Coldplay frontman Chris Martin covered Oasis' 'Wonderwall' and played one of his own unreleased songs during a secret gig in a London pub last night (April 13).
The singer performed the track as a part of a three-song set for a benefit gig curated by comedy actor Simon Pegg, at the Boogaloo bar.
Watch fan-recorded footage of the performance below.
Martin kicked off his performance with an unreleased Coldplay song called 'Wedding Bells'. Although he has played the song live before, Martin confirmed that the track "is not going on our record", going on to describe it as "soppy".
Following the track, a girl in the crowd asked him to cover the Oasis' 1995 classic 'Wonderwall'.
"Fuck it, I'll do it," Martin replied. "But only if you do it with me." He then brought the audience member up onstage and performed the track.
The singer was then joined by Pegg on harmonica for 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' track 'Green Eyes'.
Pegg had organised the gig as a tribute to Boogaloo regular John Parkhouse, who recently passed away.
Watch fan footage of the gig below:
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Beastie Boys Debut Wildest 'Hot Sauce' Track Yet | SPIN.com
Beastie Boys Debut Wildest 'Hot Sauce' Track Yet | SPIN.com
The Beastie Boys' first track from their May album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two was a throwback to their classic party-starting '80s sound. But on their second cut, titled "Tadlock's Glasses," the New York rap trio go totally avant-garde with the weirdest track to leak yet. The song debuted on the BBC (hear it via Consequence of Sound).
"Tadlock's Glasses" has an awesomely loose, improvisatory vibe similar to recent albums like 2004's To the 5 Boroughs and 2007's The Mix-Up. Mike D, Ad-Rock, and MCA lay down dense clusters of heavily-modulated synths and blippy beats, as the boys speak indecipherable rhymes through all sorts of wild effects.
The Beastie Boys may deliver inscrutable lyrics on this track, but, thankfully, they are planning to roll out a deluxe edition of Hot Sauce, which will help decipher their words, Mike D revealed in his radio interview with the BBC. The expanded edition will include an Wikiepdia-esque "interactive lyrical experience," which will allow users to click on and explore all of Hot Sauce's lyrical references. D dubbed it the "Beastipedia.Tuesday, April 12, 2011
quick Tribe news....
After the official trailer surfaced on YouTube last December (and was subsequently taken down), another clip from the upcoming Beats, Rhymes and Life documentary on A Tribe Called Quest has made its way onto the internet. While the trailer, which can still be found in low quality on Vimeo, lasts for nearly five minutes, this clip spans for only one. However, it touches on the substantial subject of what went into combating the pressure involved with making the group's sophomore album, The Low End Theory. The documentary made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and will be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival at the end of this month. As far as the controversy between the group and the film's director, Michael Rapaport, it seems to remain. But according to MissInfo, there is still something great for fans to gain from seeing the film:
I had a chance to see it in a small screening at the Soho House a few months ago, and despite some rhetoric online…I think it’s unfair to jump to judgment about the film without seeing it first. As a Tribe fan, I didn’t walk away with the sense that any of the members are discredited or their character has been defamed. I just get an overwhelming nostalgia for the excitement of ATCQ’s heyday... I think fans will gain more from just admiring what moved them then, and pushing that along.
Monday, April 11, 2011
it was 41 years ago today.....from the pages of Rolling Stone
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Sunday marked an anniversary most Beatles fans would rather forget: the day in 1970 when Paul McCartney announced to the world that the Beatles were essentially over. To promote his first solo album, McCartney, Paul issued a four-page interview with himself. The band, McCartney wrote, was divided over "personal differences, business differences, musical differences," adding, "Temporary or permanent? I don't know." To his own question, "Do you foresee a time when Lennon-McCartney become an active songwriting partnership again?" he bluntly answered, "No."What was Paul's motivation and what was the immediate fallout? While researching my upcoming book Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970 (Da Capo, June), I went in search of documents I'd long heard about but had never seen: the court papers of Paul's lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles, filed Dec. 31, 1970.
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The papers documenting the legal end of the Beatles aren't easy to examine. They're stored an hour outside London at the National Archives, home to historical documents dating back 1000 years, and I had to look at them in a windowless room, locked from the outside. I wasn't allowed to photograph any of the papers and could only use a pencil to take notes.
Despite these restrictions – and with the help of some interviews of some crucial players – I was able to put together a timeline of the last days of the Beatles. Here's some of what I gleaned.
Photos: Invasion of the Beatles
March 20: Allen Klein, then handling the Beatles' business affairs, asks EMI to delay the release of McCartney, which Paul wants out on April 17. With the Let It Be album already scheduled for that month, and Ringo about to unveil his solo album Sentimental Journey, Klein is concerned about a glut of Beatle product in the stores.
March 23: Unaware of Klein's maneuver, Paul finishes up McCartney at EMI Studio. The same day, Klein meets personally with EMI and repeats his (and other Beatles') demands. EMI agrees to postpone McCartney.
March 31: John and George write a letter to Paul to explain their actions: "We thought a lot about yours and the Beatles LPs – and decided it's stupid for Apple to put out two big albums within seven days of each other. … We're sorry it turned out like this – it's nothing personal." Later that day, Ringo hand-delivers the letter to a shocked Paul at his London home; Paul reads it, yells at him and asks him to leave. "I got really angry when Ringo told me that Klein had told him my record was not ready," Paul says in his court affidavit. Ringo convinces John and George to let Paul's album come out as planned and to delay Let It Be by a month.
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