Archive: 2007

Welcome to yet another weekly edition of Grousing The Aisles. This week we have some great audio and video from established legends with five letters in their last names like Frank Zappa, Warren Zevon and Bob Seger, as well as up-and-coming acts Brock Butler and Rose Hill Drive. Check it out:

Rose Hill Drive 12/30/06 DAUD (FLAC)

Rose Hill Drive continues to make fans of some of the biggest names in rock, like Roger Daltrey of The Who. On December 30th, the boys started their concert with a tribute to Jimi Hendrix by playing Band of Gypsys in its entirety at the Boulder Theater. RHD tears through such classic tracks as Who Knows, Machine Gun, and Power to Love with brute force. Daniel Sproul does a fine job of channeling Jimi, who is not exactly an easy musician to cover.

Covers weren’t the only showstoppers of the night for Rose Hill Drive, as they also played driving versions of Cool Cody and The Guru, amongst other original songs. The interplay between the Sproul brothers and drummer Nathan Barnes is incredibly tight, leaving the impression these boys have played together for decades. I expect big things from these guys in 2007, as do we all.

For no other reason than rockin’ out to some Stones on this fine morning… [youtube]ZxWPHNjGaHs[/youtube] If you’re curious, this one’s from the famed Montreaux rehearsals in 1972.

As Tall As Lions self-titled release, the second one in their discography with Triple Crown Records, shows that Long Island, New York’s music scene has something different to offer then the club rock/emo driven Taking Back Sunday and Head Automatica.

Lucinda Williams has lined up a spring tour in support of West, her first album of all new original music since 2003’s critically acclaimed World Without Tears. 3/6 Tucson, AZ, Rialto3/7, Albuquerque, NM, Kimo3/9, Austin, TX, Stubb’s3/10, Dallas, TX, Granada3/13, Tallahassee, FL, Musical Moon 3/16, Jacksonville, FL, Florida Theater3/17, Atlanta, GA, Tabernacle3/18, Asheville, NC, Thomas […]

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE Black Elk, Black Elk (Crucial Blast Records)A band that can’t decide whether to be Red Scare calc, Melvins fuzz-froth or Lake of Dracula no-wave, and the world is better off while they’re making up their minds.  Black Elk’s cacophony will probably end up getting lumped in the section of your […]

Snoe.down ’07, the all ages, weekend winter music festival hosted by indie-jam rockers moe., returns to beautiful Lake Placid, N.Y., March 23-25, 2007. Snoe.down kicks off the week-long Adirondack Almost Springfest celebration, which will take place at all the 1980 Olympic venues in Lake Placid, N.Y., including the Olympic Center, home of the 1932 and […]

Gomez and ATO Records labelmate Ben Kweller have confirmed a month-long,co-headlining North American tour from mid-February through mid-March.The four-week run, which follows a January tour with Gomez supportingO.A.R. in Midwest and East Coast arenas, kicks off February 15 in Seattleand continues across the country through the March 11 closer inNorthampton. Each artist will also perform […]

It looks like The Police isn’t the only band discussing reunion plans in 2007.  Van Halen has been selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you know what that usually means. The induction ceremony takes place in New York City on March 12th, giving the band three months to figure out which […]

And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. About 20 minutes later He invented YouTube and sat in It for anywhere between 6,000 and 1,000 years. The raw footage from An Acoustic Evening with David […]

The King of the Smooth Jam will make his television debut in March with a guest appearance on the popular hospital drama House. Incoherent rambler Dave Matthews takes on the role of Patrick, a savant and virtuoso pianist who suffered a severe neurological impairment as the result of an accident 10 years prior. Patrick’s illness […]