HT faves Barika , the Vermont-based band who blend Craig Myers’ Kamel N’Goni work with Western influences, are currently working on their second album. The group has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the rest of the recording process, mixing and mastering. Funders who back the project can receive t-shirts, albums and even a N'Goni lesson from Myers depending on how much they contribute . Barika hopes to release the album in early May. Here's six links to help you get over the hump this work [...]
In a world's colliding moment for this writer, Ryan Adams has revealed that he will produce the new Lemonheads' studio effort. For the upcoming record, Lemonheads head honcho Evan Dando will re-team with the band's co-founder, Ben Deily, who separated from the group back in 1989. Plus, alt-rocker Juliana Hatfield - who has a long history with Dando and the Lemonheads' brand - will play bass. Adams' tweet about his new behind-the-boards gig mentions he'll bring the Lemonheads "back to the punker sounds" of the band's [...]
Coachella promoters Goldenvoice have been working with the city of Indio on a long-term pact which will keep the festival in the California desert town through 2030. This potential deal also would give Goldenvoice the right to stage an additional two festivals besides the two Coachella weekends and the Stagecoach festival. The deal would also grant the promoter a larger capacity for Coachella. Head over to the L.A. Times for a full rundown of the details behind Goldenvoice's potential deal with Indio. Here's links to six more stories of [...]
Classic jam-rockers Moonalice played a huge role in the digital music revolution as the first band without a label to achieve one million downloads of a song from its own servers, direct-from-artist. In fact, the group's It's 4:20 Somewhere track has been downloaded over two million times, making it the first multiplatinum track to be downloaded directly from a band's own website . Moonalice has donated their digital logs to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Library and Archives. “We are honored that the digital logs for [...]
Comedian and talk show host Stephen Colbert is following up last year's StePhest Colbchella by curating a second edition of the mini-fest and this time around it will take place on the retired aircraft carrier the USS Intrepid. Dubbed StePhest Colbchella '012, the multi-band event will take place on Friday, August 10, featuring the Flaming Lips, fun., Grizzly Bear, Santigold and Grandmaster Flash. The resulting performances will air on the following week's episodes of The Colbert Report. Here's six more stories of note on this Hump Day... [...]
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals put out an impressive album earlier this week when The Lion, The Beast, The Beat hit stores. Tonight, the longtime HT faves will celebrate the release of the LP in their hometown of Burlington at Higher Ground. This evening's performance, which is scheduled to start around 9PM ET, will be webcast live on this Livestream channel . Here's six other stories of note to help you kill time this hump day... Drummer Neil Peart [...]
Back in December Wilco embarked on a five-show romp through their hometown billed as the " Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago ." Yesterday, the band released an iPad book that includes a collection of photos, show posters and more documenting the run. You can download the book free-of-charge through iTunes . Wilco has also shared a Spanish version of Dawned On Me . Here's links to five stories of note this hump day... Pitchfork lists the best SNL [...]
Quintessential Grateful Dead tribute act Dark Star Orchestra are throwing their inaugural Dark Star Jubilee festival at Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio on August 31 - September 2. In addition to a show a night from DSO, the band will welcome 7 Walkers, the Mickey Hart Band, Keller Williams, Jorma Kaukonen, Infamous Stringdusters, Dumpstaphunk, Donna The Buffalo, Perpetual Groove, Boombox, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Cornmeal, the Donna Jean Godchaux Band and more to Dark Star Jubilee. All in all, that's three former members of the Dead who will participate. [...]
Hot off the group's big night at The Grammys, Bon Iver will tape a performance for this season of the iconic television show Austin City Limits at The Moody Theater on April 25th according to the show's blog . Indie pop band The Shins will also appear on this season of ACL as they'll be at The Moody Theater on March 18 . Steve Martin and his Steep Canyon Rangers band will be featured on this weekend's episode of Austin City Limits. Here's six [...]
On Tuesday night's episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon , Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was one of the host's guests and came out to the tune of Fishbone's Lyin' Ass Bitch as performed by the show's house band The Roots. Of course Bachmann wasn't familiar with the song and didn't realize the intro music was a slight until every music blog wrote about the situation yesterday. Fallon wasn't exactly pleased with the bashing and tweeted that Questlove " was grounded " and apologized to Bachmann . Today, Village Voice music editor Maura Johnston [...]
The String Cheese Incident will embark on their first tour since 2007 later this month and iClips will come along with them to webcast five shows from the run. iClips' first SCI broadcast will take place on November 25 from the band's tour opener in Asheville and then iClips will team up with String Cheese to webcast the last four shows of the tour on December 7 - 10. You can pre-order the broadcasts for $7.99 a piece until the day of the show when the price jumps to $11.99. The price for all three evenings [...]
HT co-founder Slade " Ace Cowboy " Sohmer has spent the last year-plus working on the fantastic next generation news site HyperVocal . Slade and the HV team has always had a knack for finding unintentionally hilarious headlines from around the world and the latest part of the HyperVocal Network highlights these Headlines That Sucks . HeadlinesThatSuck.com gives readers a chance to "put a little polish on that turd" by submitting punchlines for each headline on HTS. We've already wasted some of our work day poking around HTS [...]
If yesterday was "tour dates release day", today is "f'awesome video release day." There were so many great clips that dropped this afternoon that we are doing away with the normal link dump format for today's column to present some of the fantastic videos we've found. Our first clip comes from the Pearl Jam Twenty documentary. PBS will be airing the Cameron Crowe-directed film on October 21st. Watch as Chris Cornell explains the camaraderie between Seattle bands that led to the formation of Temple of the Dog... Next up, we've got [...]
We don't envy Bruce Springsteen and the members of the E Street Band. The late Clarence Clemons cannot easily be replaced and his signature parts on songs such as Thunder Road, Born To Run and Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out helped make those tunes classics. At the same time, the members of this band love playing together. A decision on the group's future is coming soon according to E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt . Van Zandt told reporters at the opening of Paul McCartney's ballet that the E Street Band will [...]
Petty Fest returns to NYC this October for "Two Nights To Get Drunk And Celebrate The Songs Of Tom Petty." The action takes place at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 5 and the Bowery Ballroom on October 6 with a lineup that includes Norah Jones, Har Mar Superstar, Guster's Ryan Miller, Jesse Malin, Cory Chisel and The Sheepdogs as well as "many more surprise guests." Tickets go on sale this Thursday at Noon EDT. Here's a look at six other stories of note this [...]
Even though Sammy Hagar and Mickey Hart are putting on the bravest of faces in their latest individual interviews with Billboard and Rolling Stone respectively, you can't help but come away from the pieces feeling like these guys would kill to be back in the bands for which they are best known. Hagar tells Billboard that both he and former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony laughed when they heard that the group's Australian tour was cancelled before lamenting about how much he misses the Van Halen brothers. Hart refutes Bob Weir's claim that the jort-wearing guitar [...]
The schedule for next weekend's Outside Lands festival has finally come out and the event's main stage, Lands End, will feature a dream sequence of The Original Meters followed by MGMT followed by two sets of Phish on Friday. A blogger for SF Weekly didn't feel the same way and put "there are plenty of ways to avoid Phish" as the first item on his list of 5 Things to Like About the Outside Lands Festival Schedule . @YEMblog tweeted a link pointing Phish fans in [...]
Hopefully D will think this is more like it. Some house by Kerri Chandler. Ignore the first two tracks and go for the second two. So It Begins Again (Dark Mix) has that dingy club feel that D so liked BITD. It's pretty basic stuff. Simple repetitive beats, with the odd chant just to freak out the clubbers and send them on a para one. Red Lights almost has a techno feel. Rather mid-90s in its structure and acid synth sounds. Probably the better track. Soundcloud: Madhouse Records [...]
Phish rolls into Lake Tahoe for a pair of shows on August 9 and 10 adjacent to the Harvey's Resort and Casino. Before the second show, on August 10, the Phamily Poker Classic 2 will take place inside of Harvey's with all proceeds benefiting The Mockingbird Foundation - a non-profit organization run by Phish fans that generates charitable proceeds from the Phish community. If you like poker and are hitting the Tahoe shows, this Texas Hold Em Event has your name written all over it. The [...]
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