Month: July 2010 (Page 3 of 3)

On July 25, at the High Voltage Music Festival in London, Emerson, Lake and Palmer will reunite for a one-off 40th Anniversary concert.  Emerson and Lake are currently touring America as a two-piece, while Palmer is busy with the reunited ASIA, but for one night the three will come together tocelbrate forty years of the kind of progressive rock music that makes millions of fans happy, and thousands of snooty rock critics want to hang themselves while listening to The Velvet Underground.

In honor of this anniversary and reunion, today PopCult brings you a collection of vintage ELP videos. At the top of this post you seea concert video of ELP performing Aaron Copeland’s “Hoedown.” It’s a safe bet that the band will be performing this in London in a few weeks.

After the jump, you’ll find more ELP goodies from the Prog-rock vault, including a music video for “Pirates” from the ELP album, “Works 1.”  This one’s a fan-made compilation that cuts in concert footage with clips from old pirate movies.

You’ll also see a couple of entire concert performances from the 1970s, and a few music videos from their reunion in the late 90s.

This music is bombastic, pretentious and spectacular.  It’s also some of the coolest stuff to ever blare out of car stereo speakers while you’re speeding. It’s Emerson…Lake…and Palmer!

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RFC 105 "FestivAll 2010 part four" from Rudy Panucci on Vimeo.

The fourth installment of our FestivAll 2010 coverage includes music from Comparsa, Evan Mack, Melanie Larch, T. J. King and Miss Behavin’. You’ll also see Scott Elkins’ entry in the FestivAll Silent Film competition and a montage of the FestivAll Catfish.

There will be at least two more episodes of Radio Free Charleston devoted to FestivAll 2010 with music from Craig D’Andrea, Option 22, The Velvet Gypsies, Barebones, Actual Rhinocerous, plus more music from Comparsa, Brian Diller and more theater, dance and art from FestivAll.  Look for RFC 106 on Monday.

The PopCulteer
July 2, 2010

FestivAll 2010 was awesome. A city did, indeed, become a work of art. And if you’ve been checking out PopCult, you notice that “work” is the operative word for me.

I got the wild idea to devote three episodes of Radio Free Charleston to FestivAll, and I was going to try and get them all online within a week.

Well, that sort of happened.  I did three shows, and I did manage to get them all posted within seven days.  There was only one problem.

Three shows wasn’t enough.

As I wirte this, the fourth FestivAll-centric episode of Radio Free Charleston is being uploaded.  I have enough material for at least two more shows based on Charleston’s brightest moments. RFC 105 features music from Comparsa, Evan Mack, Melanie Larch, T.J. King and Miss Behavin’, and a silent film by Scott Elkins. If all goes well, it will be online Friday morning, and you will have seen it right above this post.

Editing these shows has taken me away from my other PopCult duties here in the blog, but I think it’s a fair trade-off. I  hope you guys enjoy the fruits of my exhaustion. We should be back to normal next week with posts that have words and everything. Until then, after the jump, you will find some random images from FestivAll 2010.

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