Archive: 2008

After you finish feasting on turkey this Thanksgiving, head down to the basement with your cool cousins to  watch a full day of Pink Floyd programming on VH-1 Classic. Highlights include David Gilmour – Live in Gdansk at noon, The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story at 5PM, The Pink Floyd Story – Which One […]

With their remarkable songwriting, dazzling instrumentation, and stunning vocal harmonies on Through the Window of a Train, Blue Highway continues to set themselves apart from the rest of the bluegrass world.      

This Mix Tape was inspired by my trip out to San Francisco this summer. SF just oozes with an energy and feel that makes you understand how the psychedelic rock movement originated and blossomed there. Anyone that has seen a show at The Fillmore can attest to that, that room’s just filled with the ghosts […]

As you may have read, the Zappa Family trust – headed by Gail and Dweezil Zappa – have waged war on Zappa cover bands. Earlier this summer some major drama unfolded in Ottawa between Dweezil and Andre Cholmondeley of Project Object. Dweezil wrote about the incident a few months ago, but legendary Zappa alum Adrian […]

After Radiohead released OK Computer the band headed off on an extensive World Tour. Filmmaker Grant Gee followed the band around the world to document what went on behind the scenes. Meeting People Is Easy [Friday – IFC 8PM] shows the highs and lows of life on the road. Friday [all times Eastern]: Best of […]

Capitol Records will release Coldplay’s Viva La Vida – Prospekt’s March edition a day early – on Monday, November 24th. The two-disc deluxe package includes Viva La Vida, the band’s fourth full-length album, plus a brand new EP entitled Prospekt’s March.  The EP, which will also be for sale separately in CD, digital and 12" […]

Singer/songwriter GARY JULES will release his new album BIRD on November 25 via CDbaby.com and the iTunes Music Store. Jules is backed by a band for the new set, GARY JULES AND THE GROUP RULES, comprising a number of Jules’ collaborators from Los Angeles’s HOTEL CAFE cohort: Al Sgro (vocals, drums, percussion, synthesizers), Heather Brown-Dodge […]

If you heard Rose Hill Drive tear their vicious way through “Communications Breakdown,” you’d be convinced there is no need whatsoever for a Led Zeppelin reunion. 

Welcome to the 100th edition of The B List. To celebrate this special anniversary, I’m going to finally finish a list I started writing way back in December 2006. Ah, the good old Hidden Track glory days…

Peanut butter and jelly; mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce and crust; bong hits and porn – certain combinations are magical proving that the whole can be greater than the sum of two parts. That’s true in music as well. For this week’s B List, we’re going to list ten song pairings that work great together.

10. Sailin’ Shoes > Hey Julia > Sneakin’ Sally – Robert Palmer

It’s not too often that a musician covers another artist’s song so well that the original artist starts covering the style of the cover in concert. Just this year Little Feat has started playing Sailin’ Shoes with the funky feel of Robert Palmer’s version. For his debut album and in concert, Palmer segue Sailin’ Shoes into his own Hey Julia before dropping the hammer with Sneakin’ Sally. Check out this live version from Wesleyan University circa 1976…

READ ON for nine other perfect pairings from Zappa, Phish and more…

Next month, the Sundance Channel will debut a new 13 episode talk and live performance show hosted by Attractions/Imposters front man Elvis Costello. The hour long show called Spectacle: Elvis Costello with… will feature “the best elements of talk and music television, inviting viewers to enjoy an in-depth conversation between host and his guests, punctuated […]