What's the best concert you've ever been to? For some of us it was the experience of enjoying a concert with a group of close friends. For others, it was catching your favorite bands before they hit it big or finally being able to see your music idol up close and personal. Today's Top 5 is a collaborative one. We've polled some our writers and compiled an unranked list of some of our greatest concert memories. Follow the jump for our picks, and be sure and let us know about your best concert ever when you're done. [...]
Rock and Roll Daily has a post up rounding up some famous tour cancellations of years past. They forgot about the Zooma Tour . I bet you did, also. Related posts: Bonnaroo Heads Out on the Road controlling the famous: cd release show What Made Milwaukee Famous | Subterranean, 10/6/06
Once again, I'm on a quest to find out what's behind a band's name. I asked Matt Parish about the origins of the unusual band-name "Ho-Ag" and I got a history of the Space Program, which makes me love the name Ho-Ag all the much more. Matt of Ho-Ag : "The real reason we went with Ho-Ag is a bit of a tangled yarn and the beginning came unraveled a long time ago. The good thing about keeping it around still is that no [...]
Throughout the history of rock music, musicians have left a legacy of legendary (and sometimes forgettable) signature moves. Today I try to tackle some of the more memorable ones, from the eccentric to the face melting. Follow the jump for the full list. 5. The Angus Young We all remember the famed lead guitarist of AC/DC who always wore the black shorts and sports coat, Angus Young . Angus was new, fresh and weird. He danced across the stage [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009 Today's Quick Mention: You could stay in this weekend, but then you'd miss out on seeing either The Bandulus at Flamingo Cantina tonight, the Daze at Beerland/What Made Milwaukee Famous at Antone's on Saturday and/or the one and only Motorhead at Red 7 on Sunday. You know what to do. Since the clear plan is for you to blow all of your hard earned cash on shows, beer and band t-shirts (in that order) this weekend, I figured I should [...]
Date 9/16/09 Location Scoot Inn Doors ?? Tickets ?? @ Door 101x is putting on another Homegrown live at Scoot Inn on Wednesday and features What Made Milwaukee Famous front-man Michael Kingcaid performing with The Motts . Fellow locals TV Torso and Western Ghost House will be joining in for support. Sorry for the [...]
Here's our recommendations for this week. You can also follow us on twitter (@ Ultra8201 ). Monday (8/24) : Bare Wires, The Urgencies, DJ Ben Blackout, DJ Angel von Ripper at The Grand ( map ) Tuesday (8/25) : Harlem, Bare Wires at The Parlor [ FREE ] Show @ 7 Wednesday (8/26) : Anavan, Dazzler, Harlovve, Parson [...]
FREE PRESS SUMMER FEST GETS ON FOX! Sweet! If You Build it, They Will Come: It's on everybody's mind right now. Will this be a huge success for the city of Houston and if so, how do we gauge this? Will Austinians Bite? Looking around at all the bands that frequent the IH house, practice and preparation is in the air. Bands are printing their t-shirts for merch sales, and rehearsing a mighty setlist. Many of the locals will be playing their biggest shows yet- Shit... i just saw Buxton rehearsing with Robert Ellis downstairs a minute ago [...]
From the LA Times: By MICHAEL WALKER, Michael Walker is a free-lance writer based in New York. NEW YORK -- Les Paul is plowing through the last of his chicken supper at Fat Tuesday's, the tiny basement jazz club in Manhattan where he has performed two shows on Monday nights for the last eight years. It's 15 minutes or so before the start of the first set, and the tables ringing the stage are already filled. As usual, the 76-year-old guitarist and inventor, whose pioneering designs for [...]
FREE PRESS SUMMER FEST GETS ON FOX! Sweet! If You Build it, They Will Come: It's on everybody's mind right now. Will this be a huge success for the city of Houston and if so, how do we gauge this? Will Austinians Bite? Looking around at all the bands that frequent the IH house, practice and preparation is in the air. Bands are printing their t-shirts for merch sales, and rehearsing a mighty setlist. Many of the locals will be playing their biggest shows yet- Shit... i just saw Buxton rehearsing with Robert Ellis downstairs a minute ago [...]
Malajube 's [ Myspace ] third full-length record, Labyrinthes , scatters pop hooks over prog tendencies, pulling off a trippy yet inoffensive album that delivers on nearly every track. Dismiss your xenoglossophobia, Labyrinthes is an incredibly enjoyable record, even if you don't know just what it is they're singing about. Malajube let the reigns out for the opener, "Ursuline". It is the album's thesis, a four movement mini-opera spanning the pop, rock, and dance elements that follow throughout the rest of the record. Acknowledging your body [...]
Here are our recommendations for the week. Wednesday is a good one with not one but two events co-sponsored by none other than... well us. Hopefully all our fellow bloggers can make it out to the Bleet Up on Wednesday and then after that out to the Parish. It's our last show for a minute so get on it! Monday (7/27): Stellastarr*, Wild Light and Experimental Aircraft at The Parish Iron and Wine and Glen Hasnard (Swell Season/The Frames) at [...]
Quiet Company is an Austin band led by native Taylor Glen Muse who has been in and out of countless bands over the last several years. After stints in an early form of Eisley and The Connotations, Mr. Muse moved on to record an album mostly on his own under the moniker Quiet Company . That first record, Shine Honesty , received a mostly positive response from critics which lead to new members and a brand new band. Fast forward to 2009 which sees Quiet Company dropping their sophomore effort Everyone You [...]
Hear the new release of Jack White's new band, The Dead Weather , in its entirety now! Horehound , will be streaming in its entirety today only at their official iLike page . In case you haven't heard: What was initially imagined as a one-off collaboration for a 7" single, turned into a full blown record for The Dead Weather . Horehound , the debut collaboration between J ack White (White Stripes) , Alison Mosshart (The Kills) , Jack Lawrence (The [...]
There has been so much controversy this week about whether or not we should care about the deaths of famous artists. So, today we're going down the list, to see who would care if any and all of the artists playing this weekend died. SR descriptions are in italics, since he wasn't in on this. Ready?- FRIDAY Big Fiction / Legsweeper / Gun Gun / MuhammadALi (Bike House) The grieving in this case would be people into straight-ahead, big-riffing, "rock [...]
After relentlessly touring KC multiple times over the past year, Bethany finally caught up with Alt rockers Anberlin . Guitarist Christian McAlhaney , formerly of Acceptance , filled PopWreckoning in on life on the road and at a major label. Bethany, PopWreckoning: You guys are one of the most popular alternative bands now, but it wasn't always that way. What were some of the challenges of breaking into mainstream? Christian McAlhaney , Anberlin: It is endless. Anberlin has been a band…some of these [...]
Free Press Houston are throwing down a two day Summer Fest this August 8th and 9th at Eleanor Tinsley Park in Houston, TX. Tickets are at $7 for each day or $12 for both days if you prefer, which is basically nothing. Here's what we do know: there will be two stages, local artist booths, a craft beer garden, and a misting tent. Supposedly free water will be provided as well! Free Press Summer Fest ( official site ) August 8th & 9th, 12pm - 10pm [ [...]
This is an interesting weekend festival taking place August 8-9 in Elanor Tinsley Park in Houston, TX, featuring Of Montreal, Broken Social Scene, What Made Milwaukee Famous and Explosions in the Sky, among others. Lineup looks cool, but Houston in August is literally the worst place on the entire earth outside of an active war zone. But, tickets are super cheap ($12 for the weekend?!) so it's a tradeoff. Get tickets here and find the lineup after the jump. Broken Social Scene Explosions in the Sky [...]
Confirmed to headline Free Press Houston Summer Fest are BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, OF MONTREAL, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, THE SWORD, WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS, AND THE OCTOPUS PROJECT, OHMY!. The music/arts festival will be held August 8th and 9th at Buffalo Bayou's Eleanor Tinsley Park and will feature more than 40+ national and local musical performers, visual arts, and games. The park will host 2 stages, dozens of local artist booths, a craft beer garden, games, and several 'cooling elements' such as a misting tents to help attendees stage cool in the hot sun. Participants are encouraged to wear bathing [...]
Confirmed to headline Free Press Houston Summer Fest are BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, OF MONTREAL, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, THE SWORD, WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS, AND THE OCTOPUS PROJECT, OHMY!. The music/arts festival will be held August 8th and 9th at Buffalo Bayou's Eleanor Tinsley Park and will feature more than 40+ national and local musical performers, [...]
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