Archive: 2011

We kick off a week of detailing our Top 25 Albums 2011 with a look at #’s 25-21.

The Disco Biscuits return to the Best Buy to kick off their New Year’s run.

Van Halen will hit the road in 2012, just don’t ask us where.

Manny Pacquiao stars in the bizarre video for Cat Power’s new single.

A look at the music on television this week.

Indigo Dreams is like many of the other BoDeans albums, and relies on the powerful combination of Llanas and Neumanns’ voices to buttress solid instrumental backing and a good folksy-rock sound. With Llanas now gone and replaced with Jake Owen, it remains to be seen whether the BoDeans will be able to carry forward with such power.

There are certainly some excellent concert performances included here but thanks to some ill-advised and overlong interview segments, the overall presentation comes across as pompous and self-important.

“Who said we were wild? Did people say that? Oh no, I didn’t know we had a reputation”. Tavis Stanley is stretched out in the back lounge of the tour bus, relaxing before the start of the Art Of Dying concert at a little hole-in-the-wall club in Jackson, Mississippi. I seem to have caught him off guard when I ask if he and his bandmates were as wild as some rumors going around insinuate. “We have a lot of fun, we like to drink our beers and just party and have a good time like everybody else but I wouldn’t say we’re too wild”.

Listen to our mix of Seven Below jams this Christmas.

“Super group” Diamond Rugs share a tune from their forthcoming debut album.