Watch the only color footage of the Velvet Underground in concert

This last week was the release of the 45th anniversary reissuing of the Velvet Underground’s self-title studio album featuring previously unreleased recordings and performances. Now, the only color footage of the band performing live is on YouTube.

The film was recorded in 1967 by Andy Warhol, who frequently collaborated with the band. The YouTube description says:

“This newly unearthed film, which Warhol shot during a concert at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety of filmmaking techniques. Sudden in-and-out zooms, sweeping panning shots, in-camera edits that create single frame images and bursts of light like paparazzi flash bulbs going off mirror the kinesthetic experience of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with its strobe lights, whip dancers, colorful slide shows, multi-screen projections, liberal use of amphetamines, and overpowering sound. It is a significant find indeed for fans of the Velvets, being one of only two known films with synchronous sound of the band performing live, and this the only one in color. It’s fitting that it was shot at the Boston Tea Party, as the Beantown club became one of the band’s favorite, most-played venues, and was where a 16-year-old Jonathan Richman faithfully attended every show and befriended the group. Richman, who would later have his debut recordings produced by John Cale, and later yet record a song about the group, is just possibly seen in the background of this film.”

The setlist included “I’m Waiting For The Man,” “Guess I’m Falling In Love,” “Run Run Run,” “Heroin,” “Walk It & Talk It,” “I Heard Her Call My Name,” “Venus In Furs,” and “Sister Ray.”

Scott Stapp put in psych ward after being found on side of road mumbling

Lead singer of Creed, Scott Stapp, had recently released a video online saying he was living In an Holiday Inn, without money, and being threatened by his old record label. He claimed that the IRS has frozen his accounts and that the record label stole money and kept royalties from him. This might just be the plea of someone who is paranoid, and as it has become apparent, it might just be. His wife of eight years, Jaclyn Stapp, has filed for divorce and this has revealed that he could be in bad shape.

The former Miss New York says in the divorce papers that Stapp left home in early October and has not told her his locations. She also said that he has been using amphetamines, crystal meth, and steroids so much that it made him take a break with reality, he even threatened to kill himself or harm his family.

To support her claims, she shared the these text messages she was sent by Stapp:

“Florida is not safe. Biological weapons on the way. U have to leave with kids and meet me in Atlanta.”

“I’m coming to get you Satan and children. No mercy. You know how this ends. God created you and now God is ending you.”

“God is also telling me something about Palm Springs and Nashville so there’s a connection somehow. He’s also telling me DEA for some reason.”

“Wells Fargo working out my account problems. I’m out of gas. Haven’t eaten all day. I’m asking if they can spot me $1,000 so I don’t fall over from malnutrition.”

“I wouldn’t doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous.”

TMZ also reports the November 13th incident where the Madison County Florida Sheriff’s Dept. deputies found him on the side of a road “wasted, incoherent, and rambling that someone was trying to poison him.” The police thus placed him on a 72-hour psych hold.

Along with filing for complete custody of their children, on November 11th, Jaclyn filed for a separate Marchman Act petition. The Marchman Act is a Florida law that provides the court the with the ability to perform “involuntary assessment, stabilization petitions, and involuntary treatment petitions for substance abuse impaired persons.” A hearing was held Wednesday, however, on Friday, Jaclyn decided to drop the petition and decided to instead help him personally.

In his recent video, Stapp claims that he is completely sober, but the legal documents tell a different story.

Bonnaroo Thanksgiving Special airing tonight

The music festival, Bonnaroo, has taken over the Thanksgiving weekend with two big events. Today, Thanksgiving Day, they have a one-hour special on VH1 celebrating the festival’s last 13 years. The special is named A Very Bonnaroo Thanksgiving and with feature footage from Jack White, The White Stripes, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, Mumford and Sons, and many more. The special with begin airing at 9 p.m. ET.

On the infamous Black Friday (November 28th), the festival will have a pre-sale for its 2015 festival. The limited number of general admission tickets will be sell for $274.50, and VIP tickets will be sell for $1,474.50. For more information, including details on layaway plans, visit Bonnaroo’s website.

Listen to Future Islands’ “Seasons” reworked by jazz trio, BadBadNotGood

The experimental jazz outfit, BadBadNotGood, over the past few months, have contributed to notable hip-hop tracks from artists such as Ghostface Killah and Danny Brown, and Black Milk. The trio now moved to a different direction into synth pop with their reworking of “Seasons (Waiting on You)” by Future Islands.

This remix gives the frontman, Sam T. Herring, a different kind of background for his intense vocals.

First authorized Kurt Cobain documentary to air on HBO

The first “fully authorized” documentary of the late Nirvana frontman will air on HBO.

Montage of Heck is set to premiere on HBO next year. The documentary is directed by Brett Morgen and is billed as the first “fully authorized” documentary about Kurt Cobain’s life. It was made with the help of his family, and his daughter, Frances Bean who served as an executive producer.

The documentary has “dozens of Nirvana songs and performances as well as perviously unheard Cobain originals, no-holds-barred access to Kurt Cobain’s archives, home to his never-before-seen home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, journals, demos, personal archives, family archives and songbooks,” according to a press release. Morgen says:

I started work on this project eight years ago. Like most people, when I started, I figured there would be limited amounts of fresh material to unearth. However, once I stepped into Kurt’s archive, I discovered over 200 hours of unreleased music and audio, a vast array of art projects (oil paintings, sculptures), countless hours of never-before-seen home movies, and over 4000 pages of writings that together help paint an intimate portrait of an artist who rarely revealed himself to the media.

Montage of Heck is named after a mixtape Cobain made in 1988; it surfaced earlier this year.

Will Butler from Arcade Fire reveals new music from solo album

Arcade Fire’s multi-instrumentalist, Will Butler teased fans with the release of his debut solo album, Policy, with a trailer that has music from the album.

The album is set to be released on March 16. The album was recorded in New York at the Electric Lady Studios and has Jeremy Gara, also from Arcade Fire, on the drums.

In a recent press release that followed the news of the album, the music on Policy is compared to The Breeders, The Modern Lovers, Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, The Magnetic Fields, Ghostface Killah and John Lennon.

Butler was nominated for an Oscar for best soundtrack for Spike Jonze film Her earlier this year. Will Butler scored a documentary about a Barack Obama impersonator in New York as well as touring with Arcade Fire.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. On the Line – The Olms

2. Lightshow – Plants and Animals

3. You’re In My Dreams – The Fling

4.  Strange Like We Are – Campfire OK

5. Brushbloom Glow – The Tree Ring

6. The Snow – The Eastern Sea

7. Cold Feet – Lost Lander

8. Ghosts – On An On

9. Let Me In – Snowmine

10. Nunca – Trails and Way

11. California Sunrise – Dirty Gold

12. Truth – Alexander

13. Tamer Animals – Other Lives

14. Daydreaming – Dark Dark Dark

15. Nothing Arrived – Villagers

16. Modern Drift – Efterklang

17. Feel Real – Deptford Goth

18. Hanging On – Active Child

19. Shell Suite – Chad Valley

20. Shallow Play – The New Division

Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

Amy Adams to portray Janis Joplin in biopic

The Academy Award nominated Amy Adams is set to protest the rock legend, Janis Joplin in the upcoming biopic, Get It While You Can.

Adams was initially believed to play Joplin in 2010 but the film has been in development purgatory since then. However, it was reported that Adams was removed from the project in 2012 and was replaced with Tony Award winner, Nina Arianda.

The producers of the film are now in search for a director with the main cast set. They have focused on the director of Dallas Buyers Club, Jean-Marc Vallée. The filming is intended to begin in the second half of 2015.

These next few years will feature many impressive new biopics, such as Paul Dano as Brian Wilson.

An app offers unlimited concerts for $25 a month

Concert tickets tend to be dominated by large companies such as Ticketmaster and StubHub. However, there is a new startup that could change the market with their new approach: offering their users unlimited subscriptions to concerts around their city for $25 a month.

The idea for the app, Jukely, comes from the idea of concert promoter Bora Celik and co-designer of Kickstarter, Andrew Cornett. The app uses a method in order to figure out your taste in music and will match you with people who like the same kind and will suggest concerts you could go together. The app, according to the co-creators, have already claimed 30 million people and their friends via the platform.

The catch, because there’s always one, is that it does not have access to concerts from bigger acts. Instead, the app is supposed to “fill the room and expose folks to bands that are just starting to blow up, but have enough of a presence to sell a few of their own tickets, too.”

How exactly will Jukely be able to provide so many concerts to their users? The app, according to Celik, is a “win-win” for both the app and concert promoters because both will be able to garner revenue from originally unsold tickets. But, what has remained unclear is whether or not the artist will receive a chunk.

Launched last April during Techstars New York City conference, Jukely raised $2.5 million just last month thanks to a number of sponsors, such as Spotify and Northzone.

The app currently is operating in 17 venues in New York City and will expand in the upcoming future. The company hopes to use the money it has raised to expand into Los Angeles and San Francisco early next year.

She And Him release video for “Stay Awhile”

Indie duo, She and Him, have recently released a video for their cover of “Stay Awhile,” originally by Dusty Springfield.

The video features the frontwoman and actress, Zooey Deschanel dancing with an invisible partner as M Ward mimes his guitar part. The clip, featured below, was directed by CANADA.

The band’s cover on the song will be on their upcoming fifth album, Classics along with 12 other renditions of classic tracks. The duo will feature a 20 piece orchestra on the album.

Classics will be released on December 2nd.