B Sides for 03/05/2015
In this magical alternate universe, their whole audience is women. Women with the hair of Diana Ross circa "Love Hangover" and the outfits of extras from Austin Powers: Goldmember. Women who are, inexplicably, breathlessly happy to be there. Coca-Cola and monkeys are name checked in the chorus, which is a real speedy tongue twister, while the bartender does his best impression of Tom Cruise in Cocktail. What do all these B-movie, forgotten culture references add up to? An actually funny video. Watch the video here.
This week, Van Halen issued "Runnin' With The Devil" and "Panama" as a preview to the upcoming release of "Tokyo Dome Live In Concert", their first-ever live album with original frontman David Lee Roth. Due March 31, the project features the band recorded live at the Japanese venue on June 21, 2013 as part of their tour in support of 2012's "A Different Kind Of Truth." The package will be available as a double CD, four-LP set on 180-gram vinyl, and digitally. Watch the "Eruption" video here.
A new book released on the math featured in the popular cartoon series draws attention to an equation shown in an episode from the late '90s. The episode 'The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" features an inventive Homer Simpson in front of a blackboard with an anything but ordinary equation. 'That equation predicts the mass of the Higgs boson," Dr. Simon Singh, author of The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, told The Independent. 'If you work it out, you get the mass of a Higgs boson that's only a bit larger than the nano-mass of a Higgs boson actually is. It's kind of amazing as Homer makes this prediction 14 years before it was discovered." Read more here.
It's taken from his album Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue, also featuring guest appearances from Steve Winwood, Mark Knopfler, Taj Mahal, Mavis Staples, Georgie Fame and others. The 16-track title is launched on March 24, and it's described as "songs from the artist's fruitful repertoire, redone with partners." Listen to the new version of "Some Piece Of Mind" here.
On March 9 (March 10 in North America), the 3CD set will include a remastered version of the album along with a complete live recording from the 'Defenders' tour from the Long Beach Arena in California. This week, Judas Priest announced a series of spring US concert dates. Following their previously confirmed May 16 appearance at the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, OH, the band will perform shows in Cincinnati, OH (May 17), St. Charles, MO (May 19), Council Bluffs, IA (May 20) and Rosemont, IL (May 21). Check out the song stream here.
Mitchell says of the track: "Are we all actually unique? Are We Copies? is a nagging doubt I have in my subconscious in this age of synthesised society and Xerox mentality." He adds: "The video was a jolly good excuse to go bounding around Beachy Head at six o'clock in the morning. I hope you like it!" Watch the new music video here.
The research implies that a musical education could be more valuable to educational development than many authorities believe. The study was carried out by Northwestern University, who took high school students from Chicago and placed half in a standard course, and the rest in a musical training program. The results indicate that those who were taught to play music showed faster response times when it came to interpreting speech - and also showed improved reading ability. Read more here.
The 80-minute set was filmed at London's Union Chapel and features a special guest appearance by The Gathering's vocalist Silje Wergeland on The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here. Says guitarist Anders Nystr�m had the following to say about the song featured in the video clip, "We have always felt that if there's a need, we're entitled to the freedom to give our old songs a makeover in the now rather than the never. So, in the making of Sanctitude there was one song in particular that meant a great deal to us. "In fact, [Day] was our first song ever to feature entirely clean vocals accompanied by clean guitars and it was written and released right in the peak of our death metal years. The song stood out, but isolated itself into oblivion in the climate of heavier music. "Therefore we wanted this song to get a second chance, to be re-discovered. Even 20 years later when performing it live for the first time, it appears the parks are still grey and look the same." Watch the video here.
The set of Stones covers, recorded in 2009, includes guest appearances by Jackie Greene and Steve Elson, and continues the band's 20th anniversary celebrations. Mainman Warren Haynes recently explained: "These archive releases allow us to highlight some of our influences - as well as how far we've come since our first album." Check out the song here.
Hart recently revealed her watchwords for the music she creates, saying: "Keep working on telling the truth - that's my mantra for the music. Tell the truth, work your ass off, and keep going there. I've got four things I have to do and the rest I leave to the wind - pray, work out, eat right, and keep in contact with my doctor." Better Than Home, the follow-up to Boom Boom Bang Bang, is available for pre-order now. Hart tours the UK in May. Check out the dates and watch the new video here.
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