A Beatles Discovery, Bruce's 'Klansman' and a Swell Season

Plus cartoonists hit Trump's tariffs and more.

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The cool music news of the day is that a Vancouver vinyl guy has discovered that one of his possessions, forgotten for 40 years, turns out to be a seeemingly original reel-to-reel tape of The Beatles’ infamous 1962 demo session for their Decca audition—which they failed. Copies of the 15 songs (almost all covers) have been found in the past and used for bootlegs, and The Beatles themselves even cleaned up and released five of them on their “Anthology I” album, but this tape is high quality. Here from one of the old boots from that audition they knock out the Buddy Holly (who they revered) classic “Crying, Waiting, Hoping.”

As I have noted previously, I am a big Glen Hansard fan (going back to his days as leader of the second-best-band-in-Ireland, The Frames). And like everyone, I loved “Once” and then his initial Swell Season album with that movie’s co-star Marketa Irglova. Now they are back with a new album and tour—and this fine new cut just out this week:

We covered yesterday the upcoming massive Springsteen release of 83 songs recorded for albums that never quite came together, and we beat nearly everyone to the first single and trailer. But many wondered if one song, out on bootlegs for years, would be included, but indeed it made the cut. It’s Bruce’s tale of “The Klansman,” white robes and all.

Yesterday, as Israeli air attacks killed dozens more civilians, including many children, at a Gaza school shelter, only 15 Democrats in the U.S. voted to oppose the latest massive military aid bill to Netanyahu and Israel. Among them, for example, was Andy Kim of New Jersey—but not Cory Booker. Missing: both senators from California and New York. Now this morning, Politico bring us this:

Poll: AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits

Also, besides a mass mobilization in D.C. tomorrow to protest Trump and stand for democracy, their are hundreds of sites for local Hands Off demos, see the Indivisible site here for details and map.

Not Feeling So Tariffic Today….

Barry Blitt: