You can check out the newest episode of You Gotta Hear This featuring the New Zealand musician, Ladyhawke. She’s gotten tons of praise for her self-titled debut album, released last year. Filled with catchy dance inspiring hits like “Magic” and “Paris is Burning”, you’ll be up and bouncing around to Ladyhawke on first listen. For more information, check out the YGHT podcast at the On-Demand Audio section
The number “9″ was a favorite of John Lennon’s (n.b., “Revolution 9,” “#9 Dream”), so it’s quite fitting that The Beatles’ record company is releasing the first major updating of The Beatles’ CD catalogue since the discs were first released twenty years ago on 09-09-09, or this Wednesday, September 9th.
Box sets with the entire band’s original recorded output in stereo and another one in mono are coming out that day, each painstakingly remastered with technology not available when the CDs first hit the ears of Fab Four fans in the late 1980s.
To give you a sampler platter of these reissues, WYEP will play one song from the stereo remasters each hour from 6am to 6pm on Wednesday. We’ll select a dozen of the most interesting songs with updated sonics and let you taste for yourself.
Meanwhile, here’s a review of the reissues. (Here’s a more audiophile-oriented review.)
The remasters are coming out in conjunction with the Rock Band video game with a Beatles theme.
This is the 2nd installment of the collaborative outfit/band put together by Neil Finn. The last release was a live recording back in 2001 that featured Ed O’Brien (Radiohead), Lisa Germano, and Johnny Marr.
This time around Neil Finn took his friends into the studio and included Jeff Tweedy, KT Tunstall, and Phil Selway. In total, 20 different musicians contributed to the double album by 7 Worlds Collide titled The Sun Came Out. The project benefits Oxfam.
This video features KT Tunstall on the track Hazel Black
Saturday, September the 12th is the date for WYEP’s annual Rock The Block event at Bedford Square. Local opener Lohio get’s the music started and this year headlining is the Syracuse, NY band Ra Ra Riot.
http://www.wyep.org/events/event.php?event_id=1157
Check our Ra Ra Riot’s video for ‘Can You Tell’
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