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Treasure trove of Nick Cave cover versions
12.03.2010
05:23 pm
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Nick Cave, in his now four-decade career, has turned out some astonishing, but often seldom-heard, versions of songs made famous by others, often in the process, making the songs his own. Cave’s 1986 album, Kicking Against the Pricks, was an all covers affair, following in the footsteps of David Bowie’s Pin-Ups and Bryan Ferry’s These Foolish Things, but with more perverse song selections than either. It’s the first album where Cave sang “pretty” songs and from start to finish, it’s a tour de force. Certainly the work on that record showed the way forward creatively for Cave, who is probably the greatest writer/singer of classic love songs in the world today.

An intrepid soul at the TwentyFourBit blog has assembled for your listening pleasure, a massive collection of 28 lovely Nick Cave-crooned cover versions, rounded-up from the wilds of YouTube. Personal favorites include Cave’s sorrowful version of Neil Young’s “Helpless,” ferocious Birthday Party-era takes on Gene Vincent’s “Cat Man” and “Loose” by The Stooges,and don’t miss the emotional duet with Johnny Cash, on Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.”

Hear Nick Cave cover 28 songs (TwentyFourBit)

Below, Cave’s sorrowful take on “In the Ghetto.” To me, this is every bit the equal of the Elvis Presley original (which I also love).
 

 

More Nick Cave on Dangerous Minds

 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.03.2010
05:23 pm
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Santana perform ‘Jungle Strut’ on German TV, 1971
12.03.2010
03:18 pm
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A righteous 1971 Santana performance from Germany’s Beat Club TV show, featuring an extremely youthful looking Neil Schon (later of Journey) who was probably all of 17-years-old when this was recorded. Schon’s parents let him drop out of high school to join the group. He famously turned down Eric Clapton’s offer to join Derek and the Dominos as Carlos Santana had asked him to join his band first. Santana III often saw Schon taking the lead guitar parts over the band’s leader.

Schon and Santana keyboardist Greg Rolie would both leave the group to form Journey the following year.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.03.2010
03:18 pm
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‘Rockin’ And Rollin’: 45 r.p.m. record from Hell
12.03.2010
03:13 pm
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Darryl W. Bullock at The World’s Worst Records has uploaded this little nugget by W.L. Horning. A bizarre bit of rock and roll to say the least. Released on Denver, Colorado label Spin Out Records. Is this Wesley Willis’s long lost uncle?

As a little pre-Christmas favour I present to you today what has to be one of the single most peculiar recordings I have ever come across, W L Horning’s performance of his own composition Rockin and Rollin.

It’s insane; there’s no other word for it. And no, that’s not a skip you can hear on the record or a bad edit - it actually sounds like that. Basically what you have here is the backing track to Wesley’s earlier composition ‘Kiss Me, Kiss Me Baby’ sped up and played over three or four times with Wes singing the words to his latest ‘hit’ over the top. ‘Kiss Me, Kiss Me Baby’ only lasts for a little over a minute at its normal speed, which is why in this crazed, hyperventilating version Wes is forced to skip the needle back to the beginning of the track time and time again.

The man is either nuts or brilliantly inventive - I know which description I prefer.”

Rockin’ And Rollin’:

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.03.2010
03:13 pm
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Map of the best college radio stations
12.03.2010
02:57 pm
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Click here to see an interactive map of ‘the best college radio stations, in terms of freeform music programming and streaming audio quality.’

In choosing the stations, Zoomout.in’s criteria was:

*Must be non-commercial;
*Must be affiliated with a college/university and be (mostly) student run;
*Must have a full schedule of freeform programming;
*Must broadcast a live, high-quality .mp3 or .ogg stream.

I have a fear of flying, so I drive cross country quite often and find myself futilely spinning the radio dial trying to discover something to listen to other than Bible thumpers and conservative talk jocks . College radio provides some relief from the wasteland that is the American airwaves.

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.03.2010
02:57 pm
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The saddest music in the world: Hamlet Gonashvili
12.02.2010
06:43 pm
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It’s so good to have friends with excellent and adventurous taste. My label mate Shannon Fields just introduced me to some of the most haunting and gorgeous sounds I’ve ever heard. Hamlet Gonashvili (1928 - 1985) was considered the voice of Georgia until he died at the height of his fame after falling from an apple tree. How’s that for a unique rock star death?  Accompanied here on Georgian TV by his ensemble of nattily dressed gents, Hamlet will break your heart with some of the most achingly lovely harmonies you’ll ever hear. i have no idea what they’re singing about but I assume it’s quite sad.
 

 

 
More Hamlet after the jump…

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Posted by Brad Laner
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12.02.2010
06:43 pm
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Flying Lotus, Madlib, J-Rocc, DJ Nobody and more at Cornerstone fundraising bash
12.02.2010
04:58 pm
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To call any one event in Los Angeles “party of the year” might be stretching it a bit. But what certainly looks to be the party of the month, is coming up soon with Cornerstone Research Collective’s fundraiser for MAPS and psychedelic chemist Sasha Shulgin’s medical bills on December 11th at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

With a formidable line-up including Madlib, J-Rocc, Flying Lotus and (former Dangerous Minds contributor) Elvin Estela AKA DJ Nobody, this bash for a good cause featuring LA’s hottest underground musical talent simply can’t be beat. This party is going to be a monster.

Where: The Historic Masonic Lodge, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 600 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90038

When: Saturday Decemenber 11th, 9p.m. to 3a.m. Free parking on site. $25 in advance, $35 on the door. Get tickets here before they all sell out.
 
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Above, Madlib, looking for his spliff.

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.02.2010
04:58 pm
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M. Campbell’s Top Ten Albums of 2010: The National’s ‘High Violet’ #9
12.02.2010
02:36 pm
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The National dug themselves out of their downtown apartments and sauntered onto the streets of New York City and wandered across the midlands to Europe and beyond with 2010’s High Violet .

The claustrophobia and paranoia of previous National albums gives way to an expansive melancholia and world weary beauty in High Violet that recalls a woozy marriage between the romanticism of Leonard Cohen and the gloomy gorgeousness of Joy Division and The Stranglers circa ‘Golden Brown’ and ‘Always The Sun’. Lead singer/lyricist Matt Berninger constantly teeters on the edge of exhaustion and exhilaration, observing the world thru a mesh of dream and grim reality - love among the ruins. When the heaviness starts to get too heavy, The National lighten the load with melodies that can make even the dourest of drunks swoon.

As gothic and sumptous as a Patrick McGrath novel, High Violet is my choice for one of the best albums of 2010 at number 9.

You said it was night inside my heart, it was
You said it should tear a kid apart, it does

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.02.2010
02:36 pm
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Powerful gesture controlled noise art: Alexander Schubert’s Weapon of Choice
12.02.2010
12:31 pm
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Through the cunning use of motion detectors and ye olde MAX/MSP software, composer Alexander Schubert and violinist Barbara Lüneburg create quite the arresting spectacle. Greatly expanding the vocabulary of the lone fiddler to nearly god-like proportions, every gesture of the performer is amplified and extended both visually and sonically. It works.
 

 
Much thanks to Gregory Ward

Posted by Brad Laner
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12.02.2010
12:31 pm
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Download 911 American Hardcore Tracks From 1981-1986 For Free
12.02.2010
12:18 pm
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Steven Blush, author of American Hardcore: A Tribal History, has uploaded 911 hardcore tracks of his favorite bands for free.  Some of the artists include: Flipper, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Dicks, Butthole Surfers, Cro-Mags and more!

Travel on over to 24 Hours of Hardcore compiled by Steven Blush and download the goodness while it lasts. 

Side note from Steven: “COPYRIGHT HOLDERS: I will delete your tracks at your request.

(via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.02.2010
12:18 pm
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Janelle Monae is the truth: Live & close-up in ‘07
12.01.2010
09:59 pm
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If you generally detest today’s pop music, you may be sick of hearing Janelle Monae’s name so much. And considering that she’s firmly inside the music industry machine, it’d be hard to blame you.

But unlike many women in the pop and R&B realm, the girl has pretty confidently determined and shaped her own music and visual style. Synthesizing new rock and traditional soul into the kind of futuristic brew her foreparents David Bowie and Grace Jones served up back in the day, Monae’s still got the aesthetic zeitgeist at her back.

Let’s hope she retains the integrity and panache shown below. This video is excerpted from an appearance she made in the summer of 2007, just as she released her first EP on her Wondaland Arts Society label. And even though she was already officially signed to the megalith Bad Boy label, she saw fit to play the independent Criminal Records store in the Little 5 Points district of her adopted Atlanta hometown with her guitarist Kellindo Parker. Aaaand she tore it up.

Whatever happens to Monae’s career going forward—sometimes it pays to brace for disappointment, sell-out fuckery, etc.—we’ll be able to recount a time when she seemed like the future of pop. Go girl.
 

 
More Janelle getting real after the jump…

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Posted by Ron Nachmann
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12.01.2010
09:59 pm
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