Thursday, March 29, 2007

See Ben Kweller's "Penny On The Train Track" live

If you've never seen Ben Kweller live before, check out this fantastic version of "Penny On The Train Track" that he closed his recent NY show with. Click the video above to watch it.

EPK online now for The Mother Hips

Click here to watch the new epk for The Mother Hips. The four-minute clip provides a nice preview of music from their new cd Kiss The Crystal Flake, compelling visuals of the band in the studio, interviews, and gives some back-story/insight behind this cult-California band's first record in over six years.

Greyboy Allstars e-card now online


The Greyboy Allstars have created an e-card which lets you sample a couple of tracks from the upcoming cd What Happened To Television? including "V-Neck Sweater" and the single "How Glad I Am." You can also check out the band's bio and see all upcoming tour dates. You can view the e-card by clicking here.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Good Morning America covers the new Ben Kweller video

Earlier today, ABC's Good Morning America picked the video for the new Ben Kweller single "Penny On The Train Track" as their YouTube video of the week. It was even broadcast on their big screen above the studios in Times Square. Check out the GMA segment here. You can also scroll down this page to click to watch the entire video itself, featuring Ben's grandmother, Marylin Kweller. To date, the video on YouTube has over 300,000 views.

Watch Patty Griffin's Morning Becomes Eclectic performance

Nic Harcourt invited Patty Griffin and her band for an in-studio on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic show. You can watch the archived interview and performances by clicking here.

Catch Aqualung's Letterman performance

Aqualung recently stopped by The Late Show with David Letterman to perform the new single "Pressure Suit." Check it out by clicking on the video above.

See Aqualung's live London performance

Click this video to watch Aqualung perform "Pressure Suit" at the Spitz in London earlier this year.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Hear the Winterpills' interview and performance on KUT

While in Austin for SXSW, the members of Winterpills stopped in to Studio 1A at Austin's own KUT to talk and play songs from their new cd The Light Divides. You can hear the segment here.

Did you miss Tom Morello at SXSW? See and hear it here

Tom Morello was all over Austin last week performing tracks from his upcoming cd under the name The Nightwatchman. He stopped by and did a few songs with the folks from WXPN and the audio is up on the NPR site. Check it out here.

The Nightwatchman also stopped by Buffalo Billiards for an interview and performance with Minnesota Public Radio's "The Current." You can hear the audio from that by going here.

He also made a stop by Studio 1A at Austin's own KUT. You can hear the interview here.

And by now you have probably heard about his surprise guests that joined him on stage at The Parish on Thursday night during the Hotel Cafe showcase at South By Southwest. If you missed it, on stage with Tom were Perry Farrell, Slash, Nuno Bettencourt, Wayne Kramer from MC5, Les Claypool, Queen V, Alexi Murdoch, and Road Trip actor Breckin Meyer on drums, among others. It was simply amazing. MTV's Overdrive has a handful of clips (click here) and you can find other clips from it as well as The Nightwatchman's solo performances at SXSW by going to YouTube here.

UPDATE: The great folks at MusicPlusTV have full versions of the Parish performance as well as other videos for SXSW shot in HD to check out at http://www.musicplustv.com/sxsw.

Watch Joss Stone perform all over the place

Joss Stone has been hitting the press circuit setting up her new cd "Introducing Joss Stong." This includes a ton of live performances including "Tell Me 'Bout It" on The Late Show with David Letterman (click here), stripped down versions of the single as well as "Girl They Won't Believe" and "Music" on VH-1's V-Spot (click here), multiple tracks in front of a live audience for Nissan's Live Sets on Yahoo (click here) as well as on AOL Sessions (click here and click on Videos).

VH-1's V-Spot has also done an Album Autopsy which breaks down every song on the disc and talks to the creative folks involved. Check it out here.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

New Ben Kweller video online

Have you seen the video for the new Ben Kweller single, "Penny On The Train Track"? It features Ben's grandmother jazzercising to the song. An instant classic. Check it out below...

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Mary Chapin Carpenter on the Today show

With the release of her new cd The Calling this week, the Today show visited Mary Chapin Carpenter at her house to talk about the cd, her life, and how today's politics have played an increasing role in her songwriting. You can watch the segment by clicking here.

Angelique Kidjo epk online

There's an EPK online for Angelique Kidjo's new cd Djin Djin. In it, she discusses the creation of the album, her charitable work and talks about the other artists she brought in to the project including Peter Gabriel, Carlos Santana and more. Watch it here.

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Listen to Patty Griffin's World Cafe session

Patty Griffin recently stopped by The World Cafe to talk to David Dye. Check out the session here.

Watch exclusive Young Dubliners footage

The Young Dubliners have supplied Amazon.com with exclusive footage of them doing a performance of The Pogues' "If I Should Fall From Grace With God." Click here to watch it.

Listen to Ryan Shaw's concert in Philadelphia

Back in January, Ryan Shaw did a concert live for WXPN listeners which was also broadcast on xpn.org and is now archived on NPR. Check it out by going here and clicking on "listen."

You can also hear his archived World Cafe session with David Dye by clicking here.