Brother in NYC

So I've been playing this band a ton since seeing them play at Mercury Lounge in NYC a little over a week ago. Brother are keeping us all young, and doing it with a smile and a little bit of youth angst. Brother are exactly what music has needed for a while now, and they've made our city proud by doing this rooftop session.

Britpop Now (Then)

So I've been on a massive Britpop kick. The music was great because it was taking influences, from punk, mod, guitar rock, psych, and many other genres that appeal to me most, but yet this was a genre all its own, and almost every band in this era had a sound of their own. Unlike so many big genres in the last 100 years, the bands themselves defined Britpop, and Britpop defined them, but not by sounding like each other, but by their creativity and owning it. I'm still very fond of these years, and so therefore felt it would be a good post to accompany these great videos.

In 1995, Damon Albarn hosted a show on BBC Four called Britpop Now. Here was that episode broken into 12 video clips.

Blur:


Elastica:


The Boo Radleys:


PJ Harvey:


Menswe@r:


Echobelly:


Gene:


Supergrass:


Sleeper:


Marion:


Powder:


Pulp:

Menswe@r

Brother

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Video Find: Parklife

I've been obsessing over the live recordings of Blur from this year's Glastonbury Festival and their show from Hyde Park. Mainly what I've really enjoyed is after all these years, the amount of energy they brought. Secondly, its truly amazing to see an adult Phil Daniels on the stage giving it his all like Jimmy Cooper on the stage for Parklife. This video was from the BBC in 1994. If you get a chance to check out a video of Hyde Park or Glastonbury, do yourself a favor. Glastonbury was filmed professionally by the BBC and is floating around the net. In the meantime, you can grab this audio recording from Hyde Park on the 3rd of July 2009.

Video Find: Blur (On the Reunion)

I'm really excited about this. We must not forget how class this band was.
Here's The Universal:

Blur to Reunite (Official)

Blur have confirmed they will play a massive gig at London's Hyde Park on July 3. Graham Coxon, talking about what he thinks the band's first shows together will be like, said: "Part of me thinks it's like riding a bike, and it'll just take us getting the volume turned up and then we'll be away, and that will be enough. But another part of me is very cautious. So I'm not gonna bother writing a script!"

Watch the band explain why they reformed in this video.

Noel Gallagher Ends Oasis/Blur Rivalry

Noel Gallagher had a public spat with the Parklife stars in 1995 when their records were released on the same day and went head-to-head in the British singles charts.

The two bands have remained enemies ever since, with frontmen Liam Gallagher and Damon Albarn often hurling insults at each other in public.

Now guitarist Noel Gallagher appears to have forgiven the band - by praising one of their songs.

Talking on British comedian Russell Brand's BBC radio show on Sunday, he described Blur's chart-topping single Beetlebum as "a great tune".

Gallagher also confirmed that Oasis' world tour - which was put on hold after he was injured in an onstage attack at the V Festival in Toronto, Canada earlier this month - is back on.

He added: "(My ribs) are on the mend. The next gig is in ten days in Liverpool. I'm not gonna be right for that, it takes another five weeks to heal up, but we've got to start that tour because it'll be two years' work out the window!"

Source: Daily Star