Soundcheck Smackdown: Full-Album Concerts
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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Sonic Youth performs their iconic album Daydream Nation. (La Tête Krançien/flickr)
Full-album concerts were a novelty in the concert industry just a decade ago. Now, major touring acts like Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison and Steely Dan are taking the stage to perform their most beloved albums, from start to finish. Today: we debate album concerts in a Soundcheck Smackdown. And: another installment of WNYC's Jazz Loft Project radio series.
Whole album as concert: roaring or boring?
A growing number of artists – from rock star Bruce Springsteen to the hip-hop group Public Enemy to singer-songwriter Liz Phair – have performed entire, old albums on the stage recently. One critic says those shows are “a cruel perversion of a concert's real-time magic.” Another claims they are often ...
Picks of the Week
This week’s picks have a European theme: a Spanish singer who is a muse of director Pedro Almodovar, an adventurous French cellist, and an old British art-rock band.
801 Live – Collector's Edition - Picked by John Schaefer
Buika - El Ultimo Trago (Warner Music Spain) - picked by Gisele ...
801 Live – Collector's Edition - Picked by John Schaefer
Buika - El Ultimo Trago (Warner Music Spain) - picked by Gisele ...
The Jazz Loft Project: More Tapes
Thousands of hours of tape recorded in a Manhattan loft in the late 1950s and early '60s were recently discovered. They became The Jazz Loft Project -- and a 10-part WNYC radio series produced in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In today’s episode, "More Tapes," ...
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