Posts by Ace Cowboy

Film reviews are often expected to put into words why someone should like or dislike the finished product. For There Will Be Blood, I cannot do that, because it’s so self-evident that it’s rendered plainly unnecessary. There’s no possible way you can walk out of this movie disappointed — simply, it’s the best film I’ve […]

So last week’s embedded test run with our new friends at imeem went swimmingly, and we see no reason to halt a good thing. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, I’m told, and I can add don’t feed a gift horse Beefarino. Rusty! This week’s edition is everywhere, starting out on the old-school […]

It’s difficult to imagine of a more inaccessible band for small children than Medeski Martin & Wood. In all my years of being the creepy guy in just a trenchcoat and knee high socks at the local playground, I’ve never heard a parent say, “You know what my kid loves? Acid jazz! And he adores five-minutes percussion solos!”

All photos by our main man Danfun

But there I was at 6 pm last night, draped in my weekday business casual in the Time Warner Center’s Borders book store, watching the always-entertaining trio play a bunch of tracks from their new kids album, Let’s Go Everywhere.

A crowd of children sat in front of the band, most of them seemingly digging the music about cats, pirates and choo-choos, while a throng of equal parts hippie and hipster watched behind them, trying their best not to rock out in such a public place. And of all the venues I’ve done the head-bob, right knee-bend and foot tap to live music, Borders may now be a top contender for the strangest of places.

Read on for more of Danfun’s photos from the book store…

So just how awesome is Microsoft founder Bill Gates? This guy can apparently pick up a phone and get Slash to play some Guns ‘N Roses licks any time, anywhere. That’s what happened during Gates’ last-ever keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Check out the video, four minutes into it. […]

With apologies to Chris Harford, it’s Chris Robinson that fronts the real Band of Changes. And today the oft-evolving Black Crowes — with Luther Dickinson affixed in the latest incarnation of the lineup surrounding the Brothers Robinson — announced they’ll be playing smaller venues for a run of one-time engagements.

Was the end of that last sentence oxymoronic enough for ya? Regardless of semantics, the Black Crowes sent out a note that they’ll be playing the new album, Warpaint, in its entirety on stage during a special run of “One Night Only” shows. The Crowes will play the material from its first new album in seven years (due out March 4th) at smaller theaters before moving on to “songs from their catalog and selected surprises.” That whole deal sounds pretty sweet to us.

“One Night Only” tour dates:

Mar. 02 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
Mar. 04 – New York, NY – The Fillmore @ Irving Plaza
Mar. 05 – Boston, MA – Somerville Theatre
Mar. 07 – Chicago, IL – Park West
Mar. 09 – Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
Mar. 15 – Austin, TX – SXSW @ Stubb’s BBQ (not part of the “One Night Only” shows)
Mar. 19 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
Mar. 20 – Los Angeles, CA – The Avalon

Check out the full press release after the jump…but we summed it up fine.

We’re anxiously awaiting the late-Spring album release from the band whose namesake may or may not have bedded Mike Piazza. One month ago we linked to Sam Champion’s first downloadable song off that forthcoming album, Heavenly Bender, and now we’ve got our first sniff of the second: Check out the newly released single, So Good […]

I tried my best to attend my college classes as frequently as possible. Far too often, however, those efforts suffered drastically from a lethal combination of Chicago’s notorious inclement weather, a considerable distance to most of my classrooms and the insatiable urge to sit around and get high all the time. Most of my lectures […]

We’ll look back fondly on our first full year in action, a period that saw us publish 1,127 posts — not bad for two guys draped in business casual collecting fortnightly pay-stubs. We tried to inform and entertain and stay up with the ridiculous nature of the music business that so often frustrates but makes […]

We’re sure this one’s making the rounds virally, but our main man Coach just alerted us to a spectacular piece of video. You may have seen Sweet Child O’ Mine through the years covered by Texas, Sheryl Crow, Most Precious Blood, Akasha featuring Neneh Cherry, Schmoof, Flat Pack, Luna, Chester the Pup, Dead Tongues, DJ […]

Like my cool Uncle Frank back in the day, we’ve been playing around with imeem behind closed doors, probing its parts and figuring out what buttons to press. So instead of offering up our regular Friday mediafire-type download that requires you to take a few extra steps to listen, allow us to present our first […]