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Austin City Limits 2011 Rumors, Speculation, Wishes, Etc.

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:25:00 +0000

The 10th Annual Austin City Limits Festival is Sept. 16-18 in Zilker Park. With Lolla celebrating it's 20th Anniversary a month earlier and Bonnaroo turning 10 in June, this year all the festivals are blowing out the candles and hopefully engaging in a game of one-upmanship with their respective lineups. The 20th Anniversary Lolla lineup doesn't exactly blow me away so let's hope C3 is just saving it for Austin this year, Last year's headliners included Phish, Muse and The Eagles. Please share your rumors, speculation and wishes in the comments section.

Rumored/Speculatory
Paul Simon (Hangout Fest headliner)
My Morning Jacket (Hangout, High Sierra, Bonnaroo, Lolla...ACL?)
Cee Lo (Confirmed)
Arcade Fire (Coachella, Jazz Fest, Bonnaroo...ACL? - Haven't played since '07 - Rumored on Consequence of Sound)
Kanye West
Wilco (Seems like a shoe-in with a new album in September)
David Bowie (rumored, but wishful thinking at this point)
Beastie Boys (Hot Sauce out, cancelled appearance in '09)
Buffalo Springfield/Neil Young
The String Cheese Incident
Ween
Bright Eyes
TV on The Radio
Soundgarden (headlined Lollapalooza 2010)
Robert Plant
Arctic Monkeys (Lolla '09/'11)
Kaiser Chiefs
Titus Andronicus
White Lies
Beirut
Flogging Molly
Big Audio Dynamite
Lucinda Williams
Death From Above 1979 (Lolla '11)
A Perfect Circle (Lolla '11)
John Prine
Gregg Allman
Pretty Lights
Amos Lee
She & Him
Delorean
North Mississippi All-Stars
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses
Fitz & The Tantrums
Futurebirds
Justin Townes Earle
Smith Westerns
T Bird and the Breaks
Reptar
Lance Herbstrong

http://www.aclfestival.com/

Phish - First Tube (Finale)

Lollapalooza 2011 Lineup - Coldplay, MMJ, Muse, Foo Fighters

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:46:00 +0000

Lolla is no longer a teen. The 20th Anniversary edition will feature Coldplay, Eminem, Foo Fighters, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Cee Lo Green, A Perfect Circle, Girl Talk

Also on the bill - Bright Eyes, The Cars, Big Audio Dynamite, Ween, Arctic Monkeys, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley and Nas, Explosions in the Sky, Death From Above 1979, Deftones, Beirut, Flogging Molly, OK Go, The Kills, and Cold War Kids.

Some of the indie bands in the mix include The Mountain Goats, Atmosphere, Titus Andronicus, Ratatat, Best Coast, Crystal Castles, White Lies, Lykke Li, Local Natives, Black Lips, Delta Spirit, Sleigh Bells, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Wye Oak, The Drums, Smith Westerns, The Naked and Famous, Phantogram, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., The Joy Formidable, and Cults.

Finally, Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump, Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Cage the Elephant, Rival Schools, The Chain Gang of 1974, Friendly Fires, Portugal. The Man, Two Door Cinema Club, Noah & The Whale, Lissie, Foster the People, Mayer Hawthorne & the County, Fences, City and Colour, and Gold Motel are also confirmed.

This year’s edition will also feature an expansion of Perry’s Place, the festival’s electronic-oriented stage. Designed to accommodate a crowd of 15,000, the area will host the likes of Girl Talk, Kid Cudi, Pretty Lights, Skrillex, The Glitch Mob, Jay Electronica, Modeselektor, Daedulus, Feed Me, Busy P, and Joachim Garraud.

Three day and VIP passes are priced at $215.00 and $850.00, respectively, and are now available via the festival’s website.

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Consequence of Sound

Lollapalooza 2011 Lineup Rumors, Confirmations, Speculation

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:22:00 +0000

According to Chicago Tribune Music Insider and long-time Lolla scenester Greg Kot, folks can expect to see Foo Fighters, Eminem and Muse [confirmed again today 4/5/11 on Twitter] headlining in Grant Park come August. Also, he added that Best Coast, Girl Talk, Crystal Castles, Lykke Li will be there as well. As Lolla is a three-day festival featuring dualing headliners on opposite sides of the park, three more headlining acts will be included in addition to these rumored confirmations. Gonna need a lot more than those three to get me back up to Chicago for this year's festival (not to knock Eminem or Muse, both of which played great headlining shows at the Voodoo Experience in 2009 and 2010 respectively). Been dying to return since 2009 and I expect for the 20th Anniversary there will be (as usual), a few headlining acts that were around when the festival first got it's legs. Also, with both releasing their own albums and a collaboration this year, perhaps Kanye West is a possibility to also land on the bill this summer. The official, confirmed, non-speculatory lineup will be released in April.

Other bands rumored --
A Perfect Circle
Cee-Lo
Glitch Mob
Decemberists
Ra Ra Riot
Foster the People
Panda Bear
Fistful of Mercy
Justin Townes Earle
Oh Land (Confirmed)
Deftones
Delta Spirit (Clue - Long Beach band that plays Trashcans (and a song called "Trashcan")
Death From Above 1979
Best Coast
Kid Cudi
Lykke Li
Titus Andronicus
~~The Flaming Lips~~? (appeared at Lolla Chile - Highly unlikely)
Weezer
Cold Cave
Flogging Molly
The Kills
Lance Herbstrong
Rubik

If you have any ideas, speculation, wishes, feel free to share in the comments section.

Who is the reported "electronic headliner"? [See poll to the right] -->

The Prodigy????
Daft Punk
Chemical Brothers

Take a look at the inaugural Lollapalooza Chile lineup here

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2011 Jazz Fest Late Night Schedule

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:22:00 +0000

Live Music Blog: NOLA

Thursday, April 28th

For the rest of the late night schedule, go here.

My Morning Jacket - Holdin' On To Black Metal - Rock and Roll's First Stab at 60's Thai Pop Soul

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:17:00 +0000

Click here to listen to the 2nd song to be released from the forthcoming 6th LP Circuital from My Morning Jacket. Got a feeling this one is gonna be a monster live.

Here's the tune that it reinterprets. Just further proof that no matter how much music you listen to, Yim Yames probably listens to more. Just when you think everything's been done in rock music, a new wormhole is opened. LET'S ROCK.

I like it even more now.

From SPIN

Ubon Pattana were an obscure Thai group that emerged in the late-'60s, and their music mixed the far-out adventurousness of American psych with traditional Thai instruments like the khaen and lyrics sung in their native language. James jokes that he first heard them in 1970 — he was born in 1978 — so allow the man a little narrative freedom as he talks about this long-forgotten band:

"It's 1970. I am in Thailand on a business trip. The plane got in late and after I check into the hotel I find my way into a little corner bar for a drink. As I sip my cocktail and slink down into my booth, the music overtakes me and I know I am in the presence of greatness: This band, Ubon Pattana, three or four kids sunk behind their instruments with big coats and sunglasses on, are just laying down the thickest groove, like they are deeply stoned or half asleep, lost in a highly functional trance.

"And this girl, the sign says her name is Angkana Khunchai...I can't understand what she is singing, but she is in some kind of real pain and she is just fucking laying it down for everybody, hunched over, holding all her weight up with the mic just wailing. And her sounds that I cannot understand turn into words I'd been thinking about anyway, tossing and turning hopes and fears like we all do, things I've been trying to figure out but just haven't been able to. And now I'm trying to process it all here in Thailand, to find a way to make it all make sense before I have to return home again. And I look up from my reverie and tears are rolling down her cheeks, out from under her sunglasses, and mine are falling onto my pink umbrella, rolling off into some drink I know ill never be able to finish."

Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg (VIDEO) - Superman

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:45:00 +0000

A nice slow blues ramble with no rap and of course, (for any video involving Snoop and Willie) lots of marijuana.

The Strokes Play New Song "Games" on Conan

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:59:00 +0000

For more on The Strokes and Jazz Fest, go here.

Jazz Fest 2011 Late Night Schedule

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:48:00 +0000

TVOTR Bassist Gerard Smith Passes Away at Age of 34

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:52:00 +0000

Gerard Smith, the bassist for TV on the Radio, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer at the age of 34. The band announced in recent weeks that Smith has been battling lung cancer and would not be touring with the band in support of their new album, Nine Types of Light. Here is what the band had to say today on their web site:

We are very sad to announce the death of our beloved friend and bandmate, Gerard Smith, following a courageous fight against lung cancer. Gerard passed away the morning of April 20th, 2011. We will miss him terribly.

The following TVOTR dates have been canceled:

04/20/11 Wed St. Andrews Hall Detroit, MI
04/22/11 Fri Metro Chicago, IL
04/23/11 Sat First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
04/24/11 Sun First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
04/26/11 Tue Ogden Theatre Denver, CO

R.I.P.

Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV Album Cover ??

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:50:00 +0000

Please let this be the one. Don't see how it could be anything else.

My Morning Jacket - Octoplasm

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:50:00 +0000

On the heels of last Tuesday's release of the title track to the forthcoming My Morning Jacket album Circuital (Out 5/31 - ATO Records), MMJ released "Octoplasm", a Miles Davis-meets-Grateful Dead freeform jazzercise from way out in leftfield. Completely different from anything the band has released to this point and accompanied with a message revealing that there is plenty more unexpected weirdness to come from this Roll Call series.

Listen to Octoplasm:

“My Morning Jacket would like to welcome all those who join the new MMJ Roll Call fan club into their much talked about and highly controversial “Self-Hypnosis Series” as well. The Self-Hypnosis Series will begin an exploration into the core of each individual heart, mind, body, and soul that joins the Roll Call fan club.

Based on a desire to help each individual fan reach a state of emotional bliss, a new algorithm was recently developed at Removador HQ. It can sense listeners temperature and emotional climate at the time of listening-thru any listening device, be it speakers or headphones, and cater a listening experience truly unique for each listener.

MMJ will carefully handcraft and carve pieces of music that will provide a vehicle for the listener to enter a new gateway of self exploration and understanding based on their current state of mind at the time of each listen. The Self-Hypnosis Series will start with a piece entitled “Octoplasm” which will be available via download immediately upon joining Roll Call. New titles in the Self-Hypnosis series will appear randomly, or on a strict schedule and will be available only to Roll Call members. We hope you are to enjoy!”

Glastonbury 2011 Lineup Revealed

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:13:00 +0000

Mumford & Sons -- Appearing at this year's festival

The official lineup for this year's Glastonbury Festival has been revealed. Set for June 22-26 on Worthy Farm. U2 on Friday, Coldplay on Saturday, and Beyoncé on Sunday. Check out some of the other confirmed acts below and click here for day by day and stage breakdowns, as well as the complete lineup.

LINEUP
U2
Coldplay
Beyonce
Paul Simon
Morrissey
Biffy Clyro
B.B. King
Wu-Tang Clan
Elbow
Don McLean
Laura Marling
The Low Anthem
Primal Scream
Big Audio Dynamite
Pendulum
Mumford and Sons
Fleet Foxes
The Kills
The Wombats
Tame Impala
Bright Eyes
The Chemical Brothers
Queens of the Stone Age
Kaiser Chiefs
Jenny & Johnny
Jimmy Eat World
Warpaint
Pretty Lights
James Blake
Little Dragon
Battles
The Eels
TV on the Radio
Jah Wobble
Cold War Kids
The Vaccines
Cee-Lo Green
Jimmy Cliff
Big Boi
Janelle Monae
OK Go
Aloe Blacc
Kool & The Gang
Hercules and Love Affair
Cults
Mirrors
Robyn Hitchcock
DJ Shadow
Cage the Elephant
The Streets
Lykke Li
Robyn
Crystal Castles
Caribou
Fatboy Slim
Carl Cox
Pete Tong
Steve Lawler
Ke$ha
Beardyman
John Digweed
Lee Scratch Perry
Asian Dub Foundation
Don Letts

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Bonnaroo 2011 Cafe Artist Lineup Additions

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:46:00 +0000

The Beautiful Girls-Mat McHugh Solo & Acoustic

The Black Box Revelation

Bobby Long

Cheer Up Charlie Daniels

Chancellor Warhol

Chris Harford and the Band of Changes

Civil Twilight

Cory Chisel & the Wandering Sons

Cristina Black

The David Mayfield Parade

J. Roddy Walston & The Business

The Parkington Sisters

The Pimps of Joytime

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

River City Extension

Rotary Downs

Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside

Good stuff on here. Rotary Downs! JEFF the Brotherhood! Pimps of Joytime!

The Bonnaroo lineup is complete (until someone drops out and needs to be replaced).

Next up: SET TIMES

Coachella 2011 Webcast Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:59:00 +0000

The Shins Added To Outside Lands Lineup

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:41:00 +0000

Tickets for the festival go on-sale tomorrow at 12 p.m. PST. For more information about this festival, go here. Also, Lord Huron has been added to the lineup, a great new band still yet to release a full-length album. You can listen to both of their EP's here. This is the Shins first performance in over a year.

Post about The Meters appearance at Outside Lands from earlier this week.

Relix - Features - Photos - Fan Photo Gallery: Furthur, Dap-Kings, Radiators, David Gans, Josh Ritter

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:40:00 +0000

Relix - Features - Photos - Fan Photo Gallery: Furthur, Dap-Kings, Radiators, David Gans, Josh Ritter

Artist of the Month: Generationals

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:51:00 +0000

This post originally appears on Live Music Blog: NOLA - Facebook - Twitter

This month local indie rock duo the Generationals are the LMB NOLA Artist of the Month. With their new album Actor Caster out now on Park The Van Records (for starters, check "Yours Forever", "Greenleaf" (below) and "Please Be It"), a lengthy tour getting kicked off this week and a stop in New Orleans for the final day at Jazz Fest, the buzz is growing louder for these guys. The Generationals are New Orleans' response to internationally-renowned electro-infused indie pop bands like Peter Bjorn & John and MGMT. The indie rockers are in rare company around these parts as purveyors of radio-ready sunny afternoon pop tunes more catered towards the college radio dial and tastemaking outlets like Pitchfork, Stereogum and Paste than just about any other local act.

The band is currently out on two-month tour in support of the new record alongside Ra Ra Riot, Oh No Oh My and Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr at varying legs of the tour. Also, the Generationals are making an appearance at Jazz Fest on the festival's final day (May 8) on the Lagniappe Stage from 3:10-4:10. To download two of the band's new tracks, enter your e-mail address below. Check out the interview with Grant and Ted below where they discuss the genesis of the band name, their label Park the Van, influences and a memorable childhood trip to Jazz Fest.

Live Music Blog: NOLA - Generationals is a pretty stellar name, it carries a certain majesty and importance to it - how did you guys come up with the band name and please also answer the following: The Generationals are the _________ [Fill in the blank] of our generation.

Grant: Most epic appreciators of BBQ.

Ted: We were recording our first record Con Law in Washington D.C. over the Summer of 2008. It was the Summer before the presidential election and you would hear the word "generational" alot in the news coverage of the election, in the context of issues being split down generational lines. Grant just had the idea to pluralize it and I was like O.K. sure, lets be Generationals.

More after the Jump

Tell me about the genesis of the band, I understand you guys were in a different band together before deciding to form the Generationals. How has your sound evolved from the days in Eames Era?

Ted: Yeah we went to school in Baton Rouge and started a band up there. I'd say our sound evolved pretty steadily and maybe logically. We never consciously moved in any new direction, we've always just tried to write short good pop songs.

Excuse the personal anecdote -- After spending 6 years in Nashville myself, New Orleans, if it has one musical depravity, is a lack of platforms for bands in the nebulous "indie rock" milieu compared to other markets of a similar size. Seems to be changing with things like Foburg Fest and places like Republic, but New Orleans to me still gravitates largely towards the more traditional jam and roots bands. Do you guys see this as an advantage being in such rare company as opposed to being one of 1000 indie bands in another city (as opposed to if you were out of Austin or Brooklyn)?

Grant: I definitely do not see it as an advantage. You want to be surrounded by other people and bands who are working in a similar genre because it forces you to try harder. We've been in situations like that before with a few other bands where we really felt like we needed to step it up to be the better band. I think that kind of competitiveness really pushes everyone to be better, that's how music scenes start I think. I think being kind of an anomaly in New Orleans helped us get some attention in New Orleans, but in the long run, I think it's better to have to compete to distinguish yourself from a really crowded field. But I love New Orleans, we're from New Orleans so it's not something we ever thought about strategically anyway. It's our hometown.

Three bands and/or albums you've been listening to recently.

Telekinesis- 12 Desperate Straight Lines, Nick Lowe- Labor of Lust, Floating Action- Desert Etiquette

Your tour passes through New Orleans for an appearance at the final day of Jazz Fest so the big question is:
Neville Brothers or Radiators?

Grant: Neville Brothers 1000%. Their impact on New Orleans is so huge. Those guys are the Mount Rushmore of New Orleans music, especially Art.

What's your favorite Jazz Fest memory as a fan? As a performer?

Grant: This is an easy one for me. I was about 9 or 10, my dad took me to Jazz Fest to see Van Morrison and we were both pretty excited, we are both bigtime fans. We're standing in one of those gigantic crowds of like 10,000 people in front of the Ray Ban stage, at the time that was the big stage that the headliners played. We were waiting for what seemed like a couple of hours and the crowd started to get a little restless. There was a group of about 5 college-age guys right in front of us, they were not trying to wait anymore. And they were staggeringly drunk, they could barely stand up. They started yelling at the stage "Come onnn! Van Mingo Mungo! Lingo Van Mungo! Lingo Van Mungo!!" They just kept doing it incessantly for like 30 minutes and my dad and I are directly behind them in this giant crowd, nowhere to move. It went from being really funny to being annoying and then finally just unbearable. Finally Van came out but these dudes were still hollering at full volume. We couldn't take it so we ended up leaving after only one or two songs. To this day my dad and I yell "Lingo Van Mungo" at each other at random times.

How did you guys end up getting on Park the Van?

Grant: We made our first record and had no idea what we were going to do with it. We had just gotten it back from mastering and literally later that same day, I went with my friend to a bar called Mid City Yacht Club which is a dive in Mid City not far from where Chris Watson, the president of PTV, lives. I knew what he looked like because I had seen his picture in a magazine article or something. I just introduced myself to him, we had some mutual friends, like The Spinto Band. We talked for a minute and I went out to the car and got the CD of Con Law and gave it to him. They immediately signed us to a $1 billion* record deal.

*false

Two Parts -- What are some of your biggest influences -- a. modern and b. older acts (bands still together and older bands)?

For Actor-Caster, I would cite The Zombies, The The, ELO, Tom Petty.

Current bands we like include Hacienda, Dr. Dog, The Walkmen, The Spinto Band, Ghostfinger, Phoenix, Passion Pit, MGMT, Floating Action, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Telekinesis.

Tell us about the recording process for Actor-Caster.

Grant: It was cool. We went back to DC which is where we recorded Con Law. We worked with Dan Black who has a cool studio there that we like. We recorded the entire month of July last summer. It was excruciatingly hot, we rarely left the house. We just hacked away at it, a little bit a day almost every day for that month and that was it. For that reason I think the lyrical ideas are a little more consistent from song to song.

Bonus Question - Your label mates Dr. Dog are god's gift to modern rock music, any stories to tell about playing/hanging out with those guys?

Grant: Those dudes are cool. Their original drummer, Juston Stens, has been playing with us a lot this year and he is a really interesting guy and a terrific drummer. He is an idea machine. The other guys we don't know really well. We opened for them once in New Orleans and they seemed like nice guys. I'm a fan too, I've probably seen them 5 times. I remember meeting them, we were always really impressed with their vocals. We are way behind in that respect, we are still kind of learning how to sing correctly, so we had all these ideas and theories about what we should be doing to get our voices ready for a show. Tea with lemon, honey, gargle water, whatever. I remember we asked them "What do you guys do, what's your routine to get your voice ready to sing?" They looked at us like idiots, they were like "We don't do anything we just sing." Then they proceeded to chainsmoke like 50 cigarettes. We were like "Oh."

Finally, check out the Generationals' Spring Tour Dates below

April 11 Holland, MI @ Hope College with Ra Ra Riot
April 13 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall with Ra Ra Riot
April 14 Madison, WI @ Majestic Theater with Ra Ra Riot
April 27 Little Rock, AR @ Stickyz Fingerz Chicken Shack
April 28 Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre
April 29 Iowa City, IA @ Gabe's Oasis
April 30 Madison, WI @ Der Rathskeller
May 1 Hamtramck, MI @ Small's Bar with Oh No Oh My
May 2 Newport, KY @ Southgate House with Oh No Oh My
May 3 Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop
May 4 St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway with Oh No Oh My
May 5 Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall with Oh No Oh My
May 6 Norman, OK @ Opolis with Oh No Oh My
May 7 Austin, TX @ Emo's with Oh No Oh My
May 8 New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 11 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 12 Brooklyn, NY @ The Rock Shop with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 13 Washington, DC @ The Red Palace with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 14 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 17 Arlington, VA @ IOTA with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 18 Richmond, VA @ The Camel with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 19 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 20 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 21 Nashville, TN @ The Basement with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 24 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 25 Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry's with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 26 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 27 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
May 28 Austin, TX @ Emo's Alternative Lounge with Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr

Generationals - Ten Twenty Ten

Ten-Twenty-Ten by Generationals from Jubadaba on Vimeo.

Generationals - Greenleaf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW97G28D3yI

Bonnaroo 2011 Artist Additions - Galactic, NOFX, Futurebirds and More!

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:50:00 +0000

Galactic added to Bonnaroo lineup

Artists Additions!
NOFX
Galactic
G. Love & Special Sauce
Black Uhuru
Shpongle Presents Shpongletron Experience
Daniel Lanois' Black Dub
Allen Toussaint (w Dr. John and The Original Meters)
Anthony B
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Ben Sollee
Graveyard
Dennis Coffey
Forro in the Dark
The Knux
Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens
Futurebirds
Hangaii

Comedy Lineup!

Lewis Black
420 Comedy Blaze hosted by Cheech Marin featuring Ralphie May, the stars of Workaholics and more
John Waters
Henry Rollins
Henson Alternative's Stuffed & Unstrung
The League (Paul Scheer, Nick Kroll, Jon Lajoie, Stephen Rannazzisi)
Donald Glover
The Gregory Brothers
Kathleen Madigan
Eugene Mirman
Ted Alexandro
Tim Minchin
Tig Notaro
Hannibal Buress
Craig Baldo
Nate Bergatze

Bonnaroo 2011 Artist Additions - Rumors, Speculation, Wishes, etc.

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:54:00 +0000

So who is getting added? I'd like to think there's at least one big name (for some reason I would think nostalgia act) yet to be added - perhaps Paul Simon? For the comedy Tent, my guess is that Lonely Island may be making their first large-scale appearance and headlining the Comedy Acts. Would also love to see Fleet Foxes, Toro Y Moi and Futurebirds added to the lineup. Please list who you think will/should be added when the additions are announced later this week.

Galactic SBD Mardi Gras 2011 @ Tip's

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:16:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on Live Music Blog: NOLA

Note: Yes, Galactic has officially taken over this site. They are the Artist of the Month after all. To download the Lundi Gras show, click here

Galactic. New Orleans. Lundi Gras. I would like to preface this review with the fact that I have only made it completely through Galactic’s Lundi Gras show once – and that my 2011 effort was not a full one, with Lundi Gras and Fat Tuesday separated by a much-needed three hour nap. Usually with the Monday night show, the full day's partying plus an 8 hour marathon of music means that some people just can't make it through the whole evening. So if you do get shut out (and can wait until the wee hours of the evening), you usually can stroll up after 3 and buy a ticket at the door.

The mystic of Mardi Gras runs strong around the Galactic experience, take for example the fact that I bought and listened to a NOLA funk compilation featuring Chuck Carbo's "Can I Be Your Squeeze" just hours before heading down to Tip's - and lo and behold, at the exact moment I walk in to the full-on 4:30 a.m. freak out at Tip's the next morning - they are covering the song. Coincidence? Probably. But coincidence is a big part of the magic that surrounds the whole Mardi Gras experience, and that's what makes it all so special. After finding my spot on the floor, Robert Walter made his way to the stage for a funky B3 infused "Live Wire". Corey Henry then proceeded to crush Juvenile’s verses on “From The Corner To The Block” (as well as having the entire crowd gettin' low "Shout" style) and the band took their last break before the final push into the morning.

The third set was simply perfect. “Doublewide > Whole Lotta Love” to start things off, a big "Ho Na Nae" with Papa Mali, Trixie Slaughter (Rebirth) and Ben Jaffe from Preservation Hall Brass Band (it’s not everyday that you get to watch a Tuba player and Rob Mercurio slam through a bass-off at 6:00 in the morning) and then, in perfect form, finished the evening with a sauntering “Quiet Please” before sending us out into the day light hours. I went home and woke up a friend on the couch for a bike ride equipped with Bloody’s, Screwdrivers – and finally Zulu. By 9:00 in the morning, the day was already one of the best of the year. Much thanks to the Tipitina’s crew, the Galactic folks, and everyone involved that makes the Lundi Gras thing happen year after year. I highly recommend it.

Oh yeah, I heard Orgone wasn’t bad at all.

Also, the band has approved the circulation of a crisp SBD rip by one of our new friends, John-Ryan Hevron (a NOLA native currently stationed in Brooklyn, NY), for download here. Please enjoy the recording and support live music!

Galactic
2011/03/07
Tipitina’s Uptown, New Orleans LA

I: Santa Cruz, Gemini Rising, Boom Boom*, You Don’t Know*, You Can’t Fly If You Are Too High*, Gossip*, Heart Of Steel*, Cineramascope, Keep’ Steppin, 8 Days On The Road, Keep The Dream Alive^, La Di Da Di, Big Chief**

II: Boe Money, Cabbage Alley***, No More Okey Doke***, Manic Depression, Tell Me What’s On Your Mind****, Break In The Road****, 2 Clowns > Doo Rag > 2 Clowns, Blackbird Special, Tiger Roll > Bounce Baby, Can I Be Your Squeeze, Live Wire*****, From The Corner To The Block

III: Doublewide > Whole Lotta Love, Tecknochek Collison, Ho Na Nae******, Charlie Dozen*******, Quiet Please*******

* -w/ Cyril Neville
** -w/ Irvin Mayfield
*** -w/ Ivan Neville
**** -w/ members of Orgone
***** -w/ Robert Walter
****** - w/ Papa Mali, Trixie Slaughter, and Ben Jaffe
******* -w/ Papa Mali
^ - w/ Nicholas Ellman

Radiohead Conspiracy Theories Flying Re: King of Limbs

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:11:00 +0000

Double Album? Triple Album? Have we seen all of it? If there is another one, what will it sound like? Are they gonna land at Bonnaroo X in a spaceship and make a surprise appearance after the Sunday headliner?

Please share your thoughts about this atmosphere-bending new release in the comments section.

Mashup NOLA at HoB Presented by Jermaine Quiz

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:53:00 +0000

This also appears on Live Music Blog: NOLA

And Now For Something Completely Different

Not really sure how many mash-up artists have incorporated live instrumentation to supplement their work on the 1′s and 2′s, but this concept seems genius and will undoubtedly compel those like me who aren’t especially keen on the mashup genre to take a closer look at the explosive (and no longer faddish or new) genre. The effect of these shows should work both ways, and hopefully some dance club junkies will gain a whole new appreciation for some of the local musical talent that will be featured every other week at Quiz’ HoB parties. Regardless, this sounds like the ultimate recipe for dance party shenanigans and a good excuse to get downtown on a Friday night. I’m already sweatin’ just thinking about it.

Details: Starting this Friday, DJ Jermaine Quiz will be hosting a Mashup NOLA party and feature a revolving door of local musicians dropping by. The first lineup will include Derrick Freeman (Kermit Ruffins’ BBQ Swingers) on drums, Kirk Joseph playing tuba (Dirty Dozen Brass Band), saxophonist James Martin (Ernie Vincent), and guest MC M@Peoples. Plus, tickets are only be $9.

Future guests include members of Karl Denson, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, George Porter, Jr.’s Running Pardners, the Funky Meters, and Trombone Shorty’s New Orleans Ave. The shows will be 18+.

Now if only DJ Soul Sister can get in the mix…then we’d really be in business. Although, mashups, funk remixes and live instruments all pulsing at once may lead to some sort of overload/brain explosion. And nobody wants that.

Get out there.

2011 Bonnaroo Lineup Announced - Eminem, Widespread Panic, MMJ, Arcade Fire

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:17:00 +0000

For commentary about this unprecedented array of talent, go here --

Eminem Arcade Fire Widespread Panic The Black Keys Buffalo Springfield feat Richie Furay, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Rick Rosas, Joe Vitale My Morning Jacket Lil Wayne String Cheese Incident Robert Plant & Band of Joy Mumford & Sons The Strokes The Decemberists Ray Lamontagne Bassnectar Iron & Wine Girl Talk Primus Dr. John and The Original Meters performing Desitively Bonnaroo Alison Krauss and Union Station Pretty Lights Florence & the Machine Superjam ft. Dan Auerbach and Dr. John Explosions in the Sky STS9 Gogol Bordello Beirut Big Boi Scissor Sisters Gregg Allman Ratatat Global Gypsy Punk Revue curated by Eugene Hütz Robyn Warren Haynes Band Deerhunter Opeth Atmosphere Old Crow Medicine Show Bootsy Collins & the Funk University Wiz Khalifa Matt & Kim Grace Potter & the Nocturnals The Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band Mavis Staples Béla Fleck & the Flecktones Chiddy Bang Javanotti Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers Loretta Lynn Cold War Kids The Walkmen Devotchka Wanda Jackson Neon Trees Portugal. The Man Sleigh Bells Amos Lee Best Coast Dãm-Funk The Sword The Drums The Black Angels School of Seven Bells J. Cole Nicole Atkins & the Black Sea Wavves !!! Junip Freelance Whales Justin Townes Earle Ryan Bingham Deer Tick Band of Skulls Sharon Van Etten Abigail Washburn Omar Souleyman Twin Shadow Kylesa Man Man The Low Anthem Alberta Cross Railroad Earth Jessica Lea Mayfield Smith Westerns The Head and the Heart Karen Elson Beats Antique 22-20s Phosphorescent Clare MaGuire Hayes Carll

Beavis and Butthead Return to Dumb Down America Even Further/Change Lives

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:10:00 +0000

Not going to top Stereogum post regarding Beavis and Butthead's return to the MTV Summer Lineup

Click here for Stereogum's best videos and comments from the biggest idiots of the 90s.

I just can't wait to hear what they have to say about Ke$ha.

Beavis and Butthead critique Phish "Down With Disease"

Grateful Dead Road Trips Listening Party

noreply@blogger.com (Wesley Hodges) — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:15:00 +0000

For a nice sampler of The Grateful Dead's Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 2, float below on the Soundcloud widget and enjoy this particularly tasty Scarlet > Fire from 3/31/1988.

Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain by gratefuldead

GRATEFUL DEAD

Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 2

CD 1:

1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo>
2. Jack Straw>
3. To Lay Me Down
4. Ballad Of A Thin Man
5. When Push Comes To Shove
6. New Minglewood Blues
7. Cumberland Blues
8. Deal
9. When I Paint My Masterpiece
10. Let It Grow
11. Brokedown Palace

CD 2:
1. Scarlet Begonias>
2. Fire On The Mountain
3. Samson and Delilah
4. Terrapin Station>
5. Rhythm Devils>
6. Space>
7. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>
8. I Need A Miracle>
9. Dear Mr. Fantasy>
10. Hey Jude>
11. All Along The Watchtower
12. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
CD 3:

1. China Cat Sunflower>
2. I Know You Rider
3. Estimated Prophet>
4. Eyes Of The World>
5. Rhythm Devils>
6. Space>
7. The Other One>
8. Wharf Rat>
9. Throwing Stones>
10. Not Fade Away

Essay by: Gary Lambert
Release Info: http://dead.net/
http://store.dead.net/new/road-trips-vol-4-no-2 [$23.98]

Release notes for Road Trips Vol.4 No. 2 as written by Blair Jackson (Author of Garcia: An American Life, Grateful Dead Gear & Grateful Dead: The Music Never Stopped):

“You all know about the glory that was 1987. A year after we almost lost Jerry to his diabetic coma in the summer of ’86, the Dead were back, Jerry was the phoenix risen, and the band was bigger than ever: There was “Touch of Grey,” In the Dark, the stadium tour with Dylan, a huge influx of new Heads; it was good times all around, for sure. The band was revived and a new day dawned!

But when I interviewed Garcia for my old Dead ’zine, The Golden Road, the following autumn—1988—he revealed that he felt like he was just then finally catching up to his old, pre-coma self, “That is to say, having access to everything I know about playing. I’m getting to that point where it’s physically as comfortable… [and] feeling there.”

Indeed, 1988 was a fantastic year for the Dead, with some of the band’s most explosive and energetic playing, as the whole band rose to meet Garcia in his return to absolute peak form. This “high” washed over into 1989—a year that has been extensively documented with official releases in part because the band recorded so many shows on multi-track tape and multi-camera video (Downhill From Here, Truckin’, Up to Buffalo, Nightfall of Diamonds, the recent Formerly the Warlocks box). But 1988 has, curiously, been largely ignored, save for a single official download-only release many years ago of the epic 3/27/88 Hampton show. What gives? It’s certainly no reflection of the quality of the music from ’88, which most Dead Heads would agree was almost uniformly strong. You’ll find many folks singing the praises of runs at Kaiser, the Centrum, Irvine, Alpine, Frost, the Greek, Alpine, Oxford Plains in Maine, Laguna Seca… just solid stuff all around. Gets me tingly just thinkin’ about it!

Well, we haven’t forgotten ’88—far from it—and this edition of Road Trips (Vol. 4, No. 2) shows you why. It offers up the entire April 1, 1988 concert from the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, NJ (maybe you just called it “the Meadowlands” back in the day), plus the entire second set and a few first set highlights from the previous night’s show, March 31. That April Fools show is a real barn-burner, with a first set that includes a “double-opener” of high-octane versions of “Mississippi Half-Step” and “Jack Straw,” a rare and nearly perfect take on “To Lay Me Down” (played for just the second time since 1983), followed directly by the second (and final) GD-only version of Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man.” Less than a year after their six-show jaunt with the Mysterious One, Weir & Co. give the classic tune an impressively emotional workout; in fact, it’s hard to discern why it didn’t remain in the Dead’s repertoire after this evening. That first set also includes nearly manic versions of both “Cumberland” and “Deal.” Blazing!

There’s no letup in Set Two, either, as the band tears through what looks on paper like a fairly conventional set list, but in execution is far from that. “China Cat” > “Rider,” “Estimated” > “Eyes” and “The Other One” > “Wharf Rat” all sound fresh and alive, and seem to glow with fiery embers thanks to Garcia’s speedy and imaginative runs—basically the guy is on fire!

A few nuggets from the 3/31 first set are tucked onto the back side of Disc One—including a superb “Let It Grow”—and then that night’s second set fills the other disc, and it’s another rockin’ affair loaded with favorites: A “Scarlet” > “Fire” nearly the equal of the famous Hampton version just four nights earlier, a fine “Terrapin,” and a post-“Drums” that never lets up as it moves from “Goin’ Down the Road” into “Miracle,” “Dear Mr. Fantasy,” the coda of “Hey Jude,” and “Watchtower” in the closing slot. The encore is another Dylan tune, “Heaven’s Door”—a perfect grace note for a raucous and exciting show. We should also note that the “Rhythm Devils” and “Space” portions of each show are also fantastically varied and interesting—in the spring of ’89 Garcia will be the last band member to “go MIDI,” so this is provides a glimpse of the more “pure” Garcia “Space” tones.

Intrigued? You should be! It’s hot stuff from beginning to end. As is customary, the original recordings (in this case by Dan Healy) have been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman, and our art team of Scott McDougall and Steve Vance have once again come up with a stunning package to entertain your eyeballs. This time out, Dead scribe Gary Lambert has contributed a splendid essay for the booklet, which true-to-form, is also loaded with period photos of The Boys in action. You can find the complete song lists for all three discs, plus ordering information simply by pressing this magic button! What a way to start the New Year!” - Blair Jackson