Whilst dressed like the Bride of Dracula, PJ Harvey performed her England pride anthem “The Last Living Rose” on Conan before heading over to Coachella this weekend. The track can be found on PJ’s latest album, Let England Shake, though we certainly do not need any more countries (literally) shaking. I’m not English – despite what I sometimes tell myself – but that was a pretty heartfelt performance. Enjoy.

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Whether you’re English or not, the Seamus Murphy-directed video for PJ Harvey‘s “The Last Living Rose” will make you reminisce about beautiful England. Oh Polly Jean, you make us feel so nostalgic about a place that isn’t even our own hometown.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWBrWhrKchQ

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Let England Shake is the new, February-due album from British rocker PJ Harvey. Listen to one of the tracks, “Written on the Forehead,” in which Miss Harvey embraces her soft side. You can also check out the track list below and keep your ears open for tour dates!

Written On The Forehead by pjharvey

01 Let England Shake
02 The Last Living Rose
03 The Glorious Land
04 The Words That Maketh Murder
05 All and Everyone
06 On Battleship Hill
07 England
08 In the Dark Places
09 Bitter Branches
10 Hanging in the Wire
11 Written on the Forehead
12 The Colour of the Earth

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PJ Harvey is a force to be reckoned with – a veritable Cassandra of our day. Her album Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea changed our lives and it could imbue some erudition on yours, if you’d only let it (go get it here, now – we’ll wait). Watch Mother Superior Harvey talk about her new album and how she encapsulates politics and world events into her music. There are two videos below, the first of which is an interview with Andrew Marr, a political pundit, and the second features PJ performing her new song “Let England Shake” in front of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. She’s got his ear; has she got yours? Enjoy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=49BPRI0UbDo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=64C6Ih4QlrE

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Thus far, The Telethon for Haiti has garnered $3 million in iTunes sales from the performances that night on an album entitled Hope For Haiti featuring the likes of Jay-Z, Rihanna, Madonna, Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, Neil Young, and U2.

A few nights ago Thom Yorke played a benefit show at The Music Box in the La Fonda, CA. Check out Thom’s set list below. The singer performed a series of Radiohead songs at the benefit whose ticket cost spread was $475-$2,000, all proceeds of which went to Oxfam International.

Also benefiting Oxfam International is Glastonbury Festival organizer Emily Eavis’ fab eBay auction featuring an original song penned by Blur and Gorillaz’s frontman Damon Albarn in addition to a PJ HARVEY STAGE COSTUME (personally, if it had been the white suit from the “This is Love” vid my credit limit would be in trouble).

Wilco is joining the cause asking that you donate $15 to Doctors Without Borders or Oxfam in exchange for downloads of their Brooklyn and London 2009 shows.

In L.A. tonight our friends The Pity Party, Pocohaunted, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, and others will play a benefit for Operation USA at Cinespace.

For my local readers, come out this Monday February 1st to The Woods in The Burg for the benefit show Rock+Rescue. For a minimum $10 donation at the door see Japanther, Das Racist, Fresh Kills, Cerebral Ballzy, Columboid, and a set from DJ Unicornicopia all benefiting the Bedford Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps Haiti rescue effort. RSVP to RSVP@NickyDigital.com.

As an aside from my dear friend Roosevelt, a Haitian physician, below he implores everyone as individuals to help. Please take heed.

“Well, civilians can still help better than governments with all their diplomatic and bureaucratic b.s.: 1st with tents, then medical supplies and food of course, but avoid money because it won’t ever get to those in need. Some children definitely need to be adopted because they lost their whole family and the Haitian Government as usual won’t do anything about it. Nevertheless, God is great and will always be the greatest and God bless not only America but also Haiti, an innocent and poor country!!!  Muah….”

Enjoy Thom Yorke’s new one “Lotus Flower” from this week’s show at The Music Box. xo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AYvAXmOQYg

Thom Yorke Set List From The Music Box January 29th, 2010 (Via At Ease):

01 Faust Arp
02 Fake Plastic Trees
03 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
04 The National Anthem
05 Nude
06 Karma Police
07 Kid A
08 Morning Bell
09 How to Disappear Completely
10 A Wolf at the Door
11 The Bends
12 Reckoner
13 Lucky
14 Bodysnatchers
15 Dollars & Cents
16 Airbag
17 Exit Music

Encore #1

18 Everything in Its Right Place (Thom)
19 You and Whose Army?
20 Pyramid Song
21 All I Need

Encore #2:

22 Lotus Flower
23 Paranoid Android
24 Street Spirit (fade out)

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