If you’re like me and biffed the onsale for Steven Malkmus’s previously announced NYC gigs at Bowery Ballroom and the Music Hall of Williamsburg, you’ll get one more chance later today. Tickets go on sale at noon for Malkmus and The Jicks’ newly added April Fools’ Day concert at the Bowery Ballroom. Malkmus hits many other big markets in the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast for his two-week jaunt supporting the March 4th release of Real Emotional Trash.
Let’s kill some time until those ducats go on sale by indulging in some linkage:
Finally, a group of Zappa fans have teamed up to write a petition asking the Zappa Family Trust to stop threatening fan sites and tribute bands with litigation. For more about Gail Zappa’s evil ways, read MP3 Boot Camp: Zappa Sues ‘em All [via Here Comes The Flood]
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Scott Bernstein on
01.11.2008 |
Avett Bros.,
Bruce Hornsby,
Festivals,
Jackie Greene,
Led Zeppelin,
Leftovers,
Live Nation,
Marco Benevento,
Phil Lesh,
The Black Crowes,
Umphrey's McGee
Rolling Stone’s David Fricke sat down with John Paul Jones for an exclusive interview about Led Zeppelin’s reunion show. The big news out of the article is that the members of the band are gonna meet later this month to discuss the future. Is there any chance in hell this reunion tour doesn’t happen?
Jones only offers lukewarm praise for Jason Bonham’s efforts on the drums, which only further fuels speculation of a new drummer coming on board for the tour. So read that, and then let’s end the week with some heady, heady linkage:
Finally, let’s end the week with a brand spanking new video — check out The Avett Brothers’ Paranoia In B Flat Major, courtesy of the folks at Spinner.
With Peter Frampton, Jackson Browne, Bruce Hornsby and Bernie Worrell taking a lead role at Warren Haynes’ 19th Annual Xmas Jam in lovely Ashevegas, we were a bit unsure whether this year’s charity proceeds would be headed for the Habitat for Humanity coffers as usual or whether they’d already been spent on gallons of prune juice and Oops I Crapped My Pants for the green room.
But our man on the scene tells us the aging rockers brought their best, and combined with Grace Potter, G. Love, Jerry Joseph, Eric McFadden and the most excellent host, the Xmas Jam didn’t disappoint in the slightest.
The hometown Citizen Times has provided plenty of videos and pictures in its yearly wrap-up and in a special Smasheville section, and you can already download most of the concert (see below), but we asked frequent HT commenter and first-time contributor Frank Sturges to put a bow on the Xmas Jam proceedings, and he and his crew gave out the following awards at a ceremony that took place at the Waldorf Astoria earlier today.
Set of the night: Peter Frampton
The joke’s easy, but Frampton really came alive. We got some Humble Pie, a blues jam with Warren, a Motown tune, and most importantly, the sickest one-two punch I’ve ever seen at an Xmas Jam to close the set. A huge Do You Feel Like We Do followed by While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Read on for more awards, photos, setlists and downloads from Xmas Jam…
Our Grousing The Aisles columns usually employ a common thread or theme among all of the recordings featured each week. This column is, however, not one of those times. I can’t think of anything that ties together the four awesome shows below, so let’s just call this column The Mix-Up, in honor of the Beastie Boys’ latest album. And wouldn’t you know it, look who’s leading off…
Beastie Boys 07/14/2007 FM [FLAC, MP3]:
It seems like everyone who’s seen the Beastie Boys play this summer has emerged from the show raving about the band’s stellar performance. You can count me in that group as well, as the Beasties impressed the hell out of me a few weeks back at Central Park’s SummerStage (and Ace, too). A couple of meh-sounding audience recordings of their tour have popped up over the past few weeks, but yesterday I came across a crispy-as-fuck (CAF) radio broadcast of the Beasties’ set from the Nuke Festival in Austria. Jackpot!
The B-Boys set from Austria combines the best instrumentals from The Mix-Up with a slew of greatest hits. Mix Master Mike starts the show off with a solo that slowly evolves into Triple Trouble. The meat of the set is the sequence of Shake Your Rump, Gratitude, The Biz vs. The Nuge and Time For Livin’. Some of the other highlights include Body Movin’, Pass The Mic and Brass The Monkey. Off The Grid and The Gala Event were the best of the new tunes played at the Nuke. Hopefully the Beastie Boys will release a live album from this tour, but until then, this show will get plenty of play on my iPod.
Read on after the jump for three more great downloads in this week’s GTA…
As you can probably tell, we pay infinitely more attention to live music than studio work. We aren’t the ones that get all excited for a release date of a new album, but this week’s batch of releases is absolutely mindblowing.
The return of both Crowded House and Smashing Pumpkins is just the tip of the iceberg. Interpol and Spoon, both among my favorite indie bands, also released killer new discs yesterday. And, finally, our boy Patton Oswalt dropped Werewolves and Lollipops, his first disc of comedy for Sub Pop. Now compare that batch of all-star releases to next week’s, when the new Suzanne Vega, Rooney and Yellowcard albums bring us right back to the usual batch of bullshit.
And finally, make sure to check out some new (old) tracks from Big Red — one song from The Horseshoe Curve and one song from the The Lucius Beebe EP have been added to Trey Anastasio’s MySpace. This ain’t the shit you love to hate, this shit is the shit. Get on over there and remember the 10-piece.
Written by
Scott Bernstein on
06.29.2007 |
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…
I’ve had a real hankering for the keys since Monday night’s Page McConnell show at the Irving Fillmore Plaza, so today I thought we’d spend a little time with some of the best to ever sit down in front of the piano, courtesy of SugarMegs…
That’s 352 keys worth of awesomeness right there…stream away, folks.
Lollapalooza brings some big acts to Chicago every year, but does the festival wield a double-edged sword? Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jim DeRogatis takes a look at how performers signing Lollapalooza’s exclusive contracts actually hurts the city’s sheds. Also, buried within this piece is the news that Jam Productions plans to open a new venue in Hoffman Estates next summer.
Let’s check in on some other news and interesting links on the world wide web:
- Arcade Fire owned Chicago this weekend
- Roger Daltrey is not a fan of the upcoming Live Earth concerts
- Good news: Levon’s ready to travel!
- Passion of the Weiss lists the 10 bands he’s most excited to see at Bonnaroo (girls in sun dresses do not count, Jeff)
- Classic Rock bootleg time: Rush - 1978, Journey - 1986, Nirvana - Various, and Tom Petty - 1980
- Stewart Copeland has high hopes for The Police’s reunion tour, which kicks off on Sunday
- Lady Sovereign lost it during her concert at Studio B on Friday night
- Bruce Hornsby takes a new path
- The NY Post looks at reunions that aren’t
- It’s Mule Monday over at Rock Music Daily
- Adrian Belew blogs about recording Paul Simon’s Graceland
- A new podcast of Widespread Panic tunes from the EC crew
- Rochester’s Party in the Park and Buffalo’s Thursdays at the Square are two amazing free concert series that just released their summer lineups
- M. Ward played Chinese Translation on Conan last week with fellow beloved indie heroes Neko Case, MMJ’s Jim James, Kelly Hogan, Mike Coykendall, Than Luu, & Adam Selzer
- Neddy presents the concerts of the week
As is our Monday custom, let’s take a look at some setlists from the weekend, including but not limited to Arcade Fire in Chicago, Steely Dan, Brock Butler, Tool, Damien Rice, Disco Biscuits, The Sea & Cake, ZZ Top and many more…
Instead of outsourcing this end-of-the-week department to cheaper Indian or Chinse laborers, I’ve decided to take another stab at it myself. This week’s blends together some of the least eclectic tunes you’ll find in this space, but I’ve been cleaning out random music files from my the hard drive of my work computer, and these six jumped out at me as must-shares (somehow I’ve also amassed three great Suskind Hotels in a file called, you guess it, “Suskind Hotels”).
None of these downloads require any fancy introduction or unzipping technology, so just click on each link below and enjoy your pebbles.
That Overkill is truly awesome…you may want to listen to that, like, right now.
One of us hit the first night of the Allmans’ 94-show Beacon run and one of us practiced, practiced, practiced up to Carnegie Hall for Gilberto Gil’s show last night. We’re tired monkeys today, so pour these links into your morning coffee:
A Guitar Hero robot? That just may be the coolest thing we’ve ever heard.
