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Photo Gallery: Shakey Graves with And The Kids at Toronto’s Massey Hall
Kelly Clarkson on Artists Using Their Voice For Good
“I don’t want to be trained to talk. I’m not a puppet, I have a brain. It’s weird, but I actually came with a brain, not just vocal cords, and it would be silly to not have an opinion. It would be a disgrace if I didn’t have an opinion. It would be a cruel irony to all these people who live in different countries who don’t have an opinion, and don’t count, for me not to take full advantage of all the opportunities that are laid before us here in this nation. I don’t want to hide the fact that I am successful, strong-minded, opinionated. Sometimes I get it wrong, but I learn — but I have a voice.”
– Kelly Clarkson, in New York Times
Gary Oldman Doesn’t Like His Acting In “Sid & Nancy”
Gary Oldman initially turned down the lead in Sid and Nancy, the punk movement having passed him by without making much of a mark. “I just thought it was a lot of noise, so I was concerned who would see Sid and Nancy? Who cares?” he says of the role that put him on the map. “But I rolled up my sleeves, studied the way I’ve always done. You immerse yourself. I lost a ton of weight and made myself very ill.” To this day, it is not one of his favorites. “I don’t think I’m very good in it,” he says.
Watch David Bowie, David Gilmour & Richard Wright Perform Pink Floyd’s “Arnold Layne”
Arnold Layne, the debut single released by Pink Floyd in 1967, gets a bit of a resurgence thanks to this wonderful clip from the DVD set David Gilmour: Remember That Night – Live at the Royal Albert Hall, featuring the late David Bowie on vocals and Richard Wright on keyboards.
If You Loved The DJ Set On Paul McCartney’s One On One Tour, Here’s The Video
Chris Holmes has spent over eight years touring the planet with Sir Paul McCartney as his show opening DJ. Videos from his recent DJ sets for McCartney One on One Tour use Mettle Mantra VR in Premiere Pro for stylization and effects. He captures the events with the Insta360 One camera, and used Mantra VR to quickly and easily stylize the 360 footage.
I caught the tour (finally, the first time I got to see him), knowing pretty much what songs were going to be spun. It was still AMAZING. For your enjoyment, here are 3 DJ set from Chris.
Chris Holmes’ opening DJ set for Paul McCartney’s One on One tour, October 1, 2017 at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena
1) “Early Days” DJ Chris remix Paul McCartney
2) “Mamunia” DJ Chris remix Paul McCartney and Wings
2) “Check My Machine” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
4) “Mother Nature’s Son” DJ Chris mix The Beatles
5) “Blackbird” DJ Chris Parallel remix Blood Sisters/Billy Preston
6) “Dance Tonight” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
7) “Waterspout” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
8) “Country Dreamer” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
9) “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” DJ Chris mix The Beatles
10) “Uncle Albert/Hands Across The Water” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
11) “You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)” DJ Chris mix The Beatles
12) “Get Back” DJ Chris mix Deidre Wilson Tabac
13) “Seaside Woman” DJ Chris mix Linda McCartney
14) “We Can Work It Out” DJ Chris motown mix Stevie Wonder
15) “Help” DJ Chris motown mix David Porter
16) “Too Many People” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
17) “Ram” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
Chris Holmes’ opening DJ set for Paul McCartney’s One on One tour, October 2, 2017 at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena
1)“Sun King/Beatlemania edit” DJ Chris mix The Beatles
2)“She Came In Through The Bathroom Window” DJ Chris mix Joe Cocker
3)“I’m Down” DJ Chris mix
4)“Run Devil Run” DJ Chris mix Wanda Jackson
5)“Come Together” DJ Chris parallel remix Various Artists
6)“Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” DJ Chris mix The Beatles
7)“Way To Work” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
8)“Get Back” DJ Chris mix Deidre Wilson Tabac
9)“Hey Bulldog” DJ Chris edit of Erol Alkan mix The Beatles
10)“Flaming Pie” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
11)“Ou Est Le Soleil?” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
12)“Silly Little Love Songs (demo)” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
13)“Smile Away” DJ Chris fuzz mix Paul McCartney
14)“My Brave Face” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney/Elvis Costello
15)“A Love For You (demo)” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
16)“Take It Away” DJ Chris mix Paul McCartney
17)“Dizzy Miss Lizzy” DJ Chris mix The Beatles
18)“You Don’t Know How It Feels” DJ Chris edit Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Chris Holmes’ DJ set for Paul McCartney’s One on One tour at Desert Trip weekend 2 in Indio, California on October 15, 2016.
Desert Trip Weekend 2 Oct 15, 2016 Coachella Indio, California
1)“Sgt. Pepper’s Reprise” DJ Chris edit The Beatles
2)“Say Say Say” DJ Chris More Paul mix Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
3)“Revolution” DJ Chris edit The Beatles
4)“Don’t Say Goodnight” DJ Chris edit Wings
5)“I Want To Hold Your Hand” DJ Chris edit Al Green
6)“It’s Getting Better” DJ Chris edit The Beatles
7)“Here Comes The Sun” DJ Chris edit Charles Wright
8)“Twist And Shout” diplo remix The Beatles
9)“Temporary Secretary” DJ Chris edit Paul McCartney
10)“You Can’t Do That” DJ Chris edit The Supremes
11)“Tomorrow Never Knows” DJ Chris edit The Beatles
12)“Paperback Writer” DJ Chris edit R.B. Greaves
13)“Dizzy Miss Lizzy” DJ Chris edit The Beatles
Watch A-ha Perform An Acoustic Version Of “Take On Me” And It’s GREAT
Norwegian band A-ha performs a scaled-down and acoustic version of their 1985 pop hit Take on Me, taken from their album and video MTV Unplugged Summer Solstice.
Photo Gallery: Asking Alexandria with Blessthefall at Niagara Falls’ Rapids Theatre
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Cool Read This Weekend: “Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just Around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the music industry and in the minds of fans.
Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic—and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses that have distorted standard histories of rock music, Jack Hamilton underscores how ideas of “authenticity” have blinded us to rock’s inextricably interracial artistic enterprise.
According to the standard storyline, the authentic white musician was guided by an individual creative vision, whereas black musicians were deemed authentic only when they stayed true to black tradition. Serious rock became white because only white musicians could be original without being accused of betraying their race. Juxtaposing Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, and many others, Hamilton challenges the racial categories that oversimplified the sixties revolution and provides a deeper appreciation of the twists and turns that kept the music alive.
Get it here.
David Bowie’s awkward and quite hilarious friendship with Roger Moore
David Bowie befriended Roger Moore in the late Seventies – but ended up hiding from the Bond star after his daily visits became too annoying, according to the author of a new book about the singer.
Dylan Jones, author of David Bowie: A Life, first heard about the stars’ unlikely friendship from Oscar-nominated scriptwriter and novelist Hanif Kureishi.
“One of the weirdest people to be in Bowie’s orbit was Roger Moore,” said Jones on Tuesday, speaking to Telegraph rock critic Neil McCormick at a launch event for the book. “Kureishi told me this story, that when David Bowie moved to Switzerland at the end of the Seventies to escape tax and drug dealers, he didn’t know anybody there. He was in this huge house on the outskirts of Geneva – he knew nobody.
“One day, about half past five in the afternoon, there’s a knock on the door, and there he was: ‘Hello, David.’ Roger Moore comes in, and they had a cup of tea. He stays for drinks, and then dinner, and tells lots of stories about the James Bond films. They had a fantastic time – a brilliant night.
“But then, the next day, at 5.30… Knock, knock, it’s Roger Moore. He invites himself in again, and sits down: ‘Yeah, I’ll have a gin and tonic, David.’ He tells the same stories – but they’re slightly less entertaining the second time around.
“After two weeks [of Moore turning up] at 5.25pm – literally every day – David Bowie could be found underneath the kitchen table pretending not to be in.”
Watch Courtney Barnett Perform “Nameless, Faceless” on Jimmy Fallon
Musical guest Courtney Barnett performs “Nameless, Faceless” for the Tonight Show audience. Barnett’s Tell Me How You Really Feel is out now, and it’s great.
https://youtu.be/iQVvSdymxmQ