Monday, March 29, 2010

Iggy Pop quits stage diving; New Stooges album

JAM! Music reports that Iggy Pop quits stage diving. The crowd at a Carnegie Hall gig failed to catch him:

Iggy Pop has vowed to quit crowd surfing following an unfortunate incident in New York which left him battered and bruised.
The veteran rocker is well known for leaping into the audience at his gigs, but his signature stage dive went awry during a recent concert at Carnegie Hall.
The crowd parted and he landed flat on the floor - and The Stooges star is adamant he won't be jumping off the stage again any time soon.
He says, "When I landed it hurt and I made a mental note that Carnegie Hall would be a good place for my last stage dive. The audience were just like, 'What are you doing?'"

According to Uncut Stooges will be recording material for a new album.

Video: The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog (live in Serbia 2004)

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Via Audio: Animalore

Via Audio

Brooklyn pop band Via Audio covers a lot of ground. On their Animalore album a slide guitar driven love song (Wanted) sit comfortably next to funky eighties dance music inspired tracks like Babies, Tigers, and Digital, which sounds like a lost track by Depeche Mode. And Oh Blah Wee is a sped-up poppy Americana ditty.

All members met at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. With their schooling they picked up a lot tricks and influences, but their sound is very much their own - if push comes to shove they go for smart pop songs grounded in adventurous rhythms.

Via Audio:

Jessica Martins: vocals, keyboards, guitar
Tom Deis: guitar, vocals
David Lizmi: bass
Dan Molad: drums

Via Audio: Animalore

Animalore is released through the Undertow Music Collective.

Tracks:

  1. Hello
  2. Goldrush
  3. Babies
  4. Tigers
  5. Digital
  6. Wanted
  7. Too Quiet
  8. Lizard
  9. Summer Stars
  10. Oh Blah Wee
  11. Olga
  12. Happening

MP3: Via Audio - Babies

Live dates:
  • 03/31 The End (w/ Parachute Musical) Nashville, TN
  • 04/01 The Union (w/ Spring Standards) Athens, OH
  • 04/02 Smiling Moose, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 04/07 Jammin Java (w/ Spring Standards) Vienna, VA
  • 04/17 Le Poisson Rouge (w/ Spring Standards) New York, NY

» viaaudio.net
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The Who: vintage 1967 photo gallery

Pete Townshend
photo: Tom Wright

Mojo has a photo gallery of The Who in 1967, published in Raising Hell: On The Rock 'n' Roll Highway by Tom Wright and Susan Vanhecke.

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John Cale: 2010/03/27 Wroclaw "Life Along the Borderline: a Tribute to Nico" short video

Watch a short video of the Life Along the Borderline: a Tribute to Nico featuring John Cale and band, Lisa Gerrard and Jon King. show at the Teatr Muzyczny Capitol, Wroclaw, Poland - March 27, 2010. Posted by Polish newspaper Gazeta.

(Thanks: Gerd)

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