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 of the Chicago run, which takes place from December 8 – 10, is $14.99 in advance and then $17.99 come December 8. A big discount comes in if you order all five webcasts for $21.99. Head over to iClips for more information or to purchase a webcast or five.
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- Side-by-side evidence of the Grateful Dead’s influence on indie rock
- Watch VH1’s pop-up videos for White Stripes, Vampire Weekend
- Sam Davis of Dog Gone Blog shares a November Mix of fantastic tunes
- R.E.M.’s Mike Mills talks to Jesse Jarnow about the band’s career
- Four things to expect from Google Music’s 5PM ET announcement
Finally, indie-jammers moe. may love improv but they usually don’t perform without a net, ie. they guide their jams and segues through the use of setlists. However that won’t be the case at tonight’s show at Ziggy’s in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where the group will “throw out the playbook and reinvent improvisation, calling the show as they go” according to a post on the official moe. Facebook page. We look forward to hearing the results.
