Todd is God

Broke Radke of the Las Vegas Weekly (27 Aug) talked to Questlove Roots founder/drummer about The Tonight Show gig and DJ-ing. "… our networking game is just on steroids right now. I can cut out the middleman and go right to the artist, and the magic of that is getting to work with our favorite artists and collaborate. That’s how the Elvis Costello record came to be, and we’re messing with Todd Rundgren right now."   Matt Stamm 's sixth studio album, Lines and Waves , garnered the review: " Not since Todd Rundgren has an artist so completely made someone else's songs his own. This is absolutely beautiful," from Audio Fuzz  Childhood (whose debut album 'Lacuna' will be reviewed on my next CTTB Music Podcast) are interviewed in The Independent (26 Aug) 8. Who were your biggest music influences?  We all have lots of different influences from different genres. In no particular order: Stereolab, Air, Shuggie Otis, The Wailers, Cocteau Twi...

(Unconfirmed)Whispers out of Esoteric say that there will be a new Todd album in Spring 2015.

Vice magazine website posts a video by Author/journalist/fisherman Michael Patrick Welch as he interviews legendary musician/performer/producer Todd Rundgren at ToddStock, Rundgren's 6-day-long 65th birthday party at Nottoway Mansion in White Castle, LA. June 2013. Amusing.

Meat maybe murder, but is listening to the new Morrissey album tasty or tasteless? Morrissey - World Peace is None of your Business 5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer Yes - Heaven & Earth La Roux - Trouble in Paradise Cut/Copy - Free Your Mind Jenny Lewis - The Voyager  Check out this episode!

Can't wait for the album next month (and another chance to see him live too)

Nice.

It's not often [Ok, it's never] that i get to blog about the law AND Todd Rundgren, but yesterday I came across this legal update from Peter J. Gallagher of Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC on the US the Financial Institutions Reform, Recover, and Enforcement Act of 1989 ("FIRREA"). In it he looks at a lawsuit arising out of JPMorgan Chase Bank's efforts to foreclose on his and Michelle's home having decided the couple had defaulted on the loan for the property. Rundgren v. Washington Mutual Bank, FA, 12-15368

We worked twice as hard for this one   Chrissie Hynde - Stockholm Mastodon - Once More around the Sun Bob Mould - Beauty & Rain Bodycount - Manslaughter Sharon Van Etten - Are We There Lana Del Ray - Ultraviolence Check out this episode!

The Vancouver Sun has a Q&A with Erika Forster of Au Revoir Simone which talks about the Todd remix on their recent EP Q: Apparently there's a remix EP with contributions from David Lynch and Todd Rundgren. How did the Todd Rundgren remix come about? A: We're huge fans. We've watched a bunch of his old videos, we've DJ'd a lot of songs on DJ nights. I think it came up that our label, Instant Records, is part of a distribution company, and it just came up that he was looking to do some remix trade. It was like, Do you guys want Todd Rundgren to remix a song? And we were like, Uhm, yes, obviously. We haven't actually met him yet. Maybe we'll see him when he's on tour in New York next time. Meanwhile NUVO (Indianapolis) has an Interview with Coven lead singer Jinx Dawson by Jilly Weiss of We Are Hex, where she mentions that various members of Utopia had played with Coven over the years.

I'm really looking forward to the release next month of 20,000 Days on Earth a new film about 'the day in the life' of  Nick Cave that takes a fictionalized documentary-style approach to exploring the day. Film was co-written by Cave and directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and looks fantastic.

My daughter's first play with a DAW and during the 7 minutes of noise and keyboard hitting we accidentally hit on a tune via a rhythmic snyth - added a badsic drum beat and some random vox, to create this 23 second masterpiece.

Considering how excited I was about the quality of records released during 2013, I have to say that overall I have felt a bit underwhelmed by the releases I've heard thus far in 2014. BUT, if I had to pick the ten that have given me something, then these would be them. The top 3 are indeed the three records I've enjoyed most, the other 7 are in no particular order. 1.  The Hold Steady – Teeth Dreams . 2. St Vincent – St Vincent. 3. The Pretty Reckless – Going to Hell. 4. Pixies – Indie Cindie. 5. The Both – The Both. 6. Kelis - Food.   7. The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads . 8. I Break Horses – Chiaroscuro . 9. Baby Metal - Baby Metal. 10. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence.

A techno style take on Todd's "Bang The Drum All Day"

Ultimate Classic Rock are reporting that Todd is one of a host of famous artists would appears on a soon to be released tribute album to the Doors. Todd joins Geoff Downes and Zoot Horn Rollo on ' Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)’

Vibe talked to Nile Rogers about his career and when it went off on a tangent Todd got mentioned too. Where would you be now had you never been in music? I’d have gone into science. In our days, we called it thermonuclear hydro-dynamics. That was my thing, in our clique at school we were trying to figure out how take nuclear energy, make it safe, and power the planet. Nile Rodgers would’ve been a nuclear scientist? You would not believe how many famous musicians were into this. My friend Reggie Lucas was in the same school, he was on Madonna’s album. He and Todd Rundgren developed the very first screensaver. My other partner, Tom Murray, he went on to invent all sorts of digital applications, way before laptops. I love science. As part of my charity, we brought in Gza from the Wu Tang to give a talk on magnetism and gravity. What went wrong Nile?! Back then, we all knew from a very young age the government weren’t going to use our research for good stuff!

Interesting  interview with Johnette Napolitano in the Dallas Observer. I always liked Concrete Blonde, esp their second album FREE.  Anyway, here she talks about her time in the Talking Heads (sort of) and TR gets mentioned in relation to The Cars. You were in the Heads with members of the Talking Heads, but that band was sued by David Byrne. I can relate to how David felt about that project. Being in that band was like being in the middle of a war. It was just brutal. I got death threats. I had to have armed security. Fans of David Byrne were just not digging it. It was a drag. That band was mismanaged from the ground up. It was a brilliant record that nobody will probably hear. What record is that? We were working on two records at that time. We had finished one record and then did another called No Talking, Just Head. It had a lot of different singers on it. What they should have done was release the other album first because we could have established an identity wit...

We have had the new album from Brent, so how about one from Adrian – his son?: Pop/Art Blog Critics has the interview In listening to Pop/Art, I would think that you were influenced by The Beatles (especially Paul McCartney), Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren , Elton John, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen. Are there others that you would like to mention or acknowledge? All of the above are definitely big influences. Probably the biggest one not mentioned is Elvis Costello, whom I'd call the greatest solo singer/songwriter. Simon and Garfunkel, Velvet Underground, U2, Ben Folds, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, The Rascals, Tom Waits, Roy Orbison, Eisley, Hanson, Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Lynne, Big Star, Elliott Smith, George Gershwin, Chuck Berry, and others have influenced and inspired me. I would consider my best friend Ricky Berger as big a musical influence on me as anyone. Speaking of Mr. Rundgren , you have a song 'Everybody Knows It Was Me,...

Mike Greenblatt, at Goldmine [ Pg. 36 Vol. 40 No. 7 ] talks to John Oats about Hall of Fame and career and of course Todd gets a mention GM: Then you go and turn around and work some hard rock with Todd Rundgren on your very next album, "War Babies" [1974]. JO: Here again, that's another trademark of our careers: We weren't afraid to experiment. If you take it in the context of the times, "Abandoned Luncheonette" wasn't really that successful. The hit on that album, "She's Gone," only went into the Top 20 or 30, I think. That album didn't really reinforce to either us or the record company that, "Hey, you guys should make 'Abandoned Luncheonette 2.'" There was no thinking on those terms. So, because of that fact, we had no reason to think that was our style or what we should be doing for the rest of our lives. So we said, "OK, we made a good record. A lot of people liked it. Let's do something differe...

Brent Bourgeois is back ... and so are ex member or Bourgeois Tagg and Mr Rundgren for Brent's new album 'Don't Look Back'. Brent has a page about Todd and the album. Todd and Kasim feature on the VERY Todd-like 'Poor me' The New Jersey Stage also talks about the new album. 

It's Summer ... well, as good as, ... so how about some music to listen to whilst in the sun. We review - Pixies - Indie Cindy Lily Allen - Sheezus Anastacia - Resurrection Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots Kelis - Food Paul Heaton - What Have we Become We're having a break during June, but should be back with you sometime in July. Check out this episode!