Here’s a survey that must be flawed: “The poll by Harris Interactive…showed that…83 percent of people earning $150,000 or more had a music education.” Then how do I know tons of poor folk that’ve played the skin flute for years?
It looks as if the Jackson 5 may reunite for what may potentially be the biggest source of Grade-A music-blog fodder since Radiohead “pulled a Radiohead.”
Jermaine’s talking, and he claims the talented one will be involved in some role:
Michael will be involved. We want to tour. We want to touch the lives of everybody who’s bought our records and supported us. It will probably start here first, but it will be sometime in 2008. That’s our plan.”
Our guess is Michael will want to touch more than just lives…we’ll let you know if “scrumptious boycock” is featured prominently on the tour rider. Eh, too easy.
We had some fun at the expense of the popular indie-jam rock band moe. some five weeks ago, taking the piss out of the group’s management after it blasted out
Sixteen years ago this weekend the world lost the ultimate showman, a once-in-a-generation performer who couldn’t singlehandedly erase the Village People from public consciousness yet still managed to make butch
It’s the What-the-Fuck-on-Earf-Do-I-Do-Today? morning after Thanksgiving, and if you’re one of the sociopathic nutbars whose been up for five hours grousing the aisles of your local retailer in search of
Ronnie Hawkins pitched Robbie Robertson on joining his band with one undeniable sentence: “Son, you won’t make much money, but you’ll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra.” That’s what most heterosexual males call “a decent offer.”
Some 15 or so years later, Hawkins stood with Robertson and the other four brilliant members of The Band on the Winterland stage on Thanksgiving day in 1976. It’d mark the last time these five performed together as one of the greatest mostly non-American, American rock bands in music history (and probably the most underrated). Just about 31 years after The Last Waltz, we celebrate the greatest rock concert ever and the greatest concert film of all-time. Lotta superlatives today.
There’s no legitimate or acceptable excuse to be a music fan and not own this DVD. But if for some strange reason you “just never bought it,” we’ve compiled just about every single musical clip from the movie after the jump. Spend this fine turkey day with The Band and some little-known friends like Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Van the Man Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Neil Diamond, Ronnie Hawkins and more. Could you imagine if blogs existed back then? The Internet may have exploded that night.
Maybe one day when the time is right, we can finally pull off my Last Waltz Halloween Party. It’ll be better than Vegoose. Anyway, read on to really enjoy your Thanksgiving…
The Silver Jews yentas over at Pitchfork always seem to have the Berman-related scoop, and today they’re reporting the title of the band’s forthcoming LP will be Lookout Mountain, Lookout
The truth about that “song from Fenway” hath been revealed: “Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy’s daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit Sweet Caroline.”
The Benevento/Russo Duo sets up in Williamsburg on Thanksgiving Eve, a surprisingly rare New York show following years of playing the shit out of this city.
The Duo built up incredible momentum over the past couple years: The jamband crowd praised their individual efforts on the widely (and wrongly) panned summer 2006 tour with Half of Phish, while the hipsters watched as Pitchfork generously heaped kudos all over their sophomore album, Play Pause Stop.
But Marco and Joe covered the brake, going their separate ways for much of the year. Despite a recent tour, nobody knows what the future holds for the twosome nor whether they’ll choose to make their livings with other musicians.
Regardless of the Duo’s long-term plans, both parties are producing fantastic music away from each other. Sir Joe’s teamed up with American Babies and debuted his Anti-Jazz Raygun imprAvant death metal band, while Marco’s making incredible jazz-plus music with equally incredible musicians.
And now comes word into Hidden Track headquarters that HYENA Records will release Marco Benevento’s new solo studio album, Invisible Baby. In addition to Marco, the new album features JFJO and TLG’s Reed Mathis, Matt Chamberlain and The Slip’s Andrew Barr. We’re told this album will be released digitally on January 8th, and the physical CD version will come out on February 12th.
Many Clapton fans went apeshit when Col. Reunion announced he’d be pairing up with former Blind Faith bandmate Steve Winwood for three shows at Madison Square Garden in February. A good portion of those fans then went conversely apeshit when they realized a decent seat would cost them at least $145 with fees, all for that ever-elusive taste of nostalgia (and chips). That’s right bollocks.
But if you want a $265 look at the reformed collaborators for considerably cheaper (though, obviously, not live), Rhino today released the Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 on a 38-track DVD just in time for the Black Friday rush.
Filmed in HD from every angle, the two-disc set captures the best efforts from a star-studded lineup that included the aforementioned Winwood (for Presence Of The Lord, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Had To Cry Today and Crossroads), as well as B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Jeff Beck, Robert Randolph, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Buddy Guy, John Mayer and many more.
Now as part of our Everybody Wins When We Plug Something And In Return They Offer Me Free Shit To Give Away contest, we’ll send you a free copy of the Crossroads DVD and a heady copy of Clapton’s autobiography if you chime in below and answer this query: You are Slowhand, and you’re putting together next year’s big guitar jam — who are the five [living] guitarists you’d want on the festival’s bill? Sound off in the comments for your shot to win.
