MUSIC THREAD

Psyched for new Florence + the Machine and Father John Misty discs coming very soon.

 

Australian rocker Courtney Barnett has put her second full-length album out, "Tell Me How You Really Feel." A bit of an angrier sound than her 2015 debut, IMHO.

Check it out:

We'll see if I can get to one of her shows ... touring the U.S. this summer and fall.

 

Not sure where else to put this ...

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articl...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

 

Great booking because God only knows what kind of show it produces: St. Vincent at Newport Folk Festival.

 

Picked up Booker T and the MGs’ McElmore Street, which is their instrumental cover of Abbey Road. I am torn between loving the funky approach to it and it sounding like a hotel lounge cover band.

 

Yeah... when it works it's really, really good. When it doesn't, it reminds me of walking past the organ store in the mall when I was a kid.

 

A good read about the 50th anniversary of Altamont (the not-talked-about cousin of Woodstock). Didn't realize it was originally planned for Golden Gate Park, then Sears Point before moving to Altamont. Also didn't know about the reference in American Pie.

'If Jesus had been there, he would have been crucified': 50 years ago, terror and death at Altamont

 

Further reading on Altamont:

Cutler was the Stones' tour manager and left behind to deal with the mess.

This has got to be the best, most definitive account of that day: