Live Video: The Zombies at SXSW
There are few moments in rock 'n' roll as iconic as the opening drum-and-breath line in " Time of the Season."
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There are few moments in rock 'n' roll as iconic as the opening drum-and-breath line in " Time of the Season."
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For a bunch of seasoned performers (or "old guys" if you want to be less PC about it), The Zombies sure were hustling around SXSW like a band of newcomers.
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I can now tell my kids that I saw The Zombies live.
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Steve Earle leads Amy Helm, left, Eleanor Whitmore and a number of guest stars in "The Weight" to help close out SXSW.
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I'm excited to see what will happen, but I'm even more excited to be a part of a great party/showcase.
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Please note: all information we bring you about SXSW 2013 is to the best of our knowledge when it posts and bands scheduled to appear may be subject to change.
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50 years is an incredibly long time for anything, and much like a marriage, a band's career very rarely approaches its semicentennial if its even lucky enough to achieve half of that with a quarter-of-a-century anniversary.
Read MoreUbuweb shares mp3s of early poetry readings and music performances by Patti Smith.
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Legendary music photographers, Kevin Cummins, Paul Slattery and Ian Tilton , collaborate for the first time in a new exhibition of photography and memorabilia to celebrate the generation-defining �Madchester� band, The Stone Roses.
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The Zombies, original members Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Paul Atkinson, Hugh Grundy and Paul Arnold, formed in 1961 in St Alban's as school boys.
Read MoreThat's precisely the sort of thing we should learn to do: let our worries go and be happy as they depart.
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It's been 50 years since the Zombies formed in St. Albans, England, and rose to prominence as part of the British Invasion.
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The Zombies are currently on their 50th Anniversary tour with The Strawbs , who are playing acoustic shows on the tour.
Read MoreOn hearing that the Zombies were appearing on Jimmy Fallon's show you might have hoped for one of the band's classic tracks to be performed—a "She's Not There" or a "Time of the Season."
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"She's Not There," "Tell Her No" and "Time of the Season."
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OK we'll admit it — the first few years of AM Gold had their moments, but by and large they didn't showcase the most scintillating music ever recorded.
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With reunion fever hitting everyone from Buffalo Springfield to Archers of Loaf (and even The Beach Boys being in discussions to hop back on the board ), it's only fitting this nostalgia infection would hit English rockers The Zombies (zombies, infection; get it?)
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The Zombies , helmed by founding members Rod Argent and singer Colin Blunstone, are marking the groups half century with a new album Breathe Out, Breathe In (out now) and another tour, with UK dates this November.
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Psychedelic pop legends The Zombies are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.
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The 1960s gave us a plethora of some of the most interesting bands.
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Over 40 years after the release of their most recognizable song 'Time Of The Season', The Zombies are back with a new album, Breathe Out, Breathe In. Originally formed in St Albans in 1961, and active off and on ever since, The Zombies provided the soundtrack to every retrospective 60s TV scene ever.
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For his follow-up to 2009's Grammy-winning Potato Hole, Booker T Jones has hooked up with The Roots, whose drummer Questlove co-produces.
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Keyboardist and songwriter, co-founder of Argent and the Zombies , Rod Argent is also an A-list producer with a string of albums to his credit.
Read More"There was a clear brief," says Rod Argent, "We wanted to use as many two and three part harmonies as possible and lots of Hammond organ, Mellotron and Memotron. We didn't want to recreate the past, but we wanted to capture The Zombies' essence and meaning. Our energy and enthusiasm for making music is the same as it was when we first started and the magic and mystery of the whole music making process, we are still thrilled by it all. So we thought it would be great to celebrate when that all began. I first met Colin outside the Pioneer Club in St Albans for The Zombies' first rehearsal. We didn't know each other but Colin turned up with a broken nose and two black eyes. I thought, oh no, what have we got here? But he was a keen rugby player and had got injured during a game."
Read MoreWhen I'm on my desert island, I'm gonna need something that can keep me occupied for a while.
Read MoreBY THE TIME the ball drops on 2011, Berbati's Pan as you and I know it will be no more.
Read MoreThe Zombies ' 1968 psychedelic pop masterpiece 'Odessey and Oracle' may stand as the off-again, on-again UK band's creative zenith, but that isn't stopping the group from planning a new record to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Read MoreIN 2008 , Austin psychedelic band the Black Angels landed a dream gig—backing up their hometown's most notoriously damaged son, Roky Erickson, on a batch of vintage 13th Floor Elevators songs.
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It was an album that hardly dented the cultural register, but since its release in 1968, the Zombies ' final album, 'Odessey and Oracle,' has gone on to become recognised as one of the most important artefacts of the original psychedelic era.
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