Neil Young brought to a close his four-date residency at New York's Carnegie Hall last night [January 10].
The set was almost identical to the three previous shows, with the exception of the addition of Buffalo Springfield's "Out Of My Mind".
Sometimes, with Bill Callahan, the focus on his records is so unwaveringly on his lyrics, it is tempting to treat them as recited poetry rather than actual music. On an old Smog record like “The Doctor Came At Dawn”, say, the music seems barely there; just a little shading to point up the melodic undertow of a baritone that often wanders closer to speech than song.
Elliott Landy's photographs for The Band's first two albums are to be collected in a fine art book, funded through Kickstarter.
Landy shot over 8,000 frames of film of the group around the Music From The Big Pink and The Band albums, only about 30 of which have been widely published to date.
Since launching his Kickstarter campaign last month, Landy has raised over $100,000 - reportedly making it the second most funded photography project in the site's history.
Twelve years after he was pulling pints in a pub in London Bridge, Brian Burton is perhaps busier than ever – he has a new Broken Bells album out on Monday (January 13), he’s been working with U2 and is rumoured to be producing the next Black Keys record. It’s been a whirlwind decade for the writer and producer better known as Danger Mouse: after making his name by daring to cross-breed The Beatles with Jay-Z, he’s gone on to work with everyone from Damon Albarn to David Lynch.
Liverpool Sound City has confirmed John Cale and Thurston Moore as keynote speakers.
The event, which takes place from May 1-2 at the Liverpool Hilton Hotel and Liverpool ONE will see Cale and Moore joined by a third keynote speaker, former Chief Executive of The Premier League and former CEO of Liverpool Football Club, Rick Parry.
Last night [January 9], Neil Young played the third show in his four-date residency at New York's Carnegie Hall.
Young had played identical sets at the previous two shows.
However, for last night's show he made three changes: dropping "Mr Soul" and adding "Helpless" and "Journey Through The Past".
Scroll down to read the full set list.
Set 1
Hank To Hendrix
Helpless
On The Way Home
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Love In Mind
When you’re in the business of writing about/codifying/making up a musical scene, it always helps if you can locate its nexus. Reading the small print on record sleeves, a good few of the American musicians negotiating the space between roots music and avant-garde jamming these past few years - part of what used to be called free folk, for a while - all turn out to have recorded at Black Dirt Studios in upstate New York.
