Bob Dylan turns 69 this year. To celebrate his birthday, the popular and offbeat online radio show Atomic Cocktail will present It Ain’t Him, Babe, “an hour’s worth of the best tracks from four decades of Dylan clones and sound-alikes. Alongside cuts by artists you know like Simon & Garfunkel, Sonny Bono, Michael Nesmith, Barry McGuire and Ian Hunter, the show will also focus on “plagiaristic paeans from all manner of obscure also-rans,” including the “absolute best fake-Dylan of all time for the end of the show.” “If you’re a Dylan fan and you haven’t heard this fellow, it’ll be a ‘new morning,’ we guarantee,” says show producer Gene Sculatti. How can you miss it?
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The Eagles, Phish, The Strokes Muse, M.I.A., Flaming Lips, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, and Norah Jones are just a handful of the 130 acts scheduled for this year’s Austin City Limits Festival. The ninth annual music fest, which runs from October 8-10 in Austin’s Zilker Park, will also feature top indie acts like Sonic Youth, Band of Horses, Monster of Folk, Gogol Bordello, and The National.
Not satisfied yet? You’ll also get the chance to see Robert Earl Keen, Ryan Bingham and The Dead Horses, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Ozomatli, Nortec Collective, and Trombone Shorty.
The full line-up is available at www.aclfestival.com. Single day tickets go on sale today. Three- day passes have already sold out.
Did you know Brian Williams has a music blog? The marginally hip NBC news anchor, who enjoys Deer Tick, Camera Obscura and Mos Def, recently interviewed Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas for his site. Watch the magic unfold here.
The Guardian has a new article up listing 20 facts about Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” the most covered song of the past couple of decade, or so it seems. Fun fact #9: the full version of the song has 15 verses.
Back before they put out Monster in 1994, R.E.M.’s most controversial album was Fables Of The Reconstruction. The band’s difficult, occasionally dissonant third record will be reissued July 13 by Capitlol/I.R.S. as a 2 CD deluxe edition, featuring 14 previously unreleased demo recordings.
As Peter Buck writes in his new liner notes: “The last day of rehearsal, I think with [producer] Joe Boyd in attendance, Jim Hawkins recorded what we had come up with. We spent about four hours recording all the new songs live, with minimal overdubs. I hadn’t listened to this stuff since we recorded it, and I’m kind of stunned at how good it is. My memory of the rehearsals is us scrambling to finish songs. The songs on both Murmur and Reckoning had been performed for months if not years by the time they were committed to tape. I remember feeling dangerously unprepared when we flew to London, but on the evidence of this recording we must have known what we were doing.”
“It’s a personal favorite,” Buck goes on to say, “and I’m really proud of how strange it is.
Fables Of The Reconstruction (25th Anniversary Edition) Track List:
Disc One: digitally remastered original album
1. Feeling Gravity’s Pull
2. Maps and Legends
3. Driver 8
4. Life and How To Live It
5. Old Man Kensey
6. Can’t Get There From Here
7. Green Grow The Rushes
8. Kohoutek
9. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
10. Good Advices
11. Wendell Gee
Disc Two: “The Athens Demos”
1. Auctioneer (Another Engine) [demo version]
2. Bandwagon [demo version] [final version was B-side to “Can’t Get There From Here”]
3. Can’t Get There From Here [demo version]
4. Driver 8 [demo version]
5. Feeling Gravity’s Pull [demo version]
6. Good Advices [demo version]
7. Green Grow The Rushes [demo version]
8. Hyena [demo version] [album version appeared on Life’s Rich Pageant]
9. Kohoutek [demo version]
10. Life and How To Live It [demo version]
11. Maps and Legends [demo version]
12. Old Man Kensey [demo version]
13. Throw Those Trolls Away [demo version] [previously unreleased]
14. Wendell Gee [demo version]
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