Yeah, this doesn’t have much to do with music. But I saw this on Deadspin early this morning and thought, “You know who would love this video? Everyone!” [youtube]Q62X73zQhK4[/youtube] I’m
You know, with the weakening dollar and the currency exchange rates the way they are, I hear in England it’s now called “One for Onesday.” Financial jokes? Ugh. Up first,
My roommate unearthed the ultimate Talking Heads stash recently — almost and entire show from Rome in 1980, with future King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew sitting in with the band.
Come late June, the School of Rock Festival is headed to Asbury Park, New Jersey. So women, paint your nails and face and tease your hair; men, throw on the wife
To be completely honest, this year’s Green Apple Music & Arts Festival lineup in New York was, to borrow an expression from the Torah, lamer than FDR’s legs. You know
A Nor’easter one weekend, a glorious spring day filled with tank-tops the next. I played a little indoor bocce, caught four bands and stood in the, what’s this?, sun for
The Green Apple Music Festival started out a disaster for me personally.
First I slept through Thursday night’s kickoff show, an acoustic affair with the Benevento-Russo Duo, when a planned short nap before a midnight ramble became an unplanned 10-hour slumber through the night. Then Friday evening arrived, and the usually reliable and talented Grace Potter put on a less-than-stellar show with the Nocturnals at Southpaw, complete with three extremely creepy, balding middle-aged dudes taking as many pictures of her as possible — not a fun vibe trying to peek through compulsive masturbators to watch a show.
So I turned to the free shit to break me out of the funk. As we mentioned yesterday, the Green Apple organizers planned several sets gratis outside Grand Central Station for the second straight year, an oasis of quality tunes in a big, bad city. So I headed up to the makeshift hippie enclave for an Earth Day street fair to meet up with some good friends and try to salvage a piss-poor beginning.
Read on for more photos and videos from the sunny day in NYC…
We’re pretty geeked up about this weekend’s Green Apple Music Festival, even though overall enthusiasm for the event can only be considered “tempered” at best compared to last year. Organizers expanded the
Spanning the four months between the Coventry Disaster and New Year’s 2004, I somehow found myself on an unplanned, unconscious live music hiatus. The only performances I caught in person took place under the pavement while riding
As far as I know, JamBase hasn’t cornered the worldwide market on posting straight press releases. So let’s take a look at a couple from the inbox today…
The North Mississippi Allstars are set to release their first live concert DVD on June 26th — the new disc will be called Keep On Marchin’:
Six Hi-Definition cameras beautifully capture the November 11, 2005 performance at the Higher Ground. The show was one of many the band did in support of their Grammy-nominated sixth record, “Electric Blue Watermelon.”
And the good people behind Nugs.net are releasing Rock the Earth, a benefit album to support environmental conversation in these United States:
Nugs.net’s artist partners donated the recordings for this compilation, including an exclusive release from Jack Johnson. Other artists contributing to the benefit compilation include Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Phish, Widespread Panic, The String Cheese Incident, The Disco Biscuits, The Radiators, Trey Anastasio, Gov’t Mule, STS9, Zero, Umphrey’s McGee, moe., and ALO.
Read on for a full tracklist for that cool-lookin’ Nugs.net hippie compilation…
