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Video of My Classic Rock Music News-4/30/09

 

Here's my Classic Rock Music News for one of the stations I work for, 96.9 The Eagle in Sacramento. Today I discuss Bob Dylan doing television, Mellencamp working himself to death and new stuff from Heart.

Watch it.

Manchester Orchestra Do Letterman and "I've Got Friends"

Manchester Orchestra were on David Letterman last night, with a hoarse Letterman saying the band offered him a seat in the band.

Mean Everything to Nothing, the new record from the band is one of the bigger selling albums out right now, thanks in part to this track, "I've Got Friends."

Sonic Youth Do a New Track On Jools Holland

Sonic Youth's new record, The Eternal sounds pretty good. They threw out another new track on Jools Holland the other day, "What We Know," another driving rocker from the album.

There's a nice back and forth between Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo that's worth watching.

Danger Mouse, David Lynch, Sparklehorse Collaborate For Interesting Side Project

We only get a :16 clip but this collaboration between Danger Mouse Director David Lynch and Sparklehorse looks pretty cool.

It's for something called Dark Night of the Soul, and will feature a ton of artists-Flaming Lips, Black Francis, Iggy Pop and Julian Casablancas.

Details are sketchy at this point, but they do have a YouTube channel that I'll be glued to in the coming weeks.

Take a look.

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Does "El Scorcho" with Fans

This time it was Rivers Cuomo without Weezer.

He decided to do it Hootenanny style on a solo trek, and now there's a DVD of the action, which is out now. It's called Not Alone -- Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints, which hit stores today as a DVD and EP.

Get the video action from EW.

Wilco's New Album Gets Very Original Album Title

Aah, screw it. When you're at this point in Wilco's career, who needs a spiffy album title. Maybe the boys didn't feel like arguing with each other. So, the new album is called Wilco (The Album), featuring "Wilco, the Song" as the opening track.

You think the Wilco song will be like The Monkees TV theme?

Look for it in June.

Lily Allen Does "Not Fair" on Jools Holland

"Not Fair" is one of my favorite tracks off of Lily Allen's latest record It's Not Me, It's You. It's as close as she can come to Nashville, with heavy tongue and cheek throughout, especially in the video.

Here she does the track on the BBC, Jools Holland show.