Another gorgeous weekend’s in the works, a blast of breezy sunshine pushing out the stormclouds that threatened our Friday post-work jaunt to South Street Seaport for a date with Sam Champion (and, for others, Ra Ra Riot).
The coolest venue in the city played host to one of the coolest bands in the area, and when you’re staring at tall ships and big buildings and painted skies and Pizzeria Uno, you know you’ve just the kicked the weekend off right. Now let’s all hit reverse and check out a sample of The Week That Was here at Hidden Track:
And now it’s time for sustenance…dinner’s gettin’ chilly, sirs and madams.
Take a break from the heat, and head inside to check out these performances:
Friday (all times Eastern)
- Former Smiths lead singer Morrissey returns to the Late Show with David Letterman [CBS 11:35 PM]
- Check out Coldplay’s set from the 2006 Isle of Wight Festival [Mojo 10:00 PM]
- The Unplugged series is back with Bon Jovi’s first appearance on the series [VH-1 Classic 12:00 AM]
Saturday
Sunday
- Elton John, Roger Hodgson and Rod Stewart are among the performers at the Concert For Diana [VH-1 Classic 12:00 PM]
- Sundance has started showing Neil Young’s underrated 2004 rock opera Greendale [Sundance 1:35 PM]
- Blondie’s appearance on the Old Grey Whistle Test is featured on BBC Crown Jewels [VH-1 Classic 10:00 PM]
We’ve written extensively on the upcoming 10,000 Lakes Festival, one of the few surviving jamband-centric music events left in the live music scene.
Now, with an assist from our friend AJ at WFOV’s Sharin’ In The Groove radio show (which airs every Wednesday night from 6-10 Eastern), we’re offering two lucky people the opportunity to each win a pair of tickets to this summer’s installment.
So if you’re on the fence but don’t have the money for ducats, or if you’re already going but searching for them, today’s your lucky day. All we ask is that you write in with a comment below, explaining in 10 words or less why you deserve the golden tickets to the festival. And no, that’s not a typo, we really want your answer in 10 words. Be serious, be offbeat, be Shirley, just be. Let us know why you should win the tickets to see this cool lineup from July 18th-21st.
Seriously, don’t miss your chance to see WookieFoot and Cosmic Fingertrap. Check back next Friday, when we’ll announce the two winners here…
It’s Uncle Neddy’s mix tape time, so let’s all gather ’round the campfire and listen to what our main man has in store for us this week…
Ain’t New York City just the center of the live music universe? Don’t roll your eyes at me. We’ve got another stellar weekend of music in the big city, so here’s a little preview of *some* of what’s going down in the tri-state area on Friday and Saturday — which ones will you be at? Get out there and try something new. I’ve added two bonus tracks to cover the big free show on the 4th. Be independent!
01 Running Away — The Polyphonic Spree: The Fragile Army (released 6/26)
02 Black-Hearted Boy — The Fiery Furnaces: 30 June 2006
03 Etienne D’aout — Malajube: Daytrotter Session
04 Far East Medley — Béla Fleck & The Flecktones: Live Art
05 Meryl Loves to Dance — The Bad Plus: 19 March 2007 (new song)
06 Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues — Bob Dylan: Live 1966
B1 Balloon Maker — Midlake: Bamnan And Slivercork
B2 My Rights Versus Yours — The New Pornographers: Challengers (releases 8/21)
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Arcade Fire,
Bruce Hornsby,
Disco Biscuits,
KISS,
Leftovers,
Live Earth,
Phish,
Prince,
RatDog,
The Slip,
Wilco
The newly reunited Smashing Pumpkins have given the Live Music Archive permission to store their live shows, and they’ve reiterated that taping is allowed at all of their concerts. In the five days since Saturday’s decision, 55 Pumpkins shows have been uploaded to the LMArchive. Largehearted Boy has done a nice job of compiling the best of what’s been upped thus far. I’d love to see more bands follow their lead ::cough:: Pearl Jam, Phish, Neil Young ::cough::
While you line up and wait for the iPhone, here’s the best of the rest for you:
Have any interesting plans this weekend? Make us jealous with a comment…
Here’s a tip for bands that want my ticket money: If you’ve got a B3 in your band, I’ll probably love your shit. In fact, I tend to categorize those people that don’t enjoy a screaming organ in the mix as Communist sympathizers.
I don’t profess to know much about the Big Organ Trio, but based on a few videos I just stumbled upon on a popular video-sharing site, I dig. I dig. They seem to me like a child conceived on the road with the recent Medeski Martin & Wood and Greyboy Allstars tour. Bernie Bauer and Brett McConnell provide an excellent rhythm (though McConnell’s drumming does over-untz untz on occasion), and Mike Mangan’s skills on the B3 are damn serious — kid can play backwards. Here’s a self-released promo video, and some others follow below:
With Eddie Van Halen reportedly embracing sobriety, the Van Halen reunion rumors are once again bubbling up to the surface. If that happens, the Van Halen brood may be going up against two former members of the ol’ band who are staging a reunion of their own. Sammy Hagar and ousted bassist Michael Anthony are kicking off a huge 60-city, cross-country tour in October.
The show will begin with Micheal Anthony’s Mad Anthony Express playing a set of early Van Halen rockers. Hagar’s Los Tres Gusanos will follow by performing I Can’t Drive 55 and other gems from his solo days. Finally, Anthony and Hagar will team up to lead The Other Half through all of the Van Halen hits that Sammy sang. The only date that has been announced so far is the July 12th, 2008 tour closer at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Live Daily is reporting that all of the tour dates will be posted on Hagar’s website shortly. We anxiously await…
I can’t wait to hear what Eddie and Alex have to say about The Other Half. Eddie has always taken all of the credit for Van Halen’s success, and he can’t be happy that someone else is trying to profit off of the VH experience. Hopefully this news will light a fire under his ass and lead to the David Lee Roth/Van Halen reunion/shitshow that we’ve all been waiting for. Eddie’s son/bass player Wolfie just turned 16, so he can drop out of school on a whim. Let’s do this!
Leave us a comment below to let us know if you have any interest in either of these tours…we’re envisioning reluctant interest.
Drumming is one of the hardest jobs in rock and roll. Each one of your four limbs are in charge of performing completely different acts, yet they all need to be coordinated with each other and everyone else in the band. I have a hard enough time just trying to get both of my arms to sync up when I play the bass — I can’t even imagine bringing my legs into the equation.
For a few brave and talented souls, drumming by itself isn’t enough. So for this week’s B List, we celebrate the 10 best drummers who can also carry a tune:
1. Levon Helm
Levon Helm is one of our favorite musicians of all-time, so it’s no surprise that he kicks off our list. The Marvell, Arkansas native provides the incredibly soulful voice behind The Band’s classics like The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down, Ophelia and Up On Cripple Creek. Levon sang while laying down the shuffling, syncopated drum beats that propelled some of the greatest songs in the history of rock and/or roll. Helm’s voice is sounding great these days after he was unable to sing for a number of years due to throat cancer treatment. The Levon Helm Band killed it at the Beacon in March, and tonight, they play at Central Park’s Summerstage.
Read on for nine more drummers that can sing as well as they drum…
In the interest of providing some quality filler for youse this morning, we’ve scoured the SugarMegs archive for as many shows celebrating anniversaries today as we could find. So check the list below (and, also, check yourself before you wreck yourself) and see what strikes your fancy, then go ahead and stream the ever-loving shit out of it. There’s something for everyone, unless you’re deaf.
- Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young — 6/28/70 — Los Angeles, California
- Donovan — 6/28/70 — Bath Festival
- Grateful Dead — 6/28/76 — Chicago, Illinois
- Lowell George — 6/28/79 — Washington DC
- The Phish from Vermont — 6/28/95 — Jones Beach, NY
- The Black Crowes — 6/28/98 — Seabright, New Jersey
- My Morning Jacket — 6/28/05 — Montreal, Quebec
- Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon — 6/28/05 — Tempe, Arizona
- Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris — 6/28/06 — Universal City, CA
- GRAB Quartet — 6/28/06 — Raleigh, North Carolina
That Phish show linked here was my first show…dang, weird to think it’s been 12 years since the first time I laid eyes and ears on those goofy bastards.
Scotty B took hold of the Pullin’ ‘Tubes reins yesterday and successfully steered us towards a brilliant clip of Bob Marley playing privately for some reporters in his hotel room. So I’ll piggyback that video with this one below of Jimmy Cliff belting out his signature hit live in 1975 — I defy anyone to watch this version of The Harder They Come and not wanna sit seaside with a spliff and the one you love, even if the spliff is actually the one you love most.
