Tom Waits perform new song, “One Last Look” – Watch!
Tom Waits debuted a new song, “One Last Look“, on The Late Show With David Letterman.
The show took place on Thursday, May 14, 2015.
It was Waits 10th and final appearance on The Late Night With David Letterman: the host is due to leave the show on Wednesday, May 20, to be replaced by Stephen Colbert.
Waits first appeared with Letterman on December 21, 1983.
Commenting on Thursday night Waits said, “I don’t know when I will see Dave again. I guess from now on we’ll have to settle for bumping into each other at Pilates”.
The First Track From Steven Tyler's Country Project, "Love Is Your Name" - Listen!
Aerosmith's Steven Tyler has been talking a country project for some time and he's been seen around Nashville as of late but we finally have proof of how far he is venturing into the genre with the new track Love is Your Name.
Tyler is signed with Big Machine records for a full album; however, he will be touring this summer with Aerosmith before returning to Nashville to complete the album later this year. For now, we have this track to hold us through.
The Monkees featuring Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork, will perform their first concert in the UK since their sold-out concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011.
The concert will take place at the London Hammersmith Eventim Apollo on Friday 4th September 2015.
When four young men were cast in the television roles of a struggling rock band inspired by The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, few could have predicted the impact The Monkees would make on music and pop culture at large, an impact that still reverberates 50 years later.
The Monkees' cult runs deep in the UK, inspiring boy bands everywhere and racking up two more Top 20 albums in 1989 and 1997. Their last tour of the UK in 2011 climaxed with a sold-out show at London's Royal Albert Hall. The forthcoming London Hammersmith Eventim Apollo concert on September 4th will be their first concert since that time and the untimely passing of Davy Jones in February 2012.
Now Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork carry on that tradition with a full evening of magic music and multi-media splendor, including rare films and images from their series. Their new show features all of the Monkees hits, including Last Train To Clarkesville and Daydream Believer, plus an intimate acoustic set and selections from their cult classic, HEAD. This Evening With The Monkees is sure to be one to remember for fans on every level.
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Tickets are available for all shows here and here.
THE GRATEFUL DEAD will play their last ever gig this summer, and the show will be screened in full in cinemas across the UK.
The concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 5 – 20 years to the day since the Dead’s last ever show with founder Jerry Garcia (pictured), will be the final time the four remaining members of the classic line-up, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, play together.
Avoiding a 4am rise for fans, the gig will be shown in over 250 UK cinemas the following evening (July 6). Visit www.cinemalive.com for screening details and tickets.
Meanwhile the group’s first ever trip is revisited, and their most mind-bending recordings revealed, in the latest edition of MOJO (June 2015/ #259).
Recalling their first experience with psychedelics and the days of proto-Dead group The Warlocks, MOJO’s Jesse Jarnow recreates the atmosphere of 1960s San Francisco as he delves into the untold story of Garcia’s initial acid experiences and the impact they would have on him and his band’s music.
“We found that while high we were able to go very far out musically but still come back to some kind of recognisable space or song structure,” recalls Lesh of the band’s early dabblings.
“I knew instantly that this combination – acid and music – was the tool I’d been looking for.”
One of the greatest blues men to ever live and the ultimate ambassador for the genre, B.B. King, died on Thursday night at his home in Las Vegas. He was 89.
King has suffered from Type II diabetes for almost two decades and had been suffering from side effects of the disease in recent years. He cancelled his fall tour after he became ill from dehydration and exhaustion.
Born Riley B. King, B.B. lived his early life on a cotton plantation near Indianola, Mississippi where his parents were sharecroppers. When his mother left, he moved in with his grandmother who raised him.
Like so many of the great bluesmen, King received much of his early musical experience performing in area churches. At the age of 21, he went to Memphis with his first cousin, Bukka White and, two years later, found himself performing on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program.
King became popular enough locally that he received his own radio program, the Sepia Swing Club, on Memphis station WDIA.It was there that he was given the nickname "Beale Street Blues Boy" which eventually became "Blues Boy" and "B.B.".
B.B.'s first record, Miss Martha King, was issued in 1949 on Bullet Records which led to his signing to RPM Records where many of his new sides were produced by Sam Phillips. After a half dozen releases that failed to chart, he finally had his commercial breakthrough with the Lowell Fulson song Three O'Clock Blues which went to number 1 on the R&B chart in 1951.
Three O'Clock Blues was the first of 71 hits that King had on the R&B chart that included such classics as You Know I Love You (1952 / #1 R&B), Please Love Me (1953/ #1 R&B), Everyday I Have the Blues (1955 / #8 R&B), Paying the Cost to Be the Boss (1968 / #10 R&B / #39 Pop) and The Thrill is Gone (1970 / #3 R&B / #15 Pop).
King was always known as relentless in his work ethic. In 1956 alone, he played 342 shows, had three recording sessions and started his own label. Even in this decade, King was still playing over 200 shows per year.
While B.B. always had a huge audience in the R&B community, he upped his popularity with the rest of the music world in the late-60's when he started performing with popular rock acts. In 1967, he opened for Moby Grape and the Steve Miller Band at San Francisco's Fillmore and, in 1969, he went on the road with the Rolling Stones on their 1969 American tour. Two years later, he won the first of his 15 Grammy awards for The Thrill is Gone.
Even late in his career, King had his hands in a wide variety of activities. He recorded ten albums between 1995 and 2008, including his collaboration with Eric Clapton, Riding With the King (2000 / #3). It was also during this time that he opened his first B.B. King's Blues Club in Memphis, a venture that would eventually also open locations in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, Connecticut, Palm Beach, Las Vegas and Orlando.
King was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame in 2015. Other honors included the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1987), National Medal of Arts (1990), the National Heritage Fellowship (1991) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2006).
Eric Clapton recorded a video to salute his idol:
Buddy Guy, one of the last of the great early bluesmen left, wrote a heartfelt message on his Facebook page:
This morning, I come to you all with a heavy heart.
BB King was the greatest guy I ever met. The tone he got out of that guitar, the way he shook his left wrist, the way he squeezed the strings... man, he came out with that and it was all new to the whole guitar playin' world. He could play so smooth, he didn't have to put on a show. The way BB did it is the way we all do it now. He was my best friend and father to us all.
I'll miss you, B. I love you and I promise I will keep these damn Blues alive. Rest well.
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