Archive: 2009

[youtube]qM4px25reiA[/youtube] Frightened Rabbit – I Feel Better

In case you are still unsure of your goals for the New Year and still talking ’bout the man in the mirror and thinking about making that change, then this is your guide for a resolution. If there has ever been a musician with a soundtrack for righting life’s ship, it’s the late great Warren Zevon with his uplifting, half-full outlook on life. Well, maybe not exactly, but Warren always had a way of infusing his perpetual internal guilt in his songs and despite the mordant, melancholic lyrics, somehow they often leave an optimistic feeling.

Hence, today we’re taking some Zevon classics (many of which are from his last studio album, the foreboding magnum opus and severely underrated, The Wind) to devise a guide for some New Years Resolutions…

Cleaning Up Your Act – Dirty Life and Times (from The Wind)

Whether your vice is dirty needles, dirty sluts or dirty butts, misery loves company and in this case company plays a mean guitar (Ry Cooder). When you hit the fork in the road and do not know just which way to turn, the secret is to get those demons out on the table and talk to someone. As Warren will tell you, it ain’t easy admitting to having a problem, but admitting the problem exists is the first step to recovery.

“One day I came to a fork in the road. Folks, I just couldn’t go where I was told. Now they’ll hunt me down and hang me for my crimes. If I tell about my dirty life and times.”

READ ON for more Warren Zevon-fueled resolutions for ’09…

Cable music network Fuse debuts the third installment of the Best of Bonnaroo series on Sunday at 11AM. Best of Bonnaroo Volume 3 includes performances by Kings of Leon, Cypress Hill, Atmosphere and the Flaming Lips. Between this episode and the release of the first Bonnaroo 365 performance Sunday’s a big day for fans of […]

Phil Lesh and Friends closing out the 2008 NYC Phil-a-thon at the Nokia Theater in Times Square on November 18th, 2008.All photos by David OppenheimerFor a complete gallery and show streaming audio, click here

The two shows on this DVD are a lot like hearing that stutter in "My Generation" or the huge guitar of "Baba O'Reilly" for the first time. It's just great rock n roll in its purest, most deliberate form.

Merge Records, home to bands including Arcade Fire, Superchunk, Teenage Fanclub, Conor Oberst, Spoon, Buzzcocks and Dinosaur Jr., have announced that it is putting on a five-day music festival to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The festival is set to take place July 22-26 in the indie label’s home state of North Carolina and will feature […]

Bon Iver have made their forthcoming EP, ‘Blood Bank’, available to listen to in its entirety online. The EP, set for official release on January 19 after being available as a tour-only vinyl release, is available to hear at MySpace.com/boniver. In a MySpace message the band said the EP, featuring the songs ‘Blood Bank’, ‘Beach […]

Marco Benevento, is taking up a February residency at Oakland, Calif.’s intimate and famed Yoshi’s jazz club, including a special tribute to Neil Young with Russo on drums.  Benevento will perform each Tuesday, from Feb. 3 to Feb. 24, with special guests like Bill Martin (Medeski Martin & Wood) and Jeff Parker (Tortoise). Meanwhile, Benevento […]

Live Nation is passing on the 2009 edition of its Pemberton Festival in British Columbia, which got the go-ahead from a provincial land commission too late in ’08 to prove feasible. Organizers said the November approval left them with an extremely tight schedule to plan a festival and line up bands, according to local reports. […]

Ex-Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell and producer Timbaland have teamed up to record an album together. The duo are set to release ‘Scream’ on March 9. Every song on the album is said to have been partly inspired by Pink Floyd’s legendary 1979 album ‘The Wall’. Each track flows into the next, giving the […]