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John Butler Trio: Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA 6/17/10

Nick Gunther June 25, 2010 No Comments

As a son of mother earth and a brother to this land, one of John Butler’s goals has been to promote mutual respect and raise awareness toward bettering the environment through music. April Uprising has been his latest musical vehicle that travels down a revolutionary path and draws meaning from ancient ancestry. Several days after playing a set at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, the John Butler Trio stopped by Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia to give fans a taste of the latest from the Australian-based roots jam band.

Jackie Greene: Till The Light Comes

Chad Berndtson June 24, 2010 No Comments

Lyrics are not Jackie Greene’s strong suit; hooks and harmonics are. How else to explain the way Greene routinely crafts beautiful roots gems, inspired country blues and frayed-edge power pop with smooth, but ultimately featherweight narratives about bad love, weary yearning and wanton soul searching? It’s not meaty stuff, but it’s delivered with grace and gravitas; Greene says “feel it, anyway,” and you do. It’s a formula that’s worked for him and continues to work on Till the Light Comes, his sixth album and, if not a great collection, surely a nourishing one, with buoyant arrangements and the fullness of a well-oiled band fleshing them out.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Mojo

Jeff Strowe June 23, 2010 No Comments

Due to some keen marketing and a barrage of advance press, most rock fans now know the back story of Mojo, Tom Petty’s long-awaited return to the studio with his legendary band, The Heartbreakers. Recorded live, mostly on the first take with little to no overdub or tweaking, this corps of rock and roll Hall of Famers live up to their billing with a blistering, bluesy, and furious statement of an album designed to cement their legacy to long-time fans and show a new generation how it’s done.

Herbie Hancock: The Imagine Project

Nick Gunther June 23, 2010 No Comments

With the incredible success of his recent collaborations on Possibilities and River: The Joni Letters, music legend Herbie Hancock explores world harmony, peace and greater hope on his newest release, The Imagine Project. Just in time for his 70th birthday, Hancock creates another musical masterpiece that was recorded all around the world in the collaborators native lands when possible, sometimes even in simulcast.

John Hiatt: The Open Road

Doug Collette June 21, 2010 No Comments

John Hiatt's latest release The Open Road is a loose, very spontaneous affair, much like its predecessor Same Old Man. But unlike that prior album, where the focus remained on the songs, the material on this new album is the means to the end of making music, during the course of which Hiatt himself is an integral member of highly-skilled band.

MGMT: Uptown Theater, Kansas City, MO 6/15/10

Jon Evans June 21, 2010 No Comments

It's been two years since MGMT breezed through Kansas City's Uptown Theater in support of Beck on his Modern Guilt tour. The crowd at the sold-out venue that night was greeted by the fledgling, Brooklyn-based band, and many were introduced for the first time to the band's synth sound heard on their full-length debut, Oracular Spectacular. The intervening two years have seen MGMT's stature, and style, grow considerably, and their headlining stop on June 13 at one of Kansas City's finer venues showed them deliver on their high expectations.

Classic Rock at Bonnaroo -John Fogerty, Jeff Beck, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy Cliff & Stevie Wonder

Ric Hickey June 21, 2010 No Comments

In the music world it seems the younger artists always get the lion’s share of attention on the summer festival circuit. So it’s nice to see a few of the older acts at this year’s Bonnaroo get some well-deserved attention: John Fogerty, Jeff Beck, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy Cliff and Stevie Wonder

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Bonnaroo 2010, Manchester, TN 6/11/10

Ric Hickey June 15, 2010 No Comments

It was around 2pm last Friday when a huge crowd began to gather around Bonnaroo’s Other Tent. As the happy mob swelled and overflowed onto the grassy hillside surrounding the stage it became irrefutably clear that Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros were on a lot of people’s must-see list at this year’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. At 2:30 the enthusiastic crowd welcomed the group to the stage, saving the largest measure of their applause for the appearance of singer Alex Ebert.

Bonaroo 2010 – Sunday Recap – Cluth, John Fogerty, They Might Be Giants, MMW. Phoenix, Dave Matthews Band

Bryan Rodgers June 15, 2010 No Comments

After the dual spectacle of Wonder and Jay-Z Friday evening, I did a few slow laps around Centeroo, marveling that the last day of Bonnaroo 2010 had arrived – and that most people just didn't know it yet. Easing by each music tent, I circled, impaling my brain on a sort of late night "sensory spit." Dan Deacon's slapdash, noisy barrage of sounds is incredibly jarring in the live setting. The exploratory fascination of his last album, Bromst, was challenging, but not nearly as challenging as watching his band attempt an approximation of the sound live. It's the kind of music that can give you a skin condition after prolonged exposure.

The Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street – Deluxe Edition

Doug Collette June 15, 2010 No Comments

If ever a classic rock album was not suited for a deluxe reissue, it's The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. The textbook definition of a whole being (far) greater than the sum of its parts, the album works in strange mysterious ways, and the various packages can only go so far to reveal exactly how that process worked.

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