The recently released documentary Iron Maiden: Flight 666 tells the tale of the first leg of the heavy metal pioneers 2008 Somewhere Back In Time World Tour in which the
With MCA on the road to recovery, organizers of San Francisco’s Outside Land Festival have revealed that the acoustic-folk-metal act Tenacious D will replace the hip-hop trio as the festival’s
We guess recording and touring with three different bands just isn’t enough for Jack White as the White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather member managed to squeeze in enough time to set to
If you haven’t picked up Conundrum you’re totally missing out. Here’s a preview video of McLovins’ debut album to give you a taste… McLovins – Album Montage
Our friends Matt and Kelly continue to drop terrific MP3 downloads over at Musical Stew Daily. Just this week alone they posted killer recordings of shows by moe., My Morning
Hot off a spectacular four night stand at Red Rocks, Phish heads west for their first Bay Area concert in six years. Our own DaveO will be tweeting live from
The Royal Potato Family artist Nathan Moore, who’s probably familiar to most of our audience as the frontman of Surprise Me Mr. Davis, has put together a batch of beautifully
The attendance figures from last weekend’s All Points West Festival have been released and they ain’t pretty. Paul Tollett, president of Goldenvoice, the promoter, told the New York Times that paid attendance was 71,500 for all three days. Tollett also mentioned to the grey lady that attendance was down about 4,000 from last year due in large part to the horrible weather that enveloped the NYC area over the course of the weekend.
The promoter hopes that All Points West will return to Liberty State Park next summer saying “This show needs time to develop and find its home,” but no contract has been signed with the venue – an ominous sign for the festival’s survival. In my opinion, even if the Beasties were able to play and the weather was gorgeous the numbers still would’ve been bad. The lineup was all over the place and there weren’t any headliners able to draw in the masses like Radiohead did for the first two nights of last year’s APW.
Goldenvoice’s next festival will feature Phish at Festival 8 in Indio, CA on October 30 – November 1. Does anyone doubt that the jam titans will outdraw all of APW ’09?
READ ON to view some videos from APW ’09 including Coldplay covering You’ve Gotta Fight For Your Right…, Jay-Z tackling No Sleep ‘Till Brooklyn, MGMT’s new song, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s doin’ Maps and much more…
One of our newest contributors, Bryan Rodgers, hit a recent Gov’t Mule show and filed this report from the streets of Raleigh…
Fifteen years into its existence, Gov’t Mule is firmly established as a juggernaut of the music world, and their 2009 tour has set a new high-water mark for the band and their performances. The unstoppable force of Warren Haynes and company landed in Raleigh, NC on a Sunday night and proceeded to fill the city streets with perfectly executed, hard-hitting Mule music.
The Gov’t Mule tour is a perfect example of one that might otherwise have to skip Raleigh altogether if it wasn’t for the accommodating Lincoln Theatre street stage. The proprietors of downtown’s Lincoln Theatre have created a series of outdoor concerts that are exactly what the region needs. Since eastern North Carolina is sorely lacking in medium-sized venues, they’ve taken the party into the street and helped assure that Raleigh won’t get left out when it comes to shows that draw crowds in the range of 1000 – 2000 people.
A sultry southern evening welcomed the opening act, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. This show was the last stop of their brief tour with Gov’t Mule, and the Muscle Shoals-based outfit offered an appropriately rip-roaring set that featured diverse covers (Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer and Tom Petty’s I Don’t Want to Fight) nestled among a cavalcade of Isbell originals. The band had the crowd in the palm of their hand from the start – sometimes all it takes is the mention of Muscle Shoals to win favor with certain types of audiences. READ ON for more from the Mule show in Raleigh…
Jellyfish – Hollywood CA – 10/??/1990 [zip file] Jellyfish is one of my all time favorite bands and they are responsible for putting out two of what I consider to
