Tuesday, 19 February 2008

2007_12_01_archive



Remembering Rick Danko

Rick Danko Passed In His Sleep On This Day In 1999, A Day After His

56th Birthday

From The Last Waltz, It Makes No Difference

From A 1999 Preformance In Chicago, The Weight

Posted by John Mathews at 1:51 PM 0 comments

Twisted Christmas Vegas-Style From The Killers

I dare you NOT to laugh at this one! In what is fast becoming an

annual tradition, THE KILLERS have put out another holiday song with a

twist. This one, DON'T SHOOT ME SANTA, is their second holiday

download single- it benefits Bono's RED CAMPAIGN.

So, have a laugh for a good cause and be sure and check out one of the

most hilarious moments in music videos I've ever seen (It has

something to do with a very young Santa)!

...and this is a first for me: a video segue! The Killers' tune

reminded me quite a bit of this one from The Alan Parsons Project.

Enjoy!

Posted by Erik at 10:15 AM 0 comments

Labels: 89.7 WTMD, Alan Parsons Project, Don't Answer Me, Don't Shoot

Me Santa, The Killers

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Who is the Hottest Musical Couple of the Year?

...If you answered Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, you could be right.

No doubt, their connection on RAISING SAND is one of the greatest

musical surprise moments of the year.

But, to take that kind of chemistry a step further, the two that truly

do it for me are Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. It all started with

the movie ONCE in which they starred as busking musicians on the

streets of Dublin. Then it just exploded when they released a cover of

Dylan's YOU AIN'T GOING NOWHERE from the I'M NOT THERE SOUNDTRACK.

Glen and Marketa stirred up the ghosts of Gram Parsons and Emmylou

Harris for me....from that California country era that brought rock

and roll and country together.

The Frames frontman and the Czech songbird and multi-instrumentalist

exude something more than just chemical when they harmonize. There's

something, well, kind of sexy going on when you see them onstage...or

in the case below, when they heat up the Colorado snow at Sundance. So

check it out and melt away!

p.s. It now seems the two are dating. I never would have guessed ;)

Posted by Erik at 10:47 AM 0 comments

Monday, December 3, 2007

A New Take on Music Videos features TMD Artists

Coming back to Baltimore from NYC this weekend I was handed a magazine

by the person next to me, Nylon Guys. While flipping through articles

I came across an article on Vincent Moon, a filmmaker who is

"reinventing the music video" artists include, R.E.M., Cold War Kids,

the Kooks and Arcade Fire.

Moon is putting out a DVD The Take Away Shows, with these music videos

and more. If you're in the store and see the Nylon Guys magazine, give

it a read, it's worth it.

"In The Take Away Shows Moon has also crashed restaurants with Beirut,

rolled through a warehouse with Cold War Kids, and serenaded school

girls with the Kooks in the streets of Paris" (Mallory Rice, Nylon


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