Tool dressed as Led Zeppelin for Halloween, and covered “No Quarter” and it was fun AND amazing.
Amazing Video: “David Bowie On Stage” TV Concert From 1978
David Bowie’s Isolar II – The 1978 World Tour, more commonly known as The Low / Heroes World Tour or The Stage Tour, originally was to have Brian Eno as part of the tour band, but had to drop out due to health reasons. The band only had two weeks to rehearse for the tour. Carlos Alomar was the tour’s band leader and drove the rehearsals.
The set list for the performances consisted of material from the previous years’ albums, Low and “Heroes”, with the second half of each performance opening with a five-song sequence from the The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album. Bowie had the band learn the entirety of the Ziggy Stardust album in rehearsals, although most of the songs were never performed live on the tour. The instrumental track “Art Decade” typically followed the Ziggy Stardust tracks, a mellow track to follow the energy of the Ziggy Stardust material.
This TV special was filmed at the Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas on April 10, 1978
Show filmed and broadcast as “David Bowie On Stage” on US TV
What In The World 00:26
Blackout 05:19
Sense Of Doubt 09:08
Speed Of Life 12:15
Hang On To Yourself 15:03
Ziggy Stardust 17:47
https://youtu.be/9QXYnCaKZEY
Rick Rubin Returns to His NYU Dorm Room
Def Jam was started 30 years ago in Rick Rubin’s NYU dorm room. Watch him go back to the place where it all began for the very first time.
Listen To 18-Year Old Kurt Cobain’s punk rock band ‘Fecal Matter’
Lend your ears to this 1985 demo tape from 18-year old Kurt Cobain’s punk rock band ‘Fecal Matter’, formed along with Dale Crover, Mike Dillard and King Buzzo of The Melvins.
Dog Prevents Balloon From Touching The Ground
You know that game you used to play as kids, going for some world record of catches, or not-missed shots in ping pong? Check out this dog who gleefully tries for the balloon not to hit the ground. How can 16 people give this a thumbs down? Do they want a sad dog?
2 Pranksters Pretend Not To See Each Other While Talking On The Phone
Whenever I see two people together talking on their cell phones, I always tell my wife, ‘They’re talking to each other.’ TYouTube comedian Greg Benson and his friend Miles Grose take a step further by pretending to look for other over the phone while standing on opposite sides of strangers on the streets of Los Angeles.
Video: First ever Kraftwerk gig from 1970
Without Kraftwerk, there’s no Gary Numan, Ultravox, John Foxx, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Human League, Depeche Mode, Visage, and Soft Cell. No U2, no Kanye West, no LCD Soundsystem. One of the first groups to popularize electronic music, they just might be one of the most influential groups in the world, besides The Beatles, and they’ve sold less than half a percent of the fab four. Here’s where it all started.
https://youtu.be/Uv09NXOyOoU
Video: Nike’s ‘Snow Day’ Features Today’s Best Athletes
Roads are closed. School is canceled. The game is on. Get out here.
https://youtu.be/o2P5E7cFt9s
Beautiful Art Print Celebrates 200 Artists of Electronic Music
The UK-based Dorothy Collective‘s Electric Love Blueprint celebrates over 200 inventors, innovators, artists, composers and musicians who (in our opinion) have been pivotal to the evolution of electronic music from the invention of the earliest known sound recording device in 1857 to the present day. Key pioneers featured include Léon Theremin, Bob Moog, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin.
The print loosely groups genres, from the obscure Musique Concrète (Pierre Schaeffer) to the better known Krautrock (Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream, Neu!, Faust, Cluster, Harmonia and Amon Düül II) Synthpop (Gary Numan, Human League, Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Pet Shop Boys) and Electronica (New Order, The Prodigy, Massive Attack, LCD Sound System and Daft Punk). There are also references to the experimental BBC Radiophonic Workshop and our favourite innovating record labels Mute and Warp.
MuchMusic Compilation ‘Big Shiny Tunes’ Is Getting A Book
Eternal Cavalier Press is proud to announce our fifth title: A Big Shiny Legacy by celebrated Toronto-based writer Mark Teo, due Spring 2016.
A Big Shiny Legacy is a celebration of Big Shiny Tunes 1, MuchMusic’s iconic 1996 compilation. And while the album is firmly rooted in the ‘90s the book isn’t entirely about nostalgic revelry. Instead, it’s an exploration of how Big Shiny Tunes became one of Canada’s unlikeliest success stories: It launched the nation’s best-selling album series, moving a mind-busting 5 million copies. It placed our alt-rock heroes—Sloan, Limblifter, Pluto—alongside renowned household names like Bush, Beck, and Foo Fighters, canonizing “The Good in Everyone,” “Tinfoil,” and“Paste” in the process.
And true to the book’s title, Big Shiny Tunes left a massive cultural imprint, one that can be found in cover bands, tribute nights, YouTube playlists and used record bins from coast to coast, too.
Through interviews and criticism, A Big Shiny Legacy dives into the album’s origins, its status as the ultimate gateway record, the era of the compilation, and its still-unfolding influence on Canadian music—one track at a time.
Mark Teo is an arts and culture writer. He is currently a content editor for Star Touch, the Toronto Star‘s forthcoming tablet publication. He’s been the associate editor of AUX.TV and AUX magazine and the music and film editor of Fast Forward, Calgary’s now-defunct alt-weekly. His music writing has appeared in publications and websites such as Toronto Life, Broken Pencil, This, Weird Canada, the Coast, Exclaim!, Sharp, and many more. A Big Shiny Legacy is his first book.
“We’ve always admired and enjoyed Mark’s writing,” says ECP Creative Director Joshua Kloke. “As soon as we met with him we knew this would be an excellent fit. And we’ve been spinning Big Shiny Tunes a lot more since then, so we should probably be thanking Mark first and foremost.”