With a new album finally about to drop, Fleet Foxes are officially back on the scene. The new album is titled Helplessness Blues and is available for purchase on May 3rd. What better way to celebrate their return than to feature one of their many incredible live performances. For a sound built on gentle melodies and complex harmonies, it’s quite amazing to see them dominate a large stage like Glastonbury. Here they are performing my favorite Fleet Foxes song, “Mykonos”, continue reading...
In this new series of posts I’ll be highlighting some of my personal favorite live performances, enjoy!
Once again I’ll throw my favorite 20 albums of 2009 into the mix of the 9 billion year end lists out there. Remember that these are NOT necessarily the 20 “best” albums of the year, but the 20 albums that I personally enjoyed the most. There’s also a great chance I’ve missed a few albums that I sincerely loved around 10 months ago, but the list is finished and I don’t give a shit! continue reading...
I’m a bit late on this one, but the Champ of Air Guitar was crowned this past August and Sylvain “Gunther Love” Quimene of France can now claim the honor. Watch his admittedly impressive skills below:
Sylvain “Gunther Love” Quimene (FR) sparkled brighter than the setting sun, and won over both the audience and the judges with his sensuous performance at the Air Guitar World Championships on 21 August in Oulu. The contest was extremely tight but in the end the defending World Champion, Craig “Hot Lixx Hulahan” Billmeier, had to surrender his title to France. continue reading...
Back in October Pearl Jam took a short break from touring to record a performance for the amazing and long running television show, Austin City Limits. The relatively short set manages to capture a classic band that can still outperform most in a live setting and continue to stay relevant in an era of mostly terrible music. Here’s the first song of the set, “Just Breathe” from 2009’s Backspacer, but be sure to click the link below for the full performance.
Full performance: http://video.pbs.org/video/1335500400/ continue reading...
This is why Eddie is the best front man in rock music. Austin City Limits was a rain and mud fest this year and halfway through Pearl Jam’s encore performance of “Keep on rockin in the free world”, Eddie decides to join in the fun. Skip to 1:50 for the mud shenanigans: continue reading...
From NME.com:
Prince is planning to release three new albums in 2009. continue reading...
