Normally, I don’t do video posts. But sometimes I see one that is just so sweet I have to share it with y’all. Such is the new video for Buck 65’s song “The Rebel” off his latest effort, Situation. It was done by animator Benjamin Logsdon and you need to make sure you watch it in HD.
Gainesville’s dreadlocked singer-songwriter Chris McCarty, a local fave who hits the Skipperdome every eight weeks or so, brings his soulful acoustic groove-pop back to town, this time performing at Push Ultra Lounge for a “Ralley Florida” concert. The charitable event is held to raise awareness and funds for the statewide, grassroots “Share a Little Sunshine Tampa Bay (SALS)” viral marketing campaign to infuse much-needed revenue into Florida’s economy.
If you’re interested in doing your part, visit the SALS website (at VisitFlorida.com). Once there, upload some sort of video about Florida’s greatness, then send it out to encourage friends, family and loved ones to vacation here. Every person who sends or receives an invite will be registered to win one of 12 Florida getaways. As an added bonus, every person who sends an invitation and brings the printed online confirmation to the concert gets in for free. The show takes place Friday, July 24, at 9 p.m.; regular admission is $5 at the door.
I actually remember seeing this commercial on the air as a six-year-old boy in 1984. It sparked my desire and my need to own one of those red jackets. Also appearing in the commercial is Alfonso Ribeiro, Carlton Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
If “Michael Jackson” and “Pepsi ad” sound like something you’ve heard in the same sentence before, you’re probably recalling how in the same year, while recording a Pepsi commercial on stage in Los Angeles, Jackson was apparently seriously burned by malfunctioning equipment, which may or may not have led to some of his later plastic surgeries.
See the happier Pepsi ad below the jump:
Ten days after his death, Michael Jackson is the biggest story in the entertainment world. Some of you may be crying overkill, but I’m still keeping tabs. Here’s a series of the latest links I’ve come across.
Video of Jackson at his last rehearsals.
Jackson’s public memorial confirmed for L.A.’s Staples Center on Tuesday, July 7.
TV networks planning coverage of Jackson memorial.
Billboard: How Michael Jackson’s Thriller changed the music biz.
Billboard: Jackson will likely set more chart records.
Billboard: “Michael Jackson and MTV — The M once stood for Michael.”
Madonna honors Jackson during a show at same arena in London that he was to perform 50 shows.
by Denis Baldwin
This year’s Homemade Music Symposium played out over the weekend at the Ybor HCC campus, bringing together musicians, singer-songwriters, music industry professionals, entertainers, writers, photographers and most every other aspect of the music industry to discuss the state of music, the nature of creating and marketing musicians and give a taste of things to come.
Overall, the symposium was a great success. Saturday opened with “Poets of Popular Song, The Lyrics and Lyric Writers of the Great American Songbook,” featuring the piano work of Paul Wilborn and the 107-year-old Rosa Rio. After their performance, many of the attendees broke for the lunch while the rest of us sat at our tables and handed out free swag and met with people.
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The second man to walk on the surface of the moon meets the first man of bud in this Funny or Die clip.
The new single from the well-reviews new Sonic Youth album, The Eternal, is Sacred Trickster, sung by Kim Gordon.
The video features a trio of young girls going all commie and busting up a rooftop party.
Video below the jump:
Ian Svenonius (ex-Nation Of Ulysses, Make Up, Etc) is, was, and will always be one of my favorite “voices” of underground culture. His critique and commentary “RE: the transformative capacities of music / art / aesthetics” pretty much always inspires. Whether it be through song, prose and/or the series of interviews he’s done on teh Internets over the last couple of years, Soft Focus, Svenonius is always advancing a dialogue that’ll stimulate both thought and laughter … often simultaneously.
Anyway, I’m pretty jazzed about Season 3 of Soft Focus and the subjects — Mike Watt, Steve Albini, Jennifer Herrema, Ted Leo, Jello Biafra, Etc — he has lined up for it. Check out Part 1 (of 4) of his interview with Stephen Malkmus, after the jump … Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re reading this, a music blog, you probably go to quite a few concerts, and you’ve probably developed some strategies that work for you. Nevertheless, for those less experienced, and for those who might need a refresher course, let me pass along some knowledge that I’ve acquired over the decades. You can think of them as rules, or think of them as suggestions.
Certainly there are more than just these that that popped into my head. Please post yours in Comments. Maybe we can come up with a handbook and split millions of dollars in royalties.
Some of these tips are obvious, some not so much. We’ll start with what I consider to be the Concertgoers Platinum Rule:
+ Don’t get wasted and effectively miss the show. Nothing more needs be said, really, but I’m surprised at how often I see this, and not just from kids. I was at a Tom Petty concert in the old Bayfront Center arena in the early 1980s and I saw a young woman passed out with her head inside the front of a speaker. Miss the concert, brutal hangover. And deaf. She shoulda stayed home.
+ This is one of my biggies: Don’t go to a show desperate to hear one song, especially if that song is a a deep album track that was in the background when you first got laid or something. You’ll end up obsessing about the tune, waiting for it, pining for it, and there’s a really, really good chance you won’t hear it. And you’ll miss the show. You’ll blame it on the act. It’s not their fault, it’s yours.
Leilani joins Stephen and Joran in the studio to welcome Jim Morey and his band as they perform two tracks live and talk about their strange brand of Neo-ragtime, NOLA jazz, stumblin’ roots rock.
Yes, they brought in a monkey, and yes, we got it on video.
Download the MP3s of Gypsy Wind and Wishing Well after the break.
Read Leilani’s interview with the band here.
Watch the Video for “Gypsy Wind”
MP3s:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs were the musical guests on Saturday Night Live this weekend. They played Zero, the single from their new album It’s Blitz! (reviewed here) and, rather strangely, an older song, Maps. Old but good at least. here’s Zero:
Neko Case appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno this week to perform “People Gotta Lot of Nerve” off her new album, Middle Cyclone, out now.
Here’s the video:
One of those bands that really caught my attention at the 2008 Deep Blues Festival was The Pack A.D. I was already a fan prior to the fest but after seeing their set, I was gung-ho.
The band has just made a video and shipped it off to MTV and everything. So, hopefully it’ll get a chance to be one of the three vids MTV plays one day. Since the odds of that are about as good as Arizona’s chances of winning the Super Bowl this week I figured I’d post it here: Read the rest of this entry »
Johnny Cash introduced this song to the masses when he included a haunting version of it on his 2000 album American III: Solitary Man — likely at the behest of producer Rick Rubin. This YouTube clip culled from a show last year in Copenhagen finds the song’s author, Will Oldham (aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) alone on stage with his acoustic guitar, slowly shaking his head and singing the bitter lyric as if he were alone in his bedroom. The song is both an acknowledgment of utter despair and a plea for salvation, sung with the conviction of man who has surely confronted life’s darkest corners.
