Quick, what’s the first song you heard this morning? For me it was moe.’s Plane Crash from the Treymoe.deski Tsunami Benefit at Roseland Ballroom in February 2005. To this day
“Is that the hippest pop band you’ve ever seen in your life?,” a winterbearded friend asked me after the hour-long set at Lakeside Lounge on Saturday.
You know, it really was. Of course, that’s only if you’re willing concede the “pop” label to a band that’s roots lie somewhere in between ’70s Miles fusion and alternarock. To be sure, if one of them newfangled indieblogs with high traffic reviewed this weekend’s A BIG YES…and a small no show and linked to a couple tracks, Kevin Kendrick’s cellular telephone may never stop ringing.
Kendrick’s the impressive driving force behind the fluid band and a commanding figure front and center, an interesting diction choice on my part considering his physical stature aligns more closely with that of a halogen lamp. On this night, the classically trained vibraphonist’s 30th birthday, all six of his old bandmates from the tragically underrated Fat Mama joined him “on stage” for a show following a five-year layoff (as well as Big Yes/Small No vocalist Moira Meltzer-Cohen).
And just when you think you’re gonna go to a show and have a decent night, along comes a band that sneaks up and fucking floors you. Read on for more…
The recently reunited Rage Against the Machine has added three more dates to its touring schedule. Rage will join the Wu-Tang Clan at the top of the bill of the Rock The
John Mayer’s getting a lot of ink lately. Between the Rolling Stone “New Guitar Gods” cover and the recent Grammys appearance with John Legend and Corrine Bailey Rae, Mayer’s opened
We’ll be live-blogging the Oscars tonight, so I thought I’d get the week-in-review post up a bit early today. Okay, we’re not live-blogging the Academy Awards. But we are offering
Gene Ween’s continuing his (han)solo routine, announcing two new tour dates for some lucky fans in the New York and Philadelphia areas.
On March 22nd and 23rd, Gene will hit Johnny Brenda’s in Philly > Gramercy Theater in the Large Apple, and if he’s anything like me, he’ll make a brief and desperate a stop in Atlantic City between the two gigs. No surprise, Chris Harford and the Band of Changes will open both dates for Gene.
One quick note germane to this post: This will be part of the first batch of live music shows at the newly refurbished Gramercy on the east side of Manhattan. The former Indian-run, Bollywood-themed cinemaplex-cum-off-Broadway theater is now operated and booked by Live Nation. More venues, I like it.
It ain’t Bobbi Fleckman, but the May 26-27th Sasquatch! Music Festival at The Gorge has announced its own hostess with the mostess: Sarah Silverman. I’m not sure what she’s gonna do
Our associate Mr. Trowbridge just pointed us to these three YouTube videos of Zappa and the Mothers of Invention from the German television program Beat Club. So as we coast into the
Is Pitchfork parting with their trusted brand of elitist indie snobbery, or does someone over there genuinely dig an album that many of us wretched jamband fans have been plugging for some time? Either way, imagine
This photo has been making the rounds, popping up all over the headiest message boards and dankest e-mail servers. And while there’s something inherently racist about our visceral reactions to Africans wearing Phish
