Posted on 15 July 2010
Phish: Summer Tour in Review [Jambands.com]
In fact, Phish’s Summer tour, which is presently on a brief hiatus before it continues in August with three shows at Berkeley’s Greek Theater, has already covered all of the bases that fans have come to expect from Phish on every tour. While no show has been a start-to-finish, hear-at-all-costs shredapulooza, almost every show had something noteworthy. There were huge bust outs, blistering jams, goofy gimmicks, and now-legendary encores.
PHISH @ THE GREEK COUNTDOWN!
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Posted on 10 July 2010
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Posted on 22 June 2010
In this clip Nathan “Post Acid” Williams and his new bandmates talk about the updated, mature sound on King Of The Beach. Not to fear, it’s not quite a 35-year-old’s sound. You also get an example of what this means via a live performance of the title track.
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Posted on 21 June 2010
Frantic samples and a persistent quarter note beat play underneath the main feature of this song: Samples of kids whispering and singing into tape recorders. All their words sound like confessions, without the guilt — one girl repeats “I wish I was a boy,” other voices promise torture, or utter curses. It reminds me of how much fun it was to record and playback sounds and voices with the old brown Fischer Price recorder. I’m guessing those recorders inspired a generation of sample musicians.
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Posted on 21 June 2010
Mathemagic’s “Big Love” remix was pleasantly sleepy, Junior Boys’s brisk version is all elastic bass, shaker, and hand claps, and it retains some of the piano chords from CFCF’s original cover. As we mentioned before, “Big Love” is a cover of the 1987 Fleetwood Mac single. Great song, terrible music video.
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Posted on 21 June 2010
Turns out the morning benders share Twin Sister’s love for Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.” (Also sharing love for Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”: Everyone who’s heard Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.”) In fact the band documented their homage to Ms. Nicks via a hushed acoustic take for their The Bedroom Covers collection a few years ago (featuring their Roy Orbison redo), though at Saturday’s free show on Governor’s Island in NYC (with Wild Nothing and Freelance Whales in support), they had the benefit of being a full band, and therefore the benefit of having Julian on drums, which made for a slightly more reverential though still decidedly morning bent cover on the Mac classic. Check it, and grab the more intimate acoustic bedroom MP3 (along with the rest of the covers collection) below:
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Posted on 21 June 2010
Ariel Pink is backed by his new band, Added Pizzazz for this new EP. Lead track “In The Heat Of The Night” is another unexpected twist to Pink’s sound. Here his band’s backing saxophone and trumpet, along with the tuneless vocals give it the song a seasick sway, as if everything goes out of sync or slows down for just a second, before it catches up and heads into a two-note melody. It’s disconcerting, but highly listenable too.
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Posted on 21 June 2010
I gave a bit of background on Chicago progressive-metal quartet Yakuza when we posted “Stones And Bones” from Of Seismic Consequence, their (by far) strongest album to date. (If there’s a metal god, it’ll make it onto year-end lists.) Since then, in related Yakuza news, we paused to give you a listen to Nachtmystium’s future Maxwell House jingle “Every Last Drop,” aka an Addicts standout featuring Yakuza frontman Bruce Lamont on guest vocals. But take a step back, re-cue “Stones And Bones,” and then follow it up with the moody, aggressive 8-minute “Be That As It May,” the juggernaut that comes after it on Of Seismic. If you haven’t listened to the collection as a whole, this will give you a sense of its intelligently curated ebb and flow.
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Posted on 16 April 2010
For anyone that is watching the Coachella webcast like I am, I thought I’d drop the schedule down so you can plan ahead with me. There’s actually some good stuff airing and well worth catching for free. Tune-in, check-in and party down!
FRIDAY
Street Sweeper Social Club 8:05pm (EST)
Deer Tick 8:00pm (EST)
Yeasayer 9:00pm (EST)
Avett Brothers 9:05pm (EST)
Jets Overhead TBD
Calle 13 10:00pm (EST)
The Cribs 10:05pm (EST)
As Tall As Lions TBD
The Specials 11:00pm (EST)
Passion Pit 11:05pm (EST)
Ra Ra Riot TBD
LCD Soundsystem 12:00am (EST)
Echo & the Bunnymen 12:05am (EST)
Lucero TBD
Imogen Heap 1:00am (EST)
Vampire Weekend 1:05am (EST)
Public Image Limited 2:20am (EST)
SATURDAY
Zoe 7:00pm (EST)
Frightened Rabbit 7:05pm (EST)
Old Crowe Medicine 8:00pm (EST)
Temper Trap 8:05pm (EST)
White Rabbits 9:00pm (EST)
Band of Skulls 9:05pm (EST)
Portual the Man TBD
Dirty Projectors 10:00pm (EST)
Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeros 10:05pm (EST)
The Ravoenettes TBD
Tokyo Police Club 11:00pm (EST)
The XX 11:05pm (EST)
Coheed & Cambria 12:00am (EST)
Hot Chip 12:05am (EST)
Faith No More 1:00am (EST)
Dead Weather 2:05am (EST)
SUNDAY
B.O.B. 7:00pm (EST)
Delphic 7:05pm (EST)
Yo La Tango 8:00pm (EST)
Owen Pallett 8:05pm (EST)
Matt & Kim 9:00pm (EST)
Deerhunter 9:05pm (EST)
De La Soul 10:00pm (EST)
King Khan & the Shrines 10:05pm (EST)
Les Claypool 11:00pm (EST)
Major Lazer 11:05pm (EST)
Sly Stone & Friends 12:00am (EST)
Gary Numan 1:00am (EST)
Devo 2:00am (EST)
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Posted on 16 April 2010
This video and the review attached to it both further solidify my point that I really should have seen both nights of Atoms for Peace…
Atoms For Peace (Thom Yorke Band): Transcending Music [Rock Is A Girl’s Best Friend]
I’ve been seeing live music, almost every night, around the world, for the better part of 15 years (including many Radiohead shows), and I’ve never experienced what occurred last night at The Fox Theater in Oakland. If there’s something beyond “music,” then it happened last night and I, along with 2,799 of the most energetic and dedicated music fans, witnessed it.
Atoms For Peace (Thom Yorke Band) Live at Fox Theater Oakland 04-14-10 [YouTube]
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