Recent blog posts about Ted Leo and the Pharmacists from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/artist/tedleoandthepharmacists/ 2013-05-25T05:05:22+01:00 text/html 2013-05-17T17:14:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4956801/10-hilarious-celeb-cameos-in-music-videos/
Celebrities cameo in music videos all the time. Whether its a way for them to launch an image makeover (Megan Fox hoping to be a serious actress in Love the Way You Lie) or just an excuse to make out with their significant other (all eyes on Ben Affleck slapping J.Los ass), big stars seem to love lending their famous faces to help videos get more play. Once in a great while, the celebrity cameo goes beyond the usual eye-rolling look at me antics and is genuinely hilarious. So, take a load-off and watch some amazing [...]]]> text/html 2013-04-08T17:17:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4878590/just-announced-ted-leo-and-the-pharmacists-playing-morgans-pier/
While righteous indie-punk torchbearer Ted Leo has been making the tour rounds sans-Pharmacists lately (either solo basement shows, like we saw at Nacho House back in November, or solo theater gigs opening for Aimee Mann), a round of full band shows has been announced today via Matador Records, and it includes a date at Morgan's ... Continue reading ’]]> text/html 2013-03-27T21:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4856325/in-the-spotlight-the-waterboys/
Five covers of the Waterboys: 'Fisherman's Blues' by Ted Leo, 'Strange Boat' by Tom Jones, 'When Will We Be Married?' by Steve Earle, 'A Pagan Place' by The War On Drugs, 'The Whole of the Moon' by Mic Christopher and Glen Hansard.]]> text/html 2013-03-05T19:21:39+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4815287/ted-leo-on-10-years-of-hearts-of-oak-his/
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Matias Corral The story of February 2013 in music was 2003 (Sorry, Thom Yorke ). Think pieces, personal essays, reunion tours and unreleased singles all flooded the cultural landscape surrounding the Postal Service 's lone LP Give Up . It turned 10 officially on February 19, but its modern day domination kicked into gear long before that with a mere website update in late January. [...]]]> text/html 2012-11-15T16:52:07+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4621366/ted-leo-headlining-bradley-manning-wikileaks-benefit-concert/
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , I Fought the Law Getty Ted Leo will headline a benefit show in Washington, D.C. next weekend to help Bradley Manning , the man behind the leaked U.S. military and State Department documents which appeared on Wikileaks . According to Punknews , the show will take place at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church with proceeds going to the Bradley Manning Support Network [...]]]> text/html 2012-09-03T14:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4484252/spider-bags-shake-my-head-album-review/
The opening track of the Spider Bags newest album, Keys to the City, powers and rollicks with an effervescent, childlike punk quality; its a Detroit garage band channeling a Saturday morning cartoon of years past. 2012s Shake My Head is equal parts The Clash, The Specials, and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists minus the ska influence and any British accents. Instead, like their American counterpart, the aforementioned Ted Leo, Spider Bags hail from New Jersey (via North Carolina.) This, their third LP, is a collection of self effacing stories of love, relationships, and the hard scrabble [...]]]> text/html 2012-05-30T00:29:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4295793/sasquatch-2012-day-four-sheepish-dogs-and-a-phallic-phoenix/
Be warned: I may use the term "Show of the Day" more than once. You're now more prepared for the final day's review of Sasquatch. I shall now get right to the music. The Sheepdogs opened the day with a bang. "Show of the Day"! Didn't think it would come that early did you? Well, here's why they're contenders for that title: They rocked so hard at noon on the final day of a four day music festival that people started randomly log-rolling down the gorge conjuring images of [...]]]> text/html 2012-05-09T12:18:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4254488/mokb-premiere-trummors-fields-of-fire/
Trummors is a duo consisting of singer-songwriter Anne Cunningham and David Lerner, formerly of Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. Their debut long-player, Over And Around The Clove , drops on May 22, 2012, and features steel guitarist Marc Orleans (D. Charles Speer & The Helix, Meg Baird), who accompanies the duo live, and guitarist Chris Zaloom on pedal steel. The whole ball o'wax was in Woodstock and Kingston, NY, and MOKB is mighty happy to be dropping the premiere of single, Fields Of Fire , a plainspoken honky-tonkin' number that [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-16T21:35:28+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3992592/lookout-records-punk-label-that-launched-green-day-and-ted/
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Getty Images Although the label that launched Green Day has yet to make it official, it appears that Lookout! Records is no more. According to a blog post by Ted Leo on Jan 13, and reported by Punknews.org, the label -- which officially stopped releasing new material in 2006 -- has "sadly, shuttered it's windows for good." In a post titled "Lookout! Ist Kapuut," [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-14T01:33:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3987563/rip-lookout-records/
Lookout! Records , the Berkeley, California-based record label and one-time home of Green Day, Operation Ivy, Rancid, The Donnas, Alkaline Trio, and countless others, is no more, according to the label's former signee Ted Leo. In a message posted on his website , Leo revealed that while the label had ceased putting out new material in 2006, it was still printing back catalogs until December. Now, however, the label has "sadly, shuttered its windows for good," explained Leo. Leo, who released four Ted Leo and the Pharmacists records through Lookout! during the early 2000s, went on to [...]]]> text/html 2011-12-26T18:32:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3951857/lmb-nyc-this-weeks-concert-calendar-dec-26-31-holiday/
Happy holidays, dudes and dudettes! Hope you got everything you wished for and downed copious amounts of egg nog. Now, on to more important stuff than family gatherings and gift exchanges....live music! Naturally, there are ton of great shows going on this week in NYC as we lead up to New Year's Eve, including some multi-night holiday runs, some late-night throwdowns, and plenty of NYE parties that don't involve watching a ball drop in 10-degree weather.]]> text/html 2011-11-21T15:07:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3877020/titus-ted-leo-playing-ows-benefit-tonight/
A few days after the NYPD evicted the Occupy Wall Street camp from Zuccotti Park, and a couple of days after this scandalous bullshit went down at UC Davis, Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles has organized a last-minute benefit show that goes down tonight at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn. The show will feature Titus, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, and the So So Glos, and it will serve as a benefit for the National Lawyers Guild , an organization currently fighting for protesters' rights. And because this is Patrick Stickles we're talking about, the show [...]]]> text/html 2011-11-14T12:55:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3860453/lmb-nyc-this-weeks-concert-calendar-nov-14-20/
The NYC concert calendar chills out a bit this week. But there's still plenty of action, including a jam-packed weekend of shows that's going to set up some tough decisions....]]> text/html 2011-11-10T16:30:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3852989/ted-leo-and-the-pharmacists-to-play-benefit-in-washington/
Ted Leo And The Pharmacists will be playing a benefit show in Washington D.C., to support National Day Laborer Organizing Network and We Are Family D.C. The show will be taking place on November 12th, at Sacred Heart Church in D.C. Also playing are Medications and The Max Levine Ensemble . More information can be found here . Additionally, the band has announced a pair of shows for New Year's Eve this year, the first taking place on December 30th at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY, [...]]]> text/html 2011-11-08T06:28:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3846691/fun-fun-fun-fest-recap-dan/
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - Fun Fun Fun Fest Recap (Dan) - Sometimes bigger isnt better. While I wouldnt classify the expanded Fun Fun Fun Fest as a raging success, by no means was it a failure. If anything it was a victim of its past success and the inflated expectations placed on this years festival. I wouldve preferred they didnt add the third day, but I appreciated that there were less scheduling conflicts. As for Auditorium Shores, it may not have [...]]]> text/html 2011-11-07T23:20:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3845185/live-fun-fun-fun-fest-austin/
Slayer closed out the third and final day of Fun Fun Fun Fest. Big fun, if not fun3, this past weekend in Austin at the Fun Fun Fun Fest, a mixture of musical (and other) entertainment staged supposedly as an alternative to the bloated, self-important Austin City Limits festival. FFF stretched out for the first time at Auditorium Shores, which to even the drunkest concertgoer is much more space than ACL has down the road at Zilker Park. The only physical problem this year was apparently blowing dust but on Sunday - the only [...]]]> text/html 2011-09-24T13:30:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3743867/today-and-tonight-in-concerts-popped-music-fest-philly-fm/
Take a deep breath and get ready to rock: it's an eventful Saturday in Philly. Today both the Popped! Music Festival and the Philly F/M Fest continue. Popped! is at the Liacouras Center at 1776 N. Broad Street on Temples campus. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. Lineup for Popped! is: Nikki Jean 11:25am Anamanaguchi 11:50am Patty Crash 12:15 Black Landlord 12:40 Zee Avi 1:05 Mates Of State 1:35 Cults 2:15 Sun Airway 2:55 Budos Band 3;35 Charles Bradley 4:15 Titus [...]]]> text/html 2011-09-15T20:40:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3723663/ted-leo-and-the-pharmacists/
The folks at You Ain't No Picasso have an ever-growing collection of covers by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists that just received a significant upgrade. Now at 75 total covers, the collection features new takes on jams like Aimee Mann's "Freeway," Husker Du's "Could You Be the One," Queen's "Radio Ga Ga," and Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." My personal favorite is the latter, which is startlingly on point. Like, really on point, to the point you'd think a whole covers project existed of Ted Leo and the Pharmacists tackling Tears for Fears tracks. [...]]]> text/html 2011-09-14T16:46:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3721960/pujol-release-details-of-ep-fall-tour-dates-with-ted/
Continually shot out of a cannon, PUJOL contorted through his latest flaming hoop with the recording and release of the EP Nasty, Brutish, and Short on Omaha's Saddle Creek. Moving at the speed of the '60's, the EP becomes PUJOL 's 10th release in less than two years after acclaimed singles, full lengths and EPs on Third Man, Infinity Cat, Evil Weevil, Jeffrey Drag, Turbo Time and Velocity of Sound. Nasty, Brutish, and Short focuses on fragmentation, compartmentalization, and the idea of cultural maxims dominating the individual's ability [...]]]> text/html 2011-09-08T19:46:08+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3707403/check-out-pujol-mayday/
On October 18th, Nashville rock outfit PUJOL will release their new EP, Nasty, Brutish, And Short , via Conor Oberst's Saddle Creek Records. Defining that record's title to a T is the lead single, "Mayday", which is available below for streaming/downloading. Don't be fooled so easily by this punk riot; the raucous little numberhas some pretty heavy meaningbeneath its shiny, chaotic surface. "This song," band leader Daniel Pujol said, "is about my friend Richard Houston attaining maximum grooviness by harnessing different viewpoints to gain a clearer perspective aside from feigning teenage omniscience." Ummm, [...]]]>