I hadn't heard acoustic versions of any of OK Go's songs until seeing this, very cool.  I do miss the laser guitars a little bit though.

Here's a quick follow up video to the last podcast.  Enjoy!

Here's another excellent hour of music from ACL's video archives featuring Wilco.

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Big Booty Woman

Here is the full video of Band of Skulls SXSW performance...good stuff.  Try to catch these guys on their current US tour if you haven't already made plans to.


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In celebration of today's CD/DVD release of Ben Harper and Relentless7 "Live from the Montreal International Jazz Festival", Hulu is making the entire concert available online until March 16th. That gives you approximately 7 days to watch it so don't miss out!

I'm going to see Hacienda this weekend with Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears in Lawrence, KS which reminded me to post this sweet cover of "Wooly Bully".

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I'm glad that they posted this since I didn't get a real good look at OK Go's laser guitars when they played in Kansas City a couple weeks ago.  I didn't even realize that the bassist's guitar had scrolling LEDs!  

If you haven't done so go get their new album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (Amazon MP3 version)!

What the Truck (WTF?)

 

White Knuckles  

 

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My friend Nate recently told me to watch the pilot episode of Austin City Limits starring Willie Nelson and friends.  Willie's music is legendary but I guess I didn't expect to enjoy the show as much as I did.  I've always heard the slower songs but these guys blew me away with their ability to jam.  

It's a good thing Willie was available for the Pilot since who knows if Austin City Limits would have been picked up if some else, Barry Manilow perhaps, had played instead.

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Tomorrow night Them Crooked Vultures (Dave Grohl, John Paul Jones, and Josh Homme) are playing Austin City Limits.  Check your local listings to find out when the party starts.

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Like most of you I watched the Super Bowl last night and although the game was absolutely spectacular I thought the commercials were a bit lacking this year.  One of them, however, especially moved me.  It was an ad for the Kia Sorento starring 5 child toys including the famous Sock Monkey taking the Sorrento for a joy ride and generally partying up the town.  The fact that this commercial had the Sock Monkey getting an I Heart Mom patch stitched on its arm and the Robot toy dancing the robot at a club was enought to win me over. 

As awesome as seeing toys getting their party on is, each scene was greatly accentuated by the driving funk powered tune playing in the background. After some quick searching I discovered that the song is called 'How You Like Me Now' by a British band called The Heavy.  I tried to find some audience recordings of this band but my quest was without any luck.  I did, however, find some really great videos for live versions of this song. 

First up we have their live in studio performance at Seattle's KEXP.  Also be sure to check out KEXP's Youtube Channel since there are lots of other great videos similar to this one.

 

 

Next is their 01/19/10 performance on Letterman.  They rock it so hard that Dave asks them to play an unprecedented encore...Letterman knows his shit.

The Heavy - Late Show with David Letterman - 01/19/10

Finally the commercial that started it all (for me that is).

 

 

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No podcast this week since I've been fighting a head cold the past couple days. I thought with all the rockin' from the Dead Weather the site could use something a little more chill. Fortunately for me one of my favorite Soul artists recently released a new album and was featured on a video series on Hulu called Live from the Artists Den.

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This post is something of an appetizer to prepare everyone for next weeks' Dead Weather podcast!  Face melting stuff.



I apologize to my fans for not getting the jump on fromthebasement.tv sooner, as they have so many other great performances in addition to this one. The Live Music Blog posted about it way back in October and somehow it slipped under my radar. Here's just a few of the names that jumped out at me, but with the sound and video quality so excellent I'm looking forward to watching them all.

Beck | Gnarls Barkley | The Kills | Queens of the Stone Age | Radiohead | The Raconteurs | The White Stripes | The Shins | My Morning Jacket | Eels