Here’s a nice interview with Elbow, in which Guy Garvey and Pete Turner drink Stella from cans (!!), Garvey thinks MGMT is from England and Garvey recalls the first song he wrote, “a very naive song about smoking weed.”
Also, Garvey talks about wanting to see the National at this festival, Pukkelpop 2008.
Pretty sure this is a newly announced show — and not much time to prepare for it. Common is slated to hit Marquee Theatre on Sept. 13. Ironically, that’s just 10 days after Ice Cube rolls through the same venue; if you recall, the pair once engaged in a little beef.
The timing of this is also coincidental in that I was chatting last week with Angela, who said she’s listening to Common’s entire catalog. When she said she was about halfway through, I believe my reply was: “Stop right there.” That was only a partial joke because I liked most of 2007’s Finding Forever, even (surprisingly) Drivin’ Me Wild with Lily Allen.
And if you didn’t know, my recurring hip-hop feature, I Used to Love H.E.R., is named after a classic Common track (the one that allegedly sparked his beef with Ice Cube, actually).
Tickets for the show are $29 in advance. Get ’em here. No support acts have been announced yet.
Let’s keep it old school (that is, his pre-Gap-hawking days … no, I can’t let it go). Common’s video for Resurrection:
And now for the encore … Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit returns to Phoenix after the band’s triumphant first stop here in June. I believe singer Scott Hutchison called it one of the best nights of the tour.
Show is on Nov. 6 with the Spinto Band at Rhythm Room. As of now, I’m unsure which band is the headliner. It looks like a co-headlining bill, per the Stateside Presents Web site. Tickets ($12) on sale at Stinkweeds or TicketWeb.
Remember how great Frightened Rabbit was in June? Of course you do. I took that video below as proof. And I interviewed Hutchison. The Midnight Organ Fight still stands as my favorite of the year. (Get it at eMusic.)
I just finished watching Elbow’s turn on Sundance Channel’s Live from Abbey Road series. I still have little doubt that The Seldom Seen Kid ends up in my Top 5 (probably Top 3) albums of the year. It just stands a classic/timeless album, pretty much like every Elbow record before it.
Not sure how I missed this earlier, but the band offered a live recording of one of the album’s outstanding tracks, Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver, as a free download on its MySpace. It comes from a recent sell-out show in Manchester.
Performance clip of One Day Like This from Live from Abbey Road. Hell, this song is beautiful:
Related:
Elbow: One Day Like This (video)
How can you not love the Living Legends?
Check out the video for She Wants Me, a send-up of VH1’s I Love New York. The track comes off the ’08 EP The Gathering (get it at eMusic).
Remember to download the latest Murs and 9th Wonder collaboration, Sweet Lord, for free.
You’ve all seen this already, right? If you haven’t, you should.
You might have heard that hip-hop duo Kidz in the Hall were involved in a fracas in Tempe last week.
The Arizona Republic obtained video of the fight. Embedded below.
UPDATE: A story that accompanies the video says Double O of Kidz in the Hall was arrested and charged with assault and disorderly conduct. … Eh? Is everyone watching the same video?
From the story: “Double-O (Aguilar) did not fight back,” said Tony Hererra, 40, of Tempe. “He only tried to protect himself. He rolled around and actually had like a crab hold. Never once did he raise his hand to try to hit the bouncer. He was just trying to protect himself, and saying, like, ‘What are you doing?’ “
Strange things have been happening since I started this weekly Tribe routine. First, Lil Wayne is possibly coppin’ an old sample that Tribe used for a remix. Then you’ve got Tribe rehearsing for the Rock the Bells tour.
Now I suppose you’re going to tell me there’s some unreleased version of Scenario floating around out there. Oh … whuh? Really?!
The news of this for any Tribe fan is amazing, considering Scenario was really a flashpoint for the group — they performed it on Arsenio! (Can I get a little for the Dog Pound!)
Seriously, if you wanna talk posse cuts, Scenario blew my mind. A Tribe Called Quest + Leaders of the New School? The possibilities seemed endless – sorry, this was before every friggin’ rap song featured someone. It was exciting to see Tribe share verses with Leaders and vice versa. Then there’s Busta Rhymes – still his best verse ever, just after he teases us in Q-Tip’s spot (“I heard you rushed and rushed and attacked.”).
That makes four versions of the song I have now – including the original and a couple remixes – and supposedly there’s another version. Damn. (I’ve also got the “cassingle.”)
I’m really glad Phife revisited his verse from this unreleased version. “I use nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs.” Yeeeeeah. Although, the Koko B. Ware name drop is priceless.
Just for fun, the video (check out the wack Apple IIGS concept here):
Can’t say I’m a big follower of either Tokyo Police Club or Amplive. But I found this video (via Listening Post), in which Amplive sort of takes us inside the process of a remix, very intriguing.
He remixed the Tokyo Police Club track The Baskervilles. I’d love to see more videos like this, demonstrating the mechanics of what musicians are actually doing.
Better late than never? Here’s a video for Automatic At It, one of the hotter tracks off Z-Trip’s All-Pro Soundtrack (at eMusic) that came out late last summer.
Anyone wanna take a stab at what’s going on conceptually here? Aceyalone, the lone survivor post-Armageddon? Aceyalone, motorcycle jockey sent from the future? Whatever, I love the bongo/drum break in this track.