from the 2013 album “Lets Be Still” this wonderful track from the band The Head and the Heart, features violinist Charity Rose Thielin on lead vocals but accompanied by an amazing animated video .

recorded at the Stone Pony for the AV club, Sharon Van Etten has a new album due out soon, but here she covers a wonderful version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Drive all Night” she really brings some spectacular emotion into what is an excellent performance solo on piano .

Sean Lennon’s Psychedelic Rock Band cover this track on WYNC Radio Spinning Air Show in New York,the album has been streaming all week on NPR radio.

this evocative song written by Amy Speace features on the album “How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat” and features the excellent singer songwriter John Fullbright,

Sean Lennon and his band The Ghost Of The Sabre Tooth Tiger perform on the Letterman show they have a new album titled “MIDNIGHT” its a really good slice of psychedelic rock

Brooklyn based Doe Paoro can always be relied upon to bring you amazing visuals to her music video’s, Sparse synths and a beautiful vocals, this track is taken from the new EP “Ink on the Walls” check out some of the previous videos “Born Whole” and “New Lows”

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when it came out in 1974 it was dismissed slightly as the last gasps of Ziggy Stardust,seen as Bowie’s swan song to the raw guitar style, but its an album that has inspired bands for many years since including industrial acts like Bauhaus and Nine Inch Nails,It was another concept album and Bowie’s eighth release Initially based on the novel by author George Orwell book 1984,but Orwell’s estate refused permission for its use  this was Bowie’s own glam-tinged vision. the main character is Halloween Jack a real cool cat,  with its echoes of Ziggy especially with the Bowie haircut and the glam style trash rock song and guitar intro “Rebel Rebel” also was influences of the guitar style of the Rolling Stones particularly on” Sweet Thing”  where Bowie used a similar method of cutting up style of writing as favoured by William S Burroughs. Tony Visconti reunited with Bowie to co produce and add string arrangements a role he continued for at least the next decade, The cover art caused some further uproar as Bowie’s half man half dog naked image across the cover

this Manchester girl band should be straight out of Brooklyn thier intense and assertiveness with distorted guitars and brooding dark harmonies

recorded for the Born to Run sessions possibly as a demo, this early version of the opening song is dark and moody Springsteen accompanies himself on acoustic guitar with a lot of echo on the vocal.

the 1975 Born to Run tour with the long energetic shows, A classic rock song about a young couple with dreams of a better place than new Jersey using their love to escape a town that can rip your bones from your back and tear you apart. The idea of the production was to obtain the Phil Spector wall od sound technique . Bruce has said that he wanted to make the greatest rock record I had ever heard he had enormous ambition for the song, i