Category: videos

Video: Pearl Jam – “The Fixer”

The audio isn’t so hot but the new Pearl Jam video that popped up online this week gives a sneak preview of what’s to come on the band’s upcoming Backspacer album.

I don’t know – maybe it’s because I’ve been on a big Mother Love Bone kick lately – but I just haven’t felt the Pearl Jam love for quite some time, the only thing they’ve done in the last few years that’s excited me was re-release a re-mastered version of Ten.

“The Fixer” sounds pretty good, here’s hoping the rest of the album excites me.

Video: Alberta Cross – “ATX”

Burning up my iPod this week is the latest from Alberta Cross, Broken Side of Time, which will be available in stores on September 22. I caught just a few minutes of these guys at a packed day show in Austin earlier this year at SXSW and a whole slew of influences were heard – from Blind Melon to Mother Love Bone to Dead Confederate to Pink Floyd to Led Zeppelin.

Check out “ATX”, the first video from Broken Side of Time and let me know what you think.

New music from The Swell Season

Admit it, you fell in love with Glen and Marketa after seeing the unexpected indie film hit Once in 2006. And you got goosebumps when they won an Academy Award for the song “Falling Slowly”. Maybe you even went back and explored The Frames catalog after discovering that Glen has been fronting that band for nearly 20 years. It’s okay if you shed a tear when you heard the news that Glen and Marketa – whose relationship moved to new levels while filming Once – had broken up. But, fear not, even though the two are no longer romantically linked, they are still making beautiful music together and are prepping the second Swell Season album – Strict Joy – for release this fall (Oct.27).

Glen and Marketa recently stopped by the NPR offices to perform a handful of new songs in as part of a Tiny Desk concert.

Strict Joy track listing:

1. Low Rising
2. Feeling the Pull
3. In These Arms
4. The Rain
5. Fantasy Man
6. Paper Cup
7. High Horses
8. The Verb
9. I Have Loved You Wrong
10. Love That Conquers
11. Two Tongues
12. Back Broke

“Sister Christian”: Night Ranger vs. Coheed and Cambria

If all goes well this week, I’ll be doing a phoner with one of the Night Ranger guys. Who knew that prog-metal dudes Coheed and Cambria covered one of the greatest power ballads of the ’80s?

Night Ranger – “Sister Christian”

Coheed and Cambria – “Sister Christian”