2010/03/30

Lonely Days - Add Some Music - Breakaway - The Beach Boys

1967 Lonely Days
1969 Add Some Music (a capella 'bridge')
1969 Breakaway (alt, Brian lead)



youtube.com/watch?v=w5VOM8GLsyk&fmt=18

RMI ROCKSICHORD SAMPLED

From the band Quasi (2002)QUOTE:

The Rocksichord (aka Roxichord) is a big, blue, chunky sounding beast that has been used by a huge number of musicians over the years including The Beach Boys (on Sunflower), Genesis, Dr. John, John Lennon, Stereolab (on Sound-Dust), Sun Ra, Terry Riley (on A Rainbow in Curved Air), Rick Wakeman (solo and with Yes), and Wilco (on A Ghost is Born).


29-Mar-10 Sonicstate.com
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2010/03/29/rmi-rocksichord-sampled/

+ Soniccouture RMI Rocksichord: Free Electric Harpsichord Sample Instrument Released For Kontakt
http://www.gearwire.com/soniccouture-rmirocksichord.html

+ wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocksichord

+ The Beach Boys: Add Some Music to Your Day
http://recordingsunflower.blogspot.com/2008/02/track-3-add-some-music-to-your-day.html

2010/03/29

Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim, T-Bone Walker, Sunny Brown, Terry McGhee, Armand "Jump" Jackson, Helen Humes

Helen Humes - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Woman
1962 (American Folk Blues Festival)

19? Written by: Hank Mills, Walter Hayness

youtube.com/watch?v=irXywhqP1ho&fmt=18

+ dvd
http://www.amazon.com/American-Folk-Blues-Festival-1962-1969/dp/B0002KP54E/ref=pd_sim_d_1

CHESS KING (WILLIE DIXON)

The story goes that in 1964, when the Rolling Stones visited Chicago to record at Chess studios, they were startled to recognize the Chess label's biggest star, Muddy Waters, helping to load in their gear.
On the same visit the band encountered Waters's producer Willie Dixon, whose behavior similarly belied his already legendary status with blues fans: he tried to sell the group some of his songs.

March 25, 2010 Frank Youngwerth
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chess-king/Content?oid=893564

KAFM NOTES: MOST PRODUCTIVE

Mickey Most (Michael Peter Hayes 1938-2003)Psst! Wanna know a surefire way to tell if your friend is a music nerd?

Ask him or her: “Who's your favorite record producer?”

Let's be honest -- the average Joe or Jane won't know what a record producer does, let alone could tell you who his/her favorite was.

March 26, 2010 Craven Lovelace
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20100326/COMMUNITY_NEWS/100329977/1014&parentprofile=1061


+ Sound On Sound about Mickie Most

2010/03/27

HOW ONE BAND MAY HAVE FINALLY KILLED OFF THE SELF-TRIBUTE TREND

Everything good eventually falls apart. Chinua Achebe obviously had something else in mind when the book I’ve sort of stolen my opening statement from was published in 1958, because if I remember correctly, he was writing not of the recent trend of bands performing their “classic” albums in full, but rather of Nigerian tribal life.

February 5, 2010 Crispin Kott
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/120188-how-one-band-may-have-finally-killed-off-the-self-tribute-trend

(repost/update)
+ Classic Albums, Live!
http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2010/03/classic_albums_live.html

+ Track by track: Bands play entire albums during concerts
http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/03/25/998982/track-by-track-bands-these-days.html

2010/03/26

Wouldn't It Be Nice To Be The First

2007 mash up by 'Go Home Productions'

1974 Barry White - "You're the First, the Last, My Everything"
1966 The Beach Boys - "Wouldn't It Be Nice"

youtube.com/watch?v=2g4TR7H3aCA&fmt=18

2010/03/25

BREAKING NEWS!: U.S. RELEASE DATE FINALLY ANNOUNCED FOR JOHN LENNON BIOPIC 'NOWHERE BOY'

We've just gotten word from Weinstein Co., distributor in the U.S. for "Nowhere Boy," the drama about the pre-Beatles Liverpool life of John Lennon, that a big-screen release date for the film here has been announced.
The film will be released in America on Oct. 8, the day before what would have been his 70th birthday.

March 24, 3:03 PM Steve Marinucci
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2010m3d24-BREAKING-NEWS-US-release-date-finally-announced-for-John-Lennon-biopic-Nowhere-Boy

MCFERRIN CHARMS WITH RANGE OF SURPRISES

Further research is required, but it seems likely that Bobby McFerrin gave a timeless classic its Symphony Hall premiere yesterday: “Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed. . .’’

March 22, 2010 Joel Brown http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2010/03/22/mcferrin_charms_crowd_with_range_of_surprises/

2010/03/24

THE MORNING BENDERS HEAD EAST AND PAIR WITH A GRIZZLY BEAR

Is it possible to make California pop while living in New York?
The Morning Benders, whose breezy melodies have received comparisons to California dreamers the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas, recently tossed their knapsacks over their shoulders, took one last whiff of Telegraph Avenue's pungent patchouli scent, and left Berkeley for the wilds of Brooklyn.

Mar 24 2010 Marc Hawthorne
http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-03-24/music/the-morning-benders-head-east-and-pair-with-a-grizzly-bear/


+ Morning Benders making promises

ALBUMHOES HOLLAND BEACH BOYS

On the cover of the album 'Holland' of the Beach Boys, from 1973, you can see a picture upside down, which is taken in Amsterdam, called Kromme Waal.

October 29, 2008 Jan van der Waal
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4953426

+ Take a look in street view!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=Amsterdam,+Kromme+Waal&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.576045,78.837891&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Kromme+Waal,+1011+Amsterdam,+Noord-Holland,+Nederland&ll=52.374394,4.903593&spn=0,359.97262&z=16&layer=c&cbll=52.374583,4.903656&panoid=wPWg3FgnghKrXd_pc-TF0w&cbp=12,283.4,,1,-1.23

2010/03/22

THE BESNARD LAKES - THE BESNARD LAKES ARE THE ROARING NIGHT (JAGJAGUWAR) 15/03/10

Will wash over you before you’ve even realised it’s begun...

Husband and wife songwriting team Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, along with a couple of other band members, form Montreal’s The Besnard Lakes, who have been quietly crafting ethereal, twisted guitar rock to do some serious navel-gazing to since the early part of the millennium.

March 21, 2010 Patrick Burke

http://www.gigwise.com/reviews/albums/55383/The-Besnard-Lakes---The-Besnard-Lakes-Are-The-Roaring-Night

+ Album Review: The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night

Bangles - September Gurls

1986

1974 Written by: Alex Chilton



youtube.com/watch?v=FsQmqDiYhOQ&fmt=18

+ Walk Like An Egyptian Video Original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjI4p8_NZVc&fmt=18

+ Bangles - Eternal Flame instrumental
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3sEk3Nruf0&fmt=18

2010/03/18

BIG STAR SINGER AND CULT ICON ALEX CHILTON DEAD AT 59

Alex Chilton, singer and guitarist of Big Star, one of the most influential rock groups to emerge from the early 1970s, has passed away at the age of 59.
Chilton reportedly suffered a heart attack today in New Orleans, just days before Big Star were scheduled to perform at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.

3/17/10,
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/17/big-star-singer-and-cult-icon-alex-chilton-dead-at-59/

+ R.I.P. Alex Chilton
http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-alex-chilton,39312/

+ Vinyl Cave: A tribute to the music of Alex Chilton, 1950-2010 (GOOD OVERVIEW, GREAT ARTICLE!)
http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28557

2010/03/16

GUEST ARTIST ON THE TIME MACHINE: ADAM MARSLAND AND HIS BANGLES MOOD

Rocker Adam Marsland drops by in a reflective mood.

I've got that fall feeling lately -- that beautiful melancholy that makes you look back and forward simultaneously, being aware of what's gone by and bringing the desire to accomplish more.


16/03/10 Adam Marsland
http://mog.com/The_Time_Machine/blog/1839273

2010/03/15

The Morning Benders - "Excuses" Yours Truly session

With The Echo Chamber Orchestra
2010

Original



youtube.com/watch?v=7jgmgE-QDzA&fmt=18

THE MORNING BENDERS: BIG ECHO, IN "NOTHING NOT NEW"

Obviously, summer ain't no big deal in Phoenix.
No one here actually looks forward to the dreadful season.
But everywhere else (including my native Midwest), people have had more than enough winter by this point, and are waiting for the sun to shine.

Mar. 12 2010 Jay Bennett
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2010/03/the_morning_benders_big_echo_i.php

+ Morning Benders' "Cold War (Nice Clean Fight)" (song & interview)

+ The Morning Benders: Between Youth And Adulthood
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124660280

SHE & HIM

Some people seem to be good at everything. It can be annoying.
But when it comes to actress, songwriter, singer, and burgeoning origami artist (explanation below) Zooey Deschanel, it's not so grating.
Whether starring in movies like (500) Days of Summer or partnering with M. Ward for their retro-pop project She & Him, Deschanel exudes a modest likability.
Even though she's got every right to show off, she doesn't.

This carried through to a recent interview with Deschanel and Ward in a downtown Manhattan hotel.

March 15, 2010 Ryan Dombal
http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7770-she-him/

+ NPR listening party!

+ Zooey Deschanel on her band, She and Him


+ clip She & Him - In The Sun
http://www.glasswerk.co.uk/features/national/7743/She+&+Him+-+In+The+Sun

EXCEPTIONAL MUSIC FROM GRIZZLY BEAR

They’ve toured with Radiohead, been praised by Jay-Z and are adored by the music press.
But until recently, Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear were still a largely unknown beast outside the art-rock community.

However, with their third album Veckatimest proving a crossover hit, the four-piece came to the Roundhouse for the second of two sold-out shows.

15.03.10 Rick Pearson
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23815152-exceptional-music-from-grizzly-bear.do

+ Grizzly Bear, Corn Exchange, Brighton

2010/03/09

The Mississippi Sheiks „Sitting On Top Of The World"

1930

Written by: Hawks, Jefferson, Simmons



youtube.com/watch?v=RqeW7-tmVU4&fmt=18

MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS TRIBUTE CONCERT LURES FAMED COMPOSER/ARRANGER ON MAIDEN VOYAGE TO CANADA


VANCOUVER -- Van Dyke Parks grew up in Mississippi, home of famous country and blues string band the Mississippi Sheiks.

From 1930 to 1935, in the heart of the Great Depression, the Sheiks created the soundtrack to an era, defining a genre that would lay the foundation for a multitude of followers — from Robert Johnson to Nat King Cole, Bob Dylan and Jack White — and would eventually influence every aspect of rock ’n’ roll.
(Agenda: Capilano University Performing Arts Theatre, on March 13 and 14. )

March 8, 2010 FRANCOIS MARCHAND
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/CULTURAL+OLYMPIAD+Mississippi+Sheiks+tribute+concert+lures+famed+composer+arranger+maiden+voyage+Canada/2658516/story.html

+ wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Sheiks

+ tribute cd "Things About Comin’ My Way"
http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-various-artists-things-about1/

2010/03/08

411 MUSIC HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2010: THE BEACH BOYS

THE BEACH BOYS' MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

36 Top 40 singles including four #1s

20 Gold, 9 Platinum and 6 Multi-Platinum albums

The best selling American band of all time

Inducted Into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1988)

One of Rolling Stone's Top 15 Greatest Artists of All Time

America's Band

03.08.2010 Paul Hollingsworth
http://www.411mania.com/music/hall_of_fame/131804/411-Music-Hall-Of-Fame-Class-of-2010:-The-Beach-Boys.htm