Every now and again, you come across a food product that is so good, somewhat unique, yet very simple in concept. Most recently that product for me has been the corn cookie at Momofuko Milk Bar.
Yes, Christina Tossi is extremely creative and a strong new presence on the city’s culinary scene. What she’s done with the soft serve at Milk Bar has been amazing. She recently ditched the sweets inspired flavors for fruit and herb inspired ones. The new flavors are lemon verbena, rosemary, blackberry, and apricot. I tasted all four last weekend and have to say the lemon verbana and rosemary are outstanding.
The one thing about the corn cookies is that are not made every day and sometimes sell out when they are in stock. If you can get there on a day they have them, get one. I haven’t let you down yet have I?
When Crowded House reunited in 2007 after a 12 year absence they made one of their first North American television appearances on Austin City Limits. Neil Finn and the boys ran through a number of their greatest hits and a few chestnuts off of their new-at-the-time album Time On Earth. PBS will air a repeat showing of Crowded House on Austin City Limits this weekend, so be sure to check your local listings for the exact time and station.
Friday, June 26 [all times Eastern]:
David Letterman: Regina Spektor [CBS 11:35PM]
Conan O’Brien: Adele [NBC 11:35PM]
Jimmy Kimmel: Phoenix [ABC Midnight]
Jimmy Fallon: Grizzly Bear [NBC 12:35AM]
Saturday, June 27:
Eric Clapton: At The Crossroads [Ovation 1PM]
Austin City Limits: Crowded House [PBS Check Local Listings]
Film: Let’s Spend The Night Together [Ovation 6PM]
As we’re sure you’ve heard by now, Michael Jackson passed away this afternoon after paramedics found him in a coma at his home near Los Angeles. We’d like to pay tribute to the “King of Pop” by re-running an old column from March 6, 2008 featuring jambands covering his songs…
You’ve probably heard the bad news by now, Michael Jackson is at risk of losing his Xanadu of weirdness, Neverland Ranch. Unless he can come up with a cool $24.5 million to avoid foreclosure, it’s so long to everyone’s favorite funny farm. Well, don’t fret folks. We’ve arranged a Michael Jackson tribute concert to help raise money to save Neverland Ranch.
This week’s edition of Bust Outs includes some of the best and brightest musicians we know paying homage to the King of Pop himself. We had no idea what we were getting into with this one, because we were quick to discover that the Neverland Ranch edition should probably be segmented into a 12 part mini-series, but regardless we’ve weeded it down into a single veritable powerhouse of Michael Jackson teases, jams, and full length covers. So, get out your tight black pants and dancing loafers, because this is undeniably the best Bust Outs yet.
Read on for Jacko covers from the likes of Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Santana, Phish, RAQ, The Biscuits, Miles Davis, PGroove and more…
Yesterday, word came down that the name of the new Phish album will be Joy. While the band announced the tracklist last night on Phish.com, we’re still awaiting our first look at the cover art for the new release. We figured we’d take a shot – as we did for Wilco’s Wilco (The Album) – by proposing five different images that would work well as the cover art.
Here’s what our resident artists came up with…
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[By Monk]
READ ON for four more potential album covers for Phish’s Joy…
The latest release on STS9′s 1320 Records label, Peaceblaster : The New Orleans Make It Right Remixes, features remixes of songs from the group’s 2008 release, Peaceblaster, from a veritable all-star team of artists including Pretty Lights, The Glitch Mob, Count Bass D, Richard Devine, Eskmo, Alex B., Ronald Jenkees and many more. This fantastic compilation is currently available at the label’s website and through iTunes with all proceeds going to the Make It Right Foundation, who has been chosen by the band to be the sole beneficiary of all of STS9′s 2009 charity programs.
In other news, the String Cheese Incident played what was billed as a “private show” in Denver last night at the Ogden Theatre. The group used the gig – which was their first performance in nearly two years – as a soundcheck of sorts for their upcoming appearance at the Rothbury Festival on July 4th weekend. Here’s a look at last night’s setlist…
Set 1: Lonesome Fiddle Blues, Lost, Rhum n’ Zouc, Just One Story, Whiskey for Breakfast, Jellyfish > Birdland > Johnny Cash > Birdland
Set 2: Rivertrance, Piece of Mine, MLT, Sometimes a River, Barstool, Black & White, Land’s End, Search
Encore: It Is What It Is
Encore 2: I Know You Rider [via Friends of Cheese]
Finally, former HT Blips artistViva brings her powerful blues-guitar chops to New York City’s Slipper Room tonight for an evening of Rock & Roll Burlesque. Viva will be joined by hula-hoop queen Miss Saturn for a crazy show featuring a 7-piece band playing live rock & roll music while three sexy burlesque dancers do their thing. For only $5 a ticket, this is quite a deal.
Here in the U.S., when we think about a summer music festival, we automatically think of multiple days, stages, camping and lineups of artists ranging from established to mega-star. The Fete de La Musique in Paris, which translates ever so creatively to, “The Festival of Music,” takes a completely different approach. Each year on the summer solstice (June 21st), musicians of all kinds inhabit virtually every nook and cranny of the City of Lights and transform the beautiful metropolis into one massive celebration.
What is so striking about the Fete de la Musique is not necessarily jaw-dropping exhibitions of music or big name draws, but rather, simply, the spirit the city takes on. From the early afternoon to the wee hours of the night, Paris pulses with energy as both natives and tourists from every country under the sun dance, drink, stroll and sing their way around the city as the musicians perform not on stage but in the midst of magnificent stone archways, outside the sidewalk cafes, at the foot of Notre Dame, in pubs, on the bridges of the Seine, in the courtyard of the Louvre and anywhere else where there is a plot of open air.
Interestingly, nearly all of the musicians are asked to perform for free and hence the entire festival is free. This means that across Paris and throughout France over 10,000 groups lay down their chops and try to win over passersbys – some succeeding, others failing miserably. READ ON…
Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring column featuring recordings of shows that took place the previous week. This is a special edition that exclusively features recordings from Bonnaroo captured the weekend of June 12th – 14th. Thanks to caymenreview for this week’s photos.
Artist & Title: Al Green – Let’s Stay Together Taper & Show Download:Jeff Hatcher
Al Green, 63, is still out there doing it and sounding great as he leads the Bonnaroo crowd through a great rendition of Let’s Stay Together. Green plays this Saturday at the Ottawa Jazz Festival.
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READ ON for nine more selected cuts from Bonnaroo 2009…
Earlier today, our friends at HeadCount announced that music journalist Richard Gehr has been named as the editor of their blog. Gehr has been covering Phish and other jambands for over 15 years at this point and in 1998 he co-authored The Phish Book along with the members of quartet.
The HeadCount Blog has really blossomed over the past few months thanks to an informative mix of content about both music and politics written by a long list of guest contributors and bloggers including Gehr, Diana Costello of the Listening Room, Andy Gadiel of JamBase and HeadCount executive director Andy Bernstein. Best of luck to the whole HeadCount Blog team and we look forward to seeing what they have in store for us.
A couple of months back, we told you about roots-jam-rockers Assembly Of Dust’s new guest-laden album Some Assembly Required which includes appearances from a who’s who of the jam scene. In anticipation of the album’s July 21 release the band is offering up select tracks from the album for free through July 14. All you need to do is head here, enter your email address and the songs are yours gratis, so what are you waiting for?
Finally, earlier this week Scotty shared a fantastic live performance from Brooklyn indie-rockers Dirty Projectors. Today, we have some unfortunate news to share as the band was involved in an accident with their van earlier this week when it flipped over traveling from Michigan to Toronto. According to a blog post on their MySpace page no one was seriously injured in the crash, but it did force the band to cancel of a couple of their Canadian tour stops. We wish the band a speedy recovery and a quick return to the stage.
Rolling Stone’s David Fricke discusses the new Phish album, which he reveals is titled Joy, with the band members in the latest issue of the magazine. Anastasio tells Fricke that Joy “feels more like a live record than a lot of our live records” and the teaser article on RS.com contains details on the new album including word that Kill Devil Falls, Stealing Time From the Faulty Line (?!?) and Time Moves (!?!) Elastic. CLICK HERE to read the teaser.
UPDATE [6:17PM]: Rolling Stone corrected the song titles
UPDATE [10PM]: Phish.com has been updated with the full track list for Joy.
1. Twenty Years Later
2. Backwards Down the Number Line
3. Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan
4. Light
5. Joy
6. Sugar Shack
7. Ocelot
8. Kill Devil Falls
9. I’ve Been Around
10. Time Turns Elastic
One of the most recent uploads to the God Street Wine collection on the Live Music Archive brought back some bad memories for me. I’m talking about a show from March 10th, 1995 at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. I was 17 at the time and the Stone Pony was an 18 and over venue. Though I tried to get in, my fake ID – which was the kind you buy at flea market for $10 – didn’t come close to fooling any of the doormen.
[Photo by Michael Weiss]
I missed out on the show that night while the rest of my friends danced the night away all because they were a few months older than me. While it wasn’t much consolation, I did find a nice crack in the door and was able to hear the show out on the sidewalk. They opened with a blazing Wendy and kept the energy high throughout the first set with a frisky Twitchin’, the power-pop majesty of Nightengale and a nasty Gretchen that came out of the tender as fuck Bring Back The News.
Early ’95 was one of my favorite periods of the band’s music as they were loading each set with classic jam song upon classic jam song before some of the more song-oriented Red material entered the repertoire later that year. I wore out two copies of my buddy Gus’ recording of the show, so it’s nice that we all can download/stream this crispy soundboard recording now. The energy didn’t fade through the second set with a Dig A Pony / I’ve Got A Feeling combo anchor and on into the two song encore that included a cover of Elvis Presley’s Love Me Tender. This show sounds so much better through my headphones than through the crack of a door.
Note: God Street Wednesdays will run every other Wednesday from now on.
We also wanted to hip you to Andy Gadiel’s fantastic summary of all the Phish 3.0 coverage from the band’s just-completed tour over at the HeadCount blog. Considering Andy’s Phish Page was the home page on our browsers for a good ten years, we’re honored to have made his list. If you haven’t been keeping up with the HeadCount blog lately, you’re missing out.
Finally, one of our contributors, Alex Borsody, has taken over the long-dormant Partyin’ Peeps blog from another one of our contributors, Reuben Schy. Alex already has published a few posts at Peeps including a review of a private U-Melt show in Brooklyn. Best of luck to Alex.
along with the members of quartet.
which includes appearances from a who’s who of the jam scene. In anticipation of the album’s July 21 release the band is offering up select tracks from the album for free through July 14. All you need to do is 
