From their latest full album, Keep Calm and Carry On out now.
Stereophonics – Innocent
We just saw the halftime show for this year’s Super Bowl game featuring Roger Daltrey and Peter Townsend from the infamous 60’s British Rock Band The Who. The set consisted of some of The Who’s all time greatest hits performed via a 5 song medley…. a very nice medley even with the old duffers playing … and Daltrey’s voice not quite at its all time best.. as we have personally witnessed here at YATM seeing the band live just prior to late drummer, Kieth Moon’s death. They certainly did not have a stage like the one that adorned them tonight… whoa, what an amazing addition to arena rock and roll… it was like a giant flying saucer with rows of lights running every few feet from edge to center all virtually controlled with computers creating a show all on its own with pulsating lights of varied colors and shapes, alternating computer graphics broadcasting words or phrases and even pictures like the actual silhouette of Townsend while he is strumming his guitar in large circles was broadcast in duet showing his signature circular strumming style via 10 foot graphics on the stage… but the old guy wasn’t breaking guitars like he used to or smashing them up against the drumset. However, Keith Moon may have been present in spirit and channeling through his replacement tonight. The drummer, not sure who accompanied them tonight, did an awesome solo at the end of the last song, “Don’t Get Fooled Again”. During the entire set fireworks came out of the ribbing between the stage support beams and from the center of the stage adding to the dramatics of the big arena performance on Super Bowl Sunday. The stage was clear fiberglass where the band was setup so there was little blocking the high tech light show or pyrotechnics of the show from a complete 360 deg view.
Set list consisted of
1. Pinball Wizard ( the opening line of this song, “Ever since I was a young boy I played the silver ball”) accompanied by huge surge of applause from the arena.
2. Baba O’riley – they played almost the entire song on this one, the audience joining in on the lyrics “… just a teenage wasteland…. we’re all wasted!” Daltrey did an excellent harmonica solo at the end which led into
3.Who Are You
4. See Me, Feel Me (short transistional piece to the final song from the rock opera “Tommy”)
5. Wont’ Get Fooled Again
Yesterday the band introduced this song and video at a local Aussie venue in Queensland where they reign. Check out the talent in this ‘unsigned’ band.
They will release The Golden Archipelago, their third album via Matador, on Feb 23rd in the US and a week earlier (the 15th) in the rest of the world.
Check out the first single from the upcoming album here.
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The Portland based Loch Lomond band have been showcased on Luxury Wafers this month. check out the entire session here.
Efterklang is from Copenhagen, Denmark. They seem to be one of the best, yet otherwise unknown, bands we have seen this year. Surprisingly, they have two full-length albums already released. Their soon to be released third album “Magic Chairs” comes out on 2/23. This song is by a Danish group, Efterklang, which stems from a Danish word meaning remembrance or reverberation.
Colin Meloy, after some rather funny thoughts about Austrialia, shares a new song to the Melbourne crowd this past month. The group has been touring in Oz for the first time including Big Day Out 2010. More info on this soon.
You can listen to the new studio version of Jónsi’s new single ‘Go Do’ via his label Parlophone in a YOUTUBE video. ‘Go Do’ takes off from where Sigur Rós latest album “Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust” left off . Have a listen to the new song here.
Lucy is an ‘unsigned’ artist with a recently released EP “Help Me! Help Me!” from which the song, “Gravity” was featured on Grey’s Anatomy last month.
here are the lyrics for Gravity:
When I walk I touch the sky
I feel ten feet tall
And I know why
It’s everywhere
It’s in your eyes
The secret that we can defy
Gravity
ooh/ La dada dada da
Gravity
ooh/ La dada dada da
You helped me grow
Now you gotta let me go
Cuz I have learned to fly on my own
And it’s gonna be
Pulling on my heart and soul
But I can’t go back now that I know
Gravity
ooh/ La dada dada da
Gravity
ooh/ La dada dada da
Falling upwards
Catch me if you can
One step forwards
Here we go again
Gravity
ooh/ La dada dada da/ can’t bring me down
Gravity
ooh/ La dada dada da/ can’t bring me down
Gravity
ooh/ La dada dada da/ can’t bring me down
Gravity
ooh/ La dada dada da/ can’t bring me down
when I walk I touch the sky
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