Just a few links to get you through the week... * Scott Miller has made his new CD For Crying Out Loud available for pre-order at his website . Only 1,000 copies will be offered between now and December 17th online and at Miller's shows... and once they're gone, they're gone. Orders placed before the 17th should arrive by Christmas. If you don't get in on the pre-order, then you have to wait until March for the official release. All pre-order copies also include an enhanced CD feature with a twenty minute video on the [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Rock guitarist (and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominee) Jeff Beck has come out against Led Zeppelin's reunion plans by insisting that it will be pointless without lead singer Robert Plant. The 64-year-old rock legend, who played in The Yardbirds with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, praised the band's huge reunion concert at London's O2 Arena last December, 2007. But Beck argues, and MNN agrees, that plans for a full-blown tour should be shelved without Plant, who has consistantly refused to join his old band mates full-time. Beck says, "I really don't think it's a good idea, not if Robert [...]
Hoy ha sido uno de esos días lluviosos, grises y otoñales en los que el cuerpo te pide degustar algún exquisito manjar musical. Sentarte y colocar en el cd de tu estereo uno de esos discos íntimos, suaves y pausados que produzcan en tu cerebro una inmensa sensación de paz y tranquilidad. Como no podía ser menos la tarde me la he pasado saboreando ese inmenso trabajo con el que Robert Plant y Alison Krauss nos obsequiaron en Octubre de 2007, "Raising Sand" [...]
Congratulations to the "Record Of The Year" nominees at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards: (Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s), if other than the artist.) * Paper Planes M.I.A Diplo, producer; Switch, engineer/mixer Track from: Kala [Interscope] * Chasing Pavements Adele Eg White, producer; Tom Elmhirst & Steve Price, engineers/mixers Track from: 19 [XL Recordings/Columbia] * Viva La Vida Coldplay Markus Dravs, [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Nominations for the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced tonight by The Recording Academy and it's like one of the most diverse years ever with the Album Of The Year category alone representing the rap, R&B, folk and rock genres. Here's the rundown on todays top category nominations for this year's Grammy Awards : Record of the Year : "Chasing Pavements," Adele; "Viva La Vida," Coldplay; "Bleeding Love," Leona Lewis; "Paper Planes," M.I.A; "Please Read The Letter," Robert Plant [...]
Uncle T wound up Day 2 at Austin City Limits with this dynamite duo and the legendary T-Bone Burnett on guitar. "Battle of Evermore!" Wowza! That's one of my favorite Led Zep songs. ~alt-gramma~ Robert Plant and Alison Krauss I caught the last 30 minutes of this amazing set. They sounded magnificent; much more powerful than I'd anticipated. These guys went into a musical [...]
I seem to be suffering from a bit of a lack of inspiration this week. That makes this a good time to reach back into music history and pull out a post of various musical birthdays and other events that took place this day in history. Today is the birthday of country/folk singer/songwriter Kieran Kane. Born in Queens, NY in 1949, Kane had music in his blood from an early age. By the time he was nine, Kane was playing drums in his older brother's rock band. As a teenager, his attentions [...]
Last week, you might've caught my first impressions of Austin during a quick, three-day jaunt for the City Limits festival. After a debaucherous night on the town swillin' Tecate and tequila, it was time to get on with the gettin' on. Under time and money constraints, we only bought tickets for Saturday-each day was eighty-freakin'-bucks, for cryin' out loud. Two words on the environment: hot and crowded. Like, 92 degrees hot and 75,000 people crowded. But given that ACL was the most organized music festival I'd ever experienced, we still had a great time [...]
AA Bondy 11:45-12:30 // AA Bondy // Dell Stage Despite a burning desire to sleep till noon, I rolled out of bed at 9:30 (that's early for a Sunday!) to make sure Josh and I were at Zilker in time to catch Alabama folk singer AA Bondy. He reminded me a great deal of Bob Dylan with a tinge of Rocky Votolato , although almost any modern folk singer with an acoustic guitar and harmonica reminds me of Votolato. Regardless of any comparisons, Bondy's set was quite lovely, despite not [...]
Having slept for more than 3 hours, Editor in Chief Jessica and I found ourselves out the door and headed to the park in a somewhat timely manner. Pausing for only a moment at a local McDonald's (ew, right?) [ Ed. Note: fruit and yogurt parfait is delish! ] for breakfast, we pointed our bodies toward the dust pit that was Zilker Park. 11:45-12:30 // Langhorne Slim // Dell Stage As we shifted through the somewhat modest morning crowd, making our way towards the Dell Dome to get Jessica's hair teased into the finest [...]
I had high expectations for the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss show at the Rose Garden Theater of the Clouds on Tuesday night. After all, the album they made together (along with T Bone Burnett, who deserves vast credit for bringing...
How fitting -- the artists responsible for my top album last year and one of my so-far top 10 albums this year are playing on the same night. From the fall arts guide: Sept. 30 ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS...
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Spinner.com : Under some of the coolest temperatures in its recent festival history, Austin City Limits wrapped up over the weekend, bringing together 65,000 patrons on each of the event's three days to catch the likes of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, David... Read more
(RFT freelancer Roy Kasten is attending the Austin City Limits Festival in Texas this weekend, and kindly offered to blog about it for us. Here's his first dispatch; all photos by Dana Plonka .) At past ACLs, I've had some of the finest musical moments early on in the day, before the waves of humanity and crushing sun. On Saturday I played it safe, and bet on Jesus. The gospel tent featured Shields of Faith , an established touring band from San Antonio, Texas, who testified like there really were [...]
Here's a video clip posted by a concertgoer who had a balcony seat at Wednesday night's Robert Plant/Alison Krauss/T Bone Burnett concert at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis. Kenny Williamson For a slideshow of the concert, click here . The song: "Nothin'," by Townes Van Zandt. As I recall, Plant introduced the tune by saying something along the lines of, It's an "American song -- all the good ones are." Vantage point's nothing to write home [...]
Review (and slide show) to come in the a.m. In the meantime, here's the setlist from tonight's Plant/Krauss/Burnett show at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis: 1. Rich Woman 2. Leave My Woman Alone 3. Black Dog 4. Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us 5. Through the Morning, Through the Night 6. It's Goodbye and So Long to You 7. Fortune Teller 8. I'm in the Mood / Matty Groves 9. Black Country Woman 10. Earlier Baghdad (T Bone Burnett) 11. Wildwood Flower 12. Down to [...]
It's been a while since I posted anything about the upcoming Americana Honors and Awards Show. Since it's coming up next week, I thought I'd better get back on the ball. You can find my previous posts on the Awards here . A full list of this year's nominees can be found here (scroll down). Last month, I started this whole series on the awards nominees by listing the five songs nominated for Song of the Year . Four of the five nominated songs come from albums nominated for Album of the Year. Since [...]
Sure, summer is festival and outdoor concert season, what with the beautiful Oregon weather and vistas. But while most concerts are heading indoors for the fall, there's still no lack of shows to see. Into hip-hop? Talib Kweli comes to...
Ever since I chose teaching as a career, Labor Day has been doubly relevant for me: an annual return to the classroom-as-job-site marked by a national holiday in celebration of the organized workplace. This year, however, after leaving a teaching position that just wasn't working out, and subsequently spending the summer carrying hope from one interview to the next, I find myself in a bit of limbo. Which is to say: for the first time in over a decade, labor day looms, and I don't have plans to be anywhere the day [...]
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