This evening, Fuse debuts an hour-long program featuring highlights from SPIN’s 25th Anniversary Concert Series, which took place earlier this year in New York City. Tune in at 9PM EST
This year’s batch of live concert DVD releases was more about quality than quantity. While there weren’t dozens of releases from the bands we love like last year, the DVDs that did come out make up for the lack of numbers. For this week’s B List, I continue a long-standing tradition of detailing my favorite concert DVDs of the year. I’ve included a taste of these releases, except the Avett’s DVD, so you can get a feel for these outstanding videos.
10. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – London Calling
If 2009 was indeed the last year for the E Street Band, what a year it was. One of the highlights of ’09 for The Boss and his long-time backing band was a headlining set at London’s Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park. London Calling contains 26 tracks from throughout Springsteen’s career as well as a few cool bonuses such as a memorizing version of The River from Glastonbury. As you’ve probably inferred from the title, the DVD contains a scorching cover of London Calling by The Clash that starts this release out right.
READ ON for my Top Nine Concert DVDs of 2010…
The fine folks at Hear Rock City have put together a fantastic compilation featuring rock gods the Drive-By Truckers covering a wide range of other artists. Download the mix to
For your weekly hour’s worth of music, you’ll first be listening to The Frames, the Irish band celebrating their 20th year of existence. From there, we cruise over to the soulful sounds of J.J. Grey & Mofro for a track from their 2010 record. Mike Gordon, who was recently singing the praises of J.J. Grey, contributes four tracks from his show in Maine where he was joined by Phish drummer Jon Fishman. And we close it out with a recent Robert Hunter penned tune from New Riders Of The Purple Sage. Hope you enjoy it.
A reminder, you can download all of this week’s audio in one easy to listen to MP3 that we call the Last Week’s Sauce Podcast, click here to download.
[Thanks to scb for this week’s photo]
The Frames – People Get Ready
Date & Venue: 2010-11-23 The Vic Theatre – Chicago, IL
Taper & Show Download: Brian Emerick
As you may have read in Monday’s Pullin’ Tubes, Irish folk-rock act The Frames are turning 20. Unfortunately, for our American readers, you have missed the live dates at this point. The Frames [tour dates] continue their anniversary run overseas tomorrow night at Paradiso in Amsterdam.
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READ ON for tracks from JJ Grey & Mofro, Mike Gordon w/Jon Fishman, and New Riders Of The Purple Sage…
Upstate NY’s Press-Republican newspaper ran a feature about Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann’s 7 Walkers project today and what’s most interesting in the article is Billy’s take on Furthur –
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy kicks off a brief solo tour on Saturday night at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City with The Autumn Defense opening. To get you ready
Back in 2005, the members of influential alt.country act The Jayhawks decided to go on an extended hiatus after touring behind their seventh studio album, Rainy Day Music. In the
For better or worse, Apple has changed how we access and interact with music. Almost everyone has an opinion on the relative good or evil involved…but the indelible fact is that when molds are broken, experiments begin and new ideas take shape.
Aside from the rising popularity of vinyl records, one of the finest by-products to emerge from Apple’s digital conquest is the podcast.
Kevin Smallwood on Truth & Soul Radio
Since their inception, I’ve privately refused to enjoy “podcasts”. Now that I’m writing this, let me state as a matter of fact: I privately refuse to enjoy podcasts. Call me a hater – but personally, the art is too difficult to access. First, the single track format kills the listening experience. I suppose that statement makes me product of my generation but lets face it, there’s a lot of crap out there and the fast-forward button is an extremely undervalued commodity.
The second characteristic I have a tough time with is the “DJ” that walks me through the music. By loose definition, this nuance destroys the concept of discovery, doesn’t it? It has always reminded me of being on a road trip with a guy (or girl) interjecting their personal narrative between the tracks of their Awesome Mix – Vol. 6. It’s not like a radio DJ who serves more as a customer service representative. These Pod-J’s(?) essentially make you hear songs their way and there’s a bit of guilt trip if you want to fast forward, as if you’d miss full enlightenment by skipping tracks.
READ ON for more from Three Grown Men on podcasts…
The latest edition of the Phish Live Bait series focuses on the band’s previous appearances in Worcester as the quartet prepares to return to the city for a pair of
The 30 Days of Dead program wrapped up recently at Dead.net and if you missed out on downloading any of the 30 tracks from the Grateful Dead vault that were
