Rock Mobster Archives: 2013 December 1-7

Saturday, December 7, 2013 

1. Elton John Tells Russia To End Gay Discrimination At His Moscow Concert (Business Insider)
2. Ringo Starr Comes Together: Life, His New ‘Photograph’ Book and the Beatles (Interview) 
3. Ry Cooder and The Chieftains to host masterclasses (Noise 11)
4. Noel Gallagher's Epic Year-End Gripe Session (Rolling Stone)
5. From our brand new issue: Eric Burdon of The Animals spoke with us about his life, career, the Animals, what keeps him going at this point in his life and more. (Rock Cellar Magazine)
6. When Irving Berlin Pissed Off Woody Guthrie (Slate)
7. More Lou Reed bootlegs than you can shake a stick at (Dangerous Minds)
8. The Tao of Lou (Reed)  (The New Yorker)
9. Unmissable! Andrew Male hails the otherworldy beauty and influential impact of Pete Drake’s 'talking' steel guitar (MOJO)
10. Here's How to Undo a Sent Email in Gmail (Slate)

Friday, December 6, 2013 

1. “What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human.” – South African President Jacob Zuma. Obituary (Boston Globe) 
2. Nelson Mandela, Inspiration To World, Dies At 95 (NPR)
3. Bono Honors The Man Who Could Not Cry (Time)  
4. Will Putin Grant Pussy Riot Amnesty? (HuffPo)   
5. Bert Jansch, 'Hendrix of the Acoustic Guitar,' Honored in London  (Acoustic Guitar)
6. Actor Casey Affleck has an idea: he wants to reopen the Harvard Square Theater and let nonprofit groups use it as a space for the arts. The owner of the property said he is all ears, and all Affleck has to do is call him to get the conversation started. (Boston Magazine)
7. The Singer Who Inspired Coen Brothers’ New Film (NY Times)   
8. Watch Lou Reed's last interview in full, recorded for Parrot Zik headphones (You Tube)
9. Crazy Horse Reschedules Europe Concerts!? + New Neil Young Album Recorded @ Jack White's "Third Man" Label (Thrasher’s Wheat) 
10. Interview: Robert Crumb on the Death of Authentic Rural Music (Red Bull Music Acadamy)  
11. Robbie Robertson recounts the making of the Band's 1968 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame-inducted opus (Grammy)
12. SiriusXM Will Have to Defend Multiple Lawsuits Over Pre-1972 Music (Hollywood Reporter)
13. Former Jimmy (sic) Hendrix, Bob Dylan Bassist Has Soft Spot for Tucson (Arizona Public Media) 
14. Q & A With John Sebastian (Arizona Public Media)
15. ONLINE LISTENING SESSION FOR GIVE ME STRENGTH ON 10 DECEMBER(Where’s Eric?) 
16. A Dylan a Day: “Street-Legal” (chris morris's wasted space)
17. "Let's be honest: Britney Spears may be the most boring person on the planet." Her new album is dead on arrival (Vulture)  
18. Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten selling really un-punk Malibu ranch house for $1.995 million(Yahoo Homes) 
19. Japanese artist Yoko Ono stars as a cover girl for the December 2013 / January 2014 issue of Interview Magazine, photographed by Craig McDean and styled by Karl Templer. (Fashion Berry)
20. Haiku contest! Win tickets to see Vampire Weekend at a secret small show in New York(Vulture) 
21. Special Delivery: Why Amazon’s Big Drone Hullabaloo was a Failure of Journalism (and how we can do better) (Kate Messner) 
22. 2 million passwords stolen and made public in massive hack (America Al Jazeera)
23.  INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT: Read our interview with Universal Music's Olivier Robert-Murphy who is behind the hi-res High Fidelity Pure Audio format (SuperDeluxeEdition) 
24. 75 ESSENTIAL, OBSCURE, & INFLUENTIAL BANDS (List Challenges)
25. Scientists have come up with a blue strawberry by splicing them with fish genes (Natural News Buzz) 
26. Rachel Parent: The 14-Year-Old GMO Labeling Activist (Healthy Life)

Thursday, December 5, 2013 

1. Rod Stewart confirms The Faces reunion (Rte Ten) 
2. Homosexual relationship edited out of Morrossey’s Autobiography in the U.S. (Stereogum)
3. THE ROLLING STONES ANNOUNCE SHOWS IN TOKYO, MACAU, ABU DHABI, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND (Rolling Stones)
4. Paul McCartney TV special on making of 'NEW' album premieres Thursday (Examiner)
5. Come Together: The Night Lennon and McCartney Reunited (Gibson)
6. A Dylan a Day: “Hard Rain” (chris morris's wasted space)
7. Roy Orbison: 'My voice is a gift' : Roy Orbison passed away 25 years ago this week (The Guardian) 
8. Watch Jack White perform a folk version of 'We're Going To Be Friends' (NME) 
9. We spoke to lost legend of folk Linda Perhacs about her follow-up to the extraordinary Parallelograms (MOJO)   
10. Warner Music Taps Robert Kraft to Lead Soundtrack Revival (Hollywood Reporter) 
11. Happy Holidays From FOLK New England!
12. Win the ENTIRE 33 1/3 Series!  (33 1/3)
13. ‘He literally blew me away’: Steve Cropper’s surprising choice for favorite electric guitarist (Something Else! Reviews)

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 

1. Rolling Stones 14 On Fire Tour Australia/New Zealand Tickets (Rolling Stones)
2. The Rolling Stones Add Abu Dhabi; China, Japan Coming Soon (Noise 11) 
3. Will Russia Halt Elton John's Concerts This Friday? (Advocate) 
4. Suzanne Vega’s First New Album in 7 Years Out This February (Suzanne Vega)
5. Donald Fagen's memoir reveals he "has changed from an alienated suburban kid into somebody's crabby Uncle Morty." (NY Times Books) 
6. Billy Joel Will Play MSG Concerts in Perpetuity (Vulture) 
7. Spotify Spills Details On Artist Payments (WSJ) 
8. How 'Indie' Bookstores Survived (and Thrived) (Atlantic)
9. What Were We Thinking? The Top 10Most Dangerous Ads (Collectors Weekly)
10. Why Out Brains Love Lists (New Yorker)

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 

1. STREAM ALBUM: Neil Young 'Live at the Cellar Door' 1970 (Thrasher’s Wheat)
2. A Dylan a Day: “The Basement Tapes” (chris morris's wasted space)
3. Remember Television's 'Marquee Moon'? The band played in NYC over the weekend - watch them play the classic album's title track at the link. Sounds pretty great to us...  (Rock Cellar Magazine)
4. Due to unforeseen logistical issues, Eric Clapton will no longer be performing at the Royal Festival Hall's A Celebration Of Bert Jansch concert on Tuesday, 3rd December. (Where's Eric! The Eric Clapton Fan Club Magazine)
5. GUIDED BY VOICES DATABASE CELEBRATES TEN YEARS BY GIVING AWAY A CLASSIC GBV CONCERT (Dangerous Minds)
6. ‘Police and Thieves’ reggae artist Junior Murvin is dead (NME)

Monday, December 2, 2013 

1. Management Shuffle Signals End Of U2′s Beautiful Day (East River String Band)
2. HARRY BELAFONTE WAS RIGHT ABOUT JAY-Z (Our Lecaci) 
3. This just in from Chas Hayek – 50 years old exactly! Day/dates match up, and many of the artists will be at Symphony Hall on 12/28! (Tom Rush) 
4. Neil Young News: Neil Young Continues To Answer His Own Question Affirmatively (Thrasher’s Wheat)  
5. ‘The Last Waltz’ for school kids: Garth Hudson helps out Philadelphia school kids & a budget crisis (WHYY Newsworks)  
6. Levittown Then… Tiny Tim Comes to Levittown (Levittown Leader) 
7. Bob Dylan to Stand Trial for Inciting Racism? (Cinch Review) 
8. YOKO ONO: Wish Tree for Tokyo (MoCA Tokyo, Japan) December 8, 2013
9. Why Lou Reed Can’t Die (Speakeasy/WSJ) 
10. The Homes That Hatched the '60s: As a Boy, Artist Peter Max Learned to Sketch in a Pagoda-Style House in China. Then He Moved to Israel, Paris and New York. (WSJ)
11. Icon of 1960s art scene Martin Sharp dies aged 71(The Australian)
12. Quick Q and A with Willie "Loco" Alexander (Everything Sundry) 
13. Brinsley Schwarz interview by Jason Gross (Furious)
14. The "No animals were harmed" film credit is often BS (Vultures) 
15. Get the most out of #YouTube with #TuneCore Distribution + Music Publishing + INDMUSIC . Here's how. (TuneCore) 

Sunday, December 1, 2013 

1. Audio | Neil Young Solo Piano Cinnamon Girl From 1970 (Jambase)
2. Jack White's Third Man Records release special guitar pedal (Uncut) 
3. David Bromberg Band - Only Slightly Mad (2013)(About.com)
4. Kathleen Hanna Discusses 'The Punk Singer' Documentary And The Evolution Of Feminism (HuffPo) 
5. Individually signed certificates (by Kenney Jones & Ian 'Mac' McLagan) reside in each of the 3000 Small Faces "Here Comes The Nice: The Immediate Years 1967-1969" box sets that have been produced. (SuperDeluxeEdition) 
6. A Conversation with Elvis Costello : "You took a different approach with Wise Up Ghost than most others have with their albums. What was the mission?" (HuffPo) 
7. Report: Dylan's 50th (1963) track list; complete Guthrie tributes from '68, '70 (Examiner)
8. Typewriter artist creates amazingly intricate images (Yahoo News)
9. How to Make a Budget-Friendly DIY Music Video (TuneCore)