This Bird Has Flown – A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles’ Rubber Soul is out on Razor & Tie 10/25. Here’s the tracklist (via Pitchfork):
01 The Donnas – “Drive My Car”
02 The Fiery Furnaces – “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”
03 Dar Williams – “You Won’t See Me”
04 Low – “Nowhere Man”
05 Yonder Mountain String Band – “Think for Yourself”
06 Mindy Smith – “The Word”
07 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals – “Michelle”
08 Sufjan Stevens – “What Goes On”
09 Rhett Miller – “Girl”
10 Ted Leo – “I’m Looking Through You”
11 Ben Lee – “In My Life”
12 Ben Kweller – “Wait”
13 Nellie McKay – “If I Needed Someone”
14 Cowboy Junkies – “Run For Your Life”
Speaking of classic LPs, check out the Uncut/ATP “Don’t Look Back” series coming to London this fall. Bands will be revisiting their biggest albums live in concert:
8/30: The Stooges play Fun House at Hammersmith Apollo
8/31: Dinosaur Jr play You’re Living All Over Me at Koko
9/14: The Lemonheads play It’s A Shame About Ray at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
9/15: The Lemonheads play It’s A Shame About Ray at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
9/16: Mudhoney play Superfuzz Bigmuff plus early singles at Koko
9/17: Mudhoney play Superfuzz Bigmuff plus early singles at Koko
9/18: Múm and Cat Power play Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK and The Covers Album at The Barbican
9/21: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion play Orange at Koko
9/24: Gang Of Four play Entertainment! at The Barbican
9/25: Belle And Sebastian play If You’re Feeling Sinister at The Barbican
10/4: The Melvins play Houdini at Koko
10/5: Dirty Three and Sophia play Ocean Songs and The Infinite Circle at The Barbican
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I saw REM play Green and Murmur straight through in 1989.
For what it’s worth.
I think I just came in my pants. But not in a creepy way.
exactly how is that not creepy?
think this’ll have sam champion covering “it’s only love” as a b-side… Could yo ufind that?
uncut mag is a ridiculous publication. just ridiculous.
mars volta played de-loused straight through when i saw them in philly two summers ago
“01 The Donnas – “Drive My Car”
aww. that’s too bad.
I’ll wait till next year’s Revolver tribute. Imagine the New Pornographers covering “She Said She Said.”
I have to somehow get my passport ready for those 8/30 and 8/31 shows. Dang!
Why isn’t the Dirty Three performing “Horse Stories”? And why do I somehow care?
Surely they could’ve gotten some more impressive talent for this? It is the Beatles, after all.
Ted Leo, Rhett Miller, Fiery Furnaces – cool. But this is a seriously under-powered line-up.
oh, i so want to go see belle & sebastian, but the show’s been sold out forever and ever…come do this series stateside kids, pretty please!
is it just me or has the focus good music completely shifted to Europe over the past year?
How is Cat Power’s “biggest” album the Covers Record?
Cowboy Junkies singing an [i]up-tempo[/i] cover? That’s unheard of.
Hmm, so much for trying to italicize.
That Belle & Sebastian show sounds great.
But how about we get the following shows:
R.E.M. does Automatic for the People (with Bill “Bert” Berry!)
The Church does Starfish
The Smiths do Strangeways, Here We Come
and so on.
What else am I forgetting?
Perhaps they’ve done this already (I have no clue) but I would love to see the Drive-By Truckers play the whole Southern Rock Opera.
Green Day playing all of Dookie (come on, you all own it…)
The Hold Steady playing …Almost Killed Me in order
múm playing YESTERDAY WAS DRAMATIC – TODAY IS OK!?! i know i won’t see it happen, but is anyone else as intrigued as i am, just by the thought of this? big whoa.
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
what has he been doing?
God, only in England would the wretched Lemonheads rate a two-night stand.
I’m sorry, but JSBX doing Orange all the way through brings a tear to my eye. Oh the memories!wish they were doing it at CBGB’s or Bowery…why Europe?
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