Blog: Roger's Music Blog

Just some more info on the new Band of Horses album, called Cease to Begin . Also, you can check out their performance of Funeral at last year's Pitchfork Music Festival .

Brett Dennen is coming back to NEOhio once again. This time he'll be at the Cambridge Room at the House of Blues on Sunday, September 16th . You can read about the last time I saw him in Akron. Bishop Allen will be at the Grog Shop on Wednesday, October 3rd . I first heard of him releasing 1 EP per month. A couple [...]

Having only first heard of Xavier Rudd a couple months ago from a friend who spent time in Australia, he has become one of my favorite live acts. Just by looking at the pictures you can imagine why. I'm a little surprised I haven't heard of him before, but judging from the relatively small audience at the House of Blues , I think he's still working on building a US fanbase. This shouldn't be a difficult task. He's obviously a great musician, but he's also socially conscious, charming, and adorable. :) [...]

You can read more about his appearance and download the podcast here . I haven't given the new album the listening it deserves, but hey, it's Josh Rouse . It'll be great. Here's a video clip.

People have been saying this forever. Hopefully it won't be long before they start listening. From The Inquirer . EMI has DRM free sales boom Dump the protection increase the sales By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 20 June 2007, 08:41 RECORD OUTFIT EMI is reporting that the sales results for its DRM-free music are better than those with protection. Since EMI ditched the DRM on iTunes [...]

As usual, these are updates to my calendar on the right... For a list of all shows, check there. The Killers are coming! Friday, September 7th at the Wolstein Center. A bit unfortunate because that's the Friday night that we go back to the Black Swamp Arts Festival at my Alma Mater in Bowling Green , OH. While I would say that Killers trumps that Festival, they've gotten so big that I have a feeling the show (read: crowd) would be disappointing. Although, [...]

Sorry for the delay. It's been a crazy week, and writing this particular post is no easy task... Pitchfork Music Festival was one of the best music experiences I've ever had. The beginning. This was our second weekend in Chicago this summer and we were staying with our friend Sal (as usual). We drove in on Friday night so we could hang out with her and have plenty of time on Saturday before heading over to the Festival. While we had no plans to party, it just [...]

Damn the man. :) From the Future of Music Coalition Blog : We won. Nearly two weeks ago, the Future of Music Coalition sent you an email announcing a new campaign to end a sneaky move by Clear Channel to not pay indie artists' royalties. We are pleased to announce Clear Channel has capitulated – in just 10 days. Here's the background: As part of a settlement to end an FCC investigation [...]

¡Bienvenidos de nuevo! Good afternoon class. Welcome back to the Spanish segment of rogerzmusic. This week's artist and album come to us from El conquistador, Puerto Rico. The group is comprised of two half brothers, René Joglar and Eduardo Martínez, who grew up visiting each other on 13 th Street (Calle 13) in their hometown. They are one of the latest of many artists classified under the genera Reggaetón . Born in the early 90's in Puerto Rico, Reggaetón is a Spanish form of hip-hop with Caribbean beats. Shortly [...]

Pitchfork was AMAZING. But as you can see... no live blogging took place. For the better really, I would have hated to worry about lugging around my laptop... I did get some photos and will be posting a review and some links shortly.

VHS or BETA will be coming to the Grog Shop on Sunday, September 2nd! They'll be touring on their upcoming album "Bring on the Comets." From LiveDaily: VHS or Beta maps tour to launch 'Comets' Electronic-oriented indie-rockers VHS or Beta [ tickets ] have lined up an extensive headlining tour for late summer and early fall to support the release of their third album, "Bring on the Comets." The Kentucky natives will [...]

LOGO 's NewNowNext Review... This week's list . Watch all videos here. (PC Only). This week the interviewee was Kinnie Starr . She didn't end up with any videos on this episode, but she's worth listening to... talking about being Canadian, of native origin, bisexual, and a hip-hop artist. Rihanna - Shut Up and Drive This [...]

Here are the details from CMJ : More Brass In Chrissie Hynde's Pocket 2007-07-09 10:39:48.343, Story by: Kristen Chiucarello Akron, Ohio is getting a new taste of Chrissie Hynde this fall, as the Pretenders frontwoman is opening up her very own... vegetarian restaurant? Believe it. The long-time animal rights activist will be nixing all meat off the menu as VegeTerranean opens its doors on September 15 with a free performance [...]

I had great hopes when I first heard about the Live Earth concert series... Then as it came closer, I realized it was really falling short of any necessary expectations. For the best reasoning, check out Kyle's take on it over at Under the Concrete . Here's a quote: " I appreciate the increased awareness about global warming, but all these green tips, greenwashing, and green branding function to keep people in denial and, therefore, I believe they cause more harm than good; they keep people [...]

Just a little self-congratuations... My Interpol photos made it onto interpolonline.com ! :: Re: interpol photos Hi again, I just thought that you would like to know that your pictures are now up on the Interpol website (just launched). I would love if you could let me know what you think about it: www.interpolonline.com Thanks again for the photo permission. :)

Hey all... Very excited to be going to Chicago for the Pitchfork Music Festival this weekend. Hoping to do some live blogging... I know there will be wireless internet, but I'm not sure how available power outlets will be. So we'll see. As I comb through the time schedule, I'll post what artists I'm planning on seeing. Also, check out the free eMusic Sampler! From Pitchfork : As we did last year, the Pitchfork Music Festival has once again [...]

Just a little FYI. Subscribers of the Grog Shop Newsletter can get 2 for 1 tickets to see Fujiya & Miyagi this Thursday night ($10 adv / $12 dos)! Sign up on their mailing list. Then email grogkat at yahoo dot com to get on the list!

Sea Wolf will be at the Agora on Tuesday, August 7th. They're opening for the Silversun Pickups , who I don't know much about but will check them out. Blonde Redhead will be at HOB on Saturday, August 4th. And here is a surprise... I accidentally hit the iConcertCal visualizer in iTunes (something I should do more often) and saw that Grizzly Bear is listed to be at the Westlake Urban Outfitters on [...]

LOGO 's NewNowNext Review... This week's list . A little disappointing this week. Not much new noteworthy stuff, and some poor choices of repeats. Rufus Wainwright - Rules and Regulations I haven't been spending as much time with the new Rufus album as I would have expected. But from what I know of it, this is one of my least favorite tracks. [...]

While I know that Romeo & Juliet is not originally an Indigo Girls song, but was in fact written & performed by Mark Knopfler / Dire Straits , it's still one of my favorite songs performed by the Indigo Girls. Amy just rocks it. When I saw that The Killers had covered it, I was excited to hear what it sounded like. It's now available as a b-side to the "For Reasons Unknown" single. It's a live version (Live from Abbey Road) which is relatively [...]