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Trailer: Black Cab Sessions U.S. w/ Jack White, Lambchop, More
Since 2007, the Black Cab Sessions have filmed some of the most intimate live performances to hit the Web, starring a slew of awesome acts that include Band of Horses, Laura Marling, Jens Lekman, Mumford & Sons, Bon Iver, and many more. All this without leaving London… until now. Announced today via the above trailer is a 6-part series set to air on television at a to-be-announced date, in which their vintage taxi tours Philadelphia, Athens, New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis, and New York with backseat performances by Jack White and Wanda Jackson (driven by White’s Walk Hard co-star, John C. Reilly), Sharon Van Etten, the Roots, Kyp Malone, Lambchop, and others.
After scanning through descriptions of a couple hundred films in the lineup for next year’s Sundance Film Festival today, I found that Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch’s Fight For Your Right Revisited isn’t the only new flick relevant to my (and hopefully your) interests. As it turns out, the National, Calexico, Will Oldham, the Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner, and the Roots have new work hitting the screen, as well.
Our rundown of 8 of said upcoming films, complete with teaser trailers, photos, and other details currently known, is below:
Watch: Regina Spektor & The Roots on Fallon - “Dance Anthem of the ’80s”
Promoting her new live record/DVD, Live in London, Regina Spektor stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to play “Dance Anthem of the ’80s” from her last studio LP, Far, with The Roots as her backing band. It’s a fun, relatively faithful rendition, but the best part might be when ?uestlove shouts in the microphone for the band to “solo!” (à la Ryan Adams’ “Halloweenhead”). Enjoy the video above, as well as clips from her new DVD here, here, and here.
First D.A. Pennebaker directed the National’s set at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, then Terry Gilliam took on an Arcade Fire show, and now another acclaimed director, Spike Lee, has offered his skills for the latest installment of Vevo’s Unstaged series: John Legend and the Roots at NYC’s Terminal 5. Performing in front of the album art to their new covers record, Wake Up!, Legend, ?uesto, and friends unleashed a killer set of tunes off said album, as well as one song that didn’t make the LP cut: Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up.”
Last month, we heard the new Roots track featuring Monsters of Folk, “Dear God 2.0,” and posted what was believed to be the full tracklist to their LP, How I Got Over, but what about the confirmed Joanna Newsom-guesting track and rumored Dirty Projectors collaboration? As it turns out, there are a few more cuts on the album than previously reported and three members of the latter band do, in fact, perform on one of them.
According to ?uestlove’s site OkayPlayer, album opener “A Peace Of Light” features Amber Coffman, Angel Deradoorian, and Haley Dekle of the Dirty Projectors. Need more proof? You can listen to 1:30 samples of every track off How I Got Over below, including their sample of Joanna Newsom’s “The Book of Right-On” (on the song “Right On,” duh). **Update: Full tracks are now on their MySpace. Enjoy:
The Roots dropped an album cover, release date, and tracklist for their forthcoming record, How I Got Over, just two days ago, but one of the LP’s indie-guesting tracks has already hit the Web. Dubbed “Dear God 2.0,” Roots MC Black Thought rhymes over a moderately reworked version of Monsters of Folk’s “Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.),” which features My Morning Jacket’s Jim James singing choruses about the mysteries of spiritual faith.
Though there’s no question that James — who originally penned the instant classic melody for his side project with Conor Oberst and M. Ward — and the Roots are a perfect, soulful match here, I was hoping for a more drastically different take on the tune. Either way, the Joanna Newsom-featuring track, “Right On,” and rumored Dirty Projectors cameos should throw a few welcome curveballs our way shortly.
Check out “Dear God 2.0” below, as well as the full HIGO tracklist:
Perhaps it’s been said before, but somebody needs to nominate the Roots’ ?uestlove for a “Best Musician on Twitter” prize. If only for his revealing Twitlonger post on the business of TV show walk-on song music publishing and epic live-tweet from inside Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace gig. So what’s the latest 140-character scoop from our favorite late-night drummer?
“[Y]es indeed we are working hard on #HOWIGOTOVER (first look) mixing the Joanna Newsome Jawn,” Questo cryptically posted yesterday. Twelve hours later he dropped a teaser video from the studio where Newsom’s “The Book of Right-On” is apparently being sampled. This all sounded very exciting, of course, but what’s he building in there? Entertainment Weekly (via Pitchfork) has the scoop: Joanna Newsom and My Morning Jacket singer Jim James will provide guest performances for different songs on the forthcoming Roots album, How I Got Over, due out this summer.
Something tells me that the Dirty Projectors might make an appearance on this record too.
Suzanne Vega and the Roots Play “Tom’s Diner”
Suzanne Vega stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to promote her new collection of songs, Close-Up, Volume 1: Love Songs. Though Vega performed a great rendition of her 1996 song “Caramel” while armed solely with an acoustic guitar for the televised broadcast, it was this pre-recorded segment of her jamming with the Roots to her 1980s hit, “Tom’s Diner,” that we enjoyed the most.
Watch the Roots and Vega’s web exclusive performance above, and check out “Caramel” here.
Before the dust settles on this weekend’s revelation that Grizzly Bear have written music for upcoming Ryan Gosling/Michelle Williams flick Blue Valentine, let’s take a look at a few other artists premiering film score compositions at next year’s Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City, UT:
As we previously reported, many famous rock musicians and a songwriter for Sesame Street were outraged late last year when news broke that their music had been used to torture inmates at Guantanamo Bay. Whereas Drowning Pool’s Steve Benton said it was “an honor to think that perhaps [their] song could be used to quell another 9/11 attack or something like that,” Trent Reznor, Rage Against The Machine, and many more were understandably furious.
Now Reznor and Rage’s Tom Morello have joined the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, along with R.E.M., Pearl Jam, the Roots, Rosanne Cash, Rise Against, Billy Bragg, and Jackson Browne, Huffington Post reports.