Sundance’s The True History of the Traveling Wilburys cobbles together home movies and concert footage to tell the tale of the world’s greatest supergroup. Like the band’s brief career, this flick doesn’t last long enough – it’s only 25 minutes. Be sure to check the short film out before Sundance stops showing it.
Earlier this week we saw a page on the Grateful Dead’s website that we probably weren’t supposed to see. The post announced the release of Road Trips Volume 1, Number 3 featuring music from the Summer of 1971. Now they’ve taken down the post, and we can’t find any information on the release anywhere.
Luckily we saved what we saw that day, so we figured we’d share it with you. While we haven’t been thrilled with the first two Road Trip releases, this next one looks pretty fucking rad. The collection is full of tunes from previously uncirculated master tapes from the summer of ’71 that turned up unexpectedly. So they probably couldn’t even release the full shows if they wanted to, unlike Road Trips 1 and 2.
READ ON for the full text from the since removed post on Dead.net, which explains why this marvelous mish-mash of unreleased gems looks so damn good…
If you’re looking for a complete overload of golf/rockstar metaphors, check out the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s article about hitting the links with Widespread Panic’s John Bell. While registration is required for the article you can view a slide show of photos from JB’s round of golf without having to turn over your personal information. [Hat Tip to Rook]
[Photo by Rich Addicks for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
Prince’s rabid team of lawyers may have been overly zealous when they took down videos of the purple one performing Radiohead’s Creep at Coachella. Thom Yorke would like to remind Prince that Radiohead owns the right to that one. Unblock that shit, my man.
Now that everyone and his brother has heard My Morning Jacket’s Evil Urges, we can turn our attention to the long-awaited new album from that other band we can’t stop fluffing: Apollo Sunshine. The boys from Boston will release the CD of Shall Noise Upon on September 2, but you’ll be able to purchase the album digitally on August 5. We can’t wait to hear what they came up with, and hopefully they’ll get back on the road for an extended jaunt over the next few months after a long layoff. Bring it, fellas.
Since getting back together with the E Street Band in the late ’90s The Boss has kept busy with his backing band churning out some great albums and epic concerts. While NJ’s favorite sons are about announce the final leg of their Magic tour, which is rumored to include a five night stand at Madison Square Garden, many are speculating this could be the last run for the band.
If seeing a rousing three-hour plus Springsteen show isn’t for you, then maybe one of these recently announced tours will be…
How about a fest that comes to your city? The Fuck Yeah Tour will feature the likes of Matt & Kim, Dan Deacon, Circle Jerks and more (begins: 06/17)
Finally. the festival announcements have come to a considerable halt over the last few weeks; but the initial line up for the inaugural Jackson Hole Music Festival caught our attention when it was revealed the other day. Among the handful of bands that were announced to appear alongside the Black Crowes, Medeski, Martin & Wood and Kaki King are old Uncle Tupelo band mates Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar with their current bands.
It’s no surprise the two acts will appear on different nights, since there is no love lost between those two. I’m sure there are people out there who are crossing their fingers that the two might kiss and make up and play some tunes together, but I wouldn’t hold your breath on that one. Good looking festival, though.
iClips is at it again! Last weekend they webcasted three full days of Summer Camp performances (with minimal technical difficulties) and starting now, they move about 900 miles to the east to broadcast Mountain Jam live from Hunter Mountain.
If you’re anything like me, you’ll be creating a personal multimedia presentation combining the likes of live music and playoff sports starting tonight.
Earlier this week, I watched the new HBO movie “Recount.” The movie tells the story of the 2000 presidential election and the debacle that occurred in the great state of Florida. It’s a great depiction and even though it did have it’s obvious democratic leanings, it stuck to the story pretty well.
This week we also saw the release of former Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s tell-all book entitled “What Happened” which apparently highly criticizes the Bush Administration and their actions with everything from the war in Iraq to the handling of Hurricane Katrina.
The movie, along with the news of McClellan’s criticisms on our current administration got me thinking – what if Al Gore had won the presidency in 2000? Well, for one, he certainly wouldn’t be living in Nashville…
“No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” – Al Gore
READ ON for more about what Gore and Bush accomplished since 2000…
I always viewed We Are the World as America’s crappier, soft batch answer to the UK’s far more awesomer and – let’s face facts here, people – BETTER famine-ending tune, Do They Know It’s Christmas…until now.
What changed my mind, you ask? Well the song was just in the hands of the wrong people. See, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, and Bruce Springsteen are nice and all, but what We Are The World REALLY needed was for it to be performed by Asians who are dressed up to look like Jacko, The Boss, et. al. Complete with truly alarming makeup jobs:
In just a few short hours Mountain Jam kicks off what should be the first rain-free festival in the history of the event. (Jinx!) If you can’t make it up to Hunter Mountain you can still join in on the fun in one of three ways: Sirius will be simulcasting a performance each night, Rich Lieberman will be blogging live from the site and iClips will be broadcasting most of the sets starting at 12:45 this afternoon.
Let’s take another gander at the stories not big enough for a whole post, but you need to check out anyways since it’s Friday and you ain’t got shit to do:
“If you don’t have a ticket, you ain’t getting in tonight,” proclaimed the burly bouncer at the door of the sold out Bowery Ballroom last Saturday night.
Starting the evening off was the white-faced-but-naked-to-the-waist, duo of the Awesome New Republic. With their indie cover versions of Thriller and Eye of the Tiger, they held the crowd’s attention as they waited for the New Deal to appear. Finally with the lights going low Darren Shearer appeared on the stage and announced, “Thanks everyone for coming out tonight, you always make this place feel like home” and you knew something was about to go down.
For the first time since December ’06, Darren, Jamie Shields, and Dan Kurtz put aside their other projects and returned to the Bowery stage with their original livetronica sound. With quick hand gestures, subtle eye movements, and an uncanny ability to improv, The New Deal weaved the jams through a handful of songs and teases during their two sets. The crowd responded with yells of encouragement, fist pumping, and grinding to the beat, while shaking the dance floor and bar below.
READ ON for more of Jeremy’s review and photos from the Bowery Ballroom…
It looks like Trey Anastasio can’t wait until the Newport Folk Festival to get back on stage for his own gig for the first time in 17 months. Big Red will play an acoustic set at the Rothbury Festival on Sunday July 6. Here’s hoping he didn’t have to trade any of his testicles for the gig. Two other former members of Phish, Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman, were already on the impressive Rothbury lineup.
What was it about the Summer of 1993 that led a number of alternative bands to deliver the best single of their careers? Perhaps it was the musical climate of the times when you had MTV broadcasting both 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation, or the fact that nearly every major market had a rock radio station that propelled alt acts into the mainstream. Whatever the reason, that summer rocked.
R.E.M., The Replacements and The Cure opened the doors for crossover hits, but the Grunge movement led every major label A&R rep to try to find the next Pearl Jam. Fifteen years later alternative has turned into indie, and many of the bands that were big in ’93 are still drawing fans by playing the songs that broke them big that summer. This week’s B List takes a look at my favorite songs from the Summer of ’93. READ ON for 10 fantastic tunes from the likes of Primus, Cracker, the Juliana Hatfield 3, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and many more…
I’m going to leave it up to the snarky hipster blogs to pass judgment on Sonic Youth for releasing their new “greatest hits” album – Hits For Squares – exclusively at Starbucks stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. (as well as online).
Finally, with Bonnaroo less than a month away the rumors are already swirling about possible sit-ins that could take place on the multitude of stages in Manchester. The latest comes from Consequence of Sound who points to a recent Billboard article where Pearl Jam’s Mike McCreedy drops a hint that he’d love to have Jack White join them on stage during their Saturday night headlining set.
We thought just about every jam band besides Phish and Widespread Panic allowed fans to upload shows to the Live Music Archive, but that’s not the case. Another longtime holdout was the North Mississippi Allstars who finally relented last week, and gave their blessing for audio recordings of their shows to be uploaded and archived on the Live Music Archive. Tapers have already uploaded 18 shows with plenty more on the way. [via Here Comes The Flood]
Here’s a veritable bonanza of aural treats from a variety of singers and slingers:
While we’d probably like to forget we ever wasted what’s most likely added up to days watching stuff like the Numa Numa guy or the Leave Britney Alone dude (we still love leave Kang alone though) – the guys in Weezer seem to have a difference in a opinion on the topic.
For their first single off their third self-titled album – that sounds like a line right out of Spinal Tap – Rivers Cuomo and company have rounded up all your favorite viral video stars to help them out on Pork & Beans, check it out…
Leave it to Weezer to poke fun at viral videos, while making one of their own. The band’s Red Album will hit stores next Tuesday and as an added bonus today on HT we’re going to throw in their cover of The Band’s classic The Weight – which can only be found on the import version of the album – at no additional cost for your listening pleasure…
I was a bit frightened when I first heard about this, but got to say they pull it off.
