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Bettye LaVette performing her version of the Traffic song “No Time To Live” from her new album Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook at the Highline Ballroom, in NYC on 5-26-10.

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Anti-Records artist William Elliot Whitmore has the kind of voice that conjures images of a hard lived Americana. The rural Iowa native combines a stark folk and blues with a punk intensity to create a sound ideal for the haunting landscape of the dying West featured in the critically lauded hit game Red Dead Redemption [...]

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My friend Alix produced this film. It won Best Picture at this year’s Sundance Festival. It’s called Winter’s Bone and was directed by Debra Granik who also made the film Down To The Bone. The best way to describe the story is a classic film noir set in the Appalachian speed world. But instead of [...]

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The Levi’s jeans company has launched a series of free downloads called Levi’s Pioneer Sessions. Its a simple concept: current artists covering older songs. Today you can hear acclaimed duo The Swell Season covering Candi Staton’s disco hit “Young Hearts Run Free”. It’s a surprising reinterpretation, taking the booty shaking dance floor anthem and creating [...]

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After a very successful tour beginning this year, with sold out shows in Ireland, the UK, Benelux and France, best-selling Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd will be coming back to Europe this summer for a run of festival and club shows, in support of his new album Koonyum Sun. The album marks a fresh, new musical [...]

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In the fourth installment of Roky Erickson’s “Psychedelic Tour of Austin” Roky and Will Sheff visit the house Roky first heard the future members of the 13th Floor Elevators and where they were subsequently raided by the fuzz (aka police) and made to cut their hair.

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Care of Pitchfork comes news that One Day As A Lion/Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha has helped organize the Sound Strike, a protest against the new Arizona immigration law, which “would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected [...]

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The show Live from the Artists Den on public television spotlights contemporary musicians performing intimate, invitation-only concerts, along with artist interviews and insights about the unconventional venues chosen. Filmed in high-definition, the new season will feature a performance by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Booker T. with the Drive-By Truckers and special guest Bettye [...]

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Grinderman will release their new studio album Grinderman 2 through Mute on September 13th and via Anti- Records in the U.S. on September 14th. Grinderman 2 was recorded in 2009 at London’s RAK, State of The Ark and Assault and Battery studios. Co-produced by Grinderman and Nick Launay, the album was mixed by Launay at [...]

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(pic by Andrew Carver)
Bettye LaVette returns to the Tonight Show this evening with a performance of the Beatles’ classic “The Word,” from her new album titled Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook out tomorrow on Anti- Records.
Meanwhile, critics all over are raving about the new disc:
“Ms. LaVette, 64, now rivals Aretha Franklin as her generation’s most [...]

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