On a cold, wet June night in 1983 at Colorado's famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre, U2 proved why they were the greatest band on the planet. Braving the harsh elements, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullins, Jr. tore through a set of 18 anthems with a fire and passion that only U2 can achieve. This now legendary show was filmed and subsequently beamed to millions of people through their TV sets. The rest is history. With a wet camera in a sea of screaming fans, acclaimed photographer, G. Wigler, captured the glory of that historic [...]
A classic Deserving of a spot on any mix CD Worthy of a download, but not of frequent play Dump it like a hot rock In spite of the 1980's, U2 was born. While the rest of the music scene was about to take [...]
Along with the re-issue of the Under A Blood Red Sky album comes the concert DVD, Live at Red Rocks, which features tunes from the CD as well as several other early U2 tracks that didn't make the cut. If you are one of the millions of U2 fans out there, I highly suggest picking up the the DVD of this historic concert video. Red Rocks is a breathtaking outdoor venue that is part desert Americana and part Greek auditorium. U2 planned ahead to record this specific concert "in the sunshine," [...]
On a cold, wet June night in 1983 at Denver's famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre, U2 proved why they were the greatest band on the planet. Braving the harsh elements, the Irish rockers tore through a set of 18 anthems with a fire and passion that only U2 can achieve. Soon after, this now legendary show was released as the live album, Under a Blood Red Sky and the video, Live at Red Rocks . The rest is history. In this special edition of Voices: A JamsBio Podcast, fans who were lucky enough to [...]
Every once and a while, an album comes into your life that serves a need that you didn't realize needed filling. Within the first listen you appreciate it; by the second listen it is speaking to you in a soft whisper telling you everything is going to be alright; by the third listen, it wedges its way into your heart in such a way that you know it's going to be there for a long time to come. High Places self-titled debut is such an album. The Brooklyn based duo released their much-anticipated debut last week. Comprised of [...]
I've never heard Pontiak before hearing Sun on Sun for the first time. And frankly how would I? Apparently I don't frequent rural farmhouses enough to have known that those farmhouses are where the coolest stuff is being recorded. Yes, I said rural farmhouse. That's only one of the aspects of Sun on Sun that helps to set the unique tone of the album. Recorded in a farmhouse in rural Virginia, the Carney Brothers (who make up Pontiak) had wanted the album to have a live feel to it, so they recorded the whole [...]
Editor's Note: The content of our writers' posts do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of JamsBio, nor its partners and sponsors. Really, it's just the writer. And our writers kick butt. Does the fact that more people will attend Paul McCartney's debut Tel Aviv performance tomorrow night than voted in the Kadima party leadership election (to decide the next Prime Minister of Israel) reveal more about Israel or Sir Paul? Sir Paul has commented, rejecting calls to boycott Israel, "I do what I think, and I have many [...]
Being a Guided By Voices / Robert Pollard fan is the ultimate in the wheat/chaff dilemma. Whilst one is often confronted with some of the most undeniably brilliant nuggets stemming from what Pollard has lovingly declared "The Four P's" (pop, punk, prog, and psych,) his prolific songwriting output, coupled with his equally prolific release schedule, have combined to the effect that nearly everything he writes ends up on an official release these days. And so, while Pollard is an exceptionally talented songwriter, he is still a mere mortal capable of penning the occasional dud, and, more [...]
I tried not to do it. Really I did. I tried not to start off this album review with the following sentence: If Cat Power and Beth Orton could blend together into one artist- surely that singer/songwriter would be Liz Durrett …. Try as I did, though, comparisons couldn't be avoided. But bear with me! Comparison and similarity aren't always bad things and the obvious influence of Cat Power's Chan Marshall on Durrett's third album, Outside Our Gates , has only helped Durrett gain surer footing in a genre [...]
Here's the short version. Caetano Veloso (Caetano if you're nasty) masterminded Tropicalia, the stridently popular political and cultural movement in the late 1960s. North Americans best remember Tropicalia for its sound. Caetano, Gilberto Gil , Gal Costa , and Os Mutantes developed an iconoclastic language for Brazilian popular music. They scandalized both the liberal musical intelligentsia and the right-wing Brazilian military regime. The Tropicalistas, many of whom hailed from the provincial northern state of Bahia, mixed traditional north Brazilian music with North American pop and psychedelia. (Psychedelic garage was the hip-hop of [...]
The JamsBio Editorial Team is hitting the road, making a b-line down I-10 to US-71 and into the capital of the Lone Star State. Our charge? To bring you the best of the 8 stages and 130 bands that converge on Austin for 3 days every September for one of the nation's best music festivals. Stay tuned to The JamsBio Magazine starting Friday afternoon and all through the weekend for live updates from the festival grounds, including photos, videos, and musings about some of your favorite musical acts and the fans who [...]
GREENFIELD, MA (SEPTEMBER 12-14, 2008) - Confession: this was my first "real" music festival. And by "real", I'm not referring to the all-day music festivals where the bands conclude at 11pm and everyone goes home to bed. I'm referring to what I like to call "hippie music festivals," where the attendees camp out all weekend with no showers, no stores nearby, nothing but the music stages and tents that surround you. At most music festivals that I've attended, the artists usually start around 4pm and end around 11pm, which is fine considering you're usually broke [...]
These days, eclecticism seems to be the "in" word for indie music. Just listen to the opening bars of "A Children's Crusade on Acid," the first track on Not Animal , one of Margot and the Nuclear So & So's two sophomore LPs (the other being Animal! ), and you'll get the idea. Back-tracked drums, the kind of resonant piano line you'd expect to follow Clint Eastwood into a bar, haunting fuzzed-out guitarwork, and the plaintive, confessional voice of Richard Edwards spell out a pretty wide group of influences before you can even get to the [...]
Do you know what time it is cult fans? Yes, it's the second installment of prized highlights from the defunct but not forgotten television masterpiece, Freaks & Geeks . It makes me wonder if the show's creator, Paul Feig, realized just how similar his series was to an actual high school student looking for acceptance through friendships in the scary world of secondary education. Even though it was cancelled after one season, Freaks & Geeks found a legion of followers who connected to it and still appreciate it what little output there is. [...]
Now that My Morning Jacket has raised the bar and shown that modern Southern rock can be far more expansive than rehashed Allman Brothers' riffs, the gauntlet has been thrown down. Kings Of Leon answers the challenge quite well on their fourth album, Only By The Night . It's been a natural upward progression for the Followill family (brothers Caleb on vocals, Jared on bass, and Nathan on drums, joined by cousin Matthew on lead guitar), culminating in 2006's outstanding Because Of The Times . And while the [...]
It's been a good month for fans of atmospheric desert rock. Calexico released a new collection of Tex-Mex border music and now, Howe Gelb , the godfather of the fertile experimental Americana scene in Tucson, Arizona, has resurfaced with proVISIONS , his first Giant Sand record in four years. Essentially a one-man band backed by an ever-changing group of musical compadres (including for many years Joey Burns and John Convertino from Calexico), Giant Sand has released 14 albums of quirky, yet often profound, country-tinged rock music. As with most of his output, proVISIONS [...]
This post is a hard one for me to begin because its subject represents the springboard of my musical education and the genesis of all my amazing dance moves. Its subject has also gained the status of a minor legend amongst my friends because I've reminisced about it so frequently and with great detail, description, and, probably, nauseating repetition. Its subject is "Daddy's Dance Party," an event in my household that has been going strong for the past fifteen years or so. And as I write this, I'm feeling more and more that this might [...]
Are you familiar with the Ghetto Fighters? How about the newest social media site, We-R-You? Do the names TaharQa Aleem and Tunde Ra Aleem mean anything to you? Me neither, well, not until today. Mark your calendars, because this isn't going to be the last time you hear these names in the coming months. Ghetto Fighters was the name of the group that included Jimi Hendrix and twin brothers Arthur and Albert Allen, who now go by the name TaharQa Aleem and Tunde Ra Aleem. TaharQa and Tunde lived with Hendrix and worked on the [...]
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