We've been watching the proliferation of music festivals in Florida over the last few years with great interest and this morning a new player has emerged in the form of the inaugural Orlando Calling festival. Produced by Festival Republic, who organize the Reading and Leeds festivals in the U.K., Orlando Calling features a genre-defying lineup that should appeal to a wide range of music fans. The event will take place at the large Citrus Bowl football stadium in Orlando on November 12 -13. Saturday (November 12) and Sunday's [...]
As we mentioned yesterday the latest issue of Spin magazine is dedicated to to the 20th anniversary Nirvana's seminal album Nevermind , with the cover story dedicated to answering the question - What Nevermind Means Now . The album, which essentially eliminated hair metal, introduced the world of the heavy rock sounds emanating from the Pacific Northwest that came to be known as Grunge. As a way of celebrating the record SPIN assembled an impressive array of musician to record a Nevermind tribute album , that features the likes of the Meat Puppets, Titus [...]
El músico estadounidense Beck , quien colaboró en los últimos años junto a artistas de la talla de Charlotte Gainsbourg , Thurston Moore y Stephen Malkmus , se encuentra trabajando junto a la estrella country Dwight Yoakam . Según LA Times , Yoakam regresó a Warner Bros. Records -tras una década de ausencia- y su nuevo [...]
It seems like forever since the last proper Beck album, but the guy has at least been keeping pretty busy. He was the guest designer for the summer issue of Zoetrope: All Story and contributed to recent releases by Thurston Moore and Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks. Perhaps the most interesting pairing is yet to come, however: according to a Dwight Yoakam press release, Beck has been recording with the artist for an as-yet unnamed project. If that isn't interesting enough, Malkmus said in a recent interview that Beck was looking at founding a private press for limited [...]
Not only will Beck's music collaboration streak continue in coming months, but it looks like he has more print publishing projects in the works as well, following this summer's guest design for Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All Story literary magazine. News of the latest studio team-up for Beck — after May's production/performance on Thurston Moore solo LP Demolished Thoughts and this month's Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks release — arrived buried in a press release for Dwight Yoakam, which, in addition to announcing that [...]
Dwight Yoakam Arena Theatre July 8, 2011 Aftermath has never considered Dwight Yoakam a country artist in the general sense of the term, the way most people define country artists. In our mind, ... Continue reading "Friday Night: Dwight Yoakam At Arena Theatre" >
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Los Angeles Times (MCT) -- LOS ANGELES-It's fairly common for a major label recording artist to switch to an indie label as time goes by and their impact on the charts waxes and wanes, which is just what happened to country singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam in the '90s, after his seven-year streak of top 10 country singles slowed. That makes it all the more unusual to get news Monday that Yoakam has not only returned from indie land, where he's been...
Some news that may be of interest to you bluegrass fans. I know Old School's ears may perk up a bit. Tommy Shaw, guitarist of Styx, is set to release his debut Bluegrass album, "The Great Divide" on March 22nd, 2011, through Pazzo Music/Fontana Distribution. The album features an impressive roster of guest musicians, including: Alison Krauss, Dwight Yoakam, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Rob Ickes, Stuart Duncan, Byron House, Gary Burr and many more. With this album, Shaw, a Montgomery, Alabama native, establishes himself as an authentic addition to the Bluegrass community. Born with [...]
photo by tapsjg Like California, Los Angeles has been rebuked and scorned in book, film, song, musical, vaudeville, pretty much every medium dating back to protozoan wall art. It's easy to hate LA. I don't have much of a problem with the city, beyond traffic, but the entertainment-industrial complex is a whoremaker chewing up everything in its path like a tornado made of assholes. I get the hate. So, let's channel that hate into song. Bicycle Thief - L.A. Country Hometown [...]
Dwight Yoakam February 11, 2011 Mystic Lake Casino Aw, sookie. My appreciation for Dwight Yoakam's live show, after his Friday night performance to a sold-out crowd at Mystic Lake Casin...
In high school there were journals - there are organized on my dresser, gathering dust, giving testament to the person that I was in my yesteryear, full of heartbreak and love for The Beatles. In my "I Quit College And Now I Work At A Bar" years, I kept journals too. They are hidden, for they are fucked and scouring through those pages might send me into an ignorant spiral. Whoa, shit just got deep there... Anyway, mix. I have omitted Ryan Adams, Iron & Wine, and things like Chris deBurgh, Chris Isaak, and Michael Bolton. Though that [...]
My Wednesday was divided into four, very distinct parts: the earliest part consisted of coffee, cigarettes, and cooking brussel sprouts (fried in bacon grease, yo) and fresh asparagus. Part A was decent enough - I'm not a cook but I made due. Spaghetti-Os at the work Thanksgiving feast I myself had organized would have been rude as fuck. Part B consisted of said dinner at work. I spend my days making money to feed others who cannot feed themselves and so, to me, it feels like we should all have a day where we sit together as a work family [...]
Mindful my twang output has being tempered of late thought I'd remedy it with Volume III of More Twang. Twenty one hand picked selections culled from the Beat Surrender archives, some familiar names and I hope some new ones that'll have you wanting more. Caitlin Rose - Gorilla Man Pt. 1 ( buy ) Joey Allcorn - Honky Tonkin' Ramblin' Man Laura Cantrell - Too Late For Tonight ( buy ) Cracker - The Bottle Let Me Down Shannon McNally - [...]
Director Travis Mathews shot Girls' Christopher Owens too weeks ago in the latter's San Francisco bedroom. They talked about all things Christopher Owens. You can watch the interview in two parts , and you can also watch Owens play a gentle, Dwight Yoakam-inspired country number named "Oh My Love" by clicking play above. It's very pretty. (via MBV )
Hullabalou Music Festival ... Ticket Purchasing Periods Advance: December 4, 2009 12:00 p.m. EST – March 9, 2010 11:59:59 p.m. EST Regular (if tickets remain): March 10, 2010 10:00 a.m. EST- Sellout How to Purchase Tickets Beginning December 4, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. EST, tickets may be purchased by visiting www.hullabaloufest.com. Tickets are also available online at Ticketmaster.com, and at all Ticketmaster outlets, including select Kroger stores. To charge tickets by phone, call (800) 745-3000. Tickets will be sold on [...]
I don't really have time to write - it's exam marking time - but I can't stand seeing that beanie wearing, budgie smuggling, buffoon every time I open Safari anymore. So here's a photo of Boy Z putting the moves on a cute blonde at a wedding we went to last night. Because nothing brings that paternal pride cascading to the surface like watching one of your sons successfully executing the lady killing skills that you've been so carefully teaching him. [...]
Even before Elvis' hip swivel was inexplicably worked into a Civil War drama, musicians have been trying to make it in Hollywood (and conversely, Hollywood has been trying to make a dime off the notoriety of pop stars). Of course, just because someone can carry a tune or play a guitar doesn't mean he's going to be able to act convincingly so the marriage of musicians and movies has yielded mixed results to say the least. The following list takes a look at some of the greatest successes and biggest flops of rockers gone thespian. [...]
Elizabeth Cook's arrived at Americana Central Station steaming in with Don Was, Buddy Miller, Dwight Yoakam, Rodney Crowell and Tim Carroll on-board, Welder is without doubt her best album to date, bringing together a wonderful mix of songs, funny, heart breaking, personal, country, rock n roll, acoustic and electric, the songs include Cook originals, a pair from husband Tim Carroll, one written by her mother Joyce - I'm Beginning to Forget and a pair of covers, Frankie Millers Blackland Farmer and Hem's Not California the album strikes the arc and throws out [...]
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