PORTUGAL. THE MAN We started out the day with Zach 's suggestion to hit up Portugal. The Man at the Sonic Stage for one of the 30 min acoustic sets. I have a feeling that sentiment will come across many audience members from Bonnaroo's lips. Here's the deal with Portugal. The Man if more people who grew up listening to Rusted Root can make music like this, we're in for a couple good music years. KATZENJAMMER [...]
***Note From The Editor: Our newest guest contributor, Hannah Palmer, decided to do a little something experimental in her Bonnaroo experience this year and share it with us. If you are one our many Atlanta readers, I highly suggest checking out her blog Slumptown, Ga . Enjoy: The Experiment: I'm always whining about the lack of women performers included at big festivals. I attended Bonnaroo in 2007 and 2008 and I think the only chicks I saw onstage were Cat [...]
After four long days, which featured torrential downpours, grueling heat, lots of mud, and an over a hundred of music's best acts, the 2009 edition of the Bonnaroo Music Festival is now and will forever will be a memory. Join us, while we remember and review the festival that was Bonnaroo '09… Hot and muddy. Not your PB&J type of combo for sure - after all, if you've taken a science class, you're probably asking yourself how it can be hot and muddy at the same time. Yet, this and more was the scene [...]
Friday morning started with some nice cloud cover that made it easy to sleep in a little while. After hanging out at camp, I headed for the press area to work and sit through an orientation, and then I went to see some tunes. I caught the last half of Katzenjammer 's set, and it was really good. The Norwegian 4-piece was comprised completely of ladies and they put on a damn good show. They would all be switching instruments between every song and had a striking sense of showmanship to match their musical prowess. At one point they [...]
With each passing year the task of coming up with new and inventive strategies to keep things fresh for the masses of people that annually coming back to Manchester must get harder and harder. Among this year's additions are an on-site Concert Poster Art Exhibit , Photo Scavenger Hunt , On-Site RV Rentals and Tweetaroo . The one that got us the most excited though was the announcement of Bonnaroo's first ever Artist Curated Stage to be overseen by none other than David Byrne . The [...]
Music News - From Norway, Katzenjammers 's musical underground gathering is conjured up through instruments like the accordian, mandolin, guitar, piano, balaika bass, xylophone, trumpet, kazoo, melodica, drums and banjo just to name a few, all played with fire in the belly, fever in the fingers, heart and throat. Then there are voices, voices, are said to be the brushstrokes on the night sky where you dance your wildest dance in your fanciest clothes. Katzenjammer drives clichés so hard into your guts that they shrivel, twist, and lay a [...]
Here's your one-stop shopping destination for all things free and musical on another rainy Friday. As usual, below is an assortment of MP3s that have come our way in the past week. Some are EAR FARM favorites, some might be more your bag than ours, all are free for you to enjoy... just click the band name for the band's site and the song name for the MP3. EAR FARM: giving you more of what you want. MP3s Aeroplane Pageant : "Stars Still [...]
Drink, dear rebels and drink again. Katzenjammer's musical underground cultus is conjured up through instruments like the accordian, mandolin, guitar, piano, balaika bass, xylophone, trumpet, kazoo, melodica, drums and banjo just to name a few - all played with fire in the belly, fever in the fingers, heart and throat. And then there are voices. The voices, my dear friends, are the brushstrokes on the night sky where you dance your wildest dance in your fanciest clothes. Katzenjammer drives clichés so hard into your guts that they shrivel, twist, and lay a foundation for new generations [...]
In his usual fashion, David Byrne has been keeping himself quite busy, and now the multitasking musical genius will be curating his own stage at Bonnaroo this year - and is the first musician to ever do so at the festival as well. Byrne's stage will be on Friday, June 12 and he's already tapped Dirty Projectors , Ani DiFranco , St. Vincent , Katzenjammer and Santigold to be a part of his world. [...]
You probably know Ken Stringfellow as the co-leader of Northwestern power-pop all-timers the Posies or as a sideman for R.E.M. or latter-day Big Star. He's also a solo artist (we're particularly fond of the soft-rock American beauty that is 2001's Touched) and is currently preparing the debut by his Norwegian garage-rock band, the DiSCiPLiNES. Each day [...]
There is no way my words could do this four piece, all girl band from Oslo, justice...so here is a snippet of their bio, Katzenjammer on Katzenjammer: About Katzenjammer Ladies and gentlemen allow me to introduce the queens of sultry noise, the sisters of mercy, the saints of damaged souls, high society's hangover and the hen night for Calamity Jane. The latter day's eminent, [...]
Katzenjammer - A Bar in Amsterdam Någon slags folkpop från Norge med en touch av balkan. Låten finns med på deras album Le Pop .
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show: 01. Hello Saferide - 2008 02. TALK 1 03. The Fine Arts Showcase - Friday on my knees 04. Juvelen - Hanna 05. Dmitry Fyodorov - MD5VSSHA1 06. TALK 2 07. Paper - Out of it into it 08. Katzenjammer - Tea with cinnamon 09. Kristofer Åström - Just a little insane 10. TALK 3 [...]
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart: 01. Vamp - St. Mandag 02. Erlend Bratland - True Colors 03. Bjørn Eidsvåg - Pust 04. Åge Aleksandersen & Mikael Wiehe - To stemmer - 14 akustiske sanger 05. Marit Larsen - The Chase 06. Satyricon - The Age of Nero 07. Radka Toneff - Butterfly 08. Ingemars - I Finnskogens rike 09. Rita Eriksen - [...]
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show: 01. TALK 1 02. Anna Maria Espinosa - A little moonlight 03. Marit Bergman - 1985 04. The Goner - Haven 05. TALK 2 06. Park Hotell - Black hole 07. Fredrik - Holm 08. Emmanuel Tegel - Solaris (beat mix) 09. TALK 3 10. The Alien - Extract #3 11. Boeoes Kaelstigen [...]
I was originally going to begin this feature by comparing Katzenjammer 's passion for music to some relentless force of nature, mainly because this Norwegian quartet practically defines in their sound and exuberance what it truly means to enjoy playing music and succeed in doing so. Sometimes though, a video can be more expressive than words, especially when applied to certain circumstances that are too unique for conventional expressions. So, when I watched the four young women of Katzenjammer perform a live version of one of their several strikingly unique tracks, "Ain't No Thing", on a boat floating along [...]
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart: 01. Marit Larsen - The Chase 02. Odd Nordstoga - Pilegrim 03. Karpe Diem - Fire vegger 04. Vidar Johnsen & Peter Nordberg - Mål & Mening 05. Rita Eriksen - Hjerteslag 06. Diverse artister - Mgp Jr 2008 07. Herborg Kråkevik - Annleis enn i går 08. Maria Mena - Cause & Effect 09. Halvdan Sivertsen [...]
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show: 01. Firefox AK - Techno tears 02. TALK 1 03. Hello Saferide - Anna 04. Sods - Copenhagen 05. Jonathan Johansson - En hand i himlen 06. TALK 2 07. Miss Li - I'm sorry, he's mine 08. Parker Lewis - Heart rate hill 09. Tiger Lou - Crushed by a crowd 10. Juvelen - [...]
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart: 01. Odd Nordstoga - Pilegrim 02. Vidar Johnsen & Peter Nordberg - Mål & Mening 03. Karpe Diem - Fire vegger 04. Diverse artister - Mgp Jr 2008 05. St. Thomas - St. Thomas Box 06. Halvdan Sivertsen - Mellom oss 07. Rita Eriksen - Hjerteslag 08. Maria Mena - Cause & Effect 09. Herborg Kråkevik [...]
You should know by now that I love almost anything that manages to incorporate traditional folk into modern music, so you shouldn't be surprised that I'm enjoying Norway's Katzenjammer quite a bit. Countrymates Kaizers Orchestra are a good reference point, 'cept that KJ borrow more from bluegrass than purely European/Gypsy folk. And they're also a heckuva lot more fun, something very very obvious on "Le pop" , the title track to their debut album. The 'grass isn't so apparent here as the lilting circus music takes center stage, but I assure you - it's there. [...]
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