Alabama Shakes -- Hold On [Live]

This is one of my favorite Saturday Night Live performances from the past couple of years. "Hold On" is the first track from Alabama Shakes great debut Boy and Girls.

Adam Sandler as Bill Clinton

If you are curious as to what SNL would have been like if Phil Hartman had not played Bill Clinton and instead it was Adam Sandler or Chris Farley who took up the reigns, check this out:



SNL has a new site devoted entirely to politics and I love the older clips that seem just as relevant today as then...maybe even more so...speaking of that, this Bill Hicks clip is short but makes you think back to a simpler time when you only had to be upset about one Bush presidency.

Bill Hicks -- One of the Boys (Clinton)
From the Rant in E-Minor album

Lewis Black -- Bill Clinton and Oral Sex
From The White Album album.

Only You

So we are down to about 34 days until the 3rd Portishead album hits shelves and I have to say I can't remember a time when I was more excited about a new album...well, it was probably for Radiohead's Kid A.

I remember watching Saturday Night Live in 1998 and being pleasantly surprised by Portishead's performance and the genre they championed, trip hop. I fell in love instantly and along with The Chemical Brothers and Prodigy, they were a huge part of my late 90's personal soundtrack. Loren Michaels doesn't let SNL clips on YouTube so I can't post that specific performance of "Only You" but here is one from the Roseland Ballroom.



Portishead -- Key Bored
This song was posted on Portishead's MySpace page.

Iran So Far

You know, if you think Iran is going to be the next-Iraq, you have had a pretty good couple of weeks as the Iranian President came to New York and made himself look like an idiot...Saddam never did this and I think that it slows down a rush to action that may not be truly needed....here is Saturday Night Live's take on it...politics and music collide again:



I think it is also very interesting how some consider homosexuality a choice and is a product of our permissive liberal society. And yet when the Iranian president says essentially the same thing, everyone, and I mean everyone, says "that's ridiculous" and when they heard it an entire nation chuckled and shook their head. This man is a threat to us?