Before the arena tours and worldwide hits, Kings of Leon sounded raw, scrappy and unmistakably Southern. “Spiral Staircase” appeared on their 2003 debut album Youth & Young Manhood, produced by Ethan Johns and Angelo Petraglia. The track was never released as a single but became an early fan favourite. Live in 2003, it captured the Followill family during the rough-edged beginnings of their remarkable rise.
In Summer ’93 we drove to San Francisco for a rave. Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain” had dropped and owned the radio the whole trip, no escaping it. Who would’ve thought then…
Cypress Hill with the London Symphony Orchestra "Insane In The Brain" (Live) 2024
The entire Criterion Closet is now available as a website, where you can browse all 1,247 films by walking the shelves, thanks to redditor olievans.
https://t.co/O2b7MwzCZj
Few songs had a greater impact on British rock in the 1980s than "She Sells Sanctuary." Blending Billy Duffy's shimmering guitar work with Ian Astbury's commanding vocal, it became The Cult's breakthrough hit and remains the band's defining anthem. Their performance at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1999 showed the song had lost none of its power, uniting a huge festival crowd behind one of alternative rock's most enduring classics.
"Mr. Jones" is autobiographical. Adam Duritz wrote the song in 1992 inspired by a real night when he and his friend David Jones (a bass player) were drinking, playing the guitar and fantasizing about becoming famous. Adam sang "I wanna be Bob Dylan" and the two imagined what life would be like as rock stars.
The track was released as the lead single from their debut album August and Everything After (1993) and placed Counting Crows in the mainstream worldwide almost overnight. Adam even said that the lyrics became a giant irony: he sang about wanting fame before he had it, and suddenly he was living exactly what he dreamed of.
The bloopers from BETWEEN TWO FERNS are every bit as funny as the interviews themselves.
Watching Zach Galifianakis and his guests struggle to keep a straight face is comedy gold.