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B Sides for 11/25/2014



The Who Release 'Be Lucky' Video
(hennemusic) The Who have released a lyric video for their first new song in eight years, "Be Lucky." The track is featured on "The Who Hits 50!", a career-spanning compilation issued in sync with the start of their 50th anniversary farewell tour of the same name.

Recorded at the end of the summer at British Grove and Yellow Fish Studios, "Be Lucky" features long time Who live players Zak Starkey (drums) and Pino Palladino (bass) with the keyboards being provided by ex-Style Council and Dexys sideman Mick Talbot.

The band are donating the royalties from the song to Teen Cancer America, a charity founded in 2011 by Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. Read more and watch the new video here.

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Paramore Release Duet With The Civil Wars' Joy Williams
(Radio.com) For the deluxe reissue of Paramore's 2013 self-titled album (out Monday, Nov. 24), the band has released a music video to accompany a new version of the song "Hate to See Your Heart Break," re-recorded with new vocals from Joy Williams, best known for her stint in now-defunct band The Civil Wars.

The duet is a culmination of the singers' long-running friendship that is only now manifesting itself in a musical way. "When we met, I was 12 and Joy was like 18 or 19, I think," Hayley Williams told NPR about the beginnings of the kinship. "I was already a fan of hers. It was fate that we became friends. She was always giving great advice and listening to songs I'd written or big plans I had about becoming a real artist� I love that I got to sing this with someone who I have shared my pains and my stories with for quite some time. Someone whom I know well and who I've sat and listened to as they share their own pains. It was never meant as romantic song between lovers but always a song to a friend. Now it's even more special. I think of it as an ode to sisterhood."

The track comes with a simple, black and white music video, which features both vocalists singing the song together in the vocal booth of the Village Recorder studio in Santa Monica, Calif.-the same room that Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks personally decorated during sessions for that band's 1979 album, Tusk Their voices mesh seamlessly on the new version of the tune, with their easy chemistry captured in the clip.

"I felt like some of the mystic spirit of Stevie is still in the walls there," Joy Williams said of the session. "That's a good energy to have in a room, especially with two women recording like we were. It felt like the perfect place to let down, light candles, take off our shoes and just be. We'd take breaks, make hot tea in the studio kitchen, and get lost in conversation before we realized we should probably get back to work."

Watch the video here.

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Peter Gabriel Debuts New Song 'What Lies Ahead'
(Radio.com) While fans can indulge in his box collection Real World 25, a three-CD set celebrating a quarter century of his Real World record label that was released earlier this fall, there has been no new music to be heard from Peter Gabriel in quite some time.

That is, until this past week. On Nov. 20 during a show in Torino, Italy, Gabriel debuted a brand new song called "What Lies Ahead." The somber, piano-based track has him lamenting about life. Sitting alongside of him was a cello player whose contributions added to the haunting ambiance of the song.

The four-minute piano ballad had the audience in silence as it's clear they're witnessing something no one has heard before. According to Stereogum, "What Lies Ahead" opened the acoustic segment of his Back to Front Tour.

Watch the song premiere here.

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Gov't Mule Streaming Their Cover Of Pink Floyd Classic
(TeamRock Radio) Gov't Mule have streamed their cover of Pink Floyd classic Money from upcoming live DVD Dark Side Of The Mule. Warren Haynes and co recorded their three-hour performance of Floyd tracks in Boston in 2008. It's the first of a run of archive titles which Haynes hopes will present the chance to re-evaluate his band's work.

He says: "Each song on our 2013 album Shout! has its own personality - it sounds like Gov't Mule but doesn't sound like anything we'd ever done. These archive releases further that concept. They allow us to highlight some of our influences as well as how far we've come since the first album."

Dark Side Of The Mule is released via Mascot Label Group on December 8 on deluxe 3CD/DVD and standard CD. A double-vinyl edition follows on January 13.

Check out the stream here.

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Soen Release Video For The Words
(Prog) Soen have released a music video for their track The Words. The song is taken from the prog outfit's second album Tellurian, released earlier this month via Spinefarm Records.

Soen's line-up includes former Opeth drummer Martin Lopez and Willowtree singer Joel Ekelof. They released their debut album Cognitive in 2012.

The video for The Words is described by the band as "more like a mini-film than it is a standard music video." They add: "The visuals advance a powerful and emotionally evocative plot, spliced with footage of the band performing in subdued fashion. Overall, the video is epic and cinematic in scope, just like the song."

Watch it here.

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Sylosis Release Graphic Animated Video For Leech
(TeamRock Radio) Sylosis have released the somewhat graphic video for Leech, the second single from upcoming album Dormant Heart. Animated by Oliver Jones of Better Feeling Films, Leech took 60 days to put together including five hours of band footage.

Speaking about the new album, frontman Josh Middleton says: "I would say the album is probably our heaviest to date but this song showcases a more melodic and stripped back side to what we do.

"It's a really dark, sinister doomy sounding song and we thought it would be cool to try something a bit different for the video and have it reflect the vibe of the music.

"We've always wanted to have an animated music video and it allows for a bit more creativity and makes it stand out." Read more and watch the video here.

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Deadly Circus Fire Release New Song, Reveal Album Details
(Prog) Deadly Circus Fire have released a new track and full details of their upcoming album after their crowdfunding campaign hit its target. The British prog metal outfit are streaming Animal, taken from their second album The Hydra's Tailor, due out in 2015.

A Pledgemusic campaign hit its target this week, leading the band to confirm more details of the record including the artwork and tracklist. They previously released a video for the track House Of Plagues.

Guitarist Save Addario says: "After receiving such overwhelming support from fans and metal enthusiasts around the world, we have finally reached our goal to release our new album, The Hydra's Tailor.

"This album wouldn't be here if it weren't for those who care for independent music. To celebrate we're giving people one of our new songs, Animal, to listen and give a taste of what this album really is - a beast."

Read more and check out the song here.

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Robert Plant Talks Quitting Drugs In Classic Interview
(Radio.com) On Minimation, we comb through the archives of legendary New York radio station WNEW-FM and animate interviews with legendary rock artists. In this 1988 interview, Robert Plant talks about kicking drugs and cigarettes. Of course, there were other parts of the "sex, drugs and rock and roll" equation that he didn't want to quit.

"I had a big affair with drugs," says Robert Plant, which probably wasn't news to anyone vaguely familiar with Led Zeppelin lore. "I just found that my whole personality had really changed, and I became quite paranoid about things and really possessive," which probably isn't news to anyone vaguely familiar with the effects of cocaine.

"I finally just stopped. I said, 'Stop! Don't do this! See what you've become!' It's a psychological addiction, it's not a physical addiction, I think." He notes that he had more recently quit cigarettes as well, but "I'm not trying to live a clean, pure life or live to be a hundred. I'll have a heart attack making love! But that's a nice way [to go]."

Finally, he wonders, "I just don't know why I took drugs for so long!" His advice for people considering drugs? "Just leave it! Throw it away. Take the money and find some chick and take her to the movies."

That advice, we trust , works whether you're 20 years old or 100. After all, it's a "nice way" to go! Watch it here.

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Dave Grohl A Music Nerd, Not A Musicologist
(TeamRock Radio) Dave Grohl admits he often didn't know what he was talking about during interviews for his Sonic Highways documentary series. The Foo Fighters recorded all eight tracks on their latest album in a different US city, and he shot an accompanying film for each. But he believes his lack of knowledge was a help instead of a hindrance.

Grohl tells Rolling Stone: "I'm a music nerd but I'm not a musicologist - I love talking about music and hearing stories, but I also love not knowing everything. The interviews turned into conversations that turned into lessons.

"The intention was to inform people, not just tell them something they already knew. I'm sitting in front of Allen Toussaint, Cyril Neville or Dr John and they're telling me things I never knew; I think I have to do that to keep the tone genuine."

He adds: "I don't pretend to know everything - I'll tell the subjects, 'Just so you know, I don't know what the f*** I'm talking about.'" Read more here.

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Singled Out: The Glass Child
Today The Glass Child, a.k.a. the critically acclaimed Charlotte Eriksson, tells us about the song "Heroes" from her brand new album "I Must Be Gone and Live, or Stay and Die". Here is the story:

When I was 17 years old I grabbed my guitar, a suitcase and left my home in Sweden to go after my dream of building a life on music. Ever since that day I've dedicated every single day pursuing this mission. I've spent periods unable to pay rent, crashing at floors. I've had rejections, learned how to say goodbye and walk away, and I know what it feels like to lie awake on the bare ground, wondering why the hell I don't just admit my failure, surrender, pack it up.

I'm fascinated by the concept of a quest. Of being on a mission towards something that is bigger than yourself, deeper than simply having a purpose or passion for something. People have been dedicating weeks, months, years or lives to different kinds of quests for as long back as you can go, and I've found myself studying these people, their core values and why they embarked on their personal journeys in the first place. These quests show themselves in all kinds of forms; not speaking for a year, letting go of technology, raise a certain amount of money for a good cause. 30 days of meditating in the mountains, travellers in the Himalayas, or; a young girl on a mission to find her WHY, build a life on the only thing the could grow to love, and find her people in the process.

Being on a quest, having a mission for your very existence, gives you an unstoppable will and motivation to simply keep going when everything else screams no. It gives you courage, that is stronger than that fear you will learn to live with.

HEROES is a song that came to be my own symphony for this quest I feel I'm on. I found myself drifted off, a bit lost, having moved from England to Berlin a year ago, and I felt sort of gone. I didn't understand the language and no one knew where I was or what I was doing. I spent the first months just crashing at different hostels or airports, not really knowing where to go or what to do there. Leaving home at a very young age and living like a vagabond for so long, I've learned to build my home in other things than in material belongings or a static place. I've learned to find my sense of home and comfort in my music. So, scared as I was, I kept writing, singing, reading, creating.

Usually I write my songs on an acoustic guitar or a piano, but this certain night when I wrote HEROES, these sounds felt too empty. Too small. Too naked. I started the song with the beat and kick drum that goes throughout the verses, and the songs actually started with the mantra-like Mid8. I programmed the beat and as in hypnosis just kept singing these lines over and over again, recording it on the spot and kept layering it with harmonies. "As long as I am moving I'm right on the path I made."

I rarely think about anyone else when I write my songs, but I've been so lucky to somehow find a fanbase of people that I feel personally connected too. I feel such an incredible support from them, and sometimes even like I owe them to not give up, and that lingered in my head: "Together we will walk like a tribe in the night".

I kept building the verses and the chorus from this Mid8 and the production happened really naturally, like it wrote itself. And I think that's the beautiful thing about writing music; there's not "one" formula, a right way or a wrong way. Every song is different and every song has its own story.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself here and learn more about the album right here!

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