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Live preformance from Mark Knopfler, of the Dire Straits fame. This was taken from the ‘Night in London’ VHS. You can download the video as a MPEG file from here: http://rapidshare.com/files/175563394…

I’m a BIG BIG BIG fan of  Frank Zappa. Browsing on YouTube, specifically this version of Stairway To Heaven, I found! The first time I heard this version was because a friend of my mother gave me a CD compilation of Frank Zappa … the best gift of my life! My two favorite bands together on one song!

Music Video For “The One” Directed by Rik Cordero from Slaughterhouse.Featuring members Joell Ortiz, Crooked I, Royce Da 5′9 & Joe Budden.

The dailyswarm has a interesting post about about the cult front man Ian Astburys opinion on LP: “There will be no new album. I don’t think we’ll ever see a Cult album. Albums are dead. The format is dead. iTunes destroyed albums. The whole idea of an album. Albums were established in the ‘70s and ‘80s and into the ‘90s, but they’ve been dead for a long time. Nobody buys albums. It’s been proven. It’s an arcane format, as much as the 78 rpm or writing sheet music for an orchestra. It’s an old form and, for me, it’s much more about if we have a great song we really believe in, then we’ll record it and release it.” Read more…

MAMA Group, the AIM-listed artist management firm, and Radiohead’s manager Brian Message are taking on the music majors by launching a record label through which artists retain their copyright and digital delivery of music is key. 

Founded with an initial financial commitment of more than $20m (£12.2m) for its first year of operation, new label Polyphonic will partner artists and their managers to provide them with capital to operate their businesses without going to a traditional music label. Read more…

Beautiful wee ditty from Limerick songsmith, Vertigo Smyth. More info at pennydistribution

Woodstock 1969. Nice close view of Jimi’s hands. Notice that at one moment, he bends the first string all the way up to the sixth… the horror and noiseness of War expressed with just a guitar. (via Edi Winiger)

The history of the electric guitar as seen from the point of view of three significant musicians: Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, U2’s The Edge and the White Stripes’ Jack White. It tells the personal stories, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos. It reveals how each developed his unique sound and style of playing his favorite instrument. Concentrating on the artists musical rebellion, traveling with him to influential locations and provoking rare discussion as to how and why he writes and plays.

jon spencer lose control in this french tv show. songs: -high gear -talk about the blues

We have to thank Johnny Cash for reminding us that this is a great song.

Recorded during the Brian Setzer Orchestra’s tour of Japan.

Morphine was an alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 1989. The band ceased to be in 1999 after frontman Mark Sandman died of a heart attack. Read more about them on wikipedia. The songs mashed up are: - Like a Mirror / You speak my language / Honey white.