Craig Finn with The Hold Steady at Mohawk ( more by Tim Griffin ) Hey Everyone, I hope all is good. I've been enjoying my time at home writing music and seeing a bunch of shows. Thank you Nick Lowe, Wu Lyf, Titus Andronicus, Archers of Loaf, and Bruce Springsteen for some great times. Besides going to shows, I'm also going to play quite a few coming up. The Hold Steady has a very fun tour in June... I've also got a few solo shows. The first [...]
The first annual CBGBs Festival will take place July 5-9th at venues across New York City. According to the New York Times , about 300 bands will perform at 30 locations, ranging from "large stages like Central Park Summerstage and Webster Hall to small clubs like the Trash Bar in Williamsburg and the Living Room on the Lower East Side." Guided By Voices, Cloud Nothings, and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart will perform a free concert in Central Park, while hardcore bands The Cro-Mags, Vision of Disorder, and Sick [...]
In honor of the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of more than thirty thousand baseball cards--dating from 1887 to 1959--Spectrum has organized an exciting Friday night event. Starting at 6:00 p.m. in the Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, early-comers can meet William C. Rhoden and be treated to a pre-show signing of his book Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete . At 7:30 p.m., enjoy a lively panel discussion about our card collection and its relationship to baseball. [...]
Here is my highly-subjective, personal list of favorite albums of 2011. Wild Flag – Wild Flag | CD Vinyl MP3 Download "Romance" (mp3) Rarely do supergroups like this one meet their expectations. But the members of Sleater-Kinney, Helium, and The...
Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire Admiral Fallow – Boots Met My FaceDownload "Squealing Pigs" Alcoholic Faith Mission – And the Running with Insanity [EP]Download "Running with Insanity" Alessi's Ark – Time TravelDownload "Maybe I Know" Apex Manor – The...
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 An Acoustic Evening With The Weepies at TLA (8 p.m., $29); Pink Skull at Sigma Sound Studio (8 p.m., 21+, free); The Cute Lepers + Something Fierce, The Blessed Muthas, Mean Streets at Kung Fu Necktie (7:30 p.m., 21+, $8); Wise Blood + Supreme Cuts, Hott Tubb at Johnny Brenda's (9:15 p.m., 21+, $10); Danielle Ate The Sandwich at Tin Angel (7:30 p.m., all ages, $10) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 This weekend, WHYY will sponsor a free concert at the River Stage at the Great Plaza [...]
The folks over at WHYY have just announced that alt-country singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle will perform alongside Dr. Dog, The Baseball Project, Toy Soldiers, Kuf Knotz, and Birdie Busch at this year's WHYY Connections Festival concert on Saturday, September 3rd, at The Great Plaza at Penns Landing. Justin Townes Earle—who performed at last weekend's 50th Anniversary Philadelphia Folk Festival —is the son of songwriter Steve Earle (and partially named after his father's mentor, Townes Van Zandt); his latest album, Harlem River Blues , was released last September by Bloodshot Records and nominated for both "Album [...]
The free concert—which will take place Saturday, September 3rd, at The Great Plaza At Penns Landing—will also feature performances by The Baseball Project, Toy Soldiers, Kuf Knotz, and Birdie Busch. Click here for more information about the two-day music, film, visual arts festival. Watch the full episode . See more On Canvas. Watch the full episode . See more WHYY Presents.
Courtesy of the band As Talking Heads co-founders, husband-and-wife rockers Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth certainly have had their influence on music since that band's debut album ( Talking Heads: 77 ) was released in 1977. When they decided to pursue a side project as the Tom Tom Club , their 1981 self-titled debut became a post-disco new wave phenomenon anchored by songs like "Wordy Rappinghood." Ask many a music fan the question: "What you gonna do when you get out of jail?" and their likely response will be "I'm gonna have some fun," a [...]
Photo by Michael E. Anderson On Monday, June 6, combine a night out at Citizens Bank Park with Philly's other favorite pastime—music. The Baseball Project , a side project of R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, will be singing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" before the opening pitch at the Phillies vs. Dodgers game. (For this tour, R.E.M.'s Mike Mills will be "pinch-hitting" for Peter Buck as he recovers from some injuries, according to the band's website.) Rather not swelter in the bleachers at Citizen's Bank? Right after the first [...]
This group started when Scott McCaughey of the Minus 5 and Steve Wynn of the Dream Sydicate found a common interest in baseball. They added R.E.M.'s Peter Buckand Linda Pitman of Golden Smog and got to recording songs about America's past time. .
We keep our eyes peeled for new tour dates announcements each week and compile them on Tuesdays for this handy column… After their performance at halftime of Super Bowl XLIV it seemed as if The Who where ready to take full advantage of the post-appearance bump with a large scale tour. Unfortunately, Pete Townshend was once again suffering from tinnitus, so the classic rock act has only been able to play a handful of gigs in the last year and a half. With his band mate on the shelf for now, [...]
For the second time in three years, Athens, Georgia's finest has put out a winning full-length, adding another chapter to its 30 years' worth of influential releases.
"Don't Call Them Twinkies" is off The Baseball Project's Vol. 2: High and Inside . Video captured at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY on April 29th 2011. http://www.myspace.com/thebase ballproject http://www.yeproc.com
Dark days in Minnesota, my friends. Not only was I pelted with snow flurries on the way in this morning, but our beloved Minnesota Twins are saddled with the worst record in baseball. Desperate times call for desperate measures, so I'm cranking on the juju this morning in the form of The Hold Steady's Craig Finn performing Don't Call Them Twinkies with his pals in The Baseball Project at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY. If you're not aware, The Baseball Project is something of an indie supergroup made up [...]
Warner Bros. Or at least we are the first batch of acts officially announced on Tuesday for this year's NXNE festival, running June 16 through 19 around Toronto. It's certainly not all of them, but there's some moderate to big names in there and perhaps most key, the headliners for the free shows at Yonge-Dundas Square that have become the centrepiece of the fest have been revealed. While there's no one quite of the stature of last year's Saturday night marquee of Iggy & The Stooges , New [...]
Last week, we dedicated all of our Song of the Days to the more Super of Rock and Roll acts. There truly aren't enough days in the week, so we rounded it out with a few more tunes to make this most super of playlists. Never before have we pulled together a playlist with this much collaborative talent, and we will be hard pressed to do more going forward. Check out the playlist below, along with a brief explanation of each tune. The Traveling Wilburys - Handle With [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Video , Exclusive , Q + A Gino DePinto, AOL What do you get when you take several legendary rockers from the early days of grunge and dream pop and put them all on the same record? Most people would call it a super group - but the Baseball Project are more of a...super team . The band, composed of Peter Buck ( R.E.M. [...]
The niche supergroup came to San Diego on the eve of MLB opening day. Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.
[Just in time for the beginning of baseball season — and the arrival of the Baseball Project — your humble blogger returns from some time in a distant land, away from the noise. That one mixtape I made for driving through the Midwest was pretty killer, though ...] Already, my most difficult show-going decision of spring: ► Scottish songsmiths Trashcan Sinatras gave a memorable performance last summer (the photo is from a June show at the Key Club) [...]
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