Our latest arrival
Due to publish in April 2012! Related: here’s a Talking Heads related episode of Studio 360 from last weekend.
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Le Blues de Memphis
From The Observer’s Very Short List… “Le Blues de Memphis” is an incredibly cool 11-minute video tour of two iconic music studios. Made for French television forty-some years ago, it starts off at a Brook Benton session in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and then (after a quick stop at Elvis Presley’s Graceland) takes us behind the
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On Point with Aretha
Aaron Cohen was recently on WBUR’s On Point discussing Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace with Alexander Hamilton (the choir director on the album) and Bernard “Pretty” Purdie (drummer extraordinaire). Even if you aren’t in a spot where you can listen to the archived audio at the moment (but you should bookmark it, because it’s fantastic), the
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A collection of 33 1/3 author interviews
Rock Cellar Magazine‘s debut issue arrives in style, with an interview with our own David Barker about the 33 1/3 series, followed by six interviews with 33 1/3 authors who are also musicians or artists from other fields, namely… Elizabeth Vincentelli (ABBA’s ABBA Gold)Warren Zanes (Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis)Bill Janovitz (Rolling Stones’ Exile on
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Early ’70s Radio event in Austin
Kim Simpson will be talking about and signing copies of Early ’70s Radio in Austin at Book People on Wednesday, January 25th at 7pm. It is worth noting that St. Arnold Brewing Company will be supplying free beer. Early ’70s Radio was also featured in the Austin American Statesman recently. You can read that here.
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Clips of the day roundup
David is going through the series posting a video (or two) from each volume of the series over on the series Facebook page… Here are the first six days presented without comment! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE49adRN6ZA][youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3tV_AptOsE][youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pRxXHn64DM][youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldC3NaNnQAQ][youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nvJ2hmaUI][youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-UZ_O8aF2s][youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKxDwInE2tc] Pink Floyd BBC1 1967 Astronomy Domine Unedited (embedding disabled) and for good measure, here’s Echoes
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RIP Lou Rawls
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hl3U0KhwgM]Thought this particular video might be Friday the 13th-appropriate.
Bob Seger Acapella Hollywood Nights
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHdboNjPnRs] Not to be confused with this vocal track.
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How To Sell Records Like The Smiths
Some sage words for the music industry from our friend Mike Fournier: How to Sell Records Like The Smiths “So the irony of the holiday season is pretty heavy (and tasty). In 2011 the model that could have kept the industry afloat is sitting right in front of us in the few record stores that
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