When the ACL lineup was announced last week there was a curious act on the bill – Connor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band. It turns out that Connor, who
Just a reminder that the presale for Wilco’s show at the McCarren Pool in Williamsburg begins this morning at 10 AM. Jeff Tweedy and Co. haven’t played NYC in over
The writers over at Pitchfork usually play it really cool, but you can almost hear Amy Phillips orgasm as she lays out the lineup for the first All Tomorrow’s Parties
Between iClips and the AT&T Blue Room you never have to leave your residence to check out most of the best festivals this summer. For instance, AT&T is offering a
Well, I need to make a major correction in regards to the You Enjoy Myself Cover Wars. It appeared that The Benevento/Russo duo (w/ Mike Gordon) had it in the bag, and I declared them the winner in a move reminiscent of Dewey Defeats Truman. I’ve sent ScottyB down to The Duo headquarters to forcibly remove the CW trophy from their mantle and have it delivered to Tim Palmieri, the real (err, current?) winner of the YEM Cover Wars.
What I really like about writing this once a week is how fast some of these blogs can show up in Google Search, very often you’ll find this column on the first page of some Google Search terms. People are discovering it everyday and for that reason, voting never closes.
So that was two weeks ago, last week we had the Making Flippy Floppy Edition, and Umphrey’s McGee currently has over 75% of the voting, so we’ll call that one for UM…but as we’ve seen, voting is never final.
Moving on, I’ve selected The Who as the artist for this week’s cover wars and we are taking a look at perhaps the most well-known song off the Rock Opera Tommy, Pinball Wizard. The playlist below has got five renditions of the tune about our beloved deaf, dumb and blind pinball champion. If you are only getting 30-second clips of the songs, you must first register or login to Imeem.
Read on for the tale of the tape on this week’s competitors…
After spending three weeks on the road Widespread Panic finally returns to their home state of Georgia tonight, where they are scheduled to play the first of two sold out
Earlier today, the Grateful Dead announced that they are holding a press conference on Thursday afternoon at 2PM EDT. They didn’t mention what they will be talking about at the
I’ve probably had about ten or 15 friends who’ve been lucky enough to catch a Zappa Plays Zappa show, and each one of them came back raving about what an
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t get Bjork and doubt that I ever will, but her latest video Wanderlust is absolutely stunning to watch. This thing clocks
There has been lots of buzz about The Replacements lately thanks to Rhino’s new reissues of the band’s first four discs. Wes Orshoski recently interviewed both singer Paul Westerberg and
