10th Anniversary of the Concert for New York City Music has the power to heal. Shortly after the tragic events of 9/11, some of the best musicians in Rock gathered at Madison Square Garden to commemorate the souls lost on this infamous day. Today, we piece together that setlist using the Vault to honor those who …
Showing Up: Live Music After Sept. 11 We gathered. By Ann Powers Reprinted from www.npr.org (see link above for original article) That simple sentence, with its multiple meanings, organizes my thoughts as I attempt to accurately describe reality — mine, anyway — right after Sept. 11, 2001. I lived in Brooklyn at the time, three miles …
Three months have passed since New York City’s LCD Soundsystem played their final gig at Madison Square Garden, which translates to 10,022,400 seconds of deep depression for hardcore fans. But instead of dancing to “All My Friends” at home every night, the crafty Michael J. Green filmed a reenactment of the classic track’s video, starring LEGOs! …
Ben Folds, Damian Kulash, Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman to Write and Record Eight Songs in Eight Hours Musicians Ben Folds, Damian Kulash, Amanda Palmer and author Neil Gaiman are joining forces to write and record eight songs in eight hours. The group will work on the material at Berklee College of Music from 4 p.m. …
Deadline reports that Jake Scott, director of films like U2: The Best of 1990–2000 and Radiohead: 7 Television Commercials, plus their video for “Fake Plastic Trees,†will direct the upcoming biopic about Jeff Buckley. Scott is the son of Ridley Scott and has also directed The Best of R.E.M.: In View 1988–2003 as well as …
Reprinted from pastemagazine.com: “Blurt Online reports that Jack White roves around in a gigantic yellow bus that acts as a mobile record shop, live venue, DJ booth, merchandise distributor and more. Its name is The Third Man Rolling Record Storeâ„¢, named after White’s Third Man Records label, and it will be at SXSW. Third Man Records …
The Modern Skirts Well, not only did I lock myself out of the administrator feature’s of my blog for a solid month, but I also packed up ma’ sins and moved to a new state. Hence, I’m doing a bit of back-blogging now, trying to take care of the dates I missed. Mind you, the …
Please be patient while I reinvent daily-songs.com. It has been over a year with the same look and I was getting bored, so I’m abouts to whip out some new fonts and a new layout for y’all. KEEP ON ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD.
October and November Monthly Wallpaper Visualizations are posted here (scroll to the bottom)! Also, I haven’t done a monthly playlist since August, so you’re probably very upset. All two of you readers. To be honest, my playlists were getting a little rote, basically a compilation of everything I’d blogged about on a given month. I …
Another week, another set of great new releases in the music world! Before the playlist, a word. It’s 2010. Right. That’s a new decade actually. So all of this music that’s been happening ALL FREAKIN’ YEAR I’ve been tagging 00’s.…WRONG. That decade is so over and done with. Let the great re-tagging begin! Well, not now, …