We we’re saddened to learn that bassist T-Bone Wolk passed away on Sunday night of an apparent heart attack. Not only would we always get a kick out of watching
Over the past 30 years, the Beastie Boys have put together a legendary career as an innovative hip-hop act that has crossed over to a variety of genres including rock and jazz. In fact, the group first got together to play hardcore in 1979 and stuck on the punk/hardcore end of things for the next five years before producer Rick Rubin got a hold of them.
For this month’s Through The Years, we’re going to look at all the incarnations of the Beastie Boys from their early days in Brooklyn to the multi-platinum License to Ill days all the way up to last year’s Bonnaroo. Outside of a few missing years, we’ve put together a playlist featuring one B-Boys video from each year starting in 1982. Take a peak…
Tracklist:
1982 – Holy Snapper (Home Video)
1983 – Live at The Kitchen
1984 – White Shadow (Live on Cable TV)
1985 – Filming Promos
1986 – Hold It Now, Hit It (Music Video)
1987 – No Sleep Till Brooklyn (Live in Montreux)
READ ON for the rest of the Beastie Boys – Through The Years playlist…
Our friends at HeadCount have teamed with the NRDC Action Fund and a number of our favorite artists to offer up a free Best of Bonnaroo download featuring unreleased tracks
On March 13, San Francisco’s Big Light finally makes their New York City debut at Sullivan Hall. All of our West Coast friends have been raving about this band since
When it comes to giving a nod to the past, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals have never shied away from including classic rock covers in concert, tackling tracks from the
A few weeks back, we brought you news about Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s latest release – Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program
Black Joe Lewis probably isn’t that sick of the James Brown and Wilson Pickett comparisons yet (I mean, what a compliment, right?) But it’s inaccurate to portray Black Joe and the Honeybears as a 21st century version of the Godfather’s JBs. They’re more a rock band with a serious Stax problem, or a punk band riding a soul train, or a garage band with blaster horns, on an R&B mission. Really, they’re all those things, not to mention the arrival of one of the most commanding new frontmen in ages.
As the story goes, Austinite Joe Lewis was working in a pawnshop when he started fooling around on guitar, eventually picking up gigs with a blues trio. He met guitarist Zach Ernst and the (now) seven-piece Honeybears were born, initially as an opener for Little Richard, then as a hot-shit regional band in the Austin area, and then, thanks to hugely buzzed about performances at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits in 2008, then SxSW in 2009, a national act.
The buzz is justified: the band takes the stage and wallops an audience with an almost brutal mix of garage rock, blues-punk, hot-skillet soul and pummeling energy, and does so with a refreshing lack of slickness. The sense of abandon is key to their appeal: they’re not all too polished and they don’t feel like a band hatched in a soul studio with meticulous attention paid by producers. If Joe didn’t already have a moniker, Smokin’ Joe would fit.
READ ON for more from Chad on Black Joe Lewis…
The Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB Tour concluded last night with one final show at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville that found the band channeling the same formula for success
Galactic makes a rare appearance on network television this Thursday, when the New Orleans funksters visit ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. According to Jambands.com, Galactic will perform Bacchus with legendary soul
We’ve reached the end of Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB’s highly successful Winter Tour. The group rocked The TABernacle last night in Atlanta and will conclude the three-week run in
