Crowded House just finished a three-night run at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. Last night was their final night, and as a very pleasant surprise, David Byrne came on stage to sing “Once In A Lifetime” with the band. He almost trips on a water bottle as he walks to the microphone. Almost!
Here’s another clip from Our Show With Elliot Aronow, the downtown-arts web series nailing the alternageist by framing fringe-culture heroes in off-beat poses: There was Das Racist covering their wit-rap forefathers Beastie Boys with Hishaam Bharoocha, Ted Leo and Max Silvestri talking anonymous internet assholes, and most memorably Kyp Malone reviewing films on a five-burger scale. (Watch ‘em all here.) Here’s some more of Kyp letting his afro down, the Rain Machinist introducing his cover of Talking Heads’ “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” saying “A lot of people told me this is their favorite Talking Heads song and not to shit on it, but I’m just gonna do what happens, it’s gonna be what it’s gonna be.” What it’s gonna be is not as epic as an Arcade Fire take, though it’d be a naive melody to think it could be — Harsh Toke back him admirably with that iconic four-bar loop, Kyp shows some footwork he doesn’t usually bust out for the TV or the radio, and the Das Racist dudes seemed to enjoy it plenty.
The lineup for Jam Cruise 8 was announced earlier this week, and it’s really quite impressive as always.
Departing Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Jam Cruise 8 will set sail January 3-8, 2010 on board the beautiful MSC Poesia and will visit the tropical ports of Ocho Rios, Jamaica and George Town, Cayman Islands. With 5 days and nights aboard the ship, there is plenty of time to kick back with friends and see an unbelievable amount of music.
Who’s going?
STS9
The Word feat. John Medeski
North Mississippi Allstars & Robert Randolph
Zappa plays Zappa
Galactic
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
Maceo Parker
Dark Star Orchestra
JJ Grey & Mofro
Railroad Earth
Steve Kimock’s Crazy Engine
Lotus
Fantastic 4 feat. Robert Walter
Adam Deitch
Eric Krasno & Cheme Gastelum
Toubab Krewe
Eric Krasno & Chapter 2
The Motet plays the Talking Heads
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Hot Buttered Rum
John Brown’s Body
Kyle Hollingsworth Band
Mike Dillon’s Go Go Jungle
The Mother Hips
Break Science feat. Adam Deitch
Dragon Smoke feat. Robert Mercurio
Ivan Neville
Stanton Moore & Eric Lindell
Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes
George Porter’s Super Jam
DJ Logic
Pretty Lights
Special Guests:
Col Bruce Hampton
Skerik
Will Bernard
I’m really happy I stayed in a bit this weekend and took some time redesigning the site. It’s totally funny timing, too. I remember reading a little interview with Scott from Hidden Track where he mentioned that they were going to be launching a new version soon, and no sooner had I finished off the core of the new design when I checked on my feed reader to see that they had gone live with their new design also. Totally accidental that we launched at the same time. But kudos, guys! Congrats on the launch!
Let’s see what else is going on.
Last but certainly not least, our man Andrew has been on the scene at Monolith Festival all weekend and he’s captured some seriously fantastic photos already. Give them a look and expect an update from him real soon.
