The jacket worn by Bob Dylan on the cover of 'The Basement Tapes' is set to appear at auction. Never intended for official release, 'The Basement Tapes' remains one of Bob Dylan's most intoxicating offerings. A full collaboration between the rock bard and The Band, the recordings hark back to what Griel Marcus termed that other, weird America. A disparate series of recordings, the official release of 'The Basement Tapes' came equipped with an instantly recognisable cover. Dylan and The Band were joined by characters suggested by their songs, such as a dwarf, an Eskimo and a woman wearing ...

Musicians have swarmed online to discuss Manchester City's incredible title win yesterday. Perennial under-achievers, Manchester City have matched their spell in the shadows with a reputation for being a team followed by musicians, by creatives. So when the club finally snatched success in the most dramatic of fashion yesterday (May 14th) it was cause for some famous faces to celebrate. Currently in South America, Noel Gallagher watched his beloved Manchester City win their first top flight title in 44 years at a bar in Santiago. Speaking to the BBC , he revealed some of the emotions he was feeling during ...

lost a great one today. namaste and safe travels, mc adam. beastie boys : "a year and a day" (part 4 of "b-boy bouillabaisse") from the lp paul's boutique (capitol, 1989) m.c. for what i am and do the A is for adam and the lyrics, true so as i pray and hope and the message is sent and i am living in the dreams that i have dreamt because i'm down with the three the unstoppable three me and adam and d. were born to m.c. and my body and soul and mind are pure not ...

You Lost Me - Sleigh Bells (mp3) Meltdown - Ash (mp3) Who are we? Whom do we trust and why? Where do we turn in a crisis? Do we know our own core essence? Do we even have a core essence? Over the course of six years, director John Carpenter made one of the most thought-provoking B-movie trilogies of modern cinema: The Doppelganger Trilogy . Few people know this because I just made it up. It wasn’t an official trilogy. And B-movies are, by general definition, rarely thought-provoking. If the name John Carpenter seems familiar, yet you can’t quite place it ...

Loreena McKennitt : Cymbeline [ purchase ] Have you ever played Word Association? It’s the game where one person says a word, and the next player has to say the first word that comes into their head. The results can be funny, revealing, or just wonderfully odd. This week, we will be playing a musical version of that game, and forming a song chain. Each song will have something, anything at all, to do with the last one. To start off, here is the first song that came to mind when I saw Mt Vernon Mike’s post of The Reduced Merle ...

Merle Haggard: Medley of Hits [ purchase ] Just as the Reduced Shakespeare Company boils down the epic works of Williams Shakespeare into two hours, this excellent medley of Merle Haggard hits does a good job of condensing some of the Bard of Country Music's best songs from the 1960s into a slightly overmodulated six-minute medley. The set is taken from his legendary live album, Okie from Muskogee, recorded in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. It was Haggard's first live album, and also his first record to go gold, then platinum. If this is your introduction to these songs, they sound complete ...

Levon Helm hosted many Midnight Ramble jam sessions at his upstate New York home, but his most famous musical partner will always be Bob Dylan. Last night the Bard added to the chorus of memorials on the web paying tribute to the onetime Band drummer, who

"Experimentation is vital to making anything, even if that means recording yourself vomiting or shitting into a microphone."

American music icon Thurston Moore, the star duet annb: alva noto & blixa bargeld, the headbanging Baroness, the Texan bard Josh T. Pearson, Polish alternative rock queen Nosowska, and – reuniting just for the festival – Kanał Audytywny. If that wasn’t enough three new acts have been added to...

Halifax fort-holders Herohill have compiled a gift for you and me: The Bard of Montreal, a Leonard Cohen tribute album featuring covers by some of the bands currently making up the Canadian music... Click on the headline to read the rest of the story.

Leonard Cohen isn't just making a recording comeback : He's making a return to the road too. The bard ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/leonard-cohen-announces-old-ideas-tour/63646/

by Michael Cramer Urstan continues Scottish bard Alasdair Roberts's turn toward traditional folk songs and away from his own material. Here, however, Roberts turns to a rather different musical tradition, replacing the English and Scottish balladry of 2010's Too Long in This Condition with the Gaelic musical... Read More

Spirituality as often at its best when it happens by accident. Think about the zealotry of people who find religion as adults compared to the attitude of those who are born to it. I use a broad definition of spirituality, not confined at all to religious belief, but I find that this idea still holds true. So I was happy that this post happened by accident. I originally set out to do a post of hot new releases, but, as I began to choose songs, I noticed a theme developing. The songs were expressing deep emotions, sometimes triggered by a ...

The Magnetic Fields are, by pretty much all accounts, an anomaly. Bard and satirist Stephin Merritt, the Fields’ more-or-less helmsman, brings his trademark Huey-Lewis-on-peyote approach to their new album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, the first of their albums to feature synthesizers since 1999’s landmark 69 Love Songs. And indeed Love at the [...]

Recommended Show: FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012 XYLOS @ MERCURY LOUNGE 217 E Houston St New York, NY 10002 $10, 9:30PM Local act Xylos are gaining more and more notoriety as the days pass. Tonight, they headline the Mercury Lounge, which is no small feat on a Friday night! Soulive @ Brooklyn Bowl The Figgs @ Littlefield Bjork @ Roseland Ballroom Pat Benatar @ Irving Plaza The Spits & TV Ghost @ Knitting Factory Cults, Writer, & Mrs. Magician @ Maxwell's Psychic Ills, Images, & Alan Watts @ Big Snow King Stork, Whale Belly, & Uncles @ The Rock Shop Jennifer O'Connor, Tim Foljahn, & Ma'am @ Cake Shop Xylos, Beacon, & Grimace ...