Radiohead Plays Gig to Help Quake Victims in Haiti

Radiohead played a gig this week in Los Angeles at the Music Box Theatre at the Fonda to raise money to help the victims of the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti. Tickets to the show were purchased by an auction with the lowest bid coming in at $475 and the highest bid being $2000! In total they raised $572,754.

Several celebrities were spotted at the show including Charlize Theron, Daniel Craig, Justin Timberlake, Drew Barrymore, and Maggie Gyllanhaal.

The setlist was as follows:

01 Faust Arp
02 Fake Plastic Trees
03 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
04 The National Anthem
05 Nude
06 Karma Police
07 Kid A
08 Morning Bell
09 How To Disappear Completely
10 A Wolf at the Door
11 The Bends
12 Reckoner
13 Lucky
14 Bodysnatchers
15 Dollars & Cents
16 Airbag
17 Exit Music

Encore #1

18 Everything In Its Right Place (Thom)
19 You And Whose Army?
20 Pyramid Song
21 All I Need

Encore #2:

22 Lotus Flower
23 Paranoid Android
24 Street Spirit (fade out)

here's a link to a new song played at the show...

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Aw Man....

J.D. Salinger Dies. Most of us have read "The Catcher in the Rye" at some point or another. Sadly, it's author J.D. Salinger passed away and left this world of "phonies". His work lives on, but he will be missed...

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She and Him

As if Zoey Deschanel needed anything to make her any hotter. The girl can sing!!

Deschanel an M Ward met on the set of a movie called the Go Getter (which I have personally never heard of), when they were asked to sing a duet. Ward then learned that the super-hot Deschanel had in fact written some of her own songs, but was hesitant to record and release them. He later called her and convinced her to put her art into a recording, and "She & Him" was formed.

The two corresponded by email from Portland, OR and Los Angeles, CA. Deschanel finally went to Ward's studio in Portland and their debut album, "Volume One", was recorded in late 2006 and early 2007.

The duo was influenced by the likes of artists produced by George Martin and Phil Spector, and groups like the Carter Family, and their collaboration ends up being an amalgamation of 60's singer songwriters with a dash of cowgirl crooners like Patsy Cline topped of with elements of California soul.

When their album was released, it was declared to be the #1 album of the year by Paste Magazine

They have toured sporadically, and have plans for a follow up album.

Please enjoy the following musical gem...

here's another version...

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Nuts About Nutini!!

Continuing my trend of featuring artists who's names don't sound like where they are from, I proudly present Paolo Nutini. Sounds Italian, right. Wrong. This guy is Scottish. Nutini began paying his dues at the age of 17 when he played the role of supporting act for Amy Winehouse and KT Tunstall. In 2006 he released his debut album "These Streets", and subsequently found himself playing most of the music festivals in the UK, even a performance on the legendary pyramid stage at the Glastonbury Festival. Stateside, his songs were featured on television programs such as "Scrubs", "Grey's Anatomy", "CSI Miami", and "One Tree Hill". In 2009 he released his sophomore effort "Sunny Side Up".

Here's the single "New Shoes". If it doesn't get your feet tapping, you might want to check to see if you're still alive...

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