[MP3] Princeton - Calypso Gold [MP3] Chief - Stealing [JAX PICK] The Rumble w/ Chief , Princeton , Cheetahsaurus @ 3 OF Clubs - The fine folks at Future Sounds are busting out another stellar lineup at their monthly night at 3 of Clubs. Tonight's performance features Domino Recordings latest west coast offering [...]
[Elliott Smith would have been 40 years old today. I think I will spend a meditative hour with "XO" this afternoon ...] John Doe and the Sadies bring their collaboration to the Echoplex tonight behind "Country Club," a new album of country covers (plus three Sadies' compositions and one by Doe and Exene Cervenka). Jill Sobule supports. ... Spindrift [pictured], whose latest slab of hallucinatory spaghetti Western rock, "The Legend of God's Gun" just came out on Tee Pee Records, headline Spaceland, with [...]
When measured against the summer festival juggernauts (i.e., Bonnaroo, Lollapolooza, Outside Lands, Austin City Limits), Pickathon may appear unassuming in comparison. But, as William Shakespeare once said: "Though she be but little, she is fierce" (ol' Bill said that, right?). For Pickathon, roots music rules all, and the festival planners have picked some truly excellent acts to represent the time-honored genre. More festival details, lineup, and a whole bunch of MP3s after the jump. The 2009 Pickathon Festival is set to take place July 31st - August 2nd at [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Several years ago musician John Doe toured with Wilco, who were taking fans' requests of what songs the group should perform onstage through their Website. That gave Doe an idea of doing something similar for his own band, X. So for the Los Angeles punk group's current 'Total Request Live' tour, X fans have the opportunity to vote for their favorite X songs for the band to play in their city. "It's fun," Doe, 56, tells Spinner about the experience. "It's a [...]
Mason Hastie If there's one thing I learned from being on the Grand Jury for last year's Polaris Prize , it's that the duties of being a regular jurist are far, far, far, far less stressful. There's a real burden of responsibility when you're one of the 11 whose duty it is to choose Canada's "best album of the year", forcing you to consider each nominee on the short list objectively, checking as much as possible personal biases towards genre, personality, history, whatever. It's a lot of work. And while in [...]
Before Jenny Lewis played the Black Box on the Mershon stage at the Wexner Center on Saturday, the venue screened Welcome to Van Nuys , a documentary about the making of Lewis's most recent album, Acid Tongue . Much of the doc focused on guests who contributed to a track or two. There was Elvis Costello lending his scruffy vocals to "Carpetbaggers," M. Ward playing some moody guitar on "Pretty Bird" and actress/musician Zooey Deschanel—who, with Ward, make up 2008 breakout duo She & Him—singing all sorts of oohs and ahs. There were some fun fly-on-the-studio-wall moments, but [...]
*MP3: Jenny Lewis - "Carpet Baggers" *MP3: Sadies - "Never Again" Jenny Lewis is playing at the First Avenue Mainroom tonight with promising openers Sadies . Doors to this 18-plus show open at 8pm. (Ian Anderson)
[Stevie Nicks blows out birthday candles today, though the big party with her admirers isn't until Thursday, when Fleetwood Mac plays Staples Center. Meanwhile, tonight ...] With her new album "Jigsaw" finally out, British rapper Lady Sovereign hits the El Rey Theatre tonight. supported by Harvard-bred pop lads Chester French . ... Quality country at Spaceland, where Canadian quartet the Sadies visit; their latest album "Country Club" features classic covers and was made in collaboration with John Doe , among others. Old Californio [...]
King Khan Tuesday, May 26th Sadies @ Spaceland Wednesday, May 27th moe. @ Roxy Theatre Sun Kil Moon @ El Rey Theatre The Prodigy @ Hollywood Palladium Thursday, May 28th The Wooden Birds @ Spaceland moe. @ Roxy Theatre Ben Harper @ Wiltern Theatre Lucinda Williams @ House of Blues Anaheim St Vincent @ El Rey Theatre [...]
The Sadies are Canada's magnificent responding echo to California country and just finished a set of shows with Black Mountain . Their new album (featuring John Doe, one in a long line of Sadies collaborators also including Andre Williams , Robyn Hitchcock and Jon Langford) is out now on Yep Roc. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
He's a little bit country, he's a little bit rock 'n' roll. John Doe has done it all - from being a pioneer of punk to a TV actor to a country/folk singer - and it turns out after all these years he has some pretty strong opinions about stuff. And not surprisingly, some of them are pretty funny. Doe sat down with CNET recently, just a few weeks after the release of his latest album Country Club , recorded with The Sadies . You can read [...]
This photo has nothing to do with today's post. I just like kitschy-Americana (Canadiana?) things. I actually took a road trip to Sudbury once, and yes, I saw giant the nickel. Read about Sudbury, the nickel capitol of the world here . To see other large roadside attractions in Canada, click here . To hear the song "Sudbury Nickel" see Friday's post . I have a playlist on my MP3 player that I call "Sadies Originals." Its all original tracks of songs that I have heard [...]
Concert Review: John Doe and The Sadies Sonic Boom and The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto Thursday, April 30, 2009 You know how when you read a really good book, and then see the movie and the movie didn't quite live up to your love of the book? Or when you are at a restaurant and you eat some apple pie, but its not nearly as good as your mom's apple pie? Its not a completely fair comparison - your interpretation of a novel verses a director's film interpretation, or mass produced restaurant pies verses your [...]
I can't remember exactly how I learned to love classic country music. It wasn't from my central Wisconsin upbringing. My parent's record collection consisted of Barbara Streisand and Johnny Mathis and that's it. Seriously. And I cannot for the life of me remember if there was a country music radio station on air in the late 70s/early 80s in Oshkosh. If there was one, I sure wasn't listening to it. I was in the college class of 1995, and in the early 90s on campus in the Chicago area it was grunge, Pavement, and the dregs of hair metal. [...]
Amanda Schenk The Sadies have no shortage of experience in the role of backing band, having worked with the likes of Neko Case , Robyn Hitchcock and Jon Langford in addition to carving out their niche with their unique blend of country, rock, punk and psychedelic influences. John Doe has no shortage of experience fronting bands, most famously with Los Angeles punk legends X but also with country outfit The Knitters , to say nothing of his impressive solo career. So that the two parties [...]
"Country Club is the result of a drunken promise or threat I made to Travis & Dallas [Good, of The Sadies] the first night we played together in Toronto. We're not sure why it sounds like it's from the sixties. Maybe that's our favorite era of country music or maybe that's what we listened to when we first learned how to play it." --John Doe John Doe and The Sadies combine talents for an album of classic country covers and originals written in the spirit of those covers. On paper [...]
The Sadies at work, blowing minds While researching The Jayhawks for my Lover Of The Bayou post , I discovered that Gary Louris produced The Sadies' 2007 album, New Seasons . How in the name of God did I not know this?!?! I'll tell you how. I downloaded the album from eMusic and it didn't come with liner notes. Is it really that difficult to include a PDF of the liners as a standard part of a download? Sheesh. Reason [...]
When I was looking through this week's releases, this one jumped out of the screen at me: John Doe and the Sadies . Now, I'm pretty clueless when it comes to the music of X, and its co-founder Doe. But I know the reputation of X as one of the seminal bands of the L.A. punk scene. The Sadies are a Canadian band that specialize in that rootsy, twang-filled sound that I enjoy so much. So seeing that these two entities collaborated had me visualizing some sort of country sound with a kick - maybe something in the vein [...]
What do you get when you take one of the greatest icons of the early-'80s Los Angeles punk scene and put him in a studio with a Canadian roots-rock band? You get a boot-stomping wailin' record that's what. At least that's what you get when you take X's John Doe and team him up with Toronto alt.country band extraordinaire The Sadies. The unlikely pairing have come together to release Country
Frank Yang It's far too easy to be cynical about Glasvegas . Emerging from the UK as they did last year on a massive wave of hype with a sound that was unabashedly retro and a matching '50s-greaser gang image, the Glasgow-based quartet were quick targets for those who wanted to dismiss them as contrived and calculated, not that that stopped them from topping the charts and becoming massive at home. For my part, I went from intrigued on first listen to mildly suspicious after spending time with their [...]
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