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Early in 2007, Bryan Ferry released Dylanesque with his versions of eleven Dylan songs. The results were mixed, IMHO, but he does a fine job of “All Along the Watchtower” in this performance originally broadcast on BBC. Oliver Thompson, who was then only 20 years old, plays the scorching lead guitar. The tapping high heel [...]
Dylan gives a great performance of one of his more obscure songs, which has been one of my favourites from the first time I heard it. First recorded during the Oh Mercy sessions, “Dignity” was not released until Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Volume 3 (1994). The following year, he sang it live for MTV Unplugged. [...]
The American rap singer Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr., better known as Snoop Dogg (formerly Snoop Doggy Dogg), last week released his first Christmas CD, Snoop Dogg Presents Christmas in tha Dogghouse. I burst out laughing when I read the song titles with the warning after each one. 1. Christmas Intro [Explicit] 2. Xmas on Soul [...]
Nick Cave writes and sings gripping songs of evil and foreboding. Together with his brilliant band the Bad Seeds, he has recorded a long string of compelling albums. His creative ability is undeniable, even if what he has created is generally chilling, seamy, and violent. Many of Nick Cave’s songs have obvious religious implications. He [...]
In this 1969 appearance on The Johnny Cash Show, Dylan gives a soulful performance of “I Threw It All Away” from Nashville Skyline. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RRouBEVf_U[/youtube] Dylan appeared on the season premiere of The Johnny Cash Show, originally aired on 7 June 1969.
Fountains of Wayne has been one my favourite bands since their brilliant 1999 release Utopia Parkway. Such gems as “Denise” and “Red Dragon Tattoo” irresistibly combined sardonic and witty lyrics with crunching power pop chords. The band finally achieved popular success in 2003 with “Stacy’s Mom” (from Welcome Interstate Managers) and the ubiquitous music video [...]
It’s not easy being an all-girl rock band in Saudi Arabia. Not only are women oppressed but rock music is also forbidden. They cannot perform in public. They cannot pose for album cover photographs. Even their jam sessions are secret, for fear of offending the religious authorities in this ultraconservative kingdom. But the members of [...]
The long-delayed Gun N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy has finally been released. China is not amused. A newspaper published by China’s ruling Communist Party is blasting the latest Guns N’ Roses album as an attack on the Chinese nation. […] In an article Monday headlined “American band releases album venomously attacking China,” the Global Times [...]
Dylan is in fine voice in this performance of “Ring Them Bells“, recorded in Baltimore, November 1999. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zGPAxWymJ8[/youtube] Ring them bells, ye heathen From the city that dreams, Ring them bells from the sanctuaries Cross the valleys and streams, For they’re deep and they’re wide And the world’s on its side And time is running [...]
What would the Beatles sound like if they came back as a garage band? Probably a lot like Locksley, one of the most energetic and enthusiastic rock bands I’ve heard in a long time. In this clip, they sing two songs from their only currently available CD, Don’t Make Me Wait. Crank it up and [...]
One of Motown’s great soul singers, Levi Stubbs, lead singer of the Four Tops, has passed away at his home in Detroit. He was 72. Among the group’s many hits were “Baby I Need Your Loving”, “Standing in the Shadows of Love”, “Bernadette”, and “I Can’t Help Myself”. In this 1966 clip, they sing one [...]
