Suzanne Vega

Somehow Letterman always gets the interesting bands, i guess Leno can't get everything anyway. This is performance of her on the late show in the 90's of her song Blood Makes Noise from her album 99.9F°. Special thanks to youtube user Gonzomp3. Brooklyn Masonic Temple August 21st, can't wait!

"When I would go away to camp, the counselors would say, 'Oh, your name is Suzanne, like the song'. I never heard it until about five years later. Leonard Cohen is a man who's not afraid to be obsessed in public. Most people try to put on a normal face for the world. Leonard Cohen doesn't bother with that. I listened to him for a whole year straight when I was sixteen and seventeen, alone in my room. He was my best friend then." - Suzanne Vega

Check this out. I surfed over to Fabchannel.com to check out a Josh Ritter live concert, and found this. Wow! I haven't followed Suzanne Vega at all recently. I kind-of wrote her off as a has been without any new material worth listening to. I'm listening to the concert as I write this, and so far it's pretty darned good.

It looks like today is going to be a video-filled day. I keep finding brand new videos that haven't been posted on MOG, so I am about to share a slew of them with you! The first one is lovely - it's the first video I have seen from the new Suzanne Vega album Beauty and Crime. The song is "Frank and Ava" and the video is lovely. Unfortunately yahoo does not seem to have an embed option and the video hasn't hit youTube yet, so you will have to actually jump over there to... MORE

I love Suzanne Vega. She is my age, but that's not really why I love her. Her new single Frank and Ava from her new album Beauty and Crime is just perfect. Great lyrics, fun twangy guitar, her mellow, but sweetly cynical vocals. Who knew it was about Frank Sinatra and Ava Gabor? Here she performing it live, not such a great video but you get the jist.

Not too many tour dates before the release of her first album in six years, but you can catch Suzanne Vega twice in July if you are near NYC. Once the album is in full swing (and her fans know it well enough to sing along at shows) Vega kicks into full tour mode for the second half of September.

Suzanne Vega Summer Tour

July 2007 12 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom 22 - Camden, NJ - Wiggins Waterfront Park September 2007 15 - Poughkeepsie NY - Waryas Park 16 - Great... MORE

OK... first things first... here is what got us started on our trip to the most largest of apples, New York City. We hop on the turnpike to get stuck behind a truck transporting _Johnny on the Spots_, I'm getting ticked as this porting port o' John is _married_ to the car in the right lane, & barely moving though in the passing/fast lane. Mum turns to me & says, (I love this woman), "Lizzie, no need to get _PISSED_, it's just a little _SHITTY_" !!!! Is she not the COOLE... MORE

First there were live concerts, then radio broadcasts of live concerts. Next there were TV broadcasts of live concerts, and then there were recordings of live concerts. With the widespread use of internet, came streaming concerts online, now with streaming video as well. Now, all of that has reached the next step. Virtual world Second Life is getting more and more "live" concerts. Suzanne Vega, Duran Duran and Ben Folds have all played in avatar form in Second Life, w... MORE

As Wanbli already pointed out Suzanne Vega will have a new album out on June 5th.  Beauty & Crime is the lovely lady's 7th album, but will be her debut on Blue Note Records.  Well right now you can grab a video podcast of Vega describing her experiences and thoughts about making this album and shedding even more light on the narrative that Beauty & Crime offers about growing up in NYC.Alas, this is another iTunes only podcast, so if you use this format, go get it.  And, as... MORE

As a longtime fan this is fantastic news! Beauty & Crime Tracklisting: 1.Zephyr & I2.Ludlow Street3.New York Is A Woman4.Pornographer's Dream5.Frank & Ava6.Edith Wharton's Figurines7.Bound8.Unbound9.As You Are Now10.Angel's Doorway11.Anniversary Out June 5th internationally and July 17th in North America, Beauty & Crime, her seventh album, marks Suzanne's debut on Blue Note Records. Inspired by the city where Suzanne grew up and still currently resides, Beauty ... MORE

Random youtube searches turn up the wildest things sometimes, is it me or is it meez?Building Suzanne Vega's Guitar in Second Life In August 2006, Suzanne Vega became the first major recording artist to perform live in Second Life avatar form. This forms part of a larger project sponsored by The Infinite Mind, a public radio show which has hired Infinite Vision Media to create a permanent presence in Second Life. Robbie Dingo was commissioned by Boliver Oddfellow (... MORE

Boy am I a slacker. It's been four months since my last update? Well, in my defense, the fall was really, really busy. But I meant to get to this long before now. I discovered Suzanne Vega, like many people, with the big hit from her second album. I bought the 45 of "Luka" because I really liked it. And yes, my peers at school had a tendency to make fun of me for it. But I didn't care. (I was resisting buying tapes. I knew they wouldn't last. I would still be bu... MORE

With some albums, to fully enjoy them takes some extra knowledge that you have to acquire outside of the tracks and liner notes themselves. For example, Eric Clapton's "Layla" is a beautiful song, but it becomes something more when you learn that Clapton wrote it as a love song to his best friend's wife. Similarly, Fleetwood Mac's album Rumours contains all sorts of hidden messages sent by the three songwriters of the group to their respective exes: Buckingham to Nicks, "p... MORE