With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
This donation-based event will directly benefit the participating musicians as well as Sweet Relief, MusiCares, Center for Disaster Philanthropy, World Central Kitchen, Partners In Health, Trans Lifeline, Backline, and local organizations helping the homeless.
To get in the mood here is some video from artists participating:
We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...A Flock of Seagulls!
We are going back to the dark days known as the early eighties...here are A Flock of Seagulls from 1983.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
Small live music venues are going to be crushed more than most business by this disease lock down so Shea Stadium BK is doing a take over of Post World Radio today to raise some funds:
One of RtBE's favorites the Japandroids are releasing their first live album titled Massey Fucking Hall. The album was recorded at Toronto's Massey Hall (shocker) in 2017.
The band will be releasing the digital version next month and then the double vinyl in October.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure. Also you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
Back when they started we highlighted Pickathon who have announced they would dip into their festivals archives and produce a show a day for the next 60 days. It continues at 1PM Pacific with an RtBE favorite, Shovels & Rope.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
One of the Dirty South's original MC's newest release mixes old and new school as Khujo delivers the solid full length Echoes Of A Legend. Inviting longtime friends to help out, Khujo displays his mix of boasting and conscious rhymes with determination and fluid power. Starting off with definitions of what the albums title means, the record kicks into gear with beats based around southern blues guitar riffs as Big Mike joins for "Go Further".
Khujo works to make a difference as his positive statements and constant fighting against racism/inequality arrive on tunes like "No Powder No Makeup" (featuring Miss Dolla), closer "The Struggle" (featuring Outlawz) and "Hit Dawg" which uses stout lines like "Put in brain in your head but I can't make you think" over ominous skittering beats. These tunes all fight against the everyday societal poisoning of racism, broken families, capitalist greed and other ills.
However, Khujo also dives into his boast rhymes, proclaim his status as a legend on the strip club ready trap beat of "Out Your League" and "Don't Care Nuthin Bout It" as his main act the Goodie Mob joins him in a modern hip hop session that showcase random screams and digital quick beats.
The other dichotomy on the album is the mix between those new and old school beats. Khujo mixes up skittering trap based numbers with more demonstrative old school leanings. While a track like "Family First" amps up the speed of his rhymes and proves he can contend with the new school trap sound, he is more effective and at home with the older hip hop environments where he made his name in the 90's.
The best numbers here go over the top, such as the huge "General Patton" Big Boi influenced deep beats of "JoDaz" featuring Daz Dillinger. The song isone of a trio of banging stand out numbers with the other two also bringing in old friends, B-Real arrives to color the keyboard swooning of "Cypress Mob" and Cee-Lo provides the chorus of "Gangsta Walk" around deep bass and infectious string sections.
Mixing modern/retro, spiritual/braggadocio, Echoes Of A Legend proves that Kuhjo is just that as he works through pain and power, proving he still has a lot to say in 2020.
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Support the artist, buy the album, stream it on bandcamp or below and peep some video:
In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's tune is live a cover by Vampire Weekend playing "Jokerman"
Thoughts on Original:
From the first time we tackled a cover of this tune:
The kick-start to his "back to rock and roll" album Infidels, "Jokerman" is a monster. A torrent of images, symbols, thoughts, proclamations, fears and fables; it feels like a dam was broken in Dylan's brain and all of these things just poured out. Musically it moves along but doesn't add much to the towering wordplay as the tune is dominated by the lyrics which seem almost never ending; Dylan has penned wordier tunes, but few feel as heavy as this. Flawed, but reaching for something, it is a not an all-time great Dylan song, but it is one that lets us peak into his brain a bit. For more on this tune, check out this post. Cover:
Thoughts on Cover Artist: RtBE has never really taken to this band.
Thoughts on Cover:
Never a favorite band of this sites...yet Vampire Weekend does exactly what we like when it comes to covers, they experiment and make the song their own. They do this by inserting a swirling jam right in the middle, opening up this difficult Dylan tune in jamband fashion. A solid effort from the group.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Frank Zappa!
This is from Frank Zappa's last tour where he played with a big band and did some rare tunes. The show today is from Barcelona May 17th 1988. Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Setlist below:
00:00:12 Black Page Spanish Intro
00:01:50 The Black Page ( New Age Version )
00:08:37 Packard Goose I
00:11:35 Royal March from L`Historie du Soldat ( Igor Stravinsky )
00:12:30 Theme from The Bartok Piano Concierto ( Bela Bartok )
00:14:00 Packard Goose II
00:16:05 Sharleena
00:22:40 Bamboozled By Love
00:28:00 Black Napkins
00:34:18 When The Lie's So Big
00:37:55 Planet Of The Baritone Women
00:40:37 Any Kind Of Pain
00:45:53 Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk
00:53:23 Sofa
00:56:02 Find Her Finer
00:58:41 Big Swifty
01:10:29 I Ain't Got No Heart
01:12:25 Love Of My Life
01:14:41 The Torture Never Stops Medley ( inc. Theme from
"Bonanza" and Lonesome Cowboy Burt )
01:32:40 Bolero ( Maurice Ravel )
01:38:05 Watermelon In Easter Hay
01:42:47 Whipping Post
01:48:17 I Am The Walrus
01:51:48 The Illinois Enema Bandit
02:01:20 Strictly Genteel
La Banda:
Frank Zappa – sintetizador, guitarra, teclados, voz
Ike Willis – sintetizador, guitarra, guitarra rítmica, voz
Scott Thunes – sintetizador, bajo, voz, minimoog
Bobby Martin – teclados, saxofón, voz
Chad Wackerman – batería, voz, percusión
Ed Mann – percusión, marimba, vibráfono, percusión
Mike Keneally – sintetizador, guitarra, guitarra rítmica, voz
Bruce Fowler – trombón
Walt Fowler – sintetizador, trompeta, fliscorno
Kurt McGettrick – saxofón, saxofón barítono, clarinete
Albert Wing – saxofón tenor
Paul Carman – saxofón alto, saxofón barítono, saxofón soprano
