photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin Big muff superfuzz: ZZ Top @ Bergen PAC, 5/14/2013 Legendary, bearded, and legendarily bearded (except for the drummer, whose name is Beard) Texas hard rock trio ZZ Top , who will be at Bonnaroo this year , played Bergen Performing Arts Center in NJ last night (May 14), part of a larger ongoing tour for the band that puts them in Westbury NY for a [...]
We've been sitting on this track for over a month now, so we figured it's about time we show it some love, especially considering we've been listening to it non-stop. If you put a track like this, with it's crunchy synths and heavy-hitting basslines, in front of us it's pretty much guaranteed we're going to love it. This collaboration between London's funk aficionado Blende and the Istanbul-based duo Surrender! is amazing, and the comparisons to the sounds of Justice and Daft Punk are easily justified. Circus is one cut off Synapse, their three track EP released [...]
Stick around long enough and you can watch musical trends come and go...... Punk fades in the early 80s, goes underground and re-emerges with a (commercial) vengeance. Heavy Metal morphs through various re-incarnations, even Dance music evolves from Disco to House to Techno to whatever Step/Trap/Shake thing is happening. And ...
Yo La Tengo plays their acoustic set; photo by Sam Libowsky BY JORDAN MAINZER It was a big day coming. On Friday, February 1st, at the Vic Theater in Chicago, Yo La Tengo treated an eager audience to about two and a half hours of material spanning their almost thirty-year-old career. Playing most of their excellent new album Fade and a variety of cuts from some of their classic albums of the past fifteen years- I Can Hear the Heart Beating as [...]
I spotted this in a DJ's bag recently and knew it was going to be amazing. Its the perfect track to pull out if you were doing a set of obscure dance and the crowd is dying for something some what familiar.
TheSodaShop.us has delivered an exclusive world premier of the video for "City Nights" from Dallas, TX heavy rockers Mothership. Directed by Alan Fillencia for Scything Touch Productions, the video comes from the band's self-titled debut album, which is due out on February 12th on Ripple Music. Check it out at this location . 70's-tinged U.S. hard rock with a sound that satisfies like a steaming hot stew of UFO and Iron Maiden, blended with the [...]
Blende is back with a new edition of his now infamous Edits series, if you're not familiar with the principle it's simple: the swedish producer re-edits 4 tracks which range from old disco tracks to obscure funk tracks and everything between. This is time he's also given a bit of insight on why he chose each song - grab all four below and lookout for a Blende US tour in 2013. 1. Earth, Wind & Fire - "Let's Groove" "The original of this track shouldn't really be tampered with as it's a perfect [...]
► Sufjan Stevens , who just released a five-EP set of holiday music titled "Silver & Gold," brings his Christmas tour to the Fonda Theatre. Actually, he's calling it “The Sirfjam Stephanapolous Christmas Sing-A-Long Seasonal Affective Disorder Spectacular Music Pageant Variety Show Disaster,” and it features a five-piece backing band that includes Rosie Thomas, Nedelle Torrisi, Casey Foubert, James McAlister, and Ben Lanz). The EP set is the second release of seasonal music by Stevens; in 2006 he released "Songs for Christmas." ► Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band bring the "Wrecking Ball" tour to [...]
Incoming: Aerosmith, Justin Bieber, Islands, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Bruce Springsteen, Sufjan Stevens, No Doubt, Carole King, ZZ Top, Flogging Molly, Monsters Calling Home, How to Dress Well, the Starvations, Shuggie Otis, Paul Banks, Tom Morello, Seven Saturdays, Streetlight Manifesto, Donnie and Marie Osmond, the Polyphonic Spree, the Lonely Wild, Bloc Party, David Bazan, Kopecky Family Band, Kinky Friedman, Yacht Above: The footage for "Inspiration Information" was cobbled together by somebody assembling videos for an album nearing its 40th birthday, but we take what we can get when we want [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! Sam & Dave (1968) ZZ Top (1978) There are all sorts of sappy "thank you"-type songs that one could choose as a Thanksgiving song offering, but frankly, those songs just aren't suited for Reselect. Instead, I think something a bit grittier and groovier would do quite nicely, and one of the songs that best fits that bill is "I Thank You," a song recorded by Sam & Dave, written for them by Isaac Hayes and David Porter [...]
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You think we're in a classic rock rut? Maybe - but that seems to be the best thing goin' in music these days. ZZ Top, our hometown boys, played at a new baseball field just down the road from our house a couple weeks ago. The trio has a new album, La Futura , produced by Rick Rubin, and here's "I Gotsta Get Paid" from it. ZZ Top official web site
ZZ Top Constellation Field October 20, 2012 ZZ Top has been writing and performing music for nearly 45 years. Now, granted, there are a handful of other artists that have been around that long ... Continue reading "Saturday Night: ZZ Top at Constellation Field" >
Watch/Listen here: Unless you are living under a rock, The Stones are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. As part of a coming package and tour stops, they have recently released this new track. Lyrics here, more below: I had a dream last night I was piloting a plane All the passengers were drunk and insane I crash landed in the Louisiana swamp Shot up a horde of zombies But I come out on top What's it [...]
ZZ Top: so much more than dudes with killer beards. The classic rock trio recently released a new album, La Futura , the band's first in nine years.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Last weekend Virgin Mobile landed at the Merriweather Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland for FreeFest. A Virgin media themed festival coined for it's outgoing charity initiatives through the celebration of live music, dance, culture... and yes, ferris wheels! At a time where people are in the midst of habub about Sir Richard Branson's Galactica space venture and the retired Endeavor space shuttle basically stopping the presses (btw the irony of people adoring a space shuttle from a program that basically died because it has lost support... is beyond us), EDM pioneer Srillex took it upon himself to launch [...]
Whether you like the Beatles or not, their music can certainly take you to some interesting places - as reflected in our latest edition of Desert Island Discs. From Earth Wind and Fire to Marc Ribot, from the Jazz Crusaders to Adrian Belew, from Brad Mehldau to Joe Cocker, each of us has selected the must-have covers of Fab Four [...]
Lots of debuts this week. It's better to let the records speak for themselves. TOP TEN ALBUMS 1. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND - AWAY FROM THE WORLD 265,961 // DEBUT 2. LITTLE BIG TOWN - TORNADO 112,758 // DEBUT 3. BOB DYLAN - TEMPEST [...]
Praise flannel! One group of rockers who found initial success in the '90s succeeds another on the Billboard Top 200, as Dave Matthews Band 's Away From The World bumps Matchbox Twenty 's North off the top of the chart this week. DMB's latest sold 266,000 copies out of the gate — nearly four times the amount (95,000) M20 debuted with last week . North has now been bumped down to #8 after adding another [...]
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