Albums filled with covers are mostly approached with apprehension. Is it a stop gap release to plug in the release schedule of the record company or something worthwhile and not just a footnote in the artist's discography? it Don't Explain is a record by singer Beth Hart and blues guitar maestro Joe Bonamassa , two musicians who first could be heard together when Hart sang on No Love On The Street on Bonammasa's album Dust Bowl . Don't Explain has a smokey night club feel. Bonammasa [...]
Alabama singer/songwriter Grayson Capps takes his band The Lost Cause Minstrels on the road. Mostly sticking to the South, this time they are also playing up North, telling tall tales based on true stories (although some haven't happened yet). Live dates: 09/15 Rooster's Blues House, Oxford, MS 09/16 Rooster's Blues House, Tuscaloosa, AL 09/17 Oak's Cafe, Brewton, AL 09/18 Pirate's Fest, Orange Beach, AL 09/21 Downtown Event Center, Opelika, AL 09/22 The Garage, Winston-Salem, [...]
To celebrate New York ten years after 9/11, Don Rosler is offering a free download of You Won't Believe from the concept album Rosler's Recording Booth . Sung by Spottiswoode , it's a love song, that name checks King Kong, the Coney Island Cyclone, and the Riverside Church Bell Tower. Yes, it all makes sense. You Won't Believe by "Rosler's Recording Booth", featuring Spottiswoode » roslersrecordingbooth.com HCTF review of Rosler's Recording Booth .
Alt.folk band The Low Anthem calls it quits, after their extensive Fall in the North America and Europe. No more touring and playing the songs of Oh My God, Charlie Darwin and Smart Flesh . They want time to work on the new songs they've written for two new albums. Dear conspirators, lovers, friends, It was nearly 3 years ago when we first self-released "Oh My God, Charlie Darwin." Since then we've been pretty lucky. We've been signed to two of the finest record labels known to man, [...]
Americana singer/songwriter Dan Baker is on tour in The Netherlands and Belgium, promoting his Sad Song Junkie album. He is playing live with his band The Breakdown . Live dates: 09/09 Lage Vuursche @ Concert In The Woods 09/10 Groningen @ Take Root Festival 09/11 Ottersum @ Cultureel Podium Roepaen 09/14 Antwerpen @ Trix 09/16 Hoorn @ Huis Verloren 09/17 Nieuw en Sint Joosland @ De Wegwijzer [...]
Official 9/2-9/4 Colorado LE Poster by LandLand! Phish 2011/09/02 Dick's Sporting Goods Park Denver, CO Set 1: Sample in a Jar Sparkle The Sloth Sweet Virginia Suskind Hotel Strange Design Stash Sneakin' Sally through the Alley > Sparks > Scent of a Mule Stealing Time From the [...]
Two nights of Zappa and beer in October. Zappatika take their Strictly Frankly very seriously, but it's all in good fun. Live dates: 10/28 The Hague @ Musicon 10/29 Amsterdam @ CC Muziek Café Grab Strictly Frankly - a live tribute to Mr Frank Zappa as a free download from Last.fm . MP3: Zappatika - The Torture Never Stops » zappatika.com
Early Sixties UK pop and USA surf have made a lasting impression on garage band Greg Preston and The Great Machine . Their 4-track EP Hate To Love The City hits the listener over the head with rough and ready riffs, razor sharp rhythm and angry vocals. The Hamilton band even named one of their songs Zoot Suit , after a track by The High Numbers (who later became The Who). Hate To Love The City is a breath of fresh air. This is what [...]
Five musicians creating orchestral left-field indie folk that sounds truly fresh. Atlanta band Little Tybee stand out through the high-pitched vocals of main songwriter Brock Scott and the subtle chords of John Martin 's 8-string guitar. Their sophomore release Humorous To Bees is an album that will be welcomed by fans of The Low Anthem and Fleet Foxes. The songs will need some time to sink in. Delicately structured as the insect that inspired the album's title the band, the music buzzes with a gentle hum. Imagine Anthony and [...]
The Steepwater Band will be on tour in Spain in October. They first played there in 2005 and have build up a solid fan base since then. They are playing at their regular clubs as well unexplored ones in cities like Burgos, Jerez de la Frontera and Monzón. The Chicago blues rock power trio will showcase songs from their latest studio album CLAVA . Live dates: 10/06 Santa Cruz de Tenerife @ Cine Victor 10/07 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria @ venue TBA 10/08 Jerez [...]
Tom Morello is obviously a big fan of The Clash and Woodie Guthrie. On his new album World Wide Rebel Songs he takes ai, at wold wide wrongs, using his guitar like a weapon to gun down dictators, with a choir shouting encouragement on the title track. With his new steel string guitar Black Spartacus as his main axe - the album's opener Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine has Morello testing the strings to the limit, he approaches the world as an alternate CNN, reporting from the trenches and famished countries. [...]
NYC shoegaze pop group My Pet Dragon have grown into a five piece live band. The core of songwriter and muti-instrumentalist Todd Michaelsen and his wife/drummer/backing vocalist Reehnah Shah is still very much at large. The bulk of the material on the new album Mountains and Cities was recorded with Mario Padron on bass, Rrajeev Maddela on drums and Vincent Mascolo on guitar. Todd Michaelsen's tenor voice is the band's unique selling point. With a phrasing that harkens back to the New Romantics [...]
Perpetual Groove wrap up 2011 with a tow night run at Center Stage in Atlanta on December 30-31. The band Athens, GA band is on tour throughout the Fall. Live dates: 08/25 Jillian's Albany, NY 08/26 The Westcott Theater Syracuse, NY 08/27 The Crooked I Erie, PA 08/29 Beachland Ballroom (Tavern) Cleveland, OH 08/30 Magic Stick Detroit, MI 08/31 Martyr's Chicago, IL 09/03 Legend Valley Concert Venue Campground Thornville, OH [...]
The wonderfully weird named electro-pop group ...music video? goes west to promote their If This TV Could Talk album. A free warm up gig happens in their hometown Tucson. Live dates: 08/28 Mr. Heads, Tucson, TX 09/01 Silverlake Lounge, Los Angeles, CA 09/03 Freakin Frog, Las Vegas ,NV 09/04 Audie's Olympic, Fresno, CA 09/06 Grant & Green, San Francisco, CA 09/07 The Ruby Room, San Diego, CA MP3: [...]
photo: Ron Beenen Holland's hottest jazz combo The Ploctones will be playing in Japan and Egypt. Live dates: 09/02-06 Tokyo @ Tokyo Jazz festival, Japan 10/17 Eindhoven @Café Wilhelmina, The Netherlands 10/24 Alexandria @ Artbeat, Egypt 10/24 Cairo @ Artbeat, Egypt 10/27 Al Menia @ Artbeat, Egypt 10/28 Sohag @ Artbeat, Egypt Dutch live dates (2012) 01/14 Amsterdam [...]
Blues rockers Gov't Mule have announced two NYE shows (12/30 & 31) at the Beacon Theatre in New York. There will be three full sets each night. The band asks they fans for input: We've spent the last few months discussing different theme ideas for this year's New Year's Eve show at The Beacon Theatre in NYC. Of all the ideas that came up, we kept coming back to a theme we have been calling "Get Behind The Mule: Past, Present and Future." As part of Get Behind the Mule we will be looking to [...]
Good things take time. It might even take 35 years. Scottish heavy rock band Iron Claw never got around to releasing an album when they traveled and down the UK in the early Seventies, punching eardrums with their loud-as-fuck music. Their luck changed in 2009, when Rockadrome put together an archival album, which sparked a lot of interest form the proto-metal inner-circle. Three original members reformed shortly and entered the studio with new a vocalist to cut the A Different Game . An like Scotland's fabled strong beverage, they only got better over the [...]
Power trio The Steepwater Band recorded their previous studio album Grace and Melody with Marc Ford, one of their musical heroes. It was s sweaty blues rock album that sounded great. They named the new album CLAVA , named after the studio South Side of Chicago where the album was recorded. No Ford this time, bu the knowledgeable staff of an indie studio. The Steepwater Band keep a busy live schedule and recording was sandwiched between tours. Coming fresh form the road, they were able to [...]
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