Todd is God

The good folks over at Todd Rundren Arena posted this and it reminded juts how god damn awful this version by Rod is

A new three disc set and accompanying DVD of Todd's BBC performances is out soon. Disc 1 Radio One In Concert – Paris Theater, London, July 6, 1972 (solo) I Saw The Light It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference Piss Aaron Hello, It’s Me Be Nice To Me Black Maria The Old Greay Whistle Test – October 14, 1975 (with Utopia) Real Man The Seven Rays Disc 2 Hammersmith Odeon, October 9, 1975 (with Utopia) Freedom Fighters Mister Triskets Something’s Coming The Last Ride Sunset Boulevard / Le Feel Internacionale Heavy Metal Kids The Wheel Open My Eyes Sons Of 1984 Do Ya Couldn’t I Just Tell You Disc 3 Oxford Polytechnic, January 25, 1977 (with Utopia) Communion With The Sun Love Of The Common Man Sunburst Finish Jealousy Windows Singring And The Glass Guitar Utopia Theme DVD The Old Grey Whistle Test – October 14, 1975 (with Utopia) Real Man The Seven Rays The Old Grey Whistle Test – May 2, 1978 (with Utopia) Bearsville Picnic featuring Singring And The Glass Guitar The Old Grey Wh...

A track from my album of the Month from the @cttbmusic podcast below

Modern RnB, Indie retro pop and Sinead O'connor. That's the latest podcast.   Ariana Grande - My Everything Childhood - Lacuna Spider Bags - Frozen Letter Royal Blood - Royal Blood Alvvays - Alvvays Sinead O'Connor - I'm not Bossy, I'm the Boss Check out this episode!

Todd and Red Peters duet on Blow Me

It seems Kate Bush's run of gigs has sparked some serious sales of the back catalogue if the UK's albums chart is anything to go by this week. 11 albums in the Top 50. 6. The Whole Story ( Rhino) 9. Hounds Of Love ( Fish People) 20. 50 Words For Snow ( Fish People) 24. The Kick Inside ( Rhino) 26. The Sensual World ( Fish People) 37. The Dreaming ( Fish People) 38. Never For Ever ( Rhino) 40. Lionheart ( Rhino) 43. Aerial ( Fish People) 44. Director's Cut ( Fish People) 49. The Red Shoes ( Fish People)

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"