Posts by Jeffrey Greenblatt

In our relentless pursuit of informing you about every festival that gets announced we let one slip through our fingers last week with announcement of the initial line-up of the Gathering Of The Vibes. The festie returns to Seaside Park in Bridgeport, CT and will once again be headlined by Phil Lesh & Friends, while […]

I gotta be honest I’m still burnt out from SXSW to really come up with something witty today. All those bands, all those panels, all those parties – it was exhausting. Oh wait I wasn’t in Austin, but it kind of felt like it from the wall to wall coverage detailing every second of the […]

Move over Wilco and My Morning Jacket, jam fans may have a new indie band to embrace – Of Montreal. While they may be best know for an insane arty stage show, nonsensical song names and the peddlers of the Bloomin’ Onion – they are also no stranger to the art of the cover song […]

For their Rolling Stone cover shoot back in 1992 Kurt Cobain famously wore a t-shirt declaring “Corporate Magazines Still Suck” as a way of sticking it to the establishment that was fawning over the band and seeing dollar signs. I’d like to see what Kurt’s reaction would have been to the new limited edition line […]

Happy St. Paddy’s Day everyone! When I was a kid it was all about Shamrock Shakes and green bagels – that’s how we Jews celebrated it at least. These days it’s all about trying to find the least obnoxious bar to throw back a few pints of Guinness, while I try to block out all […]

The Warfield Theater was host to 21 Grateful Dead show, 88 Jerry Band shows and numerous nights of Dead side projects over the years. Come this May, Phil Lesh along with Friends will take up residency at the legendary venue for a five-night run – bringing their tally to 30 performances. The bass player seems […]

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m really glad that SXSW is finally underway since I’m pretty sick of reading the scores and scores of previews that every music blog except this one has been posting (maybe next year Papa Glide will send us so we can get in on the act – hint, […]

I think it would be safe to say that interest in mopey singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen may be at an all time high right now. Last week as the result of some dreadlocked clown on American Idol covering Jeff Buckley’s take on Hallelujah the song soared to number one iTunes. Monday night Cohen was inducted into […]

How does an aging alt.rock band connect with a new generation of music fans? Well if your R.E.M. you hook up a the music discovery website iLike and allow people to stream your new album – Accelerate – for free a full six days before it hit stores for what the site is calling their […]

Forget about the buzz that has surrounded Vampire Weekend, because if music blogs had existed back in the mid-90s Radish would have become a household name rather then a footnote in the career of Ben Kweller. At the tender age of 15, Kweller and his grunge-based trio found themselves at the center of a major label bidding war – all of whom were looking to sign the next Nirvana (a band they were heavily influenced by, check their video for Pink Little Stars).

Radish eventually landed on Mercury Records, appeared on Conan, Letterman and even The Weird Al Show, but hype doesn’t necessarily led to success and their debut album Restraining Bolt was a commercial flop. The band’s sophomore effort was recorded, but never released and Kweller fled to New York City to pursue a solo career – all this by the age of 19. While many could have easily faded in obscurity, Ben decided to do things his own way and slowly built his solo career from the ground up. Read on to hear more about his slacker-infused indie-pop…

On again, off again, on again funk-groovesters the Greyboy Allstars have been in the midst of a career renaissance – touring relentlessly and even releasing their first new studio album in over a decade last year’s What Happened To Television? Despite asking that question the band’s debut music video takes a direct cue from the […]

Another day, another festival rumor involving none other than Radiohead. This time word on the street has the ubiquitous band headlining the fourth installment Lollapalooza alongside another band that gave away their latest album for free online – Nine Inch Nails. The official lineup won’t be made official for another few weeks, but what we […]

While this summer is overloaded with music festivals, there is one festival to promises bands that you won’t be seeing at the rest – since most of the acts playing it peaked sometime in the mid-80s. Earlier this week the initial line-up for the second installment of Rocklahoma was revealed boasting the likes of Warrant, […]

We’ve all come to love those befuddling, obscure album referencing reviews from the folks at Pitchfork – you know the ones that reference things like 1980s Italian New Wave B-Sides. Well come this April those very same folks will branch out by launching their very own online music channel aptly named Pitchfork.tv – and insult […]

Reunion-mania may have hit a fever pitch in ’07, but indie-rock fans got a glimmer of hope that 2009 may be a big year for them when former Pavement guitarist Steve Kannberg dropped the bomb to EW.com that the much beloved band may be reuniting. The question doesn’t seem to be if, but when… “Matador […]

If you’re a student of rock history you know the story of the infamous free concert at Altamont. If not here’s the quick 411: the concert was to be the West Coast answer to Woodstock, with performances by Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones. The Hell’s Angels were brought into act as […]

I know we are a fews days late on this one, but we want to take a moment to remember the legacy of legendary drummer Buddy Miles – who passed away last week at the age of 60. Yet another legend, taken too soon. While we may all have loved his work suppling the vocals […]

There is something about summer and the smoothing sounds of James Taylor that just go hand in hand. The gentle bard will be hitting the amphitheater circuit this summer showcasing his reworked catalog material from his CD/DVD One Man Band – ironically with a full band in tow. So dust off that blanket that you […]

We were very impressed when the initial Bonnaroo lineup surfaced a few weeks ago. Now we’re feeling down right fluffy after hearing about the first two acts who are set to play late night sets, and a couple of interesting artist additions. Returning to the late night slot will be My Morning Jacket who delivered […]

As many of you prepare to head down to “Hippie Spring Break,” we thought we would check in again with Ethan Schwartz – one of Langerado’s founders and promoters – about the move from Sunrise to Big Cypress, late-night sets, and two bands that his mom has actually heard of plus so much more…

Some Dude: Sunrise had been home to the festival for the past three years, why did you guys decide to make the move to Big Cypress? Was the switch in sites in hopes of being able to secure it for the long term, like Superfly has done with Manchester?

Ethan Schwartz: We were limited to 15,000 attendees at Markham Park, and last year we reached that. We’d been in discussions with the Seminole Tribe for a few years, and last year they came out, loved what they saw, and invited us to our new home. We’ve got a lot of room to grow at the new site, but at our own pace.

SD: What will the new site offer that you weren’t able to in the past?

ES: It’s actually a lot easier for the attendees this year. Besides offering on-site camping for everyone, the late night shows will take place on site this year, so that will keep people from having to drive 30 minutes to downtown Ft. Lauderdale to see a late night show. Plus, there’s no chance the late night shows will sell out, so no one misses anything. It’s actually cheaper to attend Langerado this year, camp and do the late nights than it has been in the past. Read on for more of Some Dude’s interview with Ethan Schwartz about Langerado…