Cate Le Bon had another album she was working on when she realized she couldn't avoid the pain of her relationship break up, so she ditched that record and focused on Michelangelo Dying. It is an album on the Mexican Summer label that is full of heartache, longing and rebirth around Le Bon's cinematic sound structures of warped synths, languid guitars and looping beats.
The newest offering from the legendary George Porter Jr.and Runnin' Pardners is a breezy nine song album of instrumentals that bump and shimmy. Porter's Pocket feels easy and natural, as if the band just started jamming and hit record.
In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's it is Sophie Zelmani performing a live cover of "Most of the Time"
Thoughts on Dylan Original From our first cover take on this tune: One of the best songs in Dylan's repertoire from any of his era's and also one of the most important, "Most Of The Time" proved Dylan was far from done as an artist. Showing up on the return to form album Oh Mercy, "Most Of The Time" is a revelation with it's descending bass line and powerfully stark lyrics. There is a palpable sense of desperation, longing, sadness, a nervous sense of things are falling apart around singer; this tune touches a nerve and makes you stand up and take notice.
Cover:
Thoughts on Cover Artist: This is the first time we have heard Sophie Zelmani who is a Swedish singer-songwriter
Thoughts on Cover:
A very cool understated cover that switches genders and works with Zelmani's quite vocals and subdued style.
A few years ago, one of the best blogs out there, WFMU's Rock and Soul Ichiban (now called Boss Radio 66) put together a great collection of Halloween inspired tunes and playlists.
All of these are fantastic and as always Ichiban gives us old songs that are brand new to RtBE and also flat out awesome!
I mean how could we have missed The Bar-Kay's "Holy Ghost" for all of these years?
Damn that is some funky stuff. WFMU Rock and Soul Ichiban always delivers the goods, but in 2014 they got some help from their friends over at Fringe Factory who offered up a Halloween themed show themselves right here.
Below are a few songs that scream out Halloween to us. We got The Primates, The Sonics, The Upsetters, a tune by the fantastic Mummies, and of course it wouldn't be Halloween without the "Monster Mash" and Elvira. She closes out our Halloween focus with her Third Man Records release "2 Big Pumpkins" written by the B-52's Fred Schneider:
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...Misfits!
If you thought waiting four years between Lil Wayne's major artistic statements, Tha Carter series, was long, you may have completely forgotten about him by now. Arriving seven years after Tha Carter V, comes Lil Wayne's fourteenth studio offering, Tha Carter VI. Unfortunately, Lil Wayne hasn't presented anything worth seeking out with this offering.
On their breakout album Rat Saw God, the Asheville, North Carolina based band Wednesday mixed loud feedback with pedal steel creating a "country-gaze" style that was exciting. On their follow-up, Bleeds, they shift gears again, not abandoning their country side, but pushing it more into the background in favor of alt-rock, punk and hardcore. This band feels vibrant, alive and ready to try anything on the successfully weird record.
The debut solo release from Robert Randolph is the talented pedal steel player's first on the historic Sun Records label and it is titled Preacher Kids. Randolph is a veteran of the music scene, having played for decades with his evolving Family Band, but has decided now is the time to step out with his first solo release on the classic label.
The Nova Twins newest album Parasites and Butterflies continues the duo's sound expansion as Amy Love and Georgia South lean into their more hip-hop/pop flavored influences throughout their third record. Their heavier vibes take a noticeable backseat to more modern pop sounds and styles.
In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's tune is a live cover by Vicki Huang playing "Workingman's Blues #2"
Thoughts on Original:
From the first time we tackled a cover of this song: One of Dylan's late career highlights, "Workingman's Blues #2" first appeared on Modern Times and was a stunning reminder of how Dylan can just completely nail it sometimes. The ease with which the piano and song flows out reminds of Dylan's best work, as if the song has always been there and he is just breathing it into existence at this time and place. It owes a debt to Merle Haggard, the Civil War, poet Henry Timrod and thousands of others, but is perfectly Dylan when it comes to the lyrics which bounce all over. A folk song, mistitled a blues song, for the workingman that feels aloof, pure Dylan
I may have been a bit down on the music of Modern Times in my original review (I have softened my stance a bit), but I was right about "Workingman's Blues #2", it stands with the greatest songs he has ever produced.
Cover:
Thoughts on Cover Artist: RtBE is new to Vicki Huang who is a an interesting artist with a host of different skill including playing a mean slide guitar.
Thoughts on Cover:
Vicki focuses on piano for this one, delivering a very cool take on this powerful song.
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...Wu-Tang Clan!
The Brooklyn based singer/songwriter Brian Dunne's newest solo album is a slice of modern NYC life as Clams Casino mixes lyrics that express exasperation and anger, wrapped up in folk rock and pop grandiose.
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