28/12/10

Liars - Proud Evolution

...A sense of dread in our heart
And we wish the sense would fly away
In the night we're finding out
It will play

Proud evolution, Proud evolution
You should be careful
You should be careful

Our eyes can't tell how deep inside of the hundred billion potholes you can step in without knowing that you have

You should be careful...

...πόσο πιο επικίνδυνο μπορεί να γίνει το 2010;...τελειώνουν τα ψωμιά του...δε φοβάμαι πλέον... Proud Evolution...


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18/12/10

Miners of Muzo-Miracle Workers-The Last Drive-The Gun Club-The Saints-Dead Moon-New Christs

...κοίταξε...άμα μαζευτούμε είμαστε πολλοί...είμαστε όμως λίγο σκόρπιοι...

 

...μετανοείτε...rock'n roll χωρίς έλεος...

Miners of Muzo - Rock'n roll Bishop




...ίσως τα πιο μελωδικά ξεροκίθαρα της ιστορίας...

Miracle Workers - Already Gone



...see you soon...in hell...

The Last Drive - Hell To Pay 



...μ' αυτό το τραγούδι ανακάλυψα αυτή τη σπαρακτική φωνή του Μεγάλου Αρχηγού των κογιότ...rip...

The Gun Club - Thunderhead



...εδώ γεννήθηκε το punk...εδώ στην Αυστραλία...είμαστε όλοι Αυστραλοπίθηκοι βορειομετανάστες...

The Saints - Stranded 



...δεν ξέρω πόσες φορές έχω δει live αυτή την βιομηχανία χαλασμένων χορδών...

DEAD MOON - It's OK 



...καθαρή και παγερή φωνή ...σε χτυπάει στο δωδεκαδάκτυλο...έλκος...i swear...

New Christs - I Swear 

13/12/10

BOOM CHICK- When I Don't Love My Rock N' Roll

...μου θυμίζουν ένα άλλο δίδυμο αλλά δεν πειράζει μ' αρέσουν...(παρένθεση...εργαλείο?...κλείνει η παρένθεση)



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12/12/10

Nina Simone (Eunice Kathleen Waymon 1933 –2003)

...birds flying high...i...know how I feel...










Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), also know by her stage name Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.
Having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder,[1] multiple personality disorder and schizophrenia[2] Simone recorded over 40 albums, mostly between 1958 — when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue — and 1974.
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11/12/10

Οδυσσέας Ελύτης-Εκ του πλησίον(1998)

...Οι ιδέες είναι σαν τα φαντάσματα, περνάς ανάμεσά τους κι αυτά εξακολουθούν να υπάρχουν. Τις κλοτσάς, κι εκείνες δεν σαλεύουν! Εάν δεν τους λείψεις εσύ, δεν πρόκειται να λείψουν ποτέ...

it's educational!!!

5/12/10

Lyrebirds: "Shadow Boxer"


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Sonny & The Sunsets - Strange Love


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Sun Airway - "Put the Days Away"


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Dark Dark Dark - Daydreaming


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Social Distortion - "Machine Gun Blues"

...Social Distortion's new track "Machine Gun Blues" from the upcoming album 'Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes' in stores January 18th...

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SONIC CHICKEN 4 Only Lose


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15/11/10

Wipers-Thurston Moore & Keith Nealy-Honey-Calamity Jane-Wipers

Back to the Basics

 

...όλοι νικητές στη χώρα των χαμένων...

Get sick and tired
Of waiting around
This place just gets me
Down to the ground

A bunch of people flashing down the highway to hell
Where it's gonna take them, no one can tell...

You know you're gonna get there
At any cost
Just take a trip to the
Land of the lost...

Wipers-land of the lost



...καριόληδες...μας έχετε γαμήσει τη ζωή..

Through your mirror there is such vanity
Through the light, it broke to me
That explains?
So you think you fly so free...
But they'll take you so far away...
Leaving no remains...

Pushing the extreme...
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) & Keith Nealy (Cell) - Pushing The Extreme [Wipers tribute]


...μπλα μπλα μπλα...αηδίασα πια...βγάλτε το σκασμό επιτέλους...
 
Dreaming of a place far away
Know that you were born here a stray
Does it realy show?
Cant make it playing their games,
When everyone plays it all the same
No one wants an alien

Never ever thought you could feel.
Cuz everything around you stands still.
But will they ever know?


Honey - No One Wants An Alien (Wipers tribute)



...κι άμα ο alien σταματήσει να τρέχει και γυρίσει και σας πιάσει στο κυνήγι?...ε?...τότε?... τι γίνεται τότε?...

Go and grab your gun
Got him on the run
'Cause he's an alien
They hurt what they don't understand
So you had to turn away
There's no other way
You're an alien
They hurt what they don't understand
Got no rights...
No rights at all
These are...
So you had to turn away, there's no other way
'Cause you're an alien, they hurt what they don't understand

Calamity Jane - Alien Boy[Wipers tribute]




...το να γυρίζω πίσω  με σκοτώνει...αλλά μερικές φορές είναι θέμα επιβίωσης...back to the basics...

I was talkin to my friends today
I don't know why you can't take me literally
There's always something wrong with you
Like fire
Just to watch the flames grow higher and higher
We'll have fun as we watch the sky turn to grey

It's back to the basics
Back to the basics again
Build it all up just to tear it up again
Ashes to ashes, to ashes again
I wonder if we could build it safe?


Wipers - Back to the Basics

24/10/10

The Raveonettes - Heart of Stone

I get away just for a while                                            I went away to meet my love
I get to pine I get to cry                                                I saw things that I can't have
Being without you                                                        It makes me mad
You think my world is tumbling down                          To think of you with someone else
                                         You know the reason I can't hurt
                                          I got a heart of stone


The Raveonettes 

The Raveonettes - Heart Of Stone (Live on KEXP

16/10/10

Myelin Sheaths / SPF70



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Ringo Deathstarr – Imagine Hearts


Imagine Hearts

RINGO DEATHSTARR | Myspace Music Videos


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The Liminanas - I'm Dead



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Weekend-End Times



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3/10/10

Sleater-Kinney...The Corin Tucker Band...Quasi...Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks...Helium...

...η μετα-Sleater-Kinney εποχή βρίσκει την Corin Tucker με την μπάντα της The Corin Tucker Band...την Janet L. Weiss με τους Quasi και την μπάντα του Malkmus των Pavement, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks...και την Carrie Brownstein να ετοιμάζει νέα σούπερ-μπάντα μαζί με την Weiss αλλά και μέλη των Helium με το όνομα Wild Flag...για να μην πιάσω τους x-husbands και τις νυν wives και μπερδευτούμε με την μισή indie σκηνή  και όχι μόνο...το κόβω εδώ...λοιπόν κορίτσια μην το γαμάμε άλλο...γιά να το πάμε λίγο από την αρχή...που γουστάραμε περισσότερο...έλα...





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Trash Kit - Cadets

...ξυπόλυτο punk...

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Grass Widow - Fried Egg


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Biographyby Nate Knaebel
Although it makes some sense to lump Grass Widow in with the Vivians, Dum Dums, and various other "girl groups" that rushed onto the indie underground stages of the late 2000s, the San Francisco-based trio is actually a slightly different animal. Formed, predictably enough, in the late 2000s, the group is comprised of Hannah Lew, Raven Mahon, and Lillian Maring; the three utilize the same sort of egalitarian, D.I.Y. embrace of collective creative possibility embodied by Rough Trade heroes such as the Raincoats, Essential Logic, and Kleenex/LiLiPUT. There's simply no denying the influence of the first wave of British D.I.Y. bands here -- whether it's deliberate or not -- yet while Grass Widow certainly work with the raw ore of a bygone era, the final product remains of their own time.

Like the aforementioned bands did with the more derivative, brutish aspects of England's Dreaming-era punk, Grass Widow subvert the laconic fuzzed-out punk wallop of their contemporaries by embracing a skittering, disarming approach to rhythm, one born equally out of innovation and necessity. The group's distinctive three-part vocal approach likewise creates an off-kilter moodiness that further complicates what are ultimately rudimentary post-punk tunes. The effect, when it works, can be quite impressive; when it doesn't, it still feels inspired. The band's debut, a self-titled full-length, appeared on the tiny Make a Mess label in 2009; it was followed shortly thereafter by an EP on the prodigious Brooklyn label Captured Tracks. After a move to the Kill Rock Stars label, the trio released their debut record, Past Lives, in August of 2010.
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29/9/10

Tired Pony - Dead American Writers

...It would be this...It would be this...
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Biographyby Andrew Leahey
Formed by Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody as an outlet for his fascination with country music, Tired Pony began taking shape in May 2009. By October, the solo project had grown into a full-fledged supergroup featuring another Snow Patrol veteran, Iain Archer, his wife Miriam Kaufmann, producer/musician Jacknife Lee, Belle & Sebastian percussionist Richard Colburn, auxiliary R.E.M. member Scott McCaughey, and Troy Stewart. Peter Buck joined several months later, and Tired Pony traveled to Portland in early 2010 to record the a debut album. Featuring guest appearances by Zooey Deschanel, M. Ward, and Editors frontman Tom Smith, The Place We Ran From was finished in one week and released later that year.
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28/9/10

Crocodiles - Hearts Of Love - Music Video

...α ρε jesus and marychain που σας χρειάζεται...τι κόλλημα έχω φάει με το surf τώρα τελευταία;...μήπως είναι απωθημένο επειδή δεν ξέρω μπάνιο;...α ρε σερφοσανίδα που μου χρειάζεται...πάντως είναι γκρουπάρα...και με πολλές κομματάρες...τα πανκο-leather-jackets πολύ μουράτα...θα τα βλέπει ο Βασίλης και είμαι σίγουρος θα ειρωνεύεται και θα έχει ξεσκονίσει καμιά ιστορία με κάτι πανκιά που είχε γνωρίσει ίσως στο Ηράκλειο και πίνανε λέει μόνο σαμπούκα αλλά πολύ βλαμένα ρε τα παιδιά με τις μουράτες λεδεριές τους κι έτσι κι αλλιώς  κτλ κτλ...ξέρεις πάντα έχει μια ιστορία αυτό το παιδί...δεν μπορεί...για να μην πω για την πουκαμισιά και το ray-ban γυαλί...άσε ...

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Crocodiles are an indie rock/noise pop band from San Diego, CA, that formed in 2008. The band's members had previously played in noisepunk acts Some Girls and The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower. Stylistically the band can be heard to take influence from The Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Spacemen 3.[1] Before releasing their debut album together, Welchez and Rowell both played in an early incarnation of Dum Dum Girls.
Crocodiles rapidly gained exposure in 2008 after fellow Southern California noise pop band No Age included their single "Neon Jesus" in a list of the year's best songs. The band released its debut album, Summer of Hate, in April 2009 on Fat Possum Records. Their most recent album "Sleep Forever" was recorded by Simian Mobile Disco member James Ford. Ford had previously produced for Klaxons, Florence + the Machine and Arctic Monkeys amongst others.[2][3]
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27/9/10

Black Mountain - Old Fangs (Official Video)


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Biographyby Johnny Loftus
After founding Jerk with a Bomb in the late '90s, Stephen McBean had by the mid-2000s transformed the Vancouver-area band into a group called Black Mountain. Drawing on blues, psychedelia, acid rock, and the Velvet Underground, Black Mountain's sound was a cross between the darkness and grit of the Warlocks and Brian Jonestown Massacre's trippiness. After debuting in October 2004 on Jagjaguwar with the 12" Druganaut, Black Mountain stayed with the label for an eponymous full-length, issued the following January. Joining McBean for the album were local players Matthew Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt, Joshua Wells, and Amber Webber, listed collectively to preserve the band's communal ethic. (Black Mountain ran concurrent to and intermingled with McBean's other band, lo-fi classic rockers Pink Mountaintops.) In January 2008, the group released their sophomore album, In the Future, and showed off their willingness to explore proggy (and druggy) territory with the 17-minute opus "Bright Lights." The group’s third, full length album, Wilderness Heart, arrived in 2010.
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24/9/10

Neil Young - Angry World

...μερικές φορές σκέφτομαι ότι η μουσική, μου έχει σώσει τη ζωή...αν άφηνα την καθημερινή οργή μου ανεξέλεγκτη, χωρίς δηλαδή αυτό το απαραίτητο μουσικό σκανάρισμα που κάνω ασυναίσθητα πλέον πριν από κάθε μου σκέψη, ίσως να είχα φτάσει σε ακραίες καταστάσεις...και δεν μιλάω εδώ για ψυχοθεραπεία αλλά για κάτι αυθύπαρκτο, που επεμβαίνει στη ζωή μου σαν ένα σουρεαλιστικό χέρι του Θεού...(βλέπε Μαραντόνα)...η μουσική κρατάει σε ισορροπία το ανισόρροπο μυαλό μου...It's an Angry world  And everything is gonna be all right...

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Biographyby Stephen Thomas Erlewine
After Neil Young left the California folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield in 1968, he slowly established himself as one of the most influential and idiosyncratic singer/songwriters of his generation. Young's body of work ranks second only to Bob Dylan in terms of depth, and he was able to sustain his critical reputation, as well as record sales, for a longer period of time than Dylan, partially because of his willfully perverse work ethic. From the beginning of his solo career in the late '60s through into the 21st century, he never stopped writing, recording, and performing; his official catalog only represented a portion of his work, since he kept countless tapes of unreleased songs in his vaults.

Just as importantly, Young continually explored new musical territory, from rockabilly and the blues to electronic music. But these stylistic exercises only gained depth when compared to his two primary styles: gentle folk and country-rock, and crushingly loud electric guitar rock, which he frequently recorded with the Californian garage band Crazy Horse. Throughout his career, Young alternated between these two extremes, and both proved equally influential; there were just as many singer/songwriters as there were grunge and country-rock bands claiming to be influenced by Neil Young. Despite his enormous catalog and influence, Young continued to move forward, writing new songs and exploring new music. That restless spirit ensured that he was one of the few rock veterans as vital in his old age as he was in his youth.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Neil Young moved to Winnipeg with his mother following her divorce from his sports journalist father. Young began playing music in high school. Not only did he play in garage rock outfits like the Esquires, but he also played in local folk clubs and coffeehouses, where he eventually met Joni Mitchell and Stephen Stills. During the mid-'60s, he returned to Toronto, where he played as a solo folk act. By 1966, he joined the Mynah Birds, which also featured bassist Bruce Palmer and Rick James. The group recorded an album's worth of material for Motown, none of which was released at the time. Frustrated by his lack of success, Young moved to Los Angeles in his Pontiac hearse, taking Palmer along as support. Shortly after they arrived in L.A., they happened to meet Stills, and they formed Buffalo Springfield, who quickly became oneof the leaders of the Californian folk-rock scene.

Despite the success of Buffalo Springfield, the group was plagued with tension, and Young quit the band several times before finally leaving to become a solo artist in May of 1968. Hiring Elliot Roberts as his manager, Young signed with Reprise Records and released his eponymous debut album in early 1969. By the time the album was released, he had begun playing with a local band called the Rockets, which featured guitarist Danny Whitten, bassist Billy Talbot, and drummer Ralph Molina. Young renamed the group Crazy Horse and had them support him on his second album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, which was recorded in just two weeks. Featuring such Young staples as "Cinnamon Girl" and "Down by the River," the album went gold. Following the completion of the record, he began jamming with Crosby, Stills & Nash, eventually joining the group for their spring 1970 album, Déjà Vu. Although he was now part of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Young continued to record as a solo artist, releasing After the Gold Rush in August, 1970. After the Gold Rush, with its accompanying single "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," established Young as a solo star, and fame only increased through his association with CSNY.

Although Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were a very successful act, they were also volatile, and they had split by the spring 1971 release of the live Four Way Street. The following year, Young had his first number one album with the mellow country-rock of Harvest, which also featured his first (and only) number one single, "Heart of Gold." Instead of embracing his success, he spurned it, following it with the noisy, bleak live film Journey Through the Past. Both the movie and its soundtrack received terrible reviews, as did the live Time Fades Away, an album recorded with the Stray Gators that was released in 1973.

Both Journey Through the Past and Time Fades Away signaled that Young was entering a dark period in his life, but they only scratched the surface of his anguish. Inspired by the overdose deaths of Danny Whitten in 1972 and his roadie Bruce Berry the following year, Young wrote and recorded the bleak, druggy Tonight's the Night late in 1973, but declined to release it at the time. Instead, he released On the Beach, which was nearly as harrowing, in 1974; Tonight's the Night finally appeared in the spring of 1975. By the time of its release, Young had recovered, as indicated by the record's hard-rocking follow-up, Zuma, an album recorded with Crazy Horse and released later that year.

Young's focus began to wander in 1976, as he recorded the duet album Long May You Run with Stephen Stills and then abandoned his partner midway through the supporting tour. The following year he recorded the country-rock-oriented American Stars 'n Bars, which featured vocals by Nicolette Larson, who was also prominent on 1978's Comes a Time. Prior to the release of Comes a Time, Young scrapped the country-rock album Homegrown and assembled the triple-album retrospective Decade. At the end of 1978, he embarked on an arena tour called Rust Never Sleeps, which was designed as a showcase for new songs. Half of the concert featured Young solo, the other half featured him with Crazy Horse. That was the pattern that Rust Never Sleeps, released in the summer of 1979, followed. The record was hailed as a comeback, proving that Young was one of the few rock veterans who attacked punk rock head-on. That fall he released the double album Live Rust and the live movie Rust Never Sleeps.

Rust Never Sleeps restored Young to his past glory, but he perversely decided to trash his goodwill in 1980 with Hawks & Doves, a collection of acoustic songs that bore the influence of conservative, right-wing politics. In 1981, Young released the heavy rock album Re*ac*tor, which received poor reviews. Following its release, he left Reprise for the fledgling Geffen Records, where he was promised lots of money and artistic freedom. Young decided to push his Geffen contract to the limit, releasing the electronic Trans in January 1983, where his voice was recorded through a computerized vocoder. The album and its accompanying technology-dependent tour were received with bewildered, negative reviews. The rockabilly of Everybody's Rockin' (1983) was equally scorned, and Young soon settled into a cult audience for the mid-'80s.

Over the course of the mid-'80s, Young released three albums that were all stylistic exercises. In 1985, he released the straight country Old Ways, which was followed by the new wave-tinged Landing on Water the following year. He returned to Crazy Horse for 1987's Life, but by that time, he and Geffen had grown sick of each other, and he returned to Reprise in 1988. His first album for Reprise was the bluesy, horn-driven This Note's for You, which was supported by an acclaimed video that satirized rock stars endorsing commercial products. At the end of the year, he recorded a reunion album with Crosby, Stills & Nash called American Dream, which was greeted with savagely negative reviews.

American Dream didn't prepare any observer for the critical and commercial success of 1989's Freedom, which found Young following the half-acoustic/half-electric blueprint of Rust Never Sleeps to fine results. Around the time of its release, Young became a hip name to drop in indie rock circles, and he was the subject of a tribute record titled The Bridge in 1989. The following year, Young reunited with Crazy Horse for Ragged Glory, a loud, feedback-drenched album that received his strongest reviews since the '70s. For the supporting tour, Young hired the avant rock band Sonic Youth as his opening group, providing them with needed exposure while earning him hip credibility within alternative rock scenes. On the advice of Sonic Youth, Young added the noise collage EP Arc as a bonus to his 1991 live album, Weld.

Weld and the Sonic Youth tour helped position Neil Young as an alternative and grunge rock forefather, but he decided to abandon loud music for its 1992 follow-up, Harvest Moon. An explicit sequel to his 1972 breakthrough, Harvest Moon became Young's biggest hit in years, and he supported the record with an appearance on MTV Unplugged, which was released the following year as an album. Also in 1993, Geffen released the rarities collection Lucky Thirteen. The following year, he released Sleeps with Angels, which was hailed as a masterpiece in some quarters. Following its release, Young began jamming with Pearl Jam, eventually recording an album with the Seattle band in early 1995. The resulting record, Mirror Ball, was released to positive reviews in the summer of 1995, but it wasn't the commercial blockbuster it was expected to be; due to legal reasons, Pearl Jam's name was not allowed to be featured on the cover.

In the summer of 1996, he reunited with Crazy Horse for Broken Arrow and supported it with a brief tour. That tour was documented in Jim Jarmusch's 1997 film The Year of the Horse, which was accompanied by a double-disc live album. In 1999, Young reunited with Crosby, Stills & Nash for the first time in a decade, supporting their Looking Forward LP with the supergroup's first tour in a quarter century. A new solo effort, Silver & Gold, followed in the spring of 2000. In recognition of his 2000 summer tour, Young released the live album Road Rock, Vol. 1 the following fall, showcasing a two-night account of Young's performance at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO, in September 2000. A DVD version titled Red Rocks Live was issued that December, including 12 tracks initially unavailable on Road Rock, Vol. 1. His next studio project was his most ambitious yet, a concept album about small-town life titled Greendale that he also mounted as a live dramatic tour and indie film.

In early 2005, Young was diagnosed with a potentially deadly brain aneurysm. Undergoing treatment didn't slow him down, however, as he continued to write and record his next project. The acoustically based Prairie Wind appeared in the fall, with the concert film Heart of Gold, based around the album and directed by Jonathan Demme, released in 2006. That year also saw the release of the controversial CD/DVD Living with War, a collection of protest songs against the war in Iraq that featured titles such as "Let's Impeach the President," "Shock and Awe," and "Lookin' for a Leader." Restless, prolific, and increasingly self-referential, Young issued Chrome Dreams II late in 2007 and the car-themed Fork in the Road in 2009. Later in 2009, Young finally released the first installment in his long-rumored Archives series, Archives, Vol. 1, a massive first volume that combined over ten CD and DVD discs in a single box. As he was prepping Archives, Vol. 2, Young entered the studio with producer Daniel Lanois and recorded Le Noise, which appeared in the fall of 2010.
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