Skip to main content

US Indie Punk Rocker Ted Leo Covers Paul Weller!

When cerebral indie-punk rocker Ted Leo recently stopped by SPIN's downtown NYC office for an acoustic performance in our SPIN Sessions series, the Jersey-based songwriter offered up something borrowed and something new. Watch the set below!

In the "borrowed" department, Leo chose to play "Hung Up," a soulful 1993 cut by Paul Weller, the politically-minded man behind the Jam and Style Council. Earlier that day, Leo had chatted with Weller, one of his heroes, for a SPIN magazine feature that appears in our April issue (on newsstands now).

"I was lucky enough to have had people like Paul already make the connections between punk and soul when I started getting into music," Leo said. "That was extremely important to me."

Leo also uncorked two songs off Leo's just released, SPIN-approved album, The Brutalist Bricks. Not a stranger to SPIN office performances -- Leo did a solo electric set back in '04 when Shake the Sheets came out -- the New Jersey-based songwriter tested the durability of our house guitar with the muscular chords of Bricks' opening track, "The Mighty Sparrow," before slipping into the softer shimmy of "One Polaroid a Day."


Comments

  1. Anonymous8 April 2010 at 14:32

    Hi this fellow is amazing brilliant songs too!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Paul Weller Interviewed During Maida Vale Appearance For BBC Radio 4!

Fresh back from a short tour of the US and Japan, Paul Weller talks about the 30th anniversary of The Jam's sixth and final studio album, The Gift, and where he's at right now. Repost From The Huffington Post By: Jason Holmes Paul Weller bounds into his chair, an electronic cigarette gripped in his hand. We're in the BBC's Studio Three in Maida Vale. Visibly calm owing to post-tour exhaustion and a morning trip to the gym, Weller is here to be interviewed by John Wilson for BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes series. "Back in those days, bands put out an album a year, you toured with it for a year, then you went back in the studio and repeated the process. Looking back, I was glad I experienced that pressure. It helped me refine my craft and find myself as a writer. It kept me on my toes," says Weller, Gibson acoustic on knee. "It wasn't a treadmill, it was just what bands did back then. I never questioned it." Lest the passing decades dim...
Post a Comment
Read more

New Unofficial Forum

A new Unofficial Weller chat forum has been created in place of the recently-closed Official Forum. Click below to visit. Have a good week!
3 comments
Read more

Paul Weller's New Fashion Line! "Real Stars Are Rare"

Info via: RealStarsAreRare.com REAL STARS ARE RARE is a new menswear label from Paul Weller.  The collection has been designed by Paul in a collaboration with Phil Bickley , owner of Tonic, a menswear store in West London. The Autumn/ Winter 2014 launch collection includes tailoring, knitwear, shirting and accessories. There’s no ‘considered demographic’. REAL STARS ARE RARE is for men of all ages. Great care has gone into sourcing the best possible materials and fabrics. The collection works together, crossing over between formalwear and sharp casuals. There’s fluidity here. It’s all about movement and texture. We’ve got 33 gauge wool Merino knits and super fine kid mohair jackets and trousers that feel as special as they look. Our tight, considered colour palette features purple, indigo, plum and bright blues alongside rich, chocolate tones and cool greys. REAL STARS ARE RARE has been in the planning, you could say, for forty years. Ever since a kid from Woking fi...
10 comments
Read more