Neil Young brought out Arcade Fire for a moving rendition of “Helpless” during the 2011 Bridge School benefit show on Saturday night. Feels like the passing of a torch in a way.
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At the 12th annual moe.down festival over Labor Day weekend, moe. performed “Crab Eyes” using nothing but iPads and the GarageBand app. Well, okay, they used five iPads, four of which were running standard instruments in the GarageBand app to play the guitar, bass, and drums parts, according to moe. guitarist Al Schnier. Percussionist Jim [...]
Holy shit! How in the holy hell did NPR get Wilco to play a Tiny Desk Concert? Usually, they get smaller, indie bands looking for the publicity. “For young acts, that sort of appearance can be about reaching new fans. But for Wilco, it’s about pleasing those who’ve come to care passionately about the music,” [...]
As if NPR streaming Wilco’s eighth studio album, The Whole Love wasn’t rad enough, last night David Letterman had the band on to play an hour-long set for his show’s online-only musical extension, Live on Letterman. [via vulture]
The Westboro Baptist Church received a unique counter-protest last Friday, a serenade from the Foo fighters in front of the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. Well played Dave Grohl, well played.
What more do I really need to say to add context to Paul Simon singing “The Sound of Silence” at this morning’s 9/11 memorial ceremony at Ground Zero? None, that’s what. Grab the tissue box.
Modest Mouse play a 25 minute set in September 2001 in front of Criminal Records in Atlanta. The songs they play are Paper Thin Walls, Third Planet, Trailer Trash, Lives, Diggin’ Holes (later released as an Ugly Casanova track) and I Came as a Rat. Pretty amazing to see an entire set from the band [...]
I have no idea the story behind this, or where this footage comes from, but let’s just enjoy Neil Young busking outside a Glasgow subway station in 1976. Young was more than famous at this point, as befitting the recording of this moment, but it feels like one of those captured moments in history before [...]
Because God (but mostly me) hates you that’s why. [via THR]
Letterman is just cozying up to the Portland music scene this week, with Sallie Ford on Wednesday and Typhoon last night. Both of them play the songs you’d want to hear them play and the bands just kill their performances. Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside, “I Swear” Typhoon, “The Honest Truth” Crazy. Hard to [...]
