Listen To This Shit: Mitch Marcus Quintet
I’m not gonna sit here and tell you The Special is the second coming of Bitches Brew, but I have no qualms declaring it the best new jazz album in years. The left coast-based Mitch Marcus Quintet produced a seven-song odyssey that defies genres and busts through labels; the end result is a spectacular album […]
Briefly: OK Go & Bonerama Team Up For NOLA
Famed treadmillers OK Go spent the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans recording with funky soul tromboners Bonerama, and the five-song benefit EP comes out, appropriately, today. Read on after the jump for details on the Fat Tuesday iTunes release, and tune in next Monday when Bonerama and Damian Kulash from OK Go perform one of the songs on Letterman…
Singin’ Just Like a Bird: Danko Tunes
Our good friends over at the wonderful Art Decade mp3 blog must be on the same wavelength this week. I woke up yesterday singing three separate Rick Danko songs at once (that triumvirate dominated by When You Awake); and, just my luck, Art Decade’s got the cure for my Tuesday Danko Blues. Stream Solo Ricky: […]
Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Philco Does Ripple
While the left coast waits for Barack Obama to do his best Bill Graham impersonation, we turn our attention to the 1999 Mountain Air Festival… Scotty dug up this video over the weekend, and while we’re currently heavy on all things Phil Lesh, the clip’s too cool not to publish this afternoon. Wilco, sounding more […]
A Webcast Update for The Dead Obamas
Last week we expounded on Barack Obama’s uncanny ability to unite, the presidential aspirant’s bringing together of quasi-estranged Grateful Dead remnants Bob Weir and Phil Lesh for a pre-Super Tuesday rally in San Francisco later today. The event’s live tonight, and the good folks at iClips will be producing a live simulcast streamed on www.iclips.net […]
The Week That Was: Have a Thuper Thunday
Some 10 or 11 hours from now we’ll find out whether the New England Patriots celebrate as the first 19-0 team in professional football or whether they’ve blown a golden opportunity to run the table and be immortalized as the best team ever. But one thing is for certain: New England is a terrible place […]
Friday Lunch Special: Sarah & Damon
You’ll see this all over the place today, and with good reason: It rocks. [youtube]4KUowJzpgxs[/youtube] Man, that is just funny shit. Silverman fan or Silverman hater, that’s comedy.
Friday Mix Tape: ‘Allo, Guv’nuhs
I depart for the United Kingdom two weeks from tonight, and I can barely contain my anticipatory excitement. I’m trying not to pee my pants, though that plan failed once last night and again on the subway this morning (sorry, elderly Asian woman to my right). So in honor of this free-flowing schoolboy expectancy surrounding […]
White Supremacists Everywhere Rejoice Upon Reading “Dead” and “Obama” in Same Headline
Barack Obama’s been on the campaign trail preaching Unity as much as Change. His stump speech rhetoric reeks of togetherness, of building a coalition of races to award this country a future of hope. It’s a tough sell to your everyday cynic, but his actions are already speaking louder than words. The Daily Kos today […]
Briefly: Mariachi Metal y Futbol Americano
ESPN’s tapping one of our favorite new(ish) bands for Sunday’s big game: “With anticipation high for Sunday’s big game, Rodrigo y Gabriela are honored to be featured on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown on February 3rd. The fast-fingered, acoustic heavy metal duo from Mexico via Dublin, have produced exclusive video segments for the show, which will air Sunday (11 am-2 pm ET).” ¡Viva!