Behind The Covers – Storm Thorgerson on The Beginnings of Hipgnosis

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Interview: Storm Thorgerson

I interviewed Storm at the San Francisco Art Exchange where there is a showing of some of his original works called “Lovers of Covers – The Album Art of Storm Thorgerson”. The entire interview goes about 35 minutes. This is a clip from that interview where he talks about the beginnings of Hipgnosis, the company that did album art for all of the cool records in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the present.

I’ll be posting several of these types of clips as well as the entire video interview as well so stay tuned.

Links:

Storm Thorgerson Website

San Francisco Art Exchange

Hipgnosis Album Covers

Rock and Roll Geek Website

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The Meat Sluts – Johnny Con Carne music video

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MEET THE MEAT SLUTS: Taking the c*ck outta rock, putting p*ssy into punk, these meat muffins are four tunnels of fun from San Francisco. With members of the Womentors, Double D’s, Jaded Fucks, Lost Puppy and EX-members of Deranged Pussy, Loudmouths, McCools… THE MEAT SLUTS have cum together to ROCK BABY, ROOOOOCK and leave you hungry for more! It’s time to mess around! Time to get some action! Time to punk ‘n’ roll!

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Riverboat Gamblers – Robots May Break Your Heart music video

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Check it out! We’re premiering our new music video for ‘Robots May Break Your Heart’ AND giving away an MP3 of the song for FREE over at VansWarpedTour.com (’cause you know, we’ll be playing that whole mother this summer).

Local Austin boy, Michael Sieben did all art for the video and this company in Burbank, Bang Zoom!
(they do a bunch of anime and post-production work on trailers and live
action and animated shows for TV and web), animated it all together.

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New Wave of British Heavy Metal – Week 3 – Def Leppard

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Week 3 of our series on The New Wave of British Heavy Metal

This week we have a classic from Def Leppard from 1979
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The Love Me Nots – Do What You Do music video

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The Love Me Nots – Do What You Do music video

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With a 60′s farfisa organ and plenty of fuzz
pedals, The Love Me Nots formed in 2006. Influenced by  The Animals,
The Ventures, The Sonics, The Dead Kennedys, The Seeds, The Detroit
Cobras, April March and The White Stripes, The Love Me Nots dubbed
their sound “spy-surf-fuzz-gogo.”
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Top 5 Music Countdown: Most Anticipated Albums of 2010!!!

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2010 is going to rock. I can feel it (I’m pretty sure I’m psychic). Lot of positive change to be had, plus tons of awesome new music releases!!! So, don your noise-cancelling headphones and listen up to this week’s end of the year Top 10 (+5 more because I love you) Music Countdown: Most Anticipated Albums of 2010!!! (IMHO, NATCH.)

10. Cat Power
Title: TBD

9. Yeasayer
“Odd Blood”

8. Vampire Weekend
“Contra”

7. LCD Soundsystem
Title: TBD

6. Arcade Fire
Title: TBD

5. Rjd2
“The Colossus”
**Release date: January 19, 2010

4. Massive Attack
“Heligoland”
**Release date: February 9, 2010

3. Hot Chip
“One Life Stand”
**Release date: February 9, 2010

2. MGMT
“Congratulations”
**Release date: Early January

1. Interpol
“LP4″
**Release date: Early 2010

Happy 2010!!!

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Top 5 Music Countdown: Best Albums of 2009!!!

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It’s that time of year. The time of the Best Of list. In this week’s Top 5 Music Countdown, we’re revealing the best albums of 2009, IHHO (In Heather’s Humble Opinion), NATCH.

5. Miike Snow
“Miike Snow”

Swedish + existential & metaphysical lyrics. Gotta have my synths!

4. Fever Ray
“Fever Ray”

Creepy vocals + dense electronica = just like I like it.

3. The Dead Weather
“Horehound”

Electric rock and funky backbeats. No bias here. This album/collaboration is one of the best from this year.

2. The xx
“xx”

Minimal and sexy. Pretty much how I live, nutshelled.

1. Florence + the Machine
“Lungs”

Gothic vocals + gorgeous instrumentation. Florence (speaking about her music) says: “I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe.”

Happy New Year!!!

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Rose Tattoo Tribute, Dollyrots Acoustic and Weight Loss

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Good day friends. Normally on Wed. we start the music lineup with an episode of the MeVIO Underground, our live acoustic music show. Today is slightly different. We have some bills to pay so I start the channel off with a Nutrisystem host endorsement. If you need to lose weight, give it a try. Some of the nerds here at MeVIO are on Nutrisystem and it seems to be working for them. And we can save you some money on it too if you go to nutrisystem.com/mvmusic
Next up I pay tribute to Mick Cocks, guitarist for Rose Tattoo who passed away yesterday from liver cancer. He was a great guitarist and I’ve never heard a bad word spoken of him. If you are not familiar with the pure rock n roll greatness that is Rose Tattoo, do yourself a favor and get their entire catalog. They are the real thing, friends. I play the video for Black Eyed Bruiser on the tribute as well.
After that, we have The Dollyrots in studio for a fantastic acoustic set that includes 2 new songs, so I guess that qualifies as an exclusive. They were really nice people and play some of the catchiest punk rock you will ever hear. They came down while they were in San Francisco during a west coast tour. They also did an interview with Jackie and Martina while they were here. That will be posted on MeVIO soon.
All that and much more stuff on MeVIO Music today including some Rock News from my friend Share at Rock n Roll TV and a bunch of Holiday Gift Guides.

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Top 5 Music Countdown: Rock ‘N’ Roll Baby Daddies!

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Top 5 Music Countdown: Rock ‘N’ Roll Baby Daddies!

5. Anthony Kiedis

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Have you seen this guy play a guitar with his shirt off? I have, and I haven’t been the same since.

4. Jason Schwartzman

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Totally adorbs. He’s got that double threat thing going for him = CUTE AND SEXY.

3. Wolfmother

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And here we’re talking, not one particular member, but the ENTIRE BAND (with the exception of the drummer).

2. Justin Timberlake

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I’ve always had a thing for JT. A guy who can dance should know this truth: I’m putty in your hands.

1. Jack White

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BIG SHOCK. He’s one talented, SEXY BITCH. Love everything he touches.

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Top 5 Music Countdown: New York City Ditties!

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Top 5 Music Countdown: Favorite Songs About a Little Town Called New York City!!

5.  “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
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4.  “Lovecraft in Brooklyn
-The Mountain Goats (Aesop Rock Remix)goats

3.  “Downtown Train
-Tom Waitstom waits

2.  “NYC
-Interpolinterpol

1. “First We Take Manhattan
-Leonard Cohenleonard cohen

Bonus round! 20 more New York-inspired songs for a longer, vitamin-fortified playlist!

“Walk on the Wild Side”
-Lou Reed

“Brooklyn Bound”
-The Black Keys

“Brooklyn”
-Mos Def

“The Long Island Sound”
-Beirut

“Where I’m From”
-Digable Planets

“What New York Used to Be”
-The Kills

“Stock Exchange”
-Miss Kittin & the Hacker

“Positively 4th Street”
-Bob Dylan

“Yeah! New York”
-Yeah Yeah Yeahs

“This Mess We’re In”
-PJ Harvey (Feat. Thom Yorke)

“South 2nd”
-CocoRosie

“NYC Everything”
-RZA

“Chelsea Hotel”
-Leonard Cohen

“Hello Brooklyn”
-Beastie Boys

“Fairy Tale of New York”
-Stars (Pogues cover)

“Piazza, New York Catcher”
-Belle & Sebastian

“The Last Tango in Brooklyn”
-Frightened Rabbit

“53rd & 3rd”
-The Ramones

“New York, New York”
-Cat Power

“Hello Brooklyn”
-Jay-Z & Lil’ Wayne

Also, while you’re there, leave me a comment with your top 5 favorite New York songs!!

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