VIDEO: Bottle Rockets Live in the studio

Outstanding up-close video of Brian Henneman and the great Bottle Rockets at the KEXP radio studios out in Seattle. Perveyors of sturdy, soul-grabbing American rock and roll, the B-Rockets’ new record (“Lean Forward”) is a return to the country-rockish sounds of albums like their excellent 1997 release “24 Hours a Day”.
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see two more videos from Seattle – from the KEXP youtube channel.  Lots of other great live rock and roll on here – worth checking out.  They’ve done a nice job of blending a live performance space with outstanding audio and intimate camera work.

VIDEO – Springsteen opens final Giants Stadium stand with new song, complete Born To Run peformance

Seemingly always working at getting better, Bruce Springsteen whipped out a three-hour, 13-minute show Wednesday (9.30.09) night at the soon-to-be-gone Giants Stadium with a new song written specifically for the occasion: “Wrecking Ball”.  Bruce and the E. St. Band also perormed an epic version of his 1975 classic Born to Run album, stretching the 39-minute record to nearly an hour. Early reports? Amazing.
From NJlive.com, there’ s a pro-shot look at the opening of the show, featuring the new song…turn it up.
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Video – Will Hoge (live performance)

One of the best roots rockers of his generation (there’s a statement that is unfair, eh?), Will Hoge has a new album (“The Wreckage”) out on September 29th.  Here’s a video from the CBS Early Show that is a nice little introductory piece on him – a performance and short interview.  He had a terribly severe accident on his way home from the recording studio last August, and it has taken him almost a year to recover. 
I saw him in Indianapolis last summer  – a free (no shit!) outdoor show at the terrific Rathskeller Biergarten.  Dan Baird, of  Georgia Satellites fame, played guitar for him.  Killer performance. It was, without hestitation, the best show I saw all summer.  Springsteen comparisons are apt, but he’s more like a younger Tom Petty –  insightful, soulful, heartfelt rock and fuckin’ roll.
He’s back in our town Indy on November 21 at Radio Radio.
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Video: Bruce Springsteen rarity – "Streets of Fire" live in Italy

Live rarity from the end of Springsteen’s European tour run; “Streets of Fire” (from the Darkness on the Edge of Town album)…always thought the guitar solos were terrific, even if it plodded a little on record. Nils Lofgren is terrific on this, as is Bruce. Sound is superb for an audience video.
Ok. Go Ahead. Click play. Watch for confusion on the left side of the stage before Nils’ solo. And then he goes out and just kills it.
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VIDEO: Son Volt – LA 2009

Though this great song has been covered by hundreds (thousands?) of bands, this take by Son Volt (coming to Indianapolis on August 8 for a Vogue show) on “Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way?” burns in a deeper way.  Superbly shot audience video with great sound, captured in LA in July.  Worth checkin’ out, I say….
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