Archive: 2005

Robert Walter has been around the block more than once, spending time with the seminal live funk unit the Greyboy Allstars and his 20th Congress. Now Robert is stepping out with his new project Super Heavy Organ and laying down the groove with a newly reformed Steve Kimock Band.

Black Sabbath and the Sex Pistols lead the 2006 class of inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They will be joined by jazz legend Miles Davis, Southern rock mainstays Lynyrd Skynyrd and New York new wave outfit Blondie for the induction, which will be held March 13 at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

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The long-awaited return of The New Riders of the Purple Sage has fans in a psychedelic head spin. Original members David Nelson (guitar and vocals) and Buddy Cage (pedal Steel) along with Michael Falzarano (guitar, mandolin and vocals), Johnny Markowski (drums and vocals)and Ronnie Penque (bass and vocals) will treat their fans with their 2nd tour since the reformation of the group. Once called the greatest cosmic, psychedelic-country folk rock & roll band in the universe, the new lineup of NRPS will continue to revive its legendary reputation in early December.

Veterans David Nelson and Buddy Cage have put together a smokin’ band to perform its timeless music to fans both old and new. “David and I will be playing our NRPS catalog,” says Buddy Cage who replaced Jerry Garcia on pedal steel in the band’s earliest lineup in 1971. Original bass player Dave Torbert and drummer Spencer Dryden have passed away and are now a part of the ethereal band. They will undoubtedly be smiling down as their music lives on. Co-founder John Dawson cannot lend his considerable talents due to ongoing health problems although he will be there in spirit.

December Tour:
Wed 7 – Wilberts – Cleveland, OH
Thurs 8 – 123 Pleasant St – Morgantown, WV
Fri 9 – The Pub – Harrisonburg, VA
Sat 10- Station II – Norfolk, VA
Mon 12 – Cary St. Cafe’ – Richmond, VA
Wed 14 – The 8×10 – Baltimore, MD
Thurs 15 – The State Theatre – Falls Church, VA
Fri+Sat 16+17 – Mexicali Blues – Teaneck, NJ

Kicking Television, recorded live at the Vic Theatre in Chicago, May 4-7, 2005, captures Wilco in the new Nels Cline/Pat Sansone/Mikael Jorgensen era, complete with sonic splashes, textured keyboards and disgruntled guitars to accompany Jeff Tweedy

Matt Pond PA are a consistent band. And when it comes to music, consistency can be both good and bad. It seems you know a new MP album will drop every year and this is the fifth from the band in the past five years. You know the quartet will have catchy melodies,
lovesick lyrics and usually some beautiful album art. Now centrally located in Brooklyn after leaving the brotherly confines of Philadelphia, not much has changed on Several Arrows Later.

Electric Six has firmed up a tour for February and March, with much of the U.S. and Canada in the disco-garage-punk band’s crosshairs.

The tour begins February 9 in Toronto and spans the length of the continent, finishing in Milwaukee March 25.

Rock Kills Kid will open on all dates, with Fred Durst proteges She Wants Revenge also appearing through March 6 and Nightmare Of You on the tour’s latter half.

Electric Six visited Australia and New Zealand earlier this year, in addition to North America, and is planning to finish a new album before the new tour starts.

The Detroit natives – who “use stage names because we had a stupid idea one night and now we have to live with it” – have been through approximately four guitar players, four bass players, five keyboard players, and three drummers.

The group is currently a five-piece, comprising Dick Valentine, Tait Nucleus, John R. Dequindre, Johnny Na$hinal and The Colonel.

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This is one of those that albums that forces you to listen and listen again, yet the sounds fend off any coalescing ideas. And it’s this uneven quality that draws me back time and time again, that glimmer of greatness that is elusive.

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The Who has their place in history now; if Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, the last two founding members, never performed or recorded again it wouldn’t make a difference. Their legend is written and secure in the minds of those with an ounce of familiarity concerning the history of rock music.

This oldie comes packaged as a remastered CD and DVD Audio release with extensive liner notes and video bonuses including a