Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend is the solo debut of longtime Gillian Welch sideman Dave Rawlings , and may be the finest folk album I have heard all year. Author Rick Moody's band, the Wingdale Community Singers releases Spirit Duplicator tomorrow. Reissues of note include David Bowie's Space Oddity (with bonus CD) and The Fall's Hex Enduction Hour (with bonus CD). Four Blood Brothers [...]
Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend is the solo debut of longtime Gillian Welch sideman Dave Rawlings , and may be the finest folk album I have heard all year. Author Rick Moody's band, the Wingdale Community Singers releases Spirit Duplicator tomorrow. Reissues of note include David Bowie's Space Oddity (with bonus CD) and The Fall's Hex Enduction Hour (with bonus CD). Four Blood Brothers [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : 2009-07-12, Santa Monica [mp3,ogg,flac] "Dear Head on the Wall" [mp3] other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Billy Corgan : 2009-11-08, Los Angeles [mp3,ogg,flac] "Plastic Fantastic Lover (Jefferson Airplane cover)" [mp3] other Billy Corgan posts at Largehearted Boy Blitzen Trapper : [...]
Non content d'avoir co-signé l'un des meilleurs albums rock de 2008 (Real Animal d'Alejandro Escovedo), Chuck Prophet ajoute une nouvelle pierre à sa précieuse carrière solo avec le tonitruant ¡Let Freedom Ring!. Enregistré à Mexico dans des conditions rocambolesques (séisme + épidémie de grippe A), le nouveau bébé de l'ex-Green on Red est un savant condensé de rock'n'roll, de soul et de
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : 2008-11-11, Boston [mp3,ogg,flac] "Always a Friend" [mp3] other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Back Forty : 2009-10-31, Ypsilanti [mp3,ogg,flac] "Thriller (Michael Jackson cover)" [mp3] other Back Forty posts at Largehearted Boy Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-10-31, Bloomington [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
Things will be quiet here at BL&L for the next couple of days as we're leaving today for New Orleans to cover the 2009 Voodoo Experience Festival . This will mark my first time going to NOLA so I'm over the moon excited. I'm also shooting the Fest-which will make me the only sober person there (heh). Given the vast amount of great acts performing ( Flaming Lips, Silversun Pickups, Drive-By Truckers, Mates of State, The Pogues, The Meat Puppets, tons of local acts ), plus the amazing scenery that is just NOLA itself, I may come back with [...]
Between his top-notch previous albums and his work with other artists, Chuck Prophet had already developed a superior artistic cache before Let Freedom Ring , but this is hands down his best work. Thinking inside the box has never been Chuck Prophet's strongest point, and that's a good thing. The last few years have found Prophet hipping the traditional-leaning Kelly Willis on tunes by Adam Green and Iggy Pop, and adding some razor sharp bite to Alejandro Escovedo's latter-day career revival. Prophet's latest release, Let Freedom Ring, is a bit of a mixture of Willis' Translated from Love [...]
Here are the Wisconsin and Chicago shows we recommend you take in this week. Check them out below and let us know which ones you'll be attending or ones you think should really make our list . This week's recommended new releases include offerings from Devendra Banhart , R.E.M. , and Tegan and Sara . Upcoming Wisconsin Shows: 10/27 - David Bazan + Say Hi - High Noon [...]
gossip jealous girls ted leo already too late alejandro escovedo always a friend ida maria keep me warm hancock basement we started something feist mushaboom ( black session ) patrick watson luscious life thomas dybdahl one day you'll dance for me, new york city franz ferdinand katherine kiss me born ruffians hummingbird patrick cleandenim hypnotized
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : 2009-09-12, Chicago [mp3,ogg,flac] "Real as an Animal" [mp3] other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-08-15, Joliet [mp3,ogg,flac] other Backyard Tire Fire posts at Largehearted Boy Blitzen Trapper : 2009-10-16, Urbana [mp3,ogg,flac] "Harvest (Neil Young cover)" [...]
The daily mix: 1) Lucero: "What are You Willing to Lose" 2) Son Volt: "When the Wheels Don't Move" 3) Alejandro Escovedo: "Notes on Air" 4) The Drams: "Crudely Drawn" 5) Johnny Dowd: "Corner Laundromat" 6) John Doe and the Sadies: "Til I Get It Right" 7) Terry Allen: "Flatland Boogie" 8) 50 Cent Haircut: "Pitchin' a Tent for Jesus" 9) I See Hawks in L.A.: "Raised By Hippies" 10) Hank Williams III: "Pills I Took"
Here are the Wisconsin and Chicago shows we recommend you take in this week. Check them out below and let us know which ones you'll be attending or ones you think should really make our list . This week's recommended new releases includes Elvis Perkins in Dearland - The Doomsday EP , Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard - One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur , Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependance [...]
Don't forget the Kristofferson Kontest ... I'll draw the winner tonight after work. Now... a couple of quick hitters to clear a few tracks out of my "to blog" file. First up is the upcoming release from rocker Chuck Prophet. Let Freedom Ring! is set for release October 27th from Yep Roc records, and promises to deliver the same style of genre-bending rock that made me such a big fan of his 2007 release Soap & Water . It's the [...]
" Lenny Kravitz has admitted that he's finding it hard to stick to his vow of celibacy. The rocker, who has previously been involved with Kylie Minogue , Madonna , and Nicole Kidman , has not dated anyone in four years." [ oneindia ] Blitzen Trapper @ Sasquatch Festival in May ( more by Chris Graham ) tonight in NYC * Lenny Kravitz @ Irving Plaza * Kylie Minogue @ Hammerstein Ballroom * [...]
Friday, October 9, 2009 Patton Oswalt at Count Basie Theatre Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band at Giants Stadium Gossip at Terminal 5 Happy Mondays and Psychedelic Furs at Roseland Ballroom Bernie Williams at Community Theatre at Mayo Center for Performing Arts, Morristown Clutch at Irving Plaza Bell X1 at Highline Ballroom [...]
Chuck Prophet formó parte durante los años 80 de Green On Red, uno de los grandes grupos de lo que aquí se denominó como nuevo rock americano . Tras la ruptura de la formación comenzó una fructífera carrera en solitario que ha alternado con distintos proyectos al lado de grandes músicos como Alejandro Escovedo o el recientemente fallecido Jim Dickinson. El 27 de octubre se publicará ¡Let Freedom Ring! , su noveno trabajo, grabado en Ciudad de Mexico en plena paranoia de la gripe A. Un disco producido por Greg Leisz (Wilco, Beck, Emmylou Harris) en el [...]
It's always fascinated me how, as social animals who can both project future possibilities and mutate our environment to our benefit, we're nonetheless driven to make peace with our own foibles, accommodate small stumbling blocks, and work around difficulties otherwise solvable and surmountable. A case in point: the 9 key on my laptop keyboard has been broken since last winter, and - as removing the key cap to clean underneath it proved ineffective - I have been forced to conclude that there is something electronically awry here, somewhere in the circuitry. [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009 Fever Ray at Webster Hall Marcy Playground, Nine Days and Jimmie's Chicken Shack at BB King's Mono at Bowery Ballroom Dolores O'Riordan at World Cafe Live, Philly Maxwell, Common and Chrisette Michele at Madison Square Garden Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Obituary and Goatwhore at Gramercy Theatre Fever Ray at Webster Hall Charlatans UK at Bowery Ballroom Tina Dico at Highline Ballroom Matt Kearney at Irving Plaza Roots at [...]
Alejandro Escovedo: Sat., Dec. 12. ListeningRoom @ NiaMoves. Amazing Baby: Fri., Nov. 13. Rudyard's. Badfish (Sublime Tribute): Fri., Jan. 29. House of Blues. Chlorine, Given, Dine Alone, Make Y... Continue reading "Distant Early Warning: Alejandro Escovedo, Colbie Caillat, Dwight Yoakam, Goodie Mob, John Lee Hooker Jr., Municipal Waste, etc." >
I have been remiss about getting this interview with Steve Wynn posted because I've been doing things like... traveling to see Steve Wynn. So, I'll wrap a review of Wynn's recent Baseball Project show in Chicago in with this short Q&A about his new self-released CD, Steve Sings Bob . First up, the Baseball Project. The show was a triple bill, with the BP, the Steve Wynn IV and the Minus 5. However, it was all the same band, with Wynn on guitar and vox, Scott McCaughey also on guitar and vocals, Peter [...]
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