Filmmakers Jeff Baraka and Cam Be have put together a fascinating 10-minute documentary about The Roots, which profiles the human side behind the “band that never sleeps.” If you didn’t
Here’s a quote that may shock and horrify Phish fans… I’m trying to teach [Justin Bieber] about Phish and how great they are. We actually met Trey [Anastasio] at a
While Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show’s tongue in cheek ode actually helped to land the band on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, the legendary music rag doesn’t give
Trey Week continues on Hidden Track with the return of a feature for the stat geek in us all – The Number Line. This edition of The Number Line takes a close look at Trey Anastasio’s solo career by the numbers. As always, be sure to add your own entries to our list in the comments section.
310 – Different songs played at Trey Solo Shows
145 – Instances of Drifting [The Most Played Trey Solo Song]
143 – Shows since the last Quantegy [5/3/2005]
141 – Instances of Push On ‘Til The Day [The 2nd Most Played Trey Song]
51 – First Tube Encores
READ ON for more of the Trey Week edition of The Number Line…
Phish will support independent record retailers by taking part in Record Store Day on April 16th and releasing TWO SOUNDCHECKS – a limited-edition 7″ vinyl release that will feature the soundcheck from
While Howard Stern may have revolutionized how celebrities use Twitter over the weekend by tweeting commentary along with an HBO re-airing of his Private Parts film, Bruce Hornsby is aiming
Next Thursday, February 24th, Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro and Grateful Dead legacy manager David Lemieux will both participate in an open discussion moderated by Music Industry Professor Toby Seay at
On February 4th, Yo La Tengo brought their Wheel of Fate? tour to Chicago’s legendary Metro for a night of genre-spanning rock and other surprises. On this tour, YLT has been selecting an audience member to spin a wheel set up on stage, and whatever the wheel landed on would be the first 45 minute set. Options included a set by the band’s garage rock alter-ego Condo Fucks, an audience Q&A known as ‘The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo’, ‘Sitcom Theater’ where YLT and crew would perform a classic sitcom and plenty of other goofy ideas.
On this night, the wheel landed on ‘Spinner’s Choice’, and the audience member chose Sitcom Theater. Shortly after, the famous bassline from Seinfeld pumped through the PA, and YLT’s Ira Kaplan came out and began reading the script for the classic The Chinese Restaurant episode. The band then read through the whole episode, even though a sizable portion of the audience had grown audibly restless. It was hilarious.
The set proper opened up with the mellow classics The Room Got Heavy and Autumn Sweater before getting into some of the feedback-drenched introspective noiserock that YLT is so great at. The evening was an excellent snapshot of the incredibly wide breadth of Yo La Tengo’s sound. From acoustic-based love songs through loud thrashing rock, YLT played every song to perfection. Opener Willian Tyler joined the band for Don’t Have to be So Sad, and lent a hand again later on a brilliant reworking of Neil Young’s classic For The Turnstiles.
Sitcom Theater: Seinfeld – The Chinese Restaurant
Set: The Room Got Heavy, Autumn Sweater, Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1), Stockholm Syndrome, The Weakest Part, Gentle Hour (Snapper cover), Don’t Have To Be So Sad (with William Tyler), Periodically Double Or Triple, Nothing To Hide, Sugarcube, Blue Line Swinger
Encore: Come On Up (Condo Fucks, The Rascals), For the Turnstiles (Neil Young cover) (with William Tyler), Griselda (The Holy Modal Rounders cover), Did I Tell You
Encore 2: Somebody’s In Love (Sun Ra cover)
READ ON for more of Joel’s photos from a unique YLT show…
VH1’s Storytellers series debuted in 1996 with the concept of letting artists share the stories behind their greatest songs – and those songs themselves – in an intimate setting. Over
Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend fame gave the music blogosphere a puzzling laugh earlier this week when he posted a tongue-in-cheek version of Dave Matthews’ Crash, during which he struggles
