The Decemberists are releasing an EP with b-sides and demos. Long Live The King is an addendum to their latest studio album The King Is Dead. The songs were recorded at Pendarvis Farm, near Portland, OR, in the Spring of 2010.
The tracks are a little rougher around the edges than the pastoral sounds of the full-length, especially during the bluesy Burying Davy and the demo I 4 U & U 4 Me. The EP is a behind-the-scenes collection of songs, with a cover of The Grateful Dead's Row Jimmy that may scare the hipster segment of their fan base. They sound like a great bar band, slightly uneven, not drunk yet, but getting there. The EP's closer Sonnet finds the band n a melancholy folk mood. Singer Colin Meloy is all by himself for about half the songs, playing his acoustic guitar, before the band kicks in, led a mournful brass section.
Long Live The King is released on Capitol Records. On CD, 10 inch vinyl and digital.
Anders Osborne, Karl Denson and Daniel Sproul - photo: gratefulweb.com
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe (KDTU) and Anders Osborne covered the Roliing Stones album Sticky Fingers in its entirety at the Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO - 2011/10/28. Guitar player Daniel Sproul (Rose Hill Drive) sat in for an elongated Sister Morphine.
Watch the new Tracy Shedd video for Encourage Me, her song from the Luz de Vida compilation album. The clip was directed by Jesse Ewles. Currently based in Tuscon, AZ, the singer and multi-instrumentalist is getting ready for her 2011 Winter tour.
Live dates:
11/23 Marfa, TX @ Padre's
11/25 Dallas, TX @ Good Records In-Store (6:00pm)
11/25 Dallas, TX @ The Kessler Theater (w/ Carolyn Wonderland and Daphne Willis - 7:00pm)
11/27 Austin, TX @ Mohawk (w/ She Sir)
11/28 Houston, TX @ Rudyard's Pub
11/29 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia (w/ Au Ras Au Ras - mems of The Generationals)
11/30 Jacksonville, FL @ Club TSI (w/ Moyamoya, AC Deathstrike, and DJ Cash
12/01 Fernandina Beach, FL @ The Green Turtle (w/ The Fornicorns)
12/02 Tampa, FL @ Micro Groove Record Store (afternoon)
12/02 Tampa, FL @ New World Brewery (w/ Rec Center) (evening)
12/03 Atlanta, GA @ 529 (w/ The Good Graces, Virginia Plane, and Book Club)
The fourth installment of the Xmas Jam benefit series, the concerts curated by Warren Haynes, is set for release on December 6th. Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert Volume 4 showcases highlights of the 2002 edition of the Xmas Jam in Asheville, NC. On the bill were: Bob Weir & Friends, Gov't Mule, Jerry Joseph, John Hiatt & The Goners, moe., Robert Randolph & The Family Band, and Sons of Ralph. Guests appearances by Artimus Pyle, Audley Freed, Dave Schools, DJ Logic, Dr. Dan Matrazzo, Greg Rzab, Jon Smith, and Mike Barnes.
The set is produced by Warren Haynes.
Disc 1:
Carolina In My Mind – Warren Haynes w/ Don Lewis
111 – Sons of Ralph
Nine Pound Hammer – Sons of Ralph w/ Warren Haynes
The Kind Of Place – Jerry Joseph
Climb To Safety – Jerry Joseph w/Robert Randolph, Dave Schools & Matt Abts
Looking Out My Window – Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Shake Your Hips – Robert Randolph & The Family Band w/Warren Haynes & Danny Louis
Dark Star Jam > Mexico – moe.
Opium – moe. w/ Warren Haynes
Disc 2:
Ride Along – John Hiatt & The Goners
Tiki Bar Is Open – John Hiatt & The Goners w/ Jon Smith
Memphis In The Meantime – John Hiatt & The Goners w/ Warren Haynes
Shakedown Street – Bob Weir & Friends
Truckin’ – Bob Weir & Friends
The Other One – Bob Weir & Friends
Worried Down With The Blues – Gov’t Mule w/ Greg Rzab
Sco-Mule – Gov’t Mule w/ Greg Rzab, Dr. Dan Mattrazo, Jon Smith, Mike Barnes & DJ Logic
Simple Man – Gov’t Mule w/ Dave Schools, Artimus Pyle, Audley Freed, Mike Barnes & Rob Barraco
The Luz de Vida compilation album, out now on Fort Lowell Records, is a touching musical monument for the victims of the January 8th shootings in Tucson, AZ. When the calls were made to artists to contribute a song, response was huge. Since it was originally conceived as an limited edition LP (1500 copies, yellow vinyl) with room for a mere 12 tracks it was decided to create an extended download version - 36 tracks in all.
The collection is a snapshot of what is happening in the current indie of Tucson, a city that harbours all styles, with a penchant for south of the border tracks. Familiar names from the Fort Lowell Records roster obviously made the cut: Dead Western Plains, Tracey Shedd and Howe Gelb's legendary band Giant Sand, as well as bands from the Spanish speaking community - Salvador Duran, Mariachi Luz de Luna and Chango Malo. The best known international acts are Calexico, Spoon, Meat Puppets, Neko Case and DeVotchKa.
Leonard Bernstein once said: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." With this compilation, all contributing artist have succeeded in doing so.
SIDE-A:
Dead Western Plains - People Beat
Kiss & The Tells - Tell Me Now
Rainer - The Oasis
Mariachi Luz de Luna - Luz a la Vida
Giant Sand - Recovery Mission (Radio Edit)
Chango Malo - A Change Is Gonna Come (Live)
SIDE-B:
Tracy Shedd - Encourage Me
La Cerca - Swim An Ocean
Calexico - Absent Afternoon
Lenguas Largas - Such A Thing
Holy Rolling Empire - Father's Father
Salvador Duran - Gabynda (Yolanda)
Please note that Chango Malo's A Change Is Gonna Come (Live) is exclusively available on vinyl.
Left-field indie band Akron/Family are selling a handmade limited CD on their current tour. All copies of Live Sound Fields hand painted, hand numbered and totally unique. The tracks were recorded during the 2009/2010 tours. It is released on their own label Family Tree Records.
The band returns to Europe in November. An American Winter tour kicks off in Washington, DC, on January 6. Support act is Denver band Bad Weather California, who will release their Sunkissed album on Family Tree Records on February 21.
European live dates:
11/15 Barcelona, Spain @ KGB
11/16 Madrid, Spain @ El Sol
11/18 Vigo, Spain @ La Iguana Club
11/19 Lisbon, Portugal @ Ze Dos Bois
11/20 Porto, Portugal @ Hard Club
11/23 Prague, Czech Republic @ Alternativa Festival
11/25 Metz, France @ Le Caveau
11/26 Leeuwarden, The Netherlands @ Explore the North Festival
11/27 Utrecht, The Netherland @ Le Guess Who? Festival
11/29 Aarhus, Denmmark @ Train
11/30 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Loppen
USA live dates:
01/06 Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
01/07 Raleigh, NC @ Pour House Music Hall
01/08 Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle
01/10 Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
01/11 Gainesville, FL @ Double Down
01/12 Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
01/13 Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder
01/14 Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn
01/15 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
01/17 Chicago, IL @ Hideout
01/18 South Bend, IN @ Subkirke
01/19 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
01/20 Philadelphia, PA @ Blockley Pourhouse
Watch the new video Cast A Net, from their latest studio album S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT. The clip was directed by Brian Ziffer.
Watch the Dogbrain video for My Reprieve, directed by Jason Kessler. Dogbrain, stage name of Jay Ward is a NYC musician who cooks up mash-ups of New Wave, hiphop and jazz. It is a track from his album Nest which is available on iTunes.
My Reprieve was co-written with Don Rosler: a phone rings and hte song's hero is in serious trouble while his girlfirend/femme fatale promises him all kinds of booze and sex. LaJuan Carter tales care of the backing vocals, Bobby Watson on sax, and Bernard Wright on keyboards.
Hard hitting blues rockers Black Country Communion were on tour in Europe in the Summer of 2011. Three shows in Germany (Hamburg, Munich and Berlin) were filmed with 14 HD cameras. Live Over Europe sees them playing up a storm, playing 16 songs songs from their two studio albums, a Joe Bonamassa solo song (The Ballad Of John Henry) and Burn, a Deep Purple cover. Bass player and lead singer has every right to do so - he played and sang on the original way back in 1974.
The seeds for Black Country Communion were sown when Hughes ran into guitar player Joe Bonamassa in Sao Paolo in 1999. They jammed occasionally over the years, nothing serious, but when drummer Jason Bonham and keyboard player Derek Sherinian joined in at the suggestion of producer Kevin Shirley things kinda snowballed. They quickly laid down the songs for a debut album and hit the road. All four are busy guys, but they obviously enjoyed the sessions and subsequent tour and so they decided to do it again this year, after they had released their
sophomore album "2".
Listen to Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, the opener from the 11/22/1997 show on the new Phish archival release Hampton/Winston-Salem '97. The 7-CD box set is out on December 6th on JEMP records.
Good news from Greece. Thessaloniki pop band The Finger have are releasing their second single In A Fragment Of Time. Lead singer Lia Siouti bridges the gap between Gothic rock and Euro New Wave, with a vocal range that sounds like the missing link between Martha Johnson (Martha and The Muffins) and Kristine Sykes Arinos (Teliof).
The band is currently working on their debut full-length. Their debut single Die! Die Superhero! is also a serious song wrapped in wel-worn power pop chords, the kind of music that you want to hear tearing down the road with the rooftop down.
Watch the Girl in a Coma for Smart, a track from their new album Exits & All the Rest. The video was directed by Jim Mendiola. The San Antonio garage rock trio kick off their tour on October 28th in Austin, TX.
Ssooooo... are they still kids dreaming of becoming the next big thing in the jam band scene? The Jauntee hail from Boston, MA, and name a long list of musical styles as their source of inspiration. Best described as a progressive, ambient, jazz band dabbling in funk and fun, the quartet recently secured a spot on a forthcoming Relix CD sampler. This being a jam band, they cover a few crowd pleasing Phish, The Grateful Dead and Frank Zappa tunes, but their own songs have enough meat to feed an audience with an open mind and ear.
The Jauntee thrives on improvisation and bass player Salvatore Sisti has developed a bond wiht drummer Scott Ferber, drawing on a meandering musical canvas for Caton Sollenberger (guitar) and Anthony Cerullo (keyboards). Bear in mind that these guys have been gigging around their hometown since 2010. Regularly dropping new originals and covers they can now play the required two set shows that are an integral part of the jam band phenomenon. The vocals need a bit of work, but that's no biggie - after struggling the lyrics within the first minutes of the song they are off to explore territories they haven´t visited yet.
Composer and musician David Dramm is the driving force behind Ensemble Labyrint, a rotating group of musicians and visual artists, who are invited to join forces on the ensemble's website. Their first project is called The Factory - Sounds like Warhol, performing. The Velvet Underground & Nico in its entirety. It won't be perfect copy of the album - the eleven tracks are reworked by eleven different composers who were given a free hand to reinvent their designated song. The concert will end with the new Dramm composition The Factory
Three confirmed dates in The Netherlands so far. The venues will wrapped in aluminum foil, just like Warhol's studio on 47th Street in New York.
Watch dance trio Nobody Beats The Drum perform Poisson Vert from their album Currents. Recorded live for Dutch TV show De Wereld Draait Door - 2011/10/24.
A video for another track of the album, Blood On My Hands, goes live on October 28th. Mason and DJ Kypski have contributed remixes for an EP that will be released simultaneously through Beatport and iTunes.
Simon Posford and Benji Vaughan, the core of UK dance outfit Younger Brother, are considering an electronic version of their latest album Vaccine<.
They have put out a radically reworked version of Pound a Rhythm as a feeler track. It runs a little over 8 minutes and never gets dull along the way. Nice bass parts, too.
WatchArcade Fire and Neil Young team up for an acoustic version of Helpless @ The Bridge School Benefit Concert, Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA - 2011/10/22.
An interview with John Cale on the French program Wat TV. He discusses the special Black Friday edition of the Extra Playful EP, the forthcoming full-length, composing soundtracks for French movies, and the French translation of his autobiography What's Welsh for Zen.
Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson in the men’s room during the Bob Dylan Tour. Denver, CO, 1974 -
photo: Barry Feinstein.
Barry Feinstein, the legendary rock photographer best known for taking enduring pictures of musicians such as Bob Dylan, the Band and George Harrison, has died in upstate Kingston, NY, aged 80. He has photographed more than 500 album covers, including Janis Joplin's Pearl, Eric Clapton's self-titled debut and All Things Must Pass, the 3lp by George Harrison.
Watch the new Yellowbirds video for Beneath the Reach of Light, a track from their album The Color. The indie folk band will be announcing more NY dates soon.
Live dates:
10/27 Yellowbirds play live on East Village Radio, New York, NY (1pm)
11/02 Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY w/ Caithlin De Marrais (Album Release)
11/07 Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA w/ The Sea and Cake (8pm sharp)
Danish indie pop band Black Light White Light have sorted out the paperwork and kick off their US tour tonight in Greensboro, NC. Customs hassles forced them to cancel the first three dates of The Infrared Daylight tour, named after their latest full-length.
The Hampton Winston/Salem '97 7-CD Box Set, the new archival Phish box set is available for pre-order through Phish Dry Goods. The set will be released on December 6th.
Brand New 7-CD box set, showcasing three complete shows, recorded Live November 21 & 22, 1997 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA and November 23, 1997 Lawrence Joel Veteran's Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC, in the midst of Phish's legendary 1997 Fall Tour. Hampton/Winston-Salem ‘97 contains all the music played over these three shows for a total of 45 songs (8 hours of music from Paul Languedoc's stereo soundboard mix, re-mastered by Fred Kevorkian). The Box includes never-before-heard material from soundchecks at both venues.
Everyone who orders from Phish Dry Goods will receive a code for a FREE complete MP3 download of the entire Hampton Winston/Salem '97 7-CD Box Set that can be easily dropped onto your iPod.
11/21/97 Hampton Coliseum – Hampton, VA
Disc One
Set I:
1. Emotional Rescue > (17:44)
2. Split Open And Melt (13:44)
3. Beauty Of My Dreams (3:27)
4. Dogs Stole Things (4:48)
5. Punch You In The Eye > (9:13)
6. Lawn Boy > (3:45)
7. Chalk Dust Torture (9:16)
8. Prince Caspian (10:33)
Disc Two
Set II:
1. Ghost > (15:48)
2. AC/DC Bag > (25:49)
3. Slave To The Traffic Light (12:32)
4. Loving Cup (7:39)
Encore:
5. Guyute (11:19)
11/22/97 Hampton Coliseum – Hampton, VA
Disc Three
Set I:
1. Mike’s Song > (17:04)
2. I Am Hydrogen > (4:31)
3. Weekapaug Groove (14:52)
4. Harry Hood > (18:05)
5. Train Song (3:06)
6. Billy Breathes (7:05)
7. Frankenstein > (4:48)
8. Izabella (5:58)
Disc Four
set II:
1. Halley’s Comet > (25:59)
2. Tweezer > (5:58)
3. Black-Eyed Katy > (12:41)
4. Piper > (7:53)
5. Run Like An Antelope (13:38)
Encore:
6. Bouncing Around The Room > (3:52)
7. Tweezer Reprise (4:06)
11/23/97 Lawrence Joel Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum – Winston-Salem, NC
Disc Five
set I:
1. My Soul (7:23)
2. Theme From The Bottom > (10:23)
3. Black-Eyed Katy (10:55)
4. Sparkle (4:02)
5. Twist > (10:21)
6. Stash > (17:03)
7. NICU (5:48)
Disc Six
set I, cont’d
1. Fluffhead > (15:39)
2. Character Zero (7:34)
set II:
3. Bathtub Gin > (31:57)
4. Down With Disease > (12:01)
5. Low Rider > (7:29)
6. Down With Disease (3:39)
Disc Seven
set II, cont’d
1. Bold As Love (7:57)
Encore:
2. Julius (11:12) filler: from 11/21/97 Hampton Soundcheck:
3. Hampton ’97 Soundcheck Jam (17:53) filler: from 11/23/97 Winston-Salem Soundcheck:
4. Back At The Chicken Shack (11:21)
Watch the Shuga video for their debut single Hey Baby, which will be released on November 14th as the A-side of as a limited 7" through Luv Luv Luv Records. The clip was directed by Jem Goulding.
Shuga are a psychedelic garage rock duo from London. Emma sings and plays bass. Luis sings and plays guitar.
Watch a rather brilliant stopmotion video directed by Mischa Livingstone for the LA Indie band City City single Promises. A couple breaks up and the photos on the wall come to live to show their past ups and downs. Yup, it took months to complete.
Scratch 'n' mix master Kypski is offering a special free minimix for the Amsterdam Dance Event:
He will be performing this Saturday the 22nd in the Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on the BMKLTSCH Records ADE Special 'Taped' alongside Loops Haunt, Skip n Die and more.
Assemble a quartet of seasoned veterans in a studio and give them 4 days to cut an album. Let the guitar player bring in a stack of demos, which wont' be used much. Set up the recording equipment, roll tape and end up with 45 minutes of loud neo-classic rawk, touching base with BTO, Keith Richards, Van Halen and all those fist-pumping roadtrip anthems that will get you into trouble with the law for speeding. That's what you get when you put your Big Foot down ...
III is the second album by Chickenfoot, who exploded on the scene in 2009. Michael Anthony (bass), Sammy Hagar (vocals), Joe Satriani (guitar) and Chad Smith (drums) have seen it all. When they released their self-titled debut it looked like another one-off side-project, all in good fun, with a tour, a deluxe edition of the album and a live DVD. The latter proved that there be future for the band - they expanded the songs on stage, just a short look to each other would suffice to take it to another level.
They've have grown and the band sounds deeper and more loose. While fun pertains, lyricist Hagar isn't afraid to take stand. Three an a Half Letters is about people who desperate to get a job to make ends meet and Up Next is an angry songs about mortality. Guitar player Joe Satriani gets the change to channel his heroes and peers, refraining from the virtuoso fireworks of his solo work, rocking out with a big smile on his face. Chad Smith unleashes his inner Bonham and Michael Anthony slaps his bass like there is no tomorrow as well as providing pretty good backing vocals.
The only clunker is Come Closer, s sappy ballad that is so heavy on cliches that it fails to register. Rewind to a song like Alright Alright with a Stones-y riff and you feel much better. With III it look like these guys are in it for the long run. As long they can work around each others busy schedules, changes are that will a real third album within a year or two.
III is released on on earMusic. UK release date: October 24th. Available CD, limited cd/dvd combo, digital and vinyl. The first run of the Cd and DVD options comes in a 3D-cover, optical enhancers included. The DVD features an EPK, including exclusive interviews with the band and behind-the-scenes footage, the Big Foot and Sexy Little Thing videos, and an live version of Turning Left, recorded live in Phoenix, Arizona (previously released on the Get Your Buzz On Get Your Buzz On “Live” DVD).
Tracks:
Last Temptation
Alright Alright
Different Devil
Up Next
Lighten Up
Come Closer
Three and a Half Letters
Big Foot
Dubai Blues
Something Going Wrong
No Change (hidden track USA only)
Chad Smith is on tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He is replaced by Kenny Aronoff when the band tours behind the album's release.
Polka Wars are an alternative pop band from Jakarta, Indonesia. Taking cues from UK New Wave and American post-rock adn shoegaze. They are sharing two new songs as a free download. Horse Hooves is a slow song with a persistent rhythm. Coraline is more upbeat with a lo-fi Johnny Marr-inspired guitar riding on top. Hipsters will dig it, daring each other to name the country this band is from.
Polka Wars:
Karaeng Putra Adjie: lead vocals, guitar
Giovanni Rahmadeva: drums, vocals
Xandega Tahajuansya: bass guitar, vocals
Billy Saleh: guitar, vocals
According to the well-informed ada-music.com website, a new archival Phish box set will be released on December 6. The Hampton/Winston-Salem '97 7-CD set contains both Hampton ’97 shows (11/21-22) as well at the show in Winston Salem (11/23):
The Hampton/Winston-Salem 97(11/21-23)shows featured Phish at an peak of execution and flow. Throughout the shows, Phish seized most every opportunity to lift and expand. Paul Languedoc’s stereo mix, mastered by Fred Kevorkian, funnels the energy of these special shows nearly 15 years later. Hampton/Winston-Salem 97 contains all the music played over these 3 shows for a total of 45 songs – over 8 hours of music – including never-before-heard material from soundchecks at both venues.
Nobody Beats The Drum are in the front line of Dutch electronic dance music. On their new album
Currents looks at the life and work of Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer, a pioneer of electromagnetism without whom computers, and wireless transportation of power and energy wouldn't be possible.
Sjam Sjamsoedin and Jori Collignon take care of the music and Rogier van der Zwaag is the master of visuals. Those dicpilines interact when they play live, a far cry from the static VJ plus laptops set-up. Jan Dijk has put together a nine-screen backdrop, called The Amazing 333" Tele Novum Automaton.
The Fly in a Bottle documentary, the Medeski Martin & Wood behind the scenes and on the road footage compiled and directed by Billy Martin, gets a stand-alone release on October 25th. Previously included with the 2009 Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Box Set.
The NYC avant-jazz trio will also open the vaults for a double live album entitled MSMW Live: In Case The World Changes Its Mind, a selection of tracks they laid down with guitarist John Scofield in 2006.
Zappatika live @ Q-Bus, Leiden, The Netherlands - 2010/12/18 photo: HCTF
Zappatika is now offering their version of Joe's Cajun Garage as a single on iTunes. Thankfully it's the explicit version, with all the goddamns and such included. Over the years this track is the most popular cut from their 2009 album The Short But Legendary Flight of the Dodo.
Progressive bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters are releasing We'll Do It Live on their own label High Country Recordings. The tracks were recorded earlier this year in New York, Burlington, Washington DC, and their hometown of sorts Charlottesville. The album was named after the fabled outburt of Bill O'Reilly.
Extra Playful, the new John Cale EP, will be released in the States on November 25th (Black Friday). A limited special edition has two extra tracks and will only be available "in indie retailers across the country. The CD version of Extra Playful will feature two new tracks: Bluetooth Swings and The Hanging, as well as a redesigned black cover."
John Cale explains:
It's a great pleasure to know the indie market is alive and well - still kicking sand in the face of those corporate behemoths. Without the true believers of real music - our neighborhood indie music shops - so many would have simply missed out on some of the most ground-breaking music yesterday and now. Characteristic of most indie stores is they have limited stock of their hand-picked favorites which drives the buyer to other stores that would invariably have their own focus and style - now go forth and multiply!
A new full-length album will be released in the Spring of 2012.
Video: John Cale - Hey Ray (Live @ Teatro Gil Vicente, Coimbra, Portugal - 2011/02/17)
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
Watch the new John Cale video for Catastrofuk, directed by his daughter Eden:
To herald the release of John Cale’s Extra Playful EP, Domino imprint Double Six are happy to share a new video for the EP track “Catastrofuk,” directed by his daughter, Eden Cale. In keeping with the Extra Playful spirit of the EP, the video sees him exploring outer space. The new world in which he finds himself appears inviting on the surface, but slowly, its darker elements reveal themselves and it becomes apparent that all is not quite as it seems.
Director: Eden Cale
Camera / Cinematographer: June Zandona
Producer: Nita Scott for Electric Drone Records
Editor: Kevin Klauber
Special Effects: Wesley Belak-Berger
Art Direction/Design: Eden Cale & Nita Scott
WatchSpottiswoode & His Enemies perform All In The Past live on Soundcheck at the WNYC studio in New York - 2011/10/06. The full audio of their segment is available as a free download.
Warren Haynes Presents: The 23rd Annual Christmas Jam will take place on Saturday December 10th at The Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, NC. Confirmed artists so far:
Gov't Mule
Phil Lesh & Friends (Phil Lesh, Warren Haynes, Jackie Greene, Jeff Chimenti & Joe Russo)
The Cowboy Junkies are releasing Sing In My Meadow, the third installment of their Nomad Series, on October 18th Comes with a bonus live EP . They offer the title track as a free download. Entrants are entered in a sweepstake fro free albums and iPods with their full back catalog.
Phish have just announced a four-show Holiday/NYE Run at Madison Square Garden in New York:
At the end of December, Phish returns to Madison Square Garden in New York, New York for a four-show Holiday/NYE Run to close out 2011. The band has played 19 shows to date at MSG, beginning with its December 30, 1994 concert and including last year's three-night stand, which concluded on New Year's Day.
A limited number of tickets for all four shows are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system at phish.portals.musictoday.com. The ticket request period is currently underway and will end on Monday, October 24, at Noon ET. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Saturday, October 29, at Noon ET.
As with Phish's Summer Tour, included in the ticket price for each date is a free MP3 download of the entire show (a fully mixed soundboard recording), redeemable at LivePhish.com.
Live @ the Lazy Hazy Daze of Summer Loft Party, NYC - 2011/08/13 photo: Tear-n Tan
Daniel Lee is The Invisible Kid, a NYC electronic post-rock one-man band. He hangs out with the members Dead Leaf Echo and his music is not unlike their dreamy shoegaze. Lee self-produced his latest EP Full Catastrophe Livin', playing guitar, bass, synthesizer, drums, vocals, and taking care of the programming.
With richly textured grooves wrapping themselves around the treated vocals, Lee conjures up a lonely world filled with the ghosts of loved ones, ennui and Weltschmertz. This a late night album that to while away the hours before sunrise.
Full Catastrophe Livin' is a self-released EP. Download it for free from his website.
Tracks:
A Different Kind of Disease
We Disappear For Hours (featuring Volya)
Level 1
The Lonely Holiday
Rise & Shine, Jr.
Melody
Meeting in the Clouds
The Invisible Kid evolves into a trio when playing live, with Nick DeMatteo (guitar, bass, backing vocals) and Joseph Yi (guitar, synth, backing vocals).
Watch the new Evelyn Evelyn video for Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?, directed by Hoku Uchiyama. The concept album about the twin sisters by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley is now alos available as a comic book drawn by Cynthia von Buhler, published by Dark Horse Comics.
Amanda Palmer is on tour with her husband, author Neil Gaiman, playing piano and ukulele.
Live dates:
10/28 San Diego, CA @ Birch North Park Theatre( w/ The Jane Austen Argument)
10/29 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre, A Halloween Spectacular (w/ Jason Webley & The Petrojvic Blasting Co.)
10/31 Los Angeles, CA @ Wilshire Ebell Theatre *
11/04 San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts *
11/06 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre *
11/08 Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theatre *
11/09 Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre (w/ Jason Webley) *
Chickenfoot: Kenny Aronoff, Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar and Joe Satriani photo: Neil Zlozower
Hard rock super group Chickenfoot will be on tour in Europe in January promoting their sophomore studio album III, playing shows in the UK, France, The Netherlands and Germany. No Chad Smith on this tour. Kenny Aronoff is once again his replacement on drums.
Highlights of the Bridge School Benefit Concerts will be released on October 24th on Reprise celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the event that was founded by Neil Young. Most of the tracks are previously unreleased. The Brian Wilson led all-star rendition of Surfin’ USA can be found on the Brian Wilson on Tour DVD.
The Bridge School 25th Anniversary Edition comes in two formats: a 3-DVD set and 2-CD. There are some overlaps, but the 2-CD is a little more adventurous including Jonathan Richman's I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar and Thom Yorke covering After The Gold Rush.
