Music talk Thread

[ChrisInDC]

I like Adele's music and think she has a great voice, but it seems like people go out of their way to say how much they love Adele. I don't get it.

I'd like to hear Adele have a single about something other than total heartbreak. Her voice lends well to that theme, but you can only do it so much before I get tired of hearing how much relationships suck over and over.

"And why can't John Lee Hooker sing just one song about what a nice morning it is? How come he always has the blues? Amiright?"

[stlouie_lipp]

Music can be pretty powerful at times.

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[lukethedrifter]

Paul Simonon and Mick Jones talk London Calling tomorrow at 1800 London time which should be noon in STL.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g8bxy

[redbirdjazzz]

On a very sad note, from Levon Helm's website:

Dear Friends,
Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey.

Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration... he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage...

We appreciate all the love and support and concern.
From his daughter Amy, and wife Sandy

[The Third Man]

On a very sad note, from Levon Helm's website:

Dear Friends,
Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey.

Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration... he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage...

We appreciate all the love and support and concern.
From his daughter Amy, and wife Sandy

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[redbirdjazzz]

On a very sad note, from Levon Helm's website:

Dear Friends,
Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey.

Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration... he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage...

We appreciate all the love and support and concern.
From his daughter Amy, and wife Sandy

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That's the one I'd pick too, although it's hard to go wrong with any song Levon sings.

[redbirdjazzz]

A day after Helm's wife and daughter announced the former member of The Band had entered the final stages of cancer, his manger Barbara O'Brien provided an update: She's reading fans' online Facebook posts and dedications to Helm.

Pictures: Levon Helm
Read more: Levon Helm in the final stages of long battle with cancer
"Thank you, all, for the outpouring of kindness and love," O'Brien shared on Facebook. "I know Levon is feeling it and that love will help guide him through this final journey ... YOU are truly people with class and Levon would think the world of you. The pain of knowing we're going to lose him is almost too much for all of us to bear at the moment. But it can't be about US. This is about honoring this great man's dignity and privacy. Let's send him off with love, positive energy, lots of light and words of support and comfort. Keep sending the great posts. I'm going to read them all to him."

If you've got the time, head over to Levon's Facebook page and leave a comment. There's a decent chance it'll make it to him and brighten his day a little.

[redbirdjazzz]

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R.I.P., Levon.

[stlouie_lipp]

This could be cool.

Even though he has never been any of these things in real life, Gary Oldman has slipped seamlessly into the film roles of a violent, dreadlocked pimp; a vampire count; and a man who sliced off his own face. Now can he play the part of the director of a live concert broadcast, without having done it before?

Jack White believes he can, and has tapped Mr. Oldman, the Academy Award-nominated star of last fall’s “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” to direct an online stream of a concert he will perform on April 27 at Webster Hall in Manhattan to promote the April 24 release of Mr. White’s solo album “Blunderbuss.”

“It just fell from the sky,” Mr. Oldman said of his unlikely assignment. “Occasionally you get calls and they just drop in. I didn’t have to think very quickly about it. I just said, ‘Yeah, that sounds very good.’ ”

The concert, which will be shown online at 9 p.m. Eastern time on April 27 at www.youtube.com/JackWhiteVEVO, is the latest entry in the American Express Unstaged series, a two-year-old program that has paired Arcade Fire with Terry Gilliam; My Morning Jacket with Todd Haynes; and Mary J. Blige with Adam Shankman for concert Webcasts. A 2011 Unstaged event for which Coldplay was directed by Anton Corbijn drew more than 19 million streams, press representatives for the series said.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/ ... t-webcast/

[lukethedrifter]

Andre Williams show and screening of documentary Fri Night at Off Broadway. One of the wildest characters in American Music history

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