Britt Daniel Summons You Into A Black Cab
Stereogum — ... The folks at the Black Cab Sessions continue to exploit the heretofore untapped acoustic potential of London black cab's back seats with Spoonman Britt Daniel, who give us Fiction's "I Summon You." This follows in the wake of similar sessions with ...

Shorties
Largehearted Boy — In the New York Times, Michael Azzerad (author of my favorite music book of all time, Our Band Could Be Your Life) reviews Dan Kennedy's memoir, Rock On. The music industry’s decline has been swift, merciless and bloody; perhaps it’s best to broach such a dire story by laughing. A memoir of Dan Kennedy’s 18-month stint in the music business, “Rock On” is a succession of gently mordant vignettes, with hilariously spot-on asides about media image-making, music-biz hierarchies and sensitive singer-songwriters. It’s also a coming-of-age story. ...

Shorties
Largehearted Boy — ... Londonist interviews the people behind the Black Cab Sessions music videos. Obviously you dig everyone you've featured, but of all the performances, do you have a favourite? Sounds a cliché, but we like them all for different reasons. Having Daniel Johnston was something special for me personally, but other members of the team have different black cab heroes. I know St Vincent went down well with a few of the boys and our dads. The problem is when we all (four of us) want to be in the cab for the same person – good old-fashioned drawing ...

more Lykke Li: black cab sessions
gorillavsbear.net — We've seen Lykke Li perform this song about 4 different ways now: in a bathroom, with some of her famous Swedish friends, with a bunch of old people and some female bodybuilders in the official version, and of course, I saw her play it live at one of our SXSW parties. Here's number five, courtesy of London's Black Cab Sessions. Basically, it never gets old. ******************************************** elsewhere: Our weekly GvsB Sirius radio show airs today at noon + midnight eastern on Left ...

lykke li - so far so gone (the black cab sessions / acoustic live version / new video)
wongie's music world — ... [as you know i'm a big fan of the blogotheque take away concert series, and recently a friend tipped me on yet another spontaneous concert series called the black cab sessions in which artists perform songs in the back seat of a london black cab (everyone from spoon to the kooks have done one song on this series). this time, they got swedish hipster lykke li to give a rousing performance of her latest single. gosh, i just love these flash gig-type performances!] ...

...Death Cab For Cutie Record Stuff in a Cab
Oh No They Didn't! — ... The session was filmed for the Black Cab Sessions, and can be watched now at Blackcabsessions.com. ...

My Morning Jacket on Black Cab Sessions
Live Music Blog.com — ... My Morning Jacket - "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream (Part II)" [Black Cab Sessions] ...

The Best Thing Anyone's E-mailed Me In Months: My Morning Jacket Edition
PopWatch — ... , and I cannot wait to see them play between the hours of midnight and 3 a.m. at Bonnaroo next week. So how happy was I when my friend Dan e-mailed over this link to the ...

Video: Man Man: "Doo Right" (Live on "Black Cab Sessions")
Pitchfork Media - Today — ... ' "Doo Right", can also have the opposite effect, in this case robbing singer Honus Honus' narrator of his previous abilities-- like, you know, breathing underwater. If these zany Philadelphians haven't made a believer outta you yet, their appearance on "Black Cab Sessions" ought to be enough to win you over. Clambering into the backseat with keyboard and horn section, Man Man treat the show as a dare rather than yet another venue for stripped-down acoustic sessions. "My collective memories are in shambles/ And so are my scruples," Honus howls. Not only does the ...

Shorties
Largehearted Boy — ... Drowned in Sound interviews Chris Pattinson and Jono Stevens, two of the filmmakers responsible for the Black Cab Sessions. What are your top three, personal favourites you’ve done and why? This changes every week! I think its Sunset Rubdown. Being in cab with someone as talented and respected as Spencer Krug was pretty special and to do a stripped down version of such a complexed song was amazing to watch. After that, probably Death Cab for Cutie as the whole experience with them was so fun. They were excellent guys. And Spoon. Britt just ...

Black Cab Sessions Produces Live Videos in a Tiny, Rolling Studio
Spinner — [image] When it comes to concerts, let's be honest: Unless your band rocks a double kick drum and has ch-ch-chunky power chords, bigger is rarely better. Many die-hard music fans love to play the game 'I saw Modest Mouse in a club this small,' but there's one place on the Net where you can witness amazing, brief moments of musical glory in the smallest venue of all. Like it says on their Web site, "One song. One take. One cab" is the perfect description of the Black Cab Sessions ' modus operandi, and there are moments of minimalist beauty throughout this unique London-based ...

Wild Beasts: The Devil’s Crayon (Live on Black Cab Sessions)
Prefix — ... . In this Black Cab Session, bassist Tom Fleming and guitarist Hayden Thorpe moan in falsetto the song s somber lyrics as the cab slowly winds its way through London during rush hour. Wild Beasts debut album Limbo Panto is out now in the U.K. [ Black Cab Sessions ]

Video: The Cool Kids: Freestyles (Live on "Black Cab Sessions")
Pitchfork Media - Today — ... Chuck Inglish's mouth and car door. Then it's Inglish's go, and he riffs on the idea of a T-shirt (so this is how Cool Kids songs happen), bringing up Sugar Ray Leonard and Flavor Flav as Rocks bangs out a basic beat on the car door. In one last, brief freestyle, Rocks goes off the rails a bit, rapping about everything in sight before talking about "some Prince shit/ But my imprint/ Is worth more than nine gold infants." Nine gold infants, yes. [The Bake ...

beach house on black cab sessions
gorillavsbear.net — A beautiful new Black Cab Session, in which B-more's Beach House plays a stark acoustic version of Devotion standout "Heart of Chambers; no further description required: (this new player they're using might take a minute to load, but it's well worth it) ...

Brian Wilson's Black Cab Session
Music: Music blog | guardian.co.uk — ... comfortable, and wedged our cameraman in an awkward stress position between the jump seats. And we were away, the cameraman filming an unforgettable Black Cab Session with Brian Wilson (of the Beach Boys), trying to keep the camera steady as cramp slowly tightens around his hamstring. Amazingly, after performing That Lucky Old Sun, the band break out into California Girls. We hope you enjoy it - we've got a load more, including My Morning Jacket, Seasick Steve, and Bon Iver on our Black Cab Sessions website.

Video: Brian Wilson: "That Lucky Old Sun" (Live on "Black Cab Sessions")
Pitchfork Media - Today — ... Mark Richardson, lets the music speak for him on this episode of "Black Cab Sessions". A shades-wearing Wilson and his accompanists belt out sun-kissed harmonies over electric keyboard in this performance of oldie "That Lucky Old Sun", the title track from the pop legend's latest solo album. They also give us a snippet of a finger-snapping "California Girls". Says the driver: "That's a dream come true." [original track from ...

brian wilson :: that lucky old sun + LP giveaway
gorillavsbear.net — Coming on the heels of his endearingly awkward conversation with Zooey Deschanel, Brian Wilson rolled through the streets of London in the back of a cab on the latest edition of Black Cab Sessions. The legend sings the title track from his new LP, That Lucky Old Sun, but the highlight comes at around the 2:15 mark, when they break out an old classic: Coincidentally, Cornerstone's hooked us up with a copy of ...

Beach Boy, Black Cab
Stereogum — That lucky old dog's had himself a fine month, going from paying compliments to Zooey to skipping across the water to share his wares with the Brits. While in London he did what you're supposed to do while you're in London in 2008: have a seat in a black cab and let the Sessions folks roll tape. Brian's joined with his band of harmony makers/sycophantic cheerleaders ("the great Brian Wilson" and "testify" and other good stuff coming from them), the group offering up the title track from the recently released, often brilliant That Lucky Old Sun LP. Having spent a year of my life in ...

Video: Jens Lekman: "Black Cab" (Live on "Black Cab Sessions")
Pitchfork Media - Today — ... ranks as one of his best songs. Lekman leaves behind the the Left Banke- and Belle and Sebastian-derived orchestration of the original version to play his "Black Cab Sessions" "Black Cab" on a kalimba. The moment is reminiscent of his recent cover of Arthur Russell's sublime "A Little Lost" using the same instrument. This performance isn't quite as flawless, but it's still an inspired black-cab reworking of an evergreen tune. [original version from ...

Of Montreal: Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse, Id Engager, and An Eluardian Instance (Live in a London Park) (Video)
Prefix — ... , a new-ish music video site, records bands out on London streets playing acoustic versions of their songs (basically, Black Cab Sessions minus the cab). In their latest episode, they got ...

Indie rockers go back to high school
Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed — ... or the Black Cab Sessions , take a look. The video is embeddable, and you can also download MP3s of each song. Here's Bon Iver performing Lump Sum :

My Morning Jacket sings "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Part II" in the back of a cab
Cajun Boy in the City — This is way above average. Dude can sing... (via Black Cab Sessions via The Sugar Sheet) http://cajunboyinthecity.blogspot.com

Video: Lambchop: "You're a Big Girl Now" (Bob Dylan cover; live on "Black Cab Sessions")
Pitchfork Media - Today — ... classic "You're a Big Girl Now" for Black Cab Sessions. It's an appropriately rainy day, and Wagner's face is hard to see beneath sunglasses and a baseball cap. But his warm, humanly quavering vocal is easy to hear, and it sounds great over his simple but eloquent acoustic guitar figures. "Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast"-- to quote a phrase--but you'll find heartbreak a lot worse than a melancholy cab ride with Wagner through an unrelenting drizzle. (You might want to check out Lambchop's latest, ...

Free download: Hot Chip's collaboration with Robert Wyatt
Music: Music blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Sep 18 2008: The Black Cab Sessions have earned themselves a reputation for persuading musicians to sing their hits from the back of a moving taxi. They've given us an exclusive sneak preview of their biggest coup yet: Beach Boys genius Brian Wilson performing That Lucky Old Sun and California Girls as he leaves Abbey Road studios in - what else - a black cab ...

Fancy watching Emmy The Great and The Leisure Society for free this Sunday? Read on..
The Line Of Best Fit — ... from the Hollyoaks omnibus and brave the cold this coming Sunday (11th January), you’ll be able to catch The Leisure Society and Emmy The Great perform a small set. Both acts are booked to film a ‘Bandstand Busking’ session which will take place at Northampton Square bandstand in Islington at 12 noon. Click here for directions. So what is Bandstand Busking? Well, it’s kinda like Blackcab Sessions and Takeaway Shows. ...

Video: The Walkmen’s Black Cab Session
EAR FARM :: music information helps grow ears — ... , so of course it pleased us to no end to discover EF faves The Walkmen were among the latest to hail a stubby black taxi and give us all some stripped-down love. The song they chose to perform for this occasion is “Red Moon”, one of the sweeter songs from You & Me which, depending who you ask, is either the perfect wedding song or a love shanty delivered from the perspective of a pirate at sea; I think both work. So head over HERE to behold the 70th installment of Black Cab Session and see for yourself; and if you dare, ...

DVD Review: “That Lucky Old Sun”
Popdose — ... The bonus features on this disc are well worth watching. There is a song by song analysis of That Lucky Old Sun by its co-writers, Brian Wilson and Scott Bennett. Better yet, there is more footage captured in the studio during the recording process. Add a joyful performance in the back of a taxi from the “Black Cab Sessions,” and a live performance of Beach Boys classics from a session for Yahoo! Music, and you have the complete package. ...

Video: The Walkmen: "On the Water" (Live in New York for La Blogothèque's "In a Van Sessions")
Pitchfork Media - Today — "The Take-Away Shows" meets "Black Cab Sessions" in this intimate recording shot by Vincent Moon for La Blogothèque's "In a Van". The Walkmen have already played You & Me's raggedly affecting midtempo howler "On the Water" everywhere from Juan's Basement to FOX 5 News, but it's interesting to see how many elements were there even back during CMJ 2007, when this video was ...

"I'm Good, I'm Gone" by Lykke Li performed live in the back of a cab
Cajun Boy in the City — I love these Black Cab Sessions videos because they completely strip away all of the synthetic sound enhancement gadgets that so many performers use today. With that said, I think I fell in love with Lykke Li after seeing this one... ...

What's your Must? We're (still) loving the Black Cab Sessions
PopWatch — What's your Must? We're (still) loving the Black Cab Sessions If you, like me, watched Fleet Foxes perform on SNL a couple weeks ago and thought, Gee, I wish that they could find a much smaller space, say a moving vehicle, and play that song acoustic while riding around London , then you, my friend, are in luck. My Must List this week is completely consumed by the latest installments of the Black Cab Sessions , in which artists sit in the back of a taxi and play a song. I know ...

Taxi!!!
The Post Punk Progressive Pop Party — Videos of various artists rockin' out in the back of a London Taxi: One song, one take, one cab. Great stuff. BLACK CAB SESSIONS

Black Cab Sessions! Starring My Morning Jacket, Brian Wilson, The National...
N/A — ... ). The cab sessions are shot in one take, which is especially fun to watch when the band is crammed against each other, instruments crowding their laps. Stevens was recently "blown away by Sunset Rubdown." View their performance along with all of the other Black Cab Sessions. ...

Vote: Black Cab Sessions up for Webby award
Drowned In Sound // Feed — ... Those wonderfully innovative people responsible for the Black Cab Sessions are up for a Webby award, and we think they're pretty deserving winners. Ergo, we're urging you all to vote for them and stick an award on their mantlepiece. ...

Canadian Bands Play Toronto Streetcars For Transit Tapes
CBC Radio 3 — ... you're in Toronto some Sunday afternoon, and you happen to see a streetcar go by that's full of people doing way more interesting things than they usually do while riding transit, chances are you got a little taste of Transit Tapes. According to the Torontoist, the project - which has artists performing in the back of chartered streetcars as they roll along the streets of Toronto - was launched by Orbyt Media, and was inspired by the Black Cab Sessions and La Blogotheque, which had bands play in unusual settings. Creator ...

Miniature Tigers on The Train Tracks (photos)
So Much Silence — With the unveiling of the Metro Light Rail in December 2008, the greater Phoenix area finally has a decent mass-transit system on which to host busker-esque performances by local musicians. (Sorry, buses just won’t do.) Like the Black Cab Sessions, the folks behind the The Train Tracks capitalized on the novelty of public transportation in this city – The Arizona Republic has devoted an entire index to these futuristic people movers – by bringing you “raw and uncut ...

TAN Kicks the Mad Styles, So Step Off the Frankfurter [WTAN]
Gawker — ... people (this includes assimilated white-ethnics) blog like this: So cool! Perfunctory, even! Seriously! And Black people are like, "What are y'all trying to prove with all the grammatical histrionics, son. Be easy." And I have questions — some theories, but mostly questions — about why. All that adds up to a great show we've got lined up. So stick around, but before the commercial break we're gonna toss it to this week's band: hipstah darling Lykke Li, in a Black Cab, singing "I'm Good, I'm Gone" ...

Maximo Park: "Going Missing" (Live on Black Cab Sessions) (Video)
Prefix — ... Maximo Park are the subjects for the latest episode of Black Cab Sessions, and apparently the woman running the sound won an auction to ride along with the band, but ended up having to man the boards due to space constraints. The band play "Going Missing" from their still-good debut A Certain Trigger. Go here to watch. ...

Video of the Day #67: Fanfarlo
There Goes The Fear — Similar idea to the Black Cab Sessions, Bandstand Busking’s latest band to grace a bandstand is Fanfarlo. Watch and enjoy their unplugged version of Comets at Northampton Square bandstand. Click here to view the embedded video. ...

Frightened Rabbit: Swim Until You Can’t See Land
So Much Silence — From black cabs to train tracks, you just never know where you’ll stumble across a great performance. So how about a park bench? Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit offered up three songs for a session at Off the Beaten Tracks, including a new/unreleased song called Swim Until You Can’t See Land (via Forkcast). Does this mean we’ll see a follow-up this year to my favorite record of 2008? If that’s the case, we’re looking at a potentially big year from Fat Cat’s ...

Introducing… Parlour to Parlour
Popdose — ... What Parlour to Parlour is, then, is a cross between The War on Them and the Black Cab Sessions – traveling around to meet the artists up close in their home turf, rather than carting them around in taxis. And I’m not just capturing intimate, exclusive performances – I’m talking with the artists too, and having them do a little show-and-tell in their creative space. And more than just a simple video, I’m giving you a full multimedia experience: there are stories in text for you to read, songs to download, and each ...

New Music Thursday: Peter, Bjorn and John
Hollywire.com — ... or another but you just weren’t aware of the fact that you’ve heard them.  PB&J is a Swedish indie rock band originally formed in Stockholm, before they got really big in the UK.  In 2006 NME Magazine named their hit single “Young Folks” the second best track of the year!  At one point, Kanye West even sampled “Young Folks” and rapped over it for a track on one of his recent albums. You can check out both versions of Peter, Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” below, as well as their Black Cab Sessions performance! You can also get more info about Peter, Bjorn and John by ...

Black Cab Calexico
It All Started With Carbon Monoxide — ... began with last year’s Carried To Dust and endures still with this Black Cab Session performance of ‘Not Even Stevie Nicks’ from their 2003 release Feast Of Wire. It’s a great concept actually – musicians taking a cab ride around London, performing one of their songs in the back, all stripped down and acoustic like. The songs that is. Not the musicians. ...

The Photographic on Cinechamber
Backseat Sandbar — ... or Black Cab Sessions. Unlike many of the other video-based music blogs out there, Ryan is a true filmmaker and visual artist whose work, as he describes it “elicits a bold visual trademark composed of stylistic symmetry, meticulous attention to detail, and a delicate yet audacious use of landscape with an emphasis on the surreal.” His talent has not gone unnoticed, as he recently completed a film collaboration with Carlos Dengler of Interpol as a 25-minute short, entitled My Friends Told Me About You, which was co-written, photographed, directed and ...

VV Brown does Black Cab Sessions – Shark In The Water
Kickin' the Peanuts! — Check out an amazing acoustic rendition of VV Brown’s amazing summer single Shark In The Water, in the back of a black London cab!  She rocks the song, and the sailor-inspired nighty! For more Black Cab Sessions, check HERE.

Tonight in Madison: The Cool Kids
Muzzle of Bees | Music Blog: MP3 Downloads, Videos, News, Tour Dates, Giveaways — Muzzle of Bees is proud to present the Cool Kids tonight at the Majestic Theatre in Madison. Since their packed set at the UW Rathskeller, the group has only grew in popularity and draw. Tickets are still available ($15) and please note the venue change from the Orpheum Stage Door to the Majestic Theatre. Before you go, watch the Black Cab Session combining freestyle with improved beats on Black Cab interior. One of the best videos from the Black Cab Sessions and the only one to include lyrics of ...

MP3 of the Day (and More!) #95: Noah and the Whale
There Goes The Fear — ... And for dessert, here’s truly a treat. If you haven’t checked out the Black Cab Sessions yet and you’re a serious musicaholic, you really should. The (usual) set-up: a musical act is put in the backseat of a London black cab and have one chance to play a song of theirs, unplugged, and commit it to video to be posted and saved for posterity on the Black Cabs Sessions Web site. Stripped bare of electronic studio wizardry, this is where real singers and musicians shine. In the video below, it’s Noah and the Whale’s turn, with vocalist/guitarist ...

Grits 'n Gravy #15
Che Sing The Cool. — ... - Back in Time. First became aware of this young lady via Black Cab Sessions. Not much to say beyond that. I loved what I heard and have been a fan ever since. Had to put her on the next mix I did. I'm looking forward to hearing more from her over the years. ...

Watch: The Sour Notes on The Austin Sessions
Austin Sound — ... new ‘zines. Used to be way back in the day (say the 80s and 90s), trying your hand at amateur music writing and hanging out with your favorite bands required putting some work into a fanzine, printing it up, and passing it around. Yeah, we were all dorks. Then blogs made it easy, and everyone started writing about bands and even shared their music, cutting out the middle man. Now it seems everyone wants to do a quirky video session, cuz video’s the new mp3. Welcome to your Black Cab Sessions and ...