Olivier Libaux’s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age Live on Echoes

Hear Olivier Libaux Bring his Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age to Echoes live tonight

Olivier Libaux’s UNQOTSA live on Echoes

Olivier Libaux is a co-founder of Nouvelle Vague, a French project that records lounge versions of Punk and New Wave songs. Libaux steps out on his own with the CD titled Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age, reinventing songs by that hard rock band. He turns them into introspective dreampop with a host of guest singers.  He comes to Echoes with two other wonderful vocalists, Charlotte Savary and Nathalie Réaux.  They give an enchanting performance of music from the most underrated album of 2013, including a new cover.

Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age was the Echoes CD of the Month for July. Read the Echoes review and hear more trax from this beautiful album.

Below, watch a live performance of  “3’s and 7’s” from Libaux’s 2013 album, Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age.

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Olivier Libaux Transforms QOTSA in Echoes Podcast

Hear an interview with Olivier Libaux tonight on the Echoes Podcast

Olivier Libaux is a co-founder of Nouvelle Vague, a French project that records lounge versions of Punk and New Wave songs. Libaux steps out on his own with the CD titled Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age, reinventing songs by that hard rock band. He turns them into introspective dreampop with a host of guest singers including Inara George from The Bird and the Bee, Katharine Whalen from Squirrel Nut Zippers, Clare Manchon from Clare and the Reasons and Skye from Morcheeba. Libaux talks about his Echoes CD of the Month for July. Read the Echoes review and hear more trax from this beautiful album.

HIGHLIGHTS:

On why this isn’t a Nouvelle Vague record:

Actually my partner (Marc Collin) was not into it, so I made it by myself.  I was the rock-n-roll fan in Nouvelle Vague.  If Nouvelle Vague was covering The Undertones, the Sisters of Mercy, the Dead Kennedys, XTC, things like that, that was because of me because I grew up with these bands.  I believe he’s not a great fan of Queens of the Stone Age.

You can hear Olivier Libaux’s interview in the Echoes Podcast.
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Interview: Olivier Libaux

Hear an interview with Olivier Libaux tonight on Echoes

Olivier Libaux is a co-founder of Nouvelle Vague, a French project that records lounge versions of Punk and New Wave songs. Libaux steps out on his own with the CD titled Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age, reinventing songs by that hard rock band. He turns them into introspective dreampop with a host of guest singers including Inara George from The Bird and the Bee, Katharine Whalen from Squirrel Nut Zippers, Clare Manchon from Clare and the Reasons and Skye from Morcheeba. Libaux talks about his Echoes CD of the Month for July. Read the Echoes review and hear more trax from this beautiful album.

Below, watch a live performance of  “3’s and 7’s” from Libaux’s 2013 album, Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age.

John Diliberto (((echoes)))

Find your local Echoes station or streaming options here.

Support Echoes by becoming a member of the Echoes Sound Circle.

Think of the great artists you love on Echoes. Think of the informative interviews and exclusive live performances. Then, think of a world without Echoes. You can make sure that never happens by becoming a member of the Echoes Sound Circle.

Echoes is a non-profit 501(c3) organization just like your local public radio station. And all donations are tax deductible. You can support Echoes with a monthly donation that will barely disturb your credit card.

Join the Echoes Sound Circle and keep the soundscapes of Echoes flowing!

Van’s Warped Tour 2011: Another World of Music

SWELTER FOR YOUR MUSIC-VAN’s WARPED TOUR SWIMS IN RECORD CAMDEN HEAT

Warped Tour 2011 Camden- Attack Attack on Stage (Photo: Joey Higgins

There’s another world of music out there besides what you hear on Echoes,  and I’m not talking about pop, classical, jazz, alternative or metal.  It’s a world you probably won’t know about unless you’re in your pre-20s or have kids that age who try to educate you to the wonders of their pop-punk, emo, screamo, rap, etc sounds   It’s a sound represented by The Van’s Warped Tour which descended into Philadelphia/Camden at the Susquehanna Center on July 21, a day of record heat.  That pretty much reminds me of the Warped Tour I saw in 2006 in North Jersey.  I went to that show with my then 12-year old daughter Grace, (John Diliberto gets Warped on the Warped Tour 2006).  But this year , Grace passed so I sent my young friend Joey Higgins to take pictures and report  back.

A Day To Remember's Tom Denny (Photo: Joey Higgins)

The bands in the Warped Tour represent an interesting cultural movement.  These are artists that by and large are never heard on the radio, not even on the local Philadelphia modern rock stations like Radio 104.5 or WXPN who are currently in the midst of their quite different Xponentional Music Festival.  Even XPN’s more alternative leaning XPN2 barely touches these acts.  Yet. thousands of fans braved the heat and the joys of Camden to hear their favorite acts, bouncing from one stage to another.

“I  think there was something like seven stages” recalls a sun-baked Higgins, who despite the heat, says he  never took off his knit cap.

“I think it kept me cooler,” he insists.

Sean Foreman of 3OH!3 (Photo: Joey Higgins)

The crowd sucked so much water out of the public fountains that part way through the day the H2O turned to a vomit acid mix of green and yellow.   The promoters leaped in, however, distributing fluids from the environmental group, Green-Works  free,  to festival goers.    And that, says Joey, was better than paying $4.50 per for bottled water.

Despite the travails of heat prostration where temperatures topped 100 degrees, Higgins says that everyone was upbeat and had a good vibe.  Everyone that is, except those being carted off in a stream of ambulances due to sunstroke, dehydration and getting faces smashed in mosh pits.,

Kyle Pavonne of We Came As Romans (Photo: Joey Higgins)

Among the some 56 bands that performed, highlights for Joey included A Day to Remember,  Simple Plan, Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows (A.K.A. DRUGS),  The Ready Set and We Came As Romans.

“A Day to Remember really got the crowd revved up,” enthuses Joey,  This despite the crushing heat.   He especially dug “I’m Made of Wax Larry, What Are You Made Of,” a song of paranoid revenge delivered in a high energy aggressive screed mixed with a screamo chorus.  The Troy, Michigan metalcore band generated a lot of action with vocals alternating between course scream exhortations and more yearning vocals that were deployed in compositions that had almost progressive rock dimensions in terms of their multi-part structures and almost classical overtones as on, “To Plant A Seed” the title track to one of their albums.  The band was always moving, prowling the stage, climbing on the monitors and peering into the crowd.

Simple Plan's Pierre Bouvier (Photo: Joey Higgins)

Past Warped Tours have frequently featured bands from an earlier generation or two, including Anthrax (1981) and Bad Religion (formed 1979) , The Dickies (formed 1977)  U.K. Subs  (Formed 1976) and Joan Jett, whose career goes back to 1976 and The Runaways. This  year’s Warped Tour’s oldsters were Simple Plan.  For 15 year-old Joey, this 12 year old band constituted “old” for the Warped Tour 2011. Simple Plan has an internal eclecticism and wider dynamic range than most Warped Tour bands.  They even sing ballads like “Save You.”  For Joey, Simple Plan, as well as The Ready Set,  play softer music.  Nevertheless, he says they always put on a good show and this was no exception.

Warped Tour Crowd (Photo: Joey Higgins)

The 2011 Van’s Warped Tour is still running around the country.  Its schedule puts it in the east until August 2, and then start heading west for a coastal swing.    Joey, a kid who as seen Warped Tour veterans All Time Low four times in the last four months,  would be at all of them if he could.

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