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C&L's Late Night Music Club with Benny Goodman

bluegal — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:00:21 +0000

Title: Roll Em'

Artist: Benny Goodman and his orchestra

from the wartime movie "The Powers Girl" (1942), featuring some fabulous Lindy dancers.

C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Michael Franti and Spearhead

Nicole Belle — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:00:39 +0000

Title: Say Hey

Artist: Michael Franti and Spearhead

From All Rebel Rockers (2008)

So I have this beautiful niece by marriage, whom I've known since she was a very little girl. She has recently graduated from college (Journalism degree, I didn't have the heart to tell her) and due to the vagaries of the economy, lost her very first job.

I've always told her that your 20s should be a time to explore. It's my personal belief that you're still fairly amorphous at that age, and it's the perfect time for you to go out and try different things and explore new places before the ties of jobs, spouses and children weigh you down. Well, my funny, smart, sweet niece is going to do that. She's announced to her family that's she's going to go to Egypt to teach ESL as part of her goal to travel the world.

So this is for B. as she gets ready for her new adventure. Because, darling girl, as you will soon discover, the more you learn, the less you know. But I do know that (we) love you.

Have a song that you'd recommend to someone just starting out in life?

C&L's Late Nite Music Club - Introducing Friday Night Ripoffs(?)

MaxMarginal — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Title: Wild Wild West/Subterranean Homesick Blues

Artist: The Escape Club/Bob Dylan

The Escape Club - Wild Wild West

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues

This is the first post in a series called Friday Night Ripoffs(?). Here's the deal: every Friday, two songs, where one of them might very well be a gigantic ripoff of the other.

When I was 9 years old watching The Escape Club's "Wild Wild West" on MTV, my stepfather explained that the song was nothing more than a total lift of Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and then took me out to Tower Records (RIP) to buy the cassette and drive the point home.

What do you think? Ripoff, or just musical cadences that exist in the ether?

What are some other suspicious musical borrowings you've encountered? We'll go through the comments and post a prime suspect next week!

C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Hank Williams, Sr.

MaxMarginal — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Title: Cold Cold Heart

Artist: Hank Williams

Country music sometimes gets a bad rap around these parts, but I have a soft spot for it -- even some of the watered down hyper-produced stuff that dominates country radio rises to the guilty pleasure level from time to time. There's no reason to feel guilty about liking Hank #1 though.

What's your favorite country tune?

Get Up Kids on Reunion Tour

spencerkent — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:45:00 +0000

Title: Holiday

Artist: The Get Up Kids

The Get Up Kids, a seminal band that existed at the start of the emo movement that spawned literally thousands of imitators, have just put up all the dates for their U.S. reunion tour. Its somewhat special when years later, you still get to see a band from your childhood play a smaller size venue venue for their reunion, as opposed to seeing The Offspring at a gigantic amphitheater. It's just not the same. I will be looking forward to this.

C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Beck (Happy 39th!)

MaxMarginal — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Title: Pay No Mind

Artist: Beck

Beck is 39 years old today. "Pay No Mind" didn't get the kind of radio ubiquity that "Loser" did, but since when did commercial radio account for taste?

Post your favorite slacker-rock tunes in the comments. This one's mine.

Nine Inch Nails to Do Big Finish in Small Clubs

MaxMarginal — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:15:15 +0000

Title: Head Like a Hole

Artist: Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails' performance at Bonnaroo was supposed to be their last, but Trent Reznor ain't goin' out like that:

It turns out Nine Inch Nails’ Bonnaroo ‘09 set won’t be Trent Reznor’s final U.S. show ever — today the NIN leader announced on the band’s Website new plans to perform a handful of small venue shows in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. Nine Inch Nails’ joint tour with Jane’s Addiction and their massive set at Bonnaroo were supposed to be the final curtain calls for Reznor and Co. in the States before the band would “disappear for a while,” but as Reznor writes, “Upon reflection, the NIN/JA tour felt like we had to rush through sets due to a limited allotted set length and many shows were in daylight — it just didn’t feel right to end NIN that way.”

So far, Reznor said Nine Inch Nails will perform at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, Webster Hall and Terminal Five; Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom; and Los Angeles’ Wiltern, the Henry Fonda, Palladium and the Echoplex. “These should be cool, unusual and unique shows and I hope you come out — this is it,” Reznor writes of the final shows, strangely echoing Michael Jackson’s canceled “This Is It!” concerts in London, which were meant to be the King of Pop’s final performances in the U.K.

I'll be damned if I don't make it to one of those LA shows. I'll also be damned if these are the last every Nine Inch Nails shows. Does anyone even believe bands that Ian MacKaye isn't in when they announce their final show?

C&L's Late Night Music Club With Klaus Nomi

Logan Murphy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:00:20 +0000

Title: Total Eclipse

Artist: Klaus Nomi

While Klaus Nomi was never a household name, he had a big cult following and definitely had world-class talent. He was as original as they come. Nomi, who died in 1983 from an AIDS-related illness, was a trained countertenor who also worked with the likes of David Bowie.

Usher at Michael Jackson's Memorial Service

MaxMarginal — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:25:47 +0000

Title: Gone too Soon

Artist: Usher

Usher, singing Michael Jackson's Gone Too Soon at today's memorial service at the Staples Center in LA.

Stars Line Up for Michael Jackson Funeral Today

MaxMarginal — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Madonna paid tribute to Michael Jackson at her tour opener in London this weekend, and today Justin Timberlake, Usher, Mariah Carey and more will pay tribute at the memorial service at the Staples Center today in downtown LA (remind me to stay off the freeways.)

Paul McCartney, Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Taylor, and Barry Manilow are among the celebrities said to be walking the "black carpet" at the service. According to The Sun, Usher and Justin Timberlake will perform Jackson tributes during the memorial, and Diana Ross -- who Jackson named in his will as guardian of his three children if his mother, Katherine Jackson, was unable to care for them -- will read the King of Pop's eulogy.

According to a statement from Jackson's family, Kobe Bryant, Berry Gordy, Jennifer Hudson, Magic Johnson, Martin Luther King III, John Mayer, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Brooke Shields, and Stevie Wonder will also participate in the memorial.

According to TMZ, Mariah Carey will perform a tribute rendition of Jackson 5 classic "I'll Be There."

We'll be posting all good performances as they come in.