Jukebox – Music News Cuts – 8/16

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Hip-Hop 101 Festival

A number of Hip-Hop legends will be headlining the Hip-Hop 101 Festival taking place at the Oakland Arena on Saturday, November 9^th. Notables include Public Enemy, Cypress Hill and De La Soul, with additional performers Too Short, Eric B & Rakim, Dilated Peoples and Mistah Fab.

Cypress Hill will have just concluded their North American tour, where they appeared at Riot Fest and Aftershock. Public Enemy will also be playing Riot Fest between now and then, as well as concluding their own tour.

Danny Elfman

The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View will be hosting musician and composer Danny Elfman, on Saturday, November 2^nd and Sunday, November 3^rd, respectively. It is dubbed the “Career Retrospective Concerts, with the backing of a full band and orchestra, Elfman will be performing songs from his whole career, from Oingo Boingo to his solo career, to his film and television work.

His band will include Stu Brooks of Dub Trio, Lady Gaga on bass, Nili Brosh of Dethklok on guitar, Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails, Guns N’ Roses on guitar and Ilan Rubin on drums (Nine Inch Nails, Angels & Airwaves).

Lou Reed

Before the name “Lou Reed” was synonymous with The Velvet Underground, he was a songwriter for Pickwick Records, a record label that hoped to tap into the energies going on at the Brill Building in Manhattan. Reed had written dozens of songs, and sang on a few of them. Now a record is coming out, a compilation of Reed’s songs, including the opener, bubblegum garage single “The Ostrich,” by The Primitives, a studio band that would put Reed in the same room as John Cale, paving the way for The Velvet Underground.

The album will hit digital on September 27^th, and physical on October 4^th,

Why Don’t You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65:

Side A

1. The Primitives – “The Ostrich”
2. The Beachnuts – “Cycle Annie”
3. The Hi-Lifes – “I’m Gonna Fight”
4. The Hi-Lifes – “Soul City”
5. Ronnie Dickerson – “Oh No Don’t Do It”
6. Ronnie Dickerson – “Love Can Make You Cry”
7. The Hollywoods – “Teardrop In The Sand”
8. The Roughnecks – “You’re Driving Me Insane”

Side B

1. The Primitives – “Sneaky Pete”
2. Terry Philips – “Wild One”
3. Spongy And The Dolls – “Really – Really – Really – Really – Really – Really Love”
4. The Foxes – “Soul City”
5. The J Brothers – “Ya Running, But I’ll Getcha”
6. Beverley Ann – “We Got Trouble”
7. The All Night Workers – “Why Don’t You Smile”
8. Jeannie Larimore – “Johnny Won’t Surf No More”

Side C

1. Robertha Williams – “Tell Mamma Not to Cry”
2. Robertha Williams – “Maybe Tomorrow”
3. Terry Philips – “Flowers For The Lady”
4. Terry Philips – “This Rose”

Side D

1. The Surfsiders – “Surfin’”
2. The Surfsiders – “Little Deuce Coupe”
3. The Beachnuts – “Sad, Lonely Orphan Boy”
4. The Beachnuts – “I’ve Got a Tiger in My Tank”
5. Ronnie Dickerson – “What About Me”