- Everyone has to start somewhere, even famous rock stars - AA.VV YOU HEARD THEM HERE FIRST rockin's icon before were famous Ace, 2009 Non molti artisti, anche i piu grandi, hanno raggiunto la notorietà con il primo disco. Anzi molto spesso i primi passi nel mondo della musica sono andati completamente [...]
When Laura Ann Masura's longtime friend Josiah Mazzaschi heard she had been injured in a motorcycle accident, he didn't sit on his hands. He got on the phone. Mazzaschi, the frontman of local indie-rock band Light FM , has organized a benefit concert, Jam for Laura Ann, on Sunday at the Echoplex to help Masura, a fellow musician and also a bartender at the downtown's Redwood Bar, defray some $15,000 in medical expenses. The 5 p.m. show ($12) features a heady cast of performers, including the Backwards Clock Society, featuring Billy Corgan along with Kerry [...]
By Jeff Kollath This interview will be the first in a series featuring gig poster artists both from the Madison area and throughout this fine country of ours. Our first subject is Marq Spusta , who currently resides in Three Rivers, California. A native of Waunakee and a graduate of UW-Stout with a degree in Art, Marq has been an artist since he was in elementary school, and has become one of the more popular poster artists on the West Coast. Earlier this month, Marq reintroduced himself to Madison audiences with a poster for [...]
Bob Dylan: Live 1966 - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert Jordy: It has always been difficult for me to listen to the man-and-his-guitar format. Rock, in the end, is how a small group of musicians produces a singular, simultaneous sound. Dylan's acoustic set on the "Royal Albert Hall" Concert is the former yearning to be the latter. Each of the songs he performs in it was originally recorded with an ensemble ("Mr. Tambourine Man" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" are the closest to their original studio releases, lacking only the electric [...]
The NBA Season is still young and TSS is keeping the ball in play. We hit you off with the West , now it's time to bicker about the Eastern Conference Standings. The East is has a top heavy talent pool but it's full of compelling storylines that'll keep you tuned in. The Celtics are back, healthy and ready for another run at the chip. Meanwhile LBJ is still climbing for the mountain top while Orlando knows what it takes to get there. But screw all that serious stuff. Gilbert Arenas is back ladies and gentlemen. Who knows what [...]
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"
Now that I've got a little more time on my hands I think I'm going to start up this " Exchanging e-mails with... " segment again. It's been really interesting getting some insight from different bands/artists and figuring out what their life with music is like: what their goals are, their motivation, what tours are like, etc.. Hopefully it's an interesting read, but, if not, I think it makes me a slightly better (sort of) music blogger... This time around I bounced some electronic mails back and forth with Ottawa singer-songwriter That's the Spirit ( [...]
Memory Tapes Seek Magic Acephale out August 25th 71 /100 [ Rating Scale ] [...]
"Balloon Boy" Falcon Heene's afternoon of transfixing America's underemployed and Internet-equipped people who thought he was in a UFO-esque balloon floating over Colorado-even though he was simply hiding in his house's attic -is almost 24 hours out, and people are currently trying to figure out just whether or not yesterday was a happy accident or some sort of proto-fameball experiment . However, there was definitely some fameballing going on-by YouTube-channel-equipped singers who decided to act as a rapid-response unit of sorts and write songs about Falcon, his family, and the media in hopes of Making A [...]
Another O. Schmitt Moment Seattle Seahawks ' fullback Owen Schmitt has always been known for his brutish ability to deliver/receive the hardest of hits in football. During his college days at West Virginia, this machine of a man mananged to mangle his facemask every few games - those things are really hard to bend! Part of his pre-game ritual sometimes included hitting his head with the very own helmet that's supposed to protect that precious cargo which resides inside that tough head of his. Fast forward to [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead : 2008-09-27, Austin [mp3,ogg,flac] "Richter Scale Madness" [mp3] other Trail of Dead posts at Largehearted Boy Dolly Varden : 2009-09-19, Chicago [mp3,ogg,flac] "You Sexy Thing (Hot Chocolate cover)" [mp3] other Dolly Varden posts at Largehearted Boy Fruit [...]
Leslie and the Badgers recorded their album while Los Angeles was on fire and began their residency at the Echo as the ash finally started to dissipate. Producer David Bianco let them use Bob Dylan's microphone and they meet now for beers at Cole's, where they would have fit perfectly opening for I See Hawks In L.A. not too long ago. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
Photo Credit This is going to be an action packed week in Atlanta. The A3C Hip hop Festival is going on in various venues in and around East Atlanta this weekend, and you can find all the details on that here . I'm not familiar enough with most of the lineup to make educated recommendations as to which shows to hit, but if I were sticking around town this week, I would definitely hit it up. But, I'll be going OTP to attend Alchemy , Georgia's mini version of Burning Man. In addition to [...]
[Double-barreled birthday wishes go out Saturday to Tegan and Sara. It's Jarvis Cocker's birthday too. Now for your busy weekend, starting with two festivals:] Head east: The third annual Clean Air Clear Stars festival goes off at Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace, with a heaping helping of excellent psych-rock tonight, Saturday and Sunday. Support global cooling. Head south: For family fun and a side order of good local music, there's the Lobster Festival at the Port of Los [...]
Everest Play the Troubadour on Friday (photo: Dominic DiSaia) Another week, another crowded live music landscape. This week features lots of great local bands, some of the more promising new national bands and a plethora of established acts. Monday 9/14/09 [Pick of the Night] Leslie and the Badgers / Ruby Friedman / Correatown / Olin and the Moon @ The Echo (Free) – Night two of their Monday night residency. [...]
Dead Confederate Monday, September 14th The Icarus Line @ Silverlake Lounge Tuesday, September 15th Arctic Monkeys @ Hollywood Palladium Vieux Farka Touré @ Echoplex Fanfarlo @ Troubadour Ed Helms @ The Coronet at Largo Wednesday, September 16th Phoenix with Metric and The Soft Pack @ Greek Theatre The French Semester @ Silverlake Lounge Growlers @ Bootleg Esperanza Spalding with John West @ [...]
We're back again with the NFL picks and now it's the NFC's turn. Often regarded as the inferior conference, the NFC is still packed with a couple of competitive divisions. Hell, like it or not, Brett Favre's offseason soap opera made the NFC North worth checking for. Take a look at our NFC divisional projections and let the inevitable arguments roll in the comments. NFC North: Jesse H. 1. Minnesota Vikings (11-5) [...]
Hip-hop can be boastful, loud and self-serving, but we shouldn't forget it was music born with an inherent social consciousness. The second annual Hot Nights/Warm Coats show taps into that original spirit. Featuring over 20 regional acts in all—including kingpins like Cool Nutz, Braille and Soul P—HNWC aims to better last year's total of over 600 coats collected for Oregon's needy. While organizers are looking for warm and "gently used" coats, WW decided to ask some of the showcase's performers about the biggest fashion faux pas they ever made. Diezel P (pictured) [...]
If you don't like the blues and ain't too particular about R&B in general, you might as well skip this whole mixtape. Period. End of story. Last week when we dropped Etta singing jazz, I knew we couldn't get away with not including some of her classic R&B material, of which there is, as we say here in the fertile crescent, "beaucoup," meaning a healthy bunch, a whole lot! So the first part of the mixtape is comprised of [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bloodkin : 2009-08-07, Denver [mp3,ogg,flac] "Happy" [mp3] other Bloodkin posts at Largehearted Boy Brittany Reilly : 2009-08-14, Stony Fork ]mp3,ogg,flac] "The Places I call Home" [mp3] Brittany Reilly : 2009-07-31, St. Augustine [mp3,ogg,flac] "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Kitty Wells cover)" [mp3] [...]
[mp3] Beach House: "Norway" Today we get the first mp3 from the unbelievably gorgeous new Beach House album Teen Dream (1/26 Sub Pop). Here is [...]More about Beach House
MP3: Lady GaGa - Telephone [Featuring Beyoncé] More about Lady GaGa
Just wanted everyone in L.A. looking for a to do this Thursday night, to check out a great show, from London-Transplant, now L.A. inhabitant Samuel Stewart. He is the offspring [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Beck pays tribute to sound architect Harry Partch with 10 minute opus, defends Radiohead who pay respect to WWII British solider Harry Patch. Beck -"Harry [...]More about Beck
Haven’t done a real time review in a while, and hey, Fall Be Kind just leaked. Let’s see what’s up. Here’s a live blogging of my thoughts, [...]More about Animal Collective
Beyonce has recently released the deluxe version of 'I Am...Sasha Fierce' which includes 4 bonus tracks and a DVD. The deluxe edition came out on November 2nd, [...]More about Beyonce
Baria Quereshi, guitarist for The xx has left the band due to exhaustion, leaving questions about the group’s future. Consequence of Sound can tell you about it: [...]More about The xx
Got two crazy new tracks from Young Money finest Lil Wayne from his upcoming mixtape No Ceilings which drops on Halloween. Also in this mixtape there will [...]More about Lil' Wayne
So here comes this freestyle or whatever it is from Kanye. No one seems to know if it is new or some unreleased stuff but [...]More about Kanye West
Tonight, so long as this fucking rain stops, the Yankees and Phillies will go head-to-head in the World Series! It's been nine long years since the Yankees last [...]More about Jay-Z
The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
k-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
nekocasefallon
Animal Collective - In The Flowers
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
No Curve Allowed (Grading This Week's New Tracks)
Beach House: Norway
Friday Five: Surf Songs
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