? I'm guessing not but it could just be in light rotation.

The station itself is interesting -- a good example of a Triple-A that (still) covers a wide swath of music, '60s-to-today.

http://www.wehm.com/

ETA: they just played a commercial for AARP auto insurance! Hah!

ETA2: they're playing that new Superheavy song, "Miracle Worker".  Is KFOG playing it?

ETA3: OK, I officially (heart) WEHM... they play Raphael Saddiq. For shame, KFOG!

[RGMike]

NTM but not new: the Weather Girls, "Well-a-Wiggy", from their post-"Raining men" period. I heard it on The Boardwalk, and it's def in a beach-music groove, but the OMGWTF of it is: it was written by Jesse Winchester (!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GKpW6nqJE8