Our new favorite psychedelic-country-rock band These United States have captured the early ’90s, DIY-spirit reminiscent of Beastie Boys clips for their new video. Here’s The Important Thing…
These United States – The Important Thing
These United States wrap up their current fall tour with Miles Benjamin Anthony tonight with a show at New York City’s Mercury Lounge.
As we head into winter, one thing that should get you through the cold weather ahead is the thought that summer music festival season is right around the corner. To help get your head in place, here’s the announcement of the dates & early-bird tickets for the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.
Now in its ninth year, Bonnaroo 2010 will take place from June 10-13 with organizers offering special holiday-rate pre-sale tickets & five-part payment plan with installments of $50 each, which will be available beginning 11/27.
Finally, the always busy Jack White continues his string of projects that makes us consider the theory that he may be a robot like Vicki from Small Wonder. Up next for the White Stripes-Raconteurs-Dead Weather member will be working with rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson – who was a fan of his production work with Loretta Lynn on Van Lear Rose
This week’s edition of the “world’s only rock ‘n roll talk show” - Sound Opinions – features a rather interesting discussion on prog-rock. Sure the genre is loaded with bloated double and triple albums, but there’s plenty worth listening to. Let’s check out Yes live with I’ve Seen All Good People…
Singer-songwriters James Taylor and Carole King share a unique bond, as King made her first public performance with Taylor some 40 years ago at LA’s famed venue the Troubadour. The multi-platinum selling duo will share the stage once again as they will embark on a world tour dubbed the Troubadour Reunion which is set to kick off in Melbourne, Australia in late March 2010.
If your not into a night with these two singer-songwriters, than maybe you’ll be interested in hitting one of these recently announced tours…
Finally, several weeks back we gave you the skinny on a number of Post-MSG Phish shows going on around Manhattan. Well, we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you about the ones going down just across the East River at Brooklyn Bowl. Over the course of the three night run the Everyone Orchestra will hold down the fort on December 2 and 3, while Motion Potion will keep you dancing into the wee hours on the night on 4th.
Over the summer, we revealed the details surrounding Norah Jones’ fourth studio album The Fall.
In addition to her longtime collaborator Jesse Harris, both Ryan Adams and Okkervil River front man Will Sheff received songwriting credits on the album – which is said to have more of a rock feel than her previous jazz-influenced work. Check out the video for the album’s first single, Chasing Pirates…
As we previously reported, during their swing through California earlier this summer Wilco stopped by Beck’s recording studio to lend a hand to his Record Club project – which has already featured albums by The Velvet Underground and Leonard Cohen. For the third installment, the combo took on Skip Spence’s cult masterpiece Oar. Here’s Beck, Wilco and the lovely Leslie Feist with the album’s opening track, Little Hands…
Buddy Holly was only 23 when his life was tragically taken – along with Richie Valens and The Big Bopper – in a plane crash. Holly’s brief recording career lasted only a year and a half, but his influence on early rock ‘n roll and beyond was profound. Let’s check out what they could do in just a 1:22…
While My Morning Jacket continue their extended hiatus, they did manage an animated reunion. The Southern Rockers will be featured prominently in an upcoming episode of Fox’s American Dad entitled My Morning Straightjacket, where lead character Stan Smith becomes a groupie. The show’s co-creator got the idea during MMJ’s now legendary performance at Bonnaroo ‘08 and has gone on to dub them “American Dad’s official band.”
The episode will air Sunday, Nov. 22 at 9:30PM ET and will feature six songs from The Jacket, which will be packaged with outtakes from the episode for a special digital EP to be make available on iTunes.
Finally, ever since Janet Jackson’s boob was exposed in 2004’s debacle, the NFL has avoided any sort of edgy, modern acts as contenders to perform at halftime during the Super Bowl. The past few years have featured the likes of Macca, The Boss and The Rolling Stones all taking the stage for truncated greatest hits sets. This year will be no different as Sports Illustrated is reporting that The Who will entertain the Super Bowl XLIV crowd at Landshark Stadium in Miami and the millions watching at home on Feb. 7.
Originally, the purpose for The Midnight Rambles at Levon Helm’s Woodstock home-recording studio – otherwise referred to as The Barn – was to serve as a way for the legendary drummer of The Band to recoup money from his mounting medical bills after battling and overcoming throat cancer. Helm’s iconic and unmistakable voice was down to barely a raspy whisper after radiation treatments which forced him into resting his vocal chords.
While he had to rely on his capable band to provide the vocals, Helm was able to return to his signature perch behind his drum kit for what must have provided a cathartic release till he was ultimately able to sing again. Over the years the legend of the Rambles have grown, with everyone from Elvis Costello to Dr. John to Donald Fagen to former bandmate Garth Hudson showing up and sitting in with Levon.
When an invite was extended to head upstate to take in a night at The Barn, as a monster fan of The Band I was salivating at the opportunity to see Levon in such an intimate and undeniably unique setting. Since I couldn’t make it out to Indio for Festival 8, a Halloween Midnight Ramble was the next logical choice. Pulling into the sleepy town of Woodstock in the late afternoon on an overcast and rainy late fall day, we were greeted to a full-on Halloween parade by the locals in the streets of the small downtown area that helped to set the tone and atmosphere for the rest of the evening.
READ ON for more of Jeff’s All Hallow’s Eve experience…
Yesterday, the iconic children’s show Sesame Street celebrated its 40th anniversary of helping kids learn how to read, spell and count, along with general life lessons. The show has had its fair share of hip musical guests over the years from Stevie Wonder to Paul Simon to Johnny Cash to Norah Jones. Let’s check out Leslie Feist’s appearance on Sesame Street…
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