Stick this one in the Better Late Than Never file…yeah, we just saw it. We’re hearing mostly positives from Van Halen’s resurrection n’ resuscitation tour, but this version of Jump
Neil Young seems more synonymous with unruly sideburns and questionable hats than Web 2.0. But the old man’s latest album debuts next Tuesday, and he’s posted four songs from Chrome Dreams II on his new YouTube channel. The new tunes and photo montages follow after the proverbial jump…
Todd Haynes’ biographical Bob Dylan flick comes out in less than five weeks, but a concert celebration — a celebration of what exactly, themselves? — will take place at New
Awesome, so all that’ll remain is dude armpit-farting the Growing Pains theme song: “Online video leader YouTube has rolled out long-awaited technology to automatically remove copyrighted clips, hoping to placate movie and television studios fed up with the Web site’s persistent piracy problems.”
Either we’re actively trying to set a webosphere record for Most Posts Featuring Bulletpoints In A Two-Day Span or we’re just pushing the envelope on how to look shoddy and
Hey, that circled date on the Gregorian calendar suggests it’s Robert Hall Weir‘s 60th birthday. Here’s to our favorite short shorts-wearin’, cowboy croonin’, dyslexic rock star out there. May you
In the course of a half-hour we discussed some more pertinent topics with Reid, including but not limited to Radiohead’s label-less album, the reunion of the original members of Strangefolk at their tour manager’s recent wedding, the experience of an asskicking in business school, the joy of fatherhood, the awesomeness of chick books and much more. It’s unabridged, so make yourself comfortable, but it’s a great read…
We throw more content up on this here rag than two asshats with demanding day jobs probably should, so we’re guessing you’ve missed some goodies here and there. So as
As we noted in this morning’s Hors d’Oeuvres, members of Arcade Fire joined The Boss on stage in Ottawa last night. The fortified E Street Band ran though its first
Assembly of Dust returned home from its most recent tour and found itself answering questions virtually no folk-infused rock band has had to answer. The buzz surrounding the eight-show run with JJ Grey & MOFRO wasn’t necessarily about the quality of the music or the sad frequency of collaborations, but rather the bizarre backstage skirmish that followed the band’s gig at The Roxy in Boston.
Photo by Adam Kaufman
If you’re picturing frontman Reid Genauer standing over the Roxy’s manager like Muhammed Ali triumphantly towering over Sonny Liston, repeating “That’s folkin’ rock, motherfucker, that’s the taste of singer-songwriter fists of fury” over and over, then, well, you’re probably alone. So for the real story, and for much more from the tour and beyond, Genauer and I both took some time from our day jobs to discuss Assembly of Dust’s mini-tour with JJ Grey & MOFRO.
The reported ‘fight’ was only a small part of the story, and in the course of a half-hour we discussed some more pertinent topics, including but not limited to Radiohead’s label-less album, the reunion of the original members of Strangefolk at their tour manager’s recent wedding, the experience of an asskicking in business school, the joy of fatherhood, the awesomeness of chick books and much more. It’s unabridged, so make yourself comfortable, but it’s a great read…
