Living in the capital of Canada, (Ottawa, Ontario), the last thing you start to expect from your city is to be rich in the arts. I mean, with parliament a stone's throw away from any part in the city, Ottawa is more about politics than it is about the arts. This summer is different, though. Every July, the city puts on a 10 day music festival called Ottawa Bluesfest in which they bring many different musicians (not all blues, last years before they brought Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fergie, Wyclef Jean and Kanye West). Although there are usually [...]
Things were picking up into full swing on Thursday (July 8th) of Bluesfest. It was an eclectic amount of musicians for all the ages. The acts that I saw were: Laurent Bourque Good2Go Lindsay Ferguson The Bacon Brothers Great Lake Swimmers The Moody Blues Andrew Bird The B-52s [...]
While surfing through Facebook today I noticed a YouTube link to The Bacon Brothers on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn Ferguson. Apparently Kevin Bacon not only can dance and act, but he sings and plays guitar? And he's good at it? Quite the renaissance man if you ask me. Apparently they've been playing since 1995 as a "band," and have 5 or so albums released . The Bacon Brothers New Year's Day , [...]
Jenny Lewis has recently released her Summer tour schedule, and we're amped about it. Many indie-music enthusiasts know her as the charming chanteuse of Rilo Kiley; however, any child of late '80s television knew the face well before the voice. Before jamming, Lewis appeared in Jell-O commercials. Before Rabbit Fur Coat, she pushed Girl Scout cookies in Troop Beverly Hills . And before romancing Jonathan Rice, she was on Fred Savage's radar in the 1989 film, The Wizard . All of this reminiscing got us thinking about some [...]
A very indie release week and a not-very-hardcore one. Sorry brosephs. I haven't heard anything on here but the new Decemberists record , so I can't recommend a whole lot first-hand. Ones that I'll probably give a listen: Dan Deacon, 1990s, Fever Ray, Fireworks, Merzbow, Mastodon, MF Doom, Fridge, Mono and Obits. Looks like I've got a busy day ahead of me. What are you gonna check out? :: 1990s , Kicks (Rough Trade) :: Amadou & Mariam , Welcome to Mali [...]
Kevin and Michael Bacon, The Bacon Brothers have been making music together since they were growing up in Center City Philly, way before Kevin's acting career began but when Michael was in a band in the 60's playing gigs at the original Electric Factory. They formed officially as musical team about 15 years ago and released their first in 1997. Since then, Kevin's gone on to become one of
The Bacon Brothers , Kevin and Michael , have done it again with their new album New Year's Day . Somehow, in between younger brother Kevin's new film, Ron Howard 's Frost/Nixon and the elder, Michael, composing the soundtrack for the PBS mini series The Jewish Americans , the brothers found time to write and record New Year's Day . These guys have been making music since they were kids, though officially launched their music career in 1995. They are not trying to pose as rock stars [...]
Uh oh. An actor who is going to sing. Rest assured Kevin Bacon , the actor, is an above average singer, and his big brother Michael Bacon is a professional musician. Naming themselves The Bacon Brothers they started playing together about 11 years ago and New Year's Day is their sixth album. These guys are serious about their music and playing live. Kevin is quoted on the band's website: "We've been chipping away at that awareness, chipping away at the fact that most people think we're gonna suck". They [...]
In a rather awkward exchange with E! Online, Joaquin Phoenix announced his decision to pack up his acting and head back to his new first true love, music. You know, the music that he's loved to play ever since he learned how to strum the guitar for Walk the Line three years ago. It's a hallowed path that young Phoenix takes, one blazed by the likes of Russell Crowe , Johnny Depp, and Keanu Reeves, not to mention his siblings River and Rain. And as you remember, all of them were beloved by millions for their [...]
We may seriously need to take down that photo of Brian Eno...I'm not kidding...it's scaring me a lot. But not as much as THIS PHOTO!!!!!! GOOD GOD THEIR ARYAN BLUE EYES ARE BLINDING! When was somebody going to tell me The Bacon Brothers were an actual band? I haven't heard a [...]
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John Lennon died 27 years ago, on December 8th, 1980; I was seven, and the event was meaningless. But since then, like every one of you, I've absorbed the Beatles canon -- which means, among other things, recognizing the loss of musical potential and statesmanship that marks Lennon's passing. Mostly, it's the statesmanship I recognize. Though each Beatle -- both the still-going and the dearly departed -- went on to a fruitful solo career after the band broke up, for me, the Beatles as a cultural phenomenon are as much more a sum [...]
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