Bloggy Goodness: More Solid Sound Details
As we previously reported, we were psyched to see that Solid Sound Festival will return for its second year to MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. As promised earlier this week, organizers behind the Wilco-curated event revealed some initial details about the fest, including early-bird ticketing information. Moving from August to the last weekend in […]
Grateful Dead Releasing Entire Europe ’72 Tour
Grateful Dead slipped the shores of America and crossed the pond for its first-ever major European tour in April 1972. The legendary 22-show run spawned Europe ’72, a live triple album that remains one of the band’s best-selling and most beloved releases. A tour this momentous deserves a boxed set of historic proportions and Dead.net […]
Cake Scores Lowest-Selling No. 1 Album in SoundScan History
Cake's " Showroom of Compassion" bows atop the Billboard 200 with just 44,000 sales That's not only the smallest frame for a No. 1 album since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991 ( beating a record set only last week), but it's also obviously the tiniest figure racked up by a No. 1-debuting album. Source Billboard
The Voice Of A Dead Confederate: An Interview With Hardy Morris
If you think you have heard their name before it’s probably because you have. With their 2008 full-length debut WRECKING BALL, they gained some noteworthy success with the song “The Rat”. Following that up with a moodily engaging opus called SUGAR, The Confederate has come back with more songs about not-so-happy things. Their goal is to make meaningful music that pleases not only their fans, but themselves as well.
Gregg Allman: Low Country Blues
Low Country Blues, Allman’s first solo album since 1997 and produced by – who else these days T Bone Burnett- pays homage to his roots with a reworking of songs from Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Otis Rush, Skip James and more. Burnett has assembled a band that includes guitarist Doyle Bramhall II and Dr. John to capture the spirit of swamps blues and themes of regret, tears and redemption. Allman’s voice stars front and center, a breather from competing with the guitar acrobats of the fertile gunslingers in his “other” band.
STS9 Cancels Feb/March Shows – David Murphy Fighting Cancer
STS9 is calling off nearly all of its scheduled performances because bassist David Murphy has been diagnosed with cancer.In a statement posted to STS9’s website, Murphy explained that a cancerous tumor was recently discovered in his sinus cavity.Before undergoing surgery, Murphy and the band will still perform in Mexico this weekend as part of Mayan […]
Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival Returns To North Adams, MA
Wilco has revealed a few more details about their second annual Solid Sound Festival including information on how to get tickets. The second annual event is set for June 24-26 and will once again take place at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass. The festival is headlined and curated by Wilco as a collaboration with […]
Briefly: WSP to Stream Anniversary Shows
The members of Widespread Panic start celebrating 25 years together next month with three intimate, sold-out shows in the band’s home state of Georgia. For those fans who didn’t score tickets or can’t make it down to Atlanta or Athens, you can still listen to all three performances as they happen via a free live […]
Dead to Release All of Europe ’72
The next issue of Rolling Stone features news that should thrill Grateful Dead fans as David Fricke reveals that Rhino will put out ALL of the band’s legendary Europe ’72 Tour in a deluxe, limited-edition package that includes 22 shows on over 60 CDs for $450.
Rhino will put out Europe ’72 in its entirety this fall with pre-orders available now over at Dead.net. According to the article, the team working on this project will have put two years into it by the time the release goes live. Fricke also reports that the Dead would be open to putting out other whole tours, Fall ’73 and Spring ’90 were mentioned. Kudos to Rhino and the Grateful Dead organization for giving us fans of archival releases “the full monty.” You can read the entire article in the next issue of Rolling Stone, which hits newsstands on Friday.
Europe ’72 was initially released as a triple-live album on November 5, 1972. The release featured a slew of vocal overdubs and is the Dead’s best-selling live album of all-time. The tracks were taken from a variety of performances on that tour. Deaddisc.com has a summary on which tracks came from which show. 2001’s Golden Road box set contained eight previously unreleased tracks from the tour. Other previous archival releases which feature material from the Europe ’72 tour are Rockin’ The Rhein, Hundred Year Hall and Stepping Out with the Grateful Dead – England ’72.
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Last Time AGAIN: Black Crowes Announce Europe 2011 Tour Dates
Remember last month when the Black Crowes said farewell to their fans with a six-show sold-out run at the Fillmore in San Francisco by performing a cover of the Rolling Stones’ The Last Time? Well apparently it wasn’t the last time for the Crowes, as the band has put off an indefinite hiatus long enough […]