Archive: 2009

Emmitt Nershi Band is a newly assembled outfit that is comprised of two of the founding members of Colorado’s biggest acts on the jamband circuit, Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon) and Bill Nershi (String Cheese Incident).  On their studio debut, New Country Blues, they deliver a slice of breezy Rocky Mountain Americana complete with their blend of pickin’ and grinnin’. 

Alasdair, Mark, James & Mel will be stateside in February to support their new album, Bonfires on the Heath.    Featured on individual critic’s year end lists at The Onion AV Club, Pitchfork, NPR Music, and more, Bonfires on the Heath is in a sense a return to the Clientele’s roots; the dreamlike suburban landscapes first encountered in […]

Among the hardest-working outfits in any genre or any region, the multifaceted moe. will in 2010 celebrate their 20th anniversary with an extensive itinerary. More than just a series of shows, the events scheduled for 2010 are a reflection of moe.’s commitment to their fans, their community, and their planet. The 20th anniversary festivities commence […]

interpol’s Paul Banks has said that the band are working on an "orchestral" sounding new album. The frontman explained that the follow-up to 2007s ‘Our Love To Admire’ was heading in a more classical direction. "There’s some really classical stuff going on," Banks told BBC 6 Music. "[bassist] Carlos [Dengler] has gone to total new […]

The Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states are currently getting pounded by a massive winter storm that has wreaked havoc on all forms of travel for the last 24 hours. For those of us in New York City, we’ve still got plenty of options to catch live music this evening thanks to some ingenuity. [Photo by Cliffy] […]

On Halloween, four members of the underground videotaping organization known as Team Hood dispersed to four different locations to film Phish at Festival 8.  The tapes from each videographer came back to Team Hood HQ, where one of the members lovingly edited the shots to create incredible videos of the performance. This week, three clips […]

[Originally Published: December 21, 2006]

As we approach Christmas, this week’s B List takes a look at the ten great rock and roll Christmas songs. I’m Jewish, but hey, if Bette Midler and Neil Diamond can make Christmas albums, I can at least list my favorite songs.

1. Run Rudolph Run – Chuck Berry: One of the oldest songs on this list (1958), Run Rudolph Run has been performed by everyone from Dave Edmunds to the Grateful Dead to Bryan Adams. I always found it cool (because laziness rules) that Berry just stole the chords from Johnny B. Goode and added new seasonal lyrics, yet 50 years later, Run Rudolph Run is still in regular airplay on the radio.

2. Santa Baby – Madonna: Eartha Kitt, Madonna, Kylie Minogue and the Pussycat Dolls all cover this one — it seems like every 10 years the slutty popstar of the era records a new version of this classic. Madonna is still the sluttiest.

3. Merry Xmas (War Is Over) – John Lennon: John and Yoko wrote this one in 1971, and while it’s not exactly the most uplifting song, it’s got Christmas in the title. The melody is haunting, and the words still ring true today 35 years later.

Read on for the rest of this week’s edition of The B List…

Lots of news came out of the moe. camp yesterday as the indie-jammers announced a slew of tour dates, the initial snoe.down lineup and a few of the guests for their 20th Anniversary shows in January. Our friends the McLovins will be joined by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Railroad Earth, and Hot Day at […]

In one of the more annoying lineup announcements of all-time, the producers of the Summer Camp Music Festival have unveiled the initial lineup for the 2010 event one artist at a time using Twitter. Joining usual Summer Camp headliners moe. and Umphrey’s McGee on May 28-30 in Chillicothe will be Yonder Mountain String Band, The […]

To say Umphrey’s thrives in the Midwest would be the understatement of the year, and this fourth installment of Dream Focused drives the point home with a hammer, if say, that hammer was swung by Quincy Jones. Yes folks, the groove further develops on this legendary fall tour by the sextet from Chicago with perhaps its most glaring examples.

[Photo by Tammy Wetzel]

We start off this episode in Ann Arbor, MI at the pristine Michigan Theater. The run of Sociable Jimmy > Sweetness > Bottom Half is an exercise in patience and space. The outro jam to SJ floats away in an Andy Summers wash of tones from the guitar players and drifts into Sweetness. Sweetness then takes on a life of its own with its trademark mellow head it then escalates slowly to a rock peak usually saved for songs of a heavier nature.

Once we get near the end you can start to hear Bottom Half being teased and it gets pretty heavy. When Bottom Half gets to the jam we are treated to a Jaco vocal jam of Can’t You See by Marshall Tucker Band, showcasing the band feeling the vibe out of the jam and making the most of the moment which was pretty much the unspoken mantra of the fall tour.

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Sociable Jimmy > Sweetness > The Bottom Half

READ ON for more tasty improv including the Wormbog of all Wormbogs…