Apocalyptica

... has a new album with Till Lindermann singing on the most interesting tune – “Helden,” a German version of David Bowie's “Heroes.”

Find it as soon as you can!

Crash the Zeppelin

I was part of the crowd of 20 million people who crashed the registration system for their once-19-years concert.

Communication Breakdown/It's always the same/...!

Music for Airports

The original Brian Eno record was a small revolution in ambient, but the Bang on a Can adaptation is even better! It feels like walking under water. Or maybe that's because it's 3.30am.

Cash, “Cocaine Blues”

Just to add a second country song to balance the first one:

“Union Maid”, by Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie

I once had a History & Geography teacher who shared some resemblance with the guy on the left:



And they sung the same type of songs too!

Via.

Rachid : “Je la désire”

Probably the funniest song on the planet (yes, it beats the Lumberjack song). I try to watch it every day to keep faith in humanity.

Nouvelle Star - Rachid
Uploaded by lyline19

The lyrics go like this:

Je vais à sa chambre, je vais à sa chambre
Je la vois, elle s'habille, elle se déshabille comme une abeille
Je fais demi-tour, je fais demi-tour
Je commence à ouvrir son frigo
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Je vois la mayonnaise, je suis amoureux
I love you, oh yeah
Elle le croit
Elle me dit "S'il te plaît Rachid, s'il te plaît Rachid"
"Chope-moi un Kiri"
Je lui dit (…)
Elle m'a dit une voix douce
Elle m'a dit une voix douce
Je lui ai dit
I believe I can fly
(…)
Oh yeah
C'est ma chérie

Jazz tracks

Two tracks from my secret list of favourite jazz tracks ever:

• Herbie Hancock, “Someday My Prince Will Come,” on his amazing live with Chick Corea (An Evening With…, 1978)
  
  
• Mike Ratledge, “Slightly All the Time,” on Soft Machine's Third album (1970)
  
  

The video supply for these tracks is not that bad, thanks in particular to the jazzheads who are spending their days downloading from the French National Audiovisual Archives (INA) and uploading them on Youtube instead.

It is obvious that you should not trust live recordings to reflect album performace, but I think they will give you a pretty good idea. Third has been remastered in 2007, while the Hancock/Corea live was already perfect on first take: you can hear some slight humming over the piano at some point, but nothing critical like in Gould's Variations for instance.