This may be
funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. Danny Tanner rules! It was even better than him on Entourage.
n I may be on a bit of a Wilco overload lately, what with seeing them two Sunday’s ago. But this is my blog, so let me obsess. So here we go again:
n NPR is streaming
Thursday’s show rom the 9:30 club in Washington, D.C.
n Jeff Tweedy
speaks with Billboard about his
incident with a fan on-stage recently.
n rbally.net has a
Tweedy solo gig from a folk festival in Colorado. And his
live DVD comes out Tuesday.
Well, I’m going to see Death Cab for Cutie with TED LEO!!!!! (http://tedleo.com/) Nov. 15 so I can obsess about that for a while.
n Who Killed the Mixtape has audio from Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins' performance of a
new song, "Fernando" from Conan O' Brien last Friday.
Here’s an interview Lewis did with
The Houston Chronicle.
n Pop Matters interviews author
Chuck Klosterman.n Yes, the best thing about The New Pornographers is hearing
Neko Case belt out those notes. But, when
she’s not around, all is not lost.
n Scarlett Johannsson is
covering Tom Waits? Well, with Lauren Bacall-esque voice, that may sound cool, but I doubt it.
n The Cars documentary
has been released on DVD. The Cars were tremendously underrated, check this out. Of course, I’m sure Jello Biafra hated this “new wave” band.
n I Am Fuel, You are Friends breaks down Pearl Jam’s Vs. (their second album) and has a stream of some new Ben Folds. His new album comes out Tuesday.
n Corey Glover, former lead singer of Living Colour, is playing Judas in “Jesus Christ Superstar.” He talked with the
Lexington Herald-Leader.n The Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, is putting on a
Clash exhibit. If you’ve never been to the Rock Hall, it’s a very neat experience. They had a John Lennon exhibit there for about two years, and it just has a tremendous amount of rock memorabilia. And while you’re there,
check out the city, it’s no longer The Mistake on the Lake. And go to Penini’s!
n The Aspect Ratio has a
Martin Scorsese retrospective.n Interesting roundtable from
The Guardian about the state of music.
n Remember when Liz Phair was still really good? Well, this live 1998show, courtesy of Kwaya Na Kisser
is a good reminder.n If your ever looking for a good, diverse group of songs to sample, check out
Puritan Blister.
n And finally, you go Chuck Berry! From the AP: Chuck Berry celebrates 80th birthday with St. Louis concert
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Bill Clinton wasn’t among the standing-room-only crowd at Chuck Berry’s 80th birthday celebration, but the former president sent birthday greetings to the rock ’n’ roll pioneer.
“I’ve loved your music for nearly half a century,” Clinton wrote in a letter read aloud before Berry came on stage at Blueberry Hill nightclub Wednesday night.
“Our lives are richer, our music more memorable, and our artistic legacy greater because of you, and I’m glad to have this opportunity to salute you for truly being an American treasure.”
Berry, the duck-walking, guitar-playing rock legend who defined the music’s joy and rebellion in such classics as “Johnny B. Goode,” “Sweet Little Sixteen” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” performed tirelessly for over an hour at the venue where he has given concerts one night a month for the last 10 years.
Berry moved the crowd to its feet with his classic “duck walk,” a stage move he patented in a 1956 performance in New York that’s been imitated by rockers ever since.
Berry’s band included his daughter Ingrid on harmonica, and his son Charles Edwards Berry Jr. on guitar. Back-up musicians who have performed with him over the decades took their turns playing with him on stage.
In a surprise appearance, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry also joined Berry on stage.
