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Road Warriors 47

Road Warriors 47

If you’re heading down to Austin for this year’s SXSW festival in March, some big name artists have announced performances already. Those include My Morning Jacket, The Raveonettes, The Black Keys, BUN B, Daniel Lanois and R.E.M. In addition, Lou Reed will deliver the keynote address.

Radiohead has confirmed the markets for its upcoming North American tour, but not the dates or venues. Their album, In Rainbows, debuted at #1 on the US charts this week, and these are the confirmed markets for the tour:

Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Houston
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Miami
Montreal
New York
Philadelphia
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
Seattle
St Louis
Tampa
Toronto
Vancouver
Washington DC

Mute Records artist Jose Gonzalez’ Green Tour of America kicks off this spring. Gonzalez is touring in support of his album, In Our Nature, and has teamed up with Reverb, a non-profit organization that educates and engages music fans to promote environmental sustainability. Here are the confirmed Continue reading »

Video Vault – The New Pornographers, “Your Daddy Don’t Know”

I’ve been going through this really weird musical phase lately, where I’m positively lapping up awesomely cheesy AOR from the ’70s and ’80s. After posing a question to the Audities list – the home of insanely great pop – about some of the best bands in the genre and being pitched recommendations for bands like Shooting Star, Tycoon, and others, it was brought to my attention that the New Pornographers did a cover of a song called “Your Daddy Don’t Know,” by the Canadian AOR band known as Toronto. (Geez, would you have guessed they were Canadian if I hadn’t told you?) I don’t know if the rest of Toronto’s oeuvre is as good as this song, but as long as it’s as least as good as the outfits the Pornographers are sporting here, I sense a best-of purchase is in my future…

Oh, and before you ask, no, I don’t know where you can actually purchase this cover, but I can tell you that it’s on the soundtrack to a Canadian movie called “FUBAR.” The soundtrack itself isn’t on Amazon, but given that it also features Sloan doing Rush’s “In the Mood,” Treble Charger doing April Wine’s “Roller,” and Chixdiggit taking on “The Kid Is Hot Tonight,” I’m half-tempted to click on the below photo and order a copy of the DVD. I mean, if that’s the only way I can hear the tunes, then so be it, y’know…?

Less Talk, More Music: Prefab Sprout on “Wogan”

I came into the Prefab Sprout camp pretty late in the game, knowing precious little about them until they released their greatest-hits disc, A Life of Surprises, in 1992. Why did I finally take the plunge and pick up that collection? Because of my friends Brian Becknell and Jessie Oulahan, who drove up from Chesapeake, VA, to see me graduate from Averett College, and informed me that Prefab Sprout was the soundtrack to their entire drive. Both those kids have damned fine taste in music, and when they told me that, I knew I needed to give the band a chance. So I picked up the best-of, then began working my way backwards, starting with the group’s most recent album (at the time), Jordan: The Comeback, which opens with this song.

Now, Prefab Sprout’s one of my favorite bands and, if you saw my list of my favorite music of 2007, you know that the recent reissue of their Steve McQueen album was one of the best CDs I heard last year. (Even if you already own it, trust me when I tell you that the new disc of acoustic re-recordings is worth the price of admission.)

Paddy MacAloon, you rule. Now, c’mon, give us another album, eh…?

You heard it here first: Lenny Kravitz, “I’ll Be Waiting”

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, Lenny Kravitz has a new album! Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! Sorry, just got carried away there. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, I did.

The first single, “I’ll Be Waiting,” is actually rather pretty, though is it just me or did the melody in the first verse instantly make you think of his 1993 song “Believe”? Just sayin’.

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