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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08) Photo : Tim Griffin Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have been on hiatus for a little while, but that's all about to change with the release of a new concert DVD and CD simply entitled, Live . The 2-DVD/1-CD set will be out on November 10, 2009 , and features live footage from their late 2007 tour in Berlin, Glasgow and Dublin. The band is currently busy putting the finishing touches [...]

Virgin Mobile Festival 2008 Photo : Tim Griffin If you're like me and you blog obsessively about music and events (or perhaps if you live in the DC area), you've probably been wondering if the Virgin Mobile Festival is going to take place this year. With the downturn in the economy, the looming bankruptcy of Pimlico Race Course, and everyone and their mother having already announced their summer festival lineups, the chances of the US Virgin Festival occurring in 2009 seem unlikely at best, at least in [...]

Iggy and The Stooges at the Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08) Photos : Tim Griffin Iggy Pop recently announced some details about his new album which was apparently influenced by the likes of Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton and even features him singing in French on one track: The Stooges frontman shows off his multilingualism On "Autumn Leaves," a track off [...]

Sharon Jones at the Virgin Mobile Festival (08/09/08) Photos : Tim Griffin Since Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings are playing the Nokia Theatre in Times Square on February 13 (tonight) and February 14 , I figured now was as good a time as ever to post these pictures of her from last summer's Virgin Mobile Festival . More pictures after the jump.

M. Ward at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08) Photos : Tim Griffin M. Ward 's "highly-anticipated" new release, Hold Time will hit the digital and physical shelves on February 17th, 2009 . The follow up to the well received Post-War features guest performances from Lucinda Williams, Jason Lytle (ex Grandaddy) and the actress Zooey Deschanel (aka She ). Also, in what may come as no surprise to people who follow music, Matt [...]

M. Ward at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08) Photos : Tim Griffin M. Ward 's "highly-anticipated" new release, Hold Time will hit the digital and physical shelves on February 17th, 2009 . The follow up to the well received Post-War features guest performances from Lucinda Williams, Jason Lytle (ex Grandaddy) and the actress Zooey Deschanel (aka She ). Also, in what may come as no surprise to people who follow music, Matt [...]

The Black Keys at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08) Photos : Tim Griffin Apparently The Black Keys are a fairly popular band these days because they sold out their first show at Terminal 5 and now another one has been announced for Feb 7, 2009 , tickets for that show are currently available to American Express cardholders and go on sale to the general public on December 5 at noon. In other Black Keys [...]

The Black Keys at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08) Photos : Tim Griffin Apparently The Black Keys are a fairly popular band these days because they sold out their first show at Terminal 5 and now another one has been announced for Feb 7, 2009 , tickets for that show are currently available to American Express cardholders and go on sale to the general public on December 5 at noon. In other Black Keys [...]

Cat Power at Virgin Festival Pimlico (08/09/08) Photos : Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall ) will be releasing a new covers EP (as follow up to her last covers LP) digitally and on limited edition double 103 vinyl on December 9 from Matador. The EP entitled Dark End of the Street , will feature six tunes that Chan and crew did during the Jukebox sessions, including covers of The Pogues, James [...]

Stone Temple Pilots at Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08) Photos : Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival OK, Scott Weiland has a new album coming out on November 25 called Happy In Galoshes , he's also going on a solo tour to support it. Aside from that, I don't much else, but this post is really just an excuse to post some Stone Temple Pilots pictures from the 2008 Virgin Mobile Festival . [...]

Lil Wayne at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08) Photos : Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival Saturday Night Live kicks off with a bang this year, with Lil Wayne Carter as the musical guest and Olympic champion Michael Phelps as the host. (Hopefully, unlike seasons past, parts of this one will be funny.) Earlier in the year Wayne Carter remarkably sold a million records in a week , last month he played the Virgin Mobile Festival at Pimlico and [...]

Shudder To Think at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/08/08) Photos : Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival Craig Wedren may no longer live in NYC, but his old band Shudder To Think is back together and on the road again. They played the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore (and the one in Toronto this past weekend) and Tim Griffin was there to capture the action. The new reunited STT is coming to New York on October 4 ( buy tickets [...]

Rodrigo y Gabriela at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/09/08) Photos : Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival Dynamic guitar duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela are set to release a new live album entitled Live In Japan (with bonus DVD) on October 28, 2008 . The album is being released as limited edition by ATO Records. More pictures of Rodrigo y Gabriela at the Virgin Mobile Festival, album track listing, and all upcoming tour dates [...]

Bloc Party at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/09/08) Photos : Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival You can pre-order a CD copy of the new Bloc Party album Intimacy right now and you'll get the digital version immediately and the CD version when it is released on October 28th . More photos from the Virgin Mobile Festival and all Bloc Party tour dates after the jump. [...]

The Swell Season at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/09/08) Photos : Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova , otherwise known as The Swell Season played a set at the Virgin Mobile Festival and crack photographer Tim Griffin was there to capture all the action. Still riding high from their Oscar win , Glen and Mar are coming back to NYC (with Patty Griffin ) to play [...]

Andrew Bird at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08) Photos : Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival Andrew Bird played the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore a couple of weeks ago and he'll be making his way back to NYC on October 6th and 7th for two shows at the Hiro Ballroom . The cool thing about this set of NYC shows is that on at least one of the nights Canada's Sandro Perri will be opening for [...]

Day 2 schedule is after the jump. Tim will be on the ground.

Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs Apparently the folks at Sony/Columbia have dug another Bob Dylan album out of the vaults and it's called Tell Tale Signs - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 . The "new" record comes out on October 7 , but in the mean time Bob will be keeping busy with gigs at Virgin Mobile Festival this weekend and then our very own Prospect Park on August 12th . [...]

Hey, today is the last day to enter the contest to win free weekend passes to the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore, MD. Send an email to contests@bumpershine.com and tell me who your favorite act playing the fest is and why you want to go. On a side note, I apologize for the lack of copious updates here, work has been a killer lately. There has been lots I've wanted to post about, but as a part-time blogger and full time Dad and worker bee it's been hard to fit it all [...]

Just a reminder, I am running the following contests until Wednesday (07/23) of this week: 2 Free GA Weekend Passes to the 2008 Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore, MD Best of Radiohead Quad LP Giveaway Mad Men: Music From The Series, Vol. 1 CD