Avey Tare w/ Animal Collective at Prospect Park in 2009 ( more by Tim Griffin ) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows. Here are some highlights... Avey Tare's Slasher Flick, Co La @ Glasslands Animal Collective were just in NYC to play Governors Ball , and then they made their way over to Tennessee for Bonnaroo . Now, [...]
I am passing on to you , as clearly and powerfully as I can, this gift which was extended to me by the sheer chance of being somewhere at the right time in history and living through it . --Joan Baez On May 19, 1973 Joan Baez 's amazing anti war statement, Where Are You Now, My Son? entered the Billboard charts. The album contained both new songs and actual recordings of the war, from the massive Christmas bombing raids in Hanoi, North Vietnam in 1972. Below is Side Two. You can imagine standing next [...]
Marie-Flore is French , Parisian in fact. Sings in English and holds her name from a Joan Baez song. She played violin for 8 years, until the guitar finally came into her life. Since then she has never stopped writing & performing across Europe, but has always kept one foot close to her roots, in her native France & its wonderful parisian venues. She embodies the contemporary ‘do it yourself’ attitude with everything from her videos & illustrations, she creates everything to transpire, live her music.. She's already got an album under the belt and a few gigs to her resume. She is [...]
Perhaps as a symptom of writing a music blog for 8 years, I have developed a slight obsession with making music lists and rankings. So in an attempt to put that compulsion to good use, I’ve decided to introduce a new feature. Roughly each week, I’m going to select an album and a song from a single year (starting with 1960) for your listening pleasure. My only rule is the year’s album and song can not both come from the same artist. When LPs first were introduced in late 40’s, they were [...]
Throughout the early part of the aughts Devendra Banhart was best known as the face of the of "freak-folk" movement, thanks in part to the fact that he looked as if he had stepped straight out of the Haight circa 1967. Earlier this month the talented singer-songwriter released his eighth studio album and debut for Nonesuch Records - Mala . The 14-track effort features Banhart's familiar mix of wispy folk and Tropicalia sounds, with bits of synth-y dance beats. Banhart will kick off an extensive world tour in support of the [...]
Tickets to see Rodriguez at Barclays Center go on presale today at 10 AM (code: "METRO"). Tickets for the Weezer Cruise go on sale today at noon. Heart is playing Jones Beach on June 27 and PNC Bank Arts Center on July 2 with Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience . Tickets for those shows go [...]
The Indigo Girls and Joan Baez are co-headling the Mann Center on Saturday, July 20th. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 22nd at 10 AM. Go here for tickets and more information about the show. Continue reading
I received a message from Stuarto requesting I cover his show in the late afternoon hours of Friday, March 8. After a minute or two to think about it, I agreed. In all the times I've covered for his show over the past year and a half, I have never done a show that gives a nod to his show, which often features more mainstream music including a handful of tunes from the 60s and 70s. For March 8, I decided this needed to change. I pieced together quite the show for the first two [...]
Os The Telegram são uma dupla formada por Filipe Amorim e Paulo Santos de Santa Maria da Feira e acabaram de lançar o EP de estreia, Harsh & Cold. Edificado por cinco temas originais, devaneia por ambientes folk com um piscar de olhos ao country Norte-Americano e tem como inspirações nomes como Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joan Baez entre outros. Ao vivo contam ser muito intimistas, até porque a isso se propõe a música que fazem, sempre acompanhados de um característico banco de jardim. Para já, e enquanto não começam a dar mais concertos, ouçam o [...]
Choosing your favorite love song is no easy task. Do you dig in your memory for that nostalgic gem of teenage tenderness, or stick with the song that soundtracked your last kiss? Which passion do you prefer: gushing exuberance or deep longing? Or perhaps you have a soft spot for cultural impact. I asked my fellow ATG writers to choose their favorite love song of all time and share with the world what makes it THE ONE. Find out what we had to say after the jump. [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List , Music Appreciation Getty | Getty Here at Spinner we've got an informal agreement with the cosmos -- you stay out of our business and we'll stay out of yours. That means no horoscopes, no inter-planetary navigation, and no astrology. Thing is, hardcore Capricorns are making it difficult to maintain this treaty. For some reason there are a LOT of super-important [...]
T he art of the cover song is one all musicians have practiced at some point in their lives, some just stick with us more than others. 2012 was filled with fantastic covers, but after a very *ahem* scientific study, the ones below were last year's stand outs. In our minds and hearts anyway... 1. Heart of Mine (Bob Dylan) Blake Mills, Danielle Haim and Taylor Goldsmith | Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Click here to view the embedded [...]
Posted in Play-This-List Soundbite Colder than a Lance Armstrong smile it is tonight. So with the fire lit and a bag of chocolate treats beside me (that the local kids were apparently too lazy to get dressed up and come trick or treating for), I started listening to some music appropriate for this kind of night. I went straight [...]
The Baez sisters can't resist draft resistors, 1968. According to the post over at How To Be A Retronaut : “Joan Baez encouraged draft resistance during her concerts, and is believed to have suggested that women opposed to violence should go for men who were resisting the military draft. This suggestion soon turned into the poster featuring Baez, which was created by Larry Gates and sold to raise funds for the Draft Resistance movement. The poster features the Joan Baez, along with her sisters [...]
We all know what our favorite musicians are like on stage — whether they're shy or flamboyant, whether they're chatty or businesslike, whether they're funny or taciturn. But we also know that what we're seeing on stage is ultimately a performance. Off stage, however, it's a completely different matter, and thus backstage photography has always provided an interesting insight into the music world, particularly when the photos in question aren't posed or contrived. After the jump, we've pulled together a collection of such photos, images that seem to capture sides to performers that we rarely get to see, giving a [...]
Sep 4, 2012, 8:00am
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Josephine Foster returns with possibly her most alluring and approachable album to date.
As you might have noticed if you've tried to download any live shows here in the past few days, Demonoid is down. No one really knows how long it will be down, but in the meantime I'm still trying to figure out the best way to link to those shows. Bayfiles is great in that [...]
Steve Earle made his name early and adeptly on both sides of the singer-songwriter label, dropping out of ninth grade to study the music business, moving to the heart of country in his twentieth year after a hard-scrabble teenage musician's life in Houston to pen mid-career hits for Carl Perkins, Patty Loveless, Johnny Lee, and others in the Nashville scene, all the while making his own path through the wilderness of rockabilly, country, and folk. Throughout, he emerged as a poet and political activist, even as he struggled as an outlaw and an addict, and Wikipedia is [...]
First Aid Kit adds another angelic tune to their covers collection with Joan Baez's "Diamonds & Rust."
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