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Tom Morello Covers Tom Waits With X Ambassadors’ Sam Harris
Spotify Singles has recently been trotting out a bunch of interesting covers and collaborations. The latest comes from Tom Morello, who joined forces with X Ambassadors singer Sam Harris to take on Tom Waits’ “Come on Up to the House.” The song is the B-side to a version of Morello’s “Raising Hell” from his Atlas Underground album. That volume (the second of 2021) was released in December. “Raising Hell” was sung by Ben Harper. Harris appeared on the second Atlas Underground album as well. Last year, Morello spoke with us about the inspiration for making two Atlas Underground albums. He described how Kanye West inspired him to record tracks on his phone and send them out around the world. He collaborated with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Chris Stapleton, grandson, and many...
The 100 Greatest Rock Stars Since That Was A Thing
Three of the 100 are in this picture! The Rolling Stones, in 1964, from left to right: Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones. The problem with lists like this is they are invariably bullshit. So our prime objective was to make sure we didn’t do a bullshit list. I’m not saying we did a scientific one either. Because that isn’t possible — actually, it is, if you wanted some compilation of who sold the most records/concert tickets/has the most fans/got the most death threats, etc., and someone could come up with a bunch of very empirical metrics and create a “heat index” or something, and could deliver an actual scientific ranking! But we, um, didn’t do that. In fact we didn’t even, technically, do the “we...
The 50 Best Live Albums of the 1970s
The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live albums captured legendarily loud bands like The Who and The Ramones in their natural element. Once obscure regional acts like Bob Seger, KISS and Cheap Trick exploded into the mainstream with live albums. The Band, The Stooges, and Velvet Underground put their final gigs on vinyl. Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young (as his ongoing archive series shows), and Jackson Browne recorded entire sets of new songs onstage. The Grateful Dead released several official live albums (and continue to do so) that only made fans want to bootleg shows on their own more. With the 50th anniversary of a landmark live album, Th...
