Repost: This is from last year, still of interest today. The Big Bopper The Winter Dance Party 1959 , featuring Buddy Holly, J.P "Big Bopper" Richardson, Ritchie Valens and Dion and the Belmonts, was set to cover 24 Midwestern cities in three weeks. Touring is hard enough, but when the heating system on your bus constantly breaks down in sub-zero temperatures, people can reach their breaking point. By the time the tour pulled into Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1959, Holly was [...]
The mayor chose the Minnesota Beatle Project, Mason Jennings, and Brother Ali to represent our local music scene. Nice choices, mayor!
Mason Jennings shows his maturity with Blood of Man , but also shows that he still has room to grow. The exciting part is that the best has yet to come. When your name is Mason Jennings a music career seems like predestination. I'm not going to presume to put him on the same legendary pedestal as Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen, but all of their names do have that kind of humble blue collar ring, one that says as much about the man as the music. And Mason Jennings has come a long way, both in his [...]
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The Current has announced a hot lineup for their January 29 show.
Saturday, December 19, 2009 89.3 The Current presents MASON JENNINGS Mainroom / 6:00 pm / 21+ with THE PINES $20.00 adv | $20.00 door
Thought our readers may enjoy this. Continuing with what I hope to be a great give away week/month I got this email... "The Christmas season is pretty damn cold in Chicago , so 4AD recording artist Anni Rossi stays inside with the nog and cuts some fine tunes of yuletime cheer. As a thank you to everyone who has supported her this year, including big tours with Camera Obscura , Noah and the Whale , Mason Jennings , and more, Anni wants to offer everyone a nice little early holiday gift. Go [...]
If you read this blog from time to time, you know about our affection for the wonderfully talented ANNI ROSSI . The Christmas season is pretty damn cold in Chicago where Anni is from, so Anni stays inside with the nog and cuts some fine tunes of yuletide cheer. As a thank you to everyone who has supported her this year, including big tours with Camera Obscura, Noah and the Whale, Mason Jennings, and more, Anni wants to offer everyone a nice little early holiday gift. Go to annirossi.com [...]
Rolling Stone profiles The Big Pink . Sounds Like: A mix of suffocating shoegaze textures, arena-ready pop hooks and the occasional breakbeat, their debut album, A History Of Love, recalls classic 4AD labelmates like the Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance with an abrasive, violent grit. Vue Weekly profiles Magneta Lane . A year after forming, the trio released the critically acclaimed EP— The Constant Lover [...]
Rolling Stone profiles The Big Pink . Sounds Like: A mix of suffocating shoegaze textures, arena-ready pop hooks and the occasional breakbeat, their debut album, A History Of Love, recalls classic 4AD labelmates like the Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance with an abrasive, violent grit. The Jewish Chronicle reviews Joe Sacco's new graphic novel Footnotes in Gaza . The power of Footnotes lies in Sacco's unblinking focus [...]
Well it's that time again. It's been a good year in music for sure – so much so that we've bumped our list up to 25 albums this time around, and even then we were having to painfully cut out some clearly great records. Remember, this list represents our favorite albums of the year, not necessarily the best albums of the year. If we had to pick what we thought were the very best albums critically, this would probably be a very different list. But we're no critics, so that's not what we're going [...]
Listened to a good bit of Mason Jennings this weekend, first in the car on the ride back from the Oregon Coast, then while working a short story at the coffee shop some hours later. While writing I listened to pretty much all of the MJ I had, and I heard again this track, one I haven't listened to in a very long time: "The Mountain." It's off 1998's Birds Flying Away , which was the first Mason Jennings album I got into (although a short while later I discovered his debut disc and thought that one even better). [...]
Listened to a good bit of Mason Jennings this weekend, first in the car on the ride back from the Oregon Coast, then while working a short story at the coffee shop some hours later. While writing I listened to pretty much all of the MJ I had, and I heard again this track, one I haven't listened to in a very long time: "The Mountain." It's off 1998's Birds Flying Away , which was the first Mason Jennings album I got into (although a short while later I discovered his debut disc and thought that one even better). [...]
Listened to a good bit of Mason Jennings this weekend, first in the car on the ride back from the Oregon Coast, then while working a short story at the coffee shop some hours later. While writing I listened to pretty much all of the MJ I had, and I heard again this track, one I haven't listened to in a very long time: "The Mountain." It's off 1998's Birds Flying Away , which was the first Mason Jennings album I got into (although a short while later I discovered his debut disc and thought that one even better). [...]
Listened to a good bit of Mason Jennings this weekend, first in the car on the ride back from the Oregon Coast, then while working a short story at the coffee shop some hours later. While writing I listened to pretty much all of the MJ I had, and I heard again this track, one I haven't listened to in a very long time: "The Mountain." It's off 1998's Birds Flying Away , which was the first Mason Jennings album I got into (although a short while later I discovered his debut disc and thought that one even better). [...]
Listened to a good bit of Mason Jennings this weekend, first in the car on the ride back from the Oregon Coast, then while working a short story at the coffee shop some hours later. While writing I listened to pretty much all of the MJ I had, and I heard again this track, one I haven't listened to in a very long time: "The Mountain." It's off 1998's Birds Flying Away , which was the first Mason Jennings album I got into (although a short while later I discovered his debut disc and thought that one even better). [...]
Review, videos, and set list from Jennings' sold-out show last night.
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