Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB bring their tour to the heart of the Midwest this evening for a show at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Wade Wilby is providing
PlanetAnthem.com has gone live allowing Disco Biscuits fans to take a peak at a number of pre-order options for the jamtronica act”s long-delayed studio album. The pre-order opens on Monday
It isn’t often that music festivals get scheduled for the beach, so we’ve had our eyes on The Hangout Music Festival which is set to take place on the beach
The Grateful Dead were firing on all cylinders through much of Summer Tour in 1989 including a stellar performance on an extremely hot July day in Philadelphia, PA. Crimson, White
As part of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th anniversary, Animal Collective have collaborated with artist Danny Perez on a site-specific performance piece that will transform the museum’s rotunda into a “kinetic, psychedelic
For this month’s Track x Track, welcome keyboard wiz Zac Lasher from prog-meets-jamtronica act U-Melt who will share an anecdote or factoid about each track on the group’s new album, Perfect World.
1) Disclaimer — This album was conceived a few years ago when we were reading a lot of philosophical material. We’d all started writing along those lines independently of each other and thought that was kinda cool, we decided to nurture that instinct and specifically set out to write the songs that would become this album with that in mind. One day while sitting in the van on the way to a show, i was contemplating some of the lyrics i was working on, and i realized that i was spouting a whole lot of bullshit — which isn’t to say i don’t believe in the ideas we were writing about, but, you know… who am i to say “You are the center of the universe” anyway? i decided that it was necessary to put a disclaimer onto this album. I finished the lyrics before we got to the venue, and the music followed quickly, which brings me to…
2) Disillusion — This is the companion piece to “Disclaimer.” the initial intent was that they would always be played together, but we’ve since deviated from that. This was a fun track to work on in the studio as we were able to take what was usually a jam with a bit of structure to it, and turn it into a concise album cut. The fade out at the end is one of my favorite bits of production on the album.
READ ON for more from Zac on U-Melt’s Perfect World…
The latest video from The McLovins features Milktoast Man – the group’s new original composition. Milktoast Man contains a laidback, reggae groove and owes more to The Police than the
The best source for free Widespread Panic MP3 continues to get better. PanicStream’s iPod-Ready Widespread Panic Downloads page grows each week. At this point, you can access Sendspace links for
Lindsay White's vocal style gets compared to Jewel’s quite often, which is taken as a compliment; however, she believes that her lyrics are just a tad more sarcastic. For example, her song, “All Damn Day” explains her frustrations with happy people. As dark and as negative as it sounds, Lindsay uses her songwriting as an outlet. In other words, she keeps it real.
Our pal Michael Weiss recently uploaded an important piece of God Street Wine history, The Bedroom Sessions, to the Internet Archive. Shortly after signing with Geffen, GSW recorded nearly every song in their repertoire for their new label as Geffen wanted to hear as much of the group’s material as possible before they went in to record an actual album.
Bedroom Sessions #1 features Molly, Bring Back The News, Epiphany and 13 other God Street classics. Bedroom Sessions #2 contains a number of rarities along with fan-favorites Imogene, Into The Sea and Ballroom. The cherry on top is a collection of tunes labeled Ossining Demos and Rehearsals from 1995.
[Photo Courtesy of Michael Weiss]
Lo Faber shared his thoughts on these recordings on the Archive…
First off, this is in no way a “review,” since I obviously have no right to review my own work, but I thought I might add a few thoughts and recollections about the recording of this particular collection, which I am delighted to see up here on archive.org.
The terse description says this material was “recorded in Lo’s Bedroom at the band house in Ossining, NY.” This is true as far as it goes; but it conveys perhaps a misleading impression of intimacy, since my “bedroom” in the Ossining house was a gigantic, brick-floored, cathedral-ceilinged modern addition to a very old house, considerably bigger than the tracking rooms in many major NYC recording studios. How did this monstrosity get to be my bedroom? Well, let’s just say when the rooms were divvied up in the GSW house, I opted for square footage over privacy. Yes, I had space, but I also had a door that was inches from the kitchen fridge, a balcony overlooking my sleeping space that anyone could wander out onto, and huge curtainless picture windows facing out on the lawn. Not to mention those bricks were mighty cold on the feet on winter mornings.
READ ON for more of Lo’s thoughts on The Bedroom Sessions…
