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Brittany Howard: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert Hotney 5 Streams • 3 years ago

Watch Brittany Howard play "Stay High", "Georgia", "Baby" and "Goat Head" at the Tiny Desk.

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Oct. 15, 2019 | Bob Boilen -- From the moment Brittany Howard walked into the NPR offices, I could sense her intense commitment and passion. Her eight-piece backing band, all decked out in red and black, played with a soulful subtlety that bolstered Brittany Howard's tender songs about her family — stories of a mixed-race child growing up in Alabama.

All the songs performed at the Tiny Desk come from Jaime, an album Brittany Howard dedicated to her sister who died at the age of 13 from a rare form of eye cancer, the same disease that has left Brittany Howard partially blind in one eye. On these songs (and in particular at this Tiny Desk Concert), there is more nuance than I've heard in Brittany's past projects, including her work with Alabama Shakes and Thunderbitch. The music has a sense of wonder and playfulness, even when the subject is heavy, as in "Georgia." She tells the audience that it's a tale of "a little young, black, **** girl having a crush on an older black girl and not knowing what to say and how I was feeling."

Brittany Howard knows how to tell a story, to foster empathy and understanding and, in this intimate setting, the songs feel at home. The connection with the audience felt visceral as I looked around the room and into the eyes of my workmates and their friends. Even a small child in the arms of their parent screamed at the appropriate moment during the climax of Brittany's song, "Baby." It gave us all a good laugh just when the weight of the words felt the heaviest.

SET LIST
"Stay High"
"Georgia"
"Baby"
"Goat Head"

MUSICIANS
Brittany Howard: vocals, guitar; Nate Smith: drums; Alex Chakour: guitar; Brad Allen Williams: guitar; Zac Cockrell: bass; Lloyd Buchanan: keys; Paul Horton: keys; Shanay Johnson: vocals; Karita Law: vocals

CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Kara Frame, Beck Harlan, CJ Riculan; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Laura Beltran Villamizar/NPR

Courtney Love: The Kurt Cobain Nirvana Guitar Hero Fiasco Hotney 5 Streams • 3 years ago

Courtney Love's Kurt Cobain Guitar Hero Fiasco

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#guitarhero #nirvana #kurtcobain #courtneylove

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Guitar Hero and Rock band were some of the most popular video games for about half a decade starting around the mid 2000’s. Personally. I was a huge Rock Band fanatic. The developers behind the Rock Band franchise, Harmonix were releasing new songs every week for six years straight until 2013. I remember waiting every week to see what the new songs would be. Because of rock band I got introduced to a lot of music I wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise and got interested in picking up an instrument and taking music lessons. You have to remember, I grew up in a household where the most rock n’ roll music my parents played was Kenny G. From 2007 to 2010 both Guitar Hero and rock band seemed to release new games every year and it eventually led to the downfall of music games. They just oversaturated the market without really innovating, you guys remember that ridiculous rock band plastic guitar with all the buttons on it? As guitar hero got more popular instead of innovating they just started adding avatars of famous musicians including billy corgan, shirley manson and today’s topic Kurt Cobain.

In 2009 Rock Band developer Harmonix would release the highly anticipated Beatles version of Rock Band, while Activision released Guitar Hero 5 that year. Guitar Hero 5 didn’t really feature many new innovations or improvements. Just a new tracklist, some new playable avatars one of which was former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain alongside two songs from the band catalog smells like teen spirit and a live recording of lithium. It appears the master recording of lithium didn’t have the appropriate tracks to be used in the game or the masters couldn’t be found., It was around teh release of guitar hero 5 that Activision put out a promotional trailer of the Kurt Cobain’s avatar performing Smells like Teen Spirit. Of course, it garnered a strong reaction, most of which was negative. In order for Kurt Cobain’s likeness to be used his widow Courtney Love had to approve it, while the surviving members of nirvana krist Novaselic and Dave Grohl had to sign off on the band’s music being included in the game.

The whole controversy with Kurt Cobain appearing in the game took a strange turn when it came to light that his avatar could be used to perform non-nirvana songs. A video of the avatar performing bon jovi’s you give love a bad name hit the internet shortly after the game’s release and the reaction was universally one of disgust. Even Jon bon jovi would comment on the matter telling bbc news“I don’t know that I would have wanted it either,” “To hear someone else’s voice coming out of a cartoon version of me? I don’t know. It sounds a little forced.” It would come out that the bon jovi frontman was asked to be included as an avatar in the game, but declined.

Fans would blame Courtney Love for allowing Cobain’s avatar to be used in teh game and she would take to twitter deflecting blame saying "It's disgusting and vile and is the result of a cabal of a few assholes' greed," "Not in twenty JILLION years would I EVER have allowed this,"

Here’s a snippet of the avatar performing a medley of songs from Guitar Hero 5’s tracklist including Public Enemy Bon Jovi and Bush,

Someone Gives Love a Bad Name: Guitar Hero Starring Kurt Cobain

The surviving members of Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novaselic would put out a statement that read they were and i quote

“dismayed and very disappointed in the way a facsimile (fak-simile)of Kurt is used in the Guitar Hero game,” adding, “The name and likeness of Kurt Cobain are the sole property of his estate — we have no control whatsoever in that area.” The pair would ask Activision to “re-lock” the Cobain character and state, “It’s hard to watch an image of Kurt pantomiming other artists’ music alongside cartoon characters. Kurt Cobain wrote songs that hold a lot of meaning to people all over the world. We feel he deserves better.”

Activision the game’s publisher would issue a statement that read ‘Guitar Hero secured the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in a written agreement signed by Courtney Love to use Kurt Cobain’s likeness as a fully playable character in Guitar Hero 5.’I did come across another article where activision said it was too expensive to lock the character.

Irene Cara - Flashdance What A Feeling (Official Music Video) Hotney 5 Streams • 3 years ago

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Irene Cara is best known as a singer of movie themes, though she worked as an actress since childhood. Raised in New York City, she appeared on Broadway in 1967 in the musical Maggie Flynn at age eight and can be heard on the cast album for the show The Me Nobody Knows. From the age of 16, she was turning up on television and in films, including a part in the TV mini-series Roots 2 in 1979. In 1980, she was catapulted into stardom and a singing career by her appearance in the film Fame, for which she sang the title song, an Oscar-winning Top Ten hit. Also from the film was her Top 40 hit "Out Here on My Own." In 1983, she topped the charts with "Flashdance...What a Feelin'" from the movie Flashdance, a song she co-wrote that won another Oscar, and Cara won a couple of Grammys for her contributions to the soundtrack. Her What a Feelin' album included the hits "Why Me?" and "Breakdance," and she also made the Top 40 with a third movie theme, "The Dream (Hold on to Your Dream)," from DC Cab. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and moral support by demanding but big-hearted instructor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala). The film's signature scene is, of course, Alex's water-drenched dance audition, largely performed in long shot by her dance double Marine Jahan. Essentially an old-fashioned backstage yarn, Flashdance was given a contemporary spin by its pulsating, musical score featuring the Oscar-winning Best Song, Flashdance...What a Feeling, (music by Giorgio Moroder, lyrics by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara).

Similar Works
Fame (1980, Alan Parker)
Saturday Night Fever (1977, John Badham)
Footloose (1984, Herbert Ross)
Center Stage (2000, Nicholas Hytner)
Save the Last Dance (2001, Thomas Carter)
Dirty Dancing (1987, Emile Ardolino)
Over the Top (1986, Menahem Golan)
8 Mile (2002, Curtis Hanson)
Honey (2003, Bille Woodruff)
Brave New Girl (2004, Bobby Roth)
Other Related Works
Is featured in: The Full Monty (1997, Peter Cattaneo)
Is related to: Dance with Me (1998, Randa Haines)
Influenced: Sunset Strip (1991, Paul G. Volk)
Make It Happen (2008, Darren Grant)

Stabbing Westward: Whatever happened to the band behind 'Save Yourself' & 'What D Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

Stabbing Westward: Whatever happened to the band behind 'Save Yourself' and 'What Do I have To Do,

0:00 - Pre-Band Years
2:25 - Stabbing Westward Early Years
4:13 - Ungod/Second Album
8:00 - Trent Reznor's Thoughts/Darkest Days
11:28 - Breakup/Reunion

Kiss Reunion Tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzEdI7eNYxA&t=2s

Sex Pistols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYwwpZmePs8&t=3s

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#stabingwestward #christopherhall

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’ve had a lot of people requesting this band over the past year or two and it’s finally time to tackle this subject. Before we start make sure you guys go fill out our request form in the description box below of what stories and topics you’d like to see us cover in the future on our channel. Stabbing Westward would emerge on people’s radars during the mid 90’s and be frequently compared to industrial pioneers nine Inch nails. I mean, they shared a similar sound even shared drummers, which may have been instrumental in getting the band signed and today we’re going to explore whatever happened to the band.

While Stabbing Westward wouldn’t rise to prominence in the middle part of the 90’s they formed nearly a decade prior in the 80’s. The band would be started by two musicians bassist and vocalist Christopher Hall and Walter Flakus (keyboardist, programmer, backup singer) in the city of Macomb, Illinois. Most sources said the band’s early days dated back to 1985, but one fan site that’s since archived claims the band’s origins dated back to 1981. According to the fan site the pair met at a summer music camp. Four years later they would both attend Western Illinois University pursuing degrees in music, while working at the local college radio station.. At this time forming a rock band wasn’t on their minds, at least not for Hall who would tell Cryptic Rock From the time I was five, I played the trumpet and I went to college studying Classical music. I was convinced I was going to be a trumpet player in the Chicago Symphony and be a university teacher; that was my goal.The Rock band thing was sort of a side passion that kind of took over. Hall would tell songfacts where the band’s musical inspiration came from saying As kids, Walter and I were crazy about Ministry and Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk and bands like that. Anything Al Jourgensen did we just thought was the greatest thing on earth. That was always just what we wanted to do.

The pair would play in a variety of bands before they decided they wanted to form their own project.The pair soon started recording music similar to the Cure and they bought a four track recorder, a drum machine and learned how to sequence a midi keyboard. Christopher Hall would tell Songfacts We were both in other bands – together and apart – that were mostly cover bands. One band was like a new wave cover band. I was in another band that did a lot of Smiths and Echo & the Bunnymen type stuff. But Walter and I always secretly wrote industrial music in our bedroom. We would put together every keyboard and drum machine we had and bounce tracks on a four-track. That was our passion.

According to future drummer Andy Kubiszewski (Coup-bichess-kee) who told be in the loop chicago the band’s name came from and i quote “essentially when Chris and Walter were putting the band together, they had a gig and there was a deadline for a name for the band, so they pulled out a bunch of album covers and they pulled out a record cover and it had an excerpt from, I believe it was an Eisenhower speech, where he was talking about communism coming to the west and he used the phrase “stabbing westward,” and they went oh well, “Stabbing Westward”, that will work.”

In reality the phrase stabbing westward was not from eisenhower, but an unknown announcer from a 1947 newsreel. The newsreel would be included in the 1982 documentary the atomic cafe.

The pairs post secondary institution of Western Illinois University served as an inspiration for the pair with Hall stating to R&R Reported “Since we went to Western Illinois University, Stabbing Westward had a certain ‘kill everybody in the school’ vibe to it! The school’s way out in farm country and the country is really close minded. I was walking around like Robert Smith with real big hair, big baggy black clothes, black fingernail polish and eye makeup. They just didn’t get it. We hated the town.”
The pair soon moved to ch

Layne Staley’s Final Days with Alice in Chains Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

Alice in Chains: Layne Staley's final days with Jerry Cantrell and the rest of the band resulting in the songs Died and Ge Born Again.

0:00 - Alice in Chains Implosion
2:20 - Boggy Depot
4:05 - Layne Staley Returns To Alice
5:13 - Recording 'Died' & 'Get Born Again'
7:13 - Internal Tensions Leak/End

Alice in Chains Facelift Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShifZejOW_I&t=3s

Alice in Chains SAP Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWLsGm4bR9o&t=295s

Alice in Chains Rooster Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu8NjS5kLwo&t=2s

Alice in Chains Jar of Flies Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjU0uOP0sig

Days of the New Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-XIhOZUcak&t=617s

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#aliceinchains #jerrycantrell #laynestaley

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I’ve covered a lot of Alice in CHains videos on my channel including their glam days, making of facelift, jar of flies, sap and rooster. Links to those videos are down below. But today let’s take a look at a frontman Layne Staley’s final days with the band in the studio.
Alice in CHains would establish themselves as the first band out of seattles so called grunge movement to have a gold record with facelift. They would be release several big records including 1992’s Dirt, 1994’s EP Jar of Flies and 1995’s Self titled record that would prove to be their final studio album of original recordings. Addiction and in-fighting led to the band stop touring in any major capacity by 1993. Frontman Layne Staley’s addiction to heroin would be the group’s achiles heal and it wasn’t something the singer hid. A lot of their sop****re release 1992’s Dirt captured Layne’s struggle. The band’s last major appearance on the

road would be 1996, a year that saw the band briefly open for kiss that summer and make a few live tv appearances in addition to cutting an unplugged album. It was obvious from layen;’s changing physical appearance by 1996 he was still struggling with addiction. Following that summer alice in chains camp would lie dormant. Layne was hit with devastating news in October of that year when he learned his ex-fiance Demri Parrot had died. It was said by those close to him that he never fully recovered from her death.
By november of 1997 Layne would record guest vocals on the song the things you do for his friend jesse holt. Layne had previously recorded vocals on the track in 1988. In the book alice in chains the untold story, jason buttino who has the recordings would be quoted in the book as saying layne’s voice by this point in time was so quiet and soft his vocal track had to be boosted. Buttino also attributed the change in his voice not just due to his deteriorating health but the fact that the song was recorded a year after Demri’s death, something that obviously was still weighing heavily on him. It was during this time There’d be the odd news story about some running into Layne a lot of which is captured in the books everybody loves our town and grunge is dead. Even MTV reported in August 1997 there were rumors circulating online and on radio stations that Layne had lost several fingers to gangrene. The rumors likely stemmed from a 1996 profile that rolling stone did on the band that highlighted his personal problems. A rep for the band would issue a statement to mtv that read "I visited Layne the other day, and he's fine... and he's got all his fingers."
In October of 1997 the band’s manager Susan would appear at the north by northwest music and media conference and the seattle times would report at the time and i quote “she also hinted with a sigh that a lice is about to self destruct.” It was during this time Silver closed her management business.
A few months after the report came out in late 1997 reports would surface that guitarist Jerry Cantrell was now turning his attention to putting out a solo record. It’s important to note that boggy depot consisted of ¾ of alice in chains minus layne staley. Of course as Cantrell started doing press for his solo effort boggy depot which in April of 1998, the question of alice in chains inactivity continually ca

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