August 19, 2005

Big Summer Classic – Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA

Photos by Adam Marcinek of the Big Summer Classic, feat. The String Cheese Incident, Umphrey’s McGee, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Keller Williams, Yonder Mountain String Band and New Monsoon at the Tweeter Center Boston in Mansfield, MA on 7.23.05.

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Wolf Parade: Wolf Parade EP

The latest in the line of the hip Canada bands are art rockers Wolf Parade with the release of their self-titled Sub Pop EP. At four tracks and a little over thirteen minutes long the discs give you a good taste of what

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Marc Friedman, Andrew Barr, Marco Benevento w. Brad Barr (solo) 7/13/2005: Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT

Imagine going to a music school and studying with musicians who later would go on to form bands like The Slip and the Benevento/Russo Duo. What a crazy time it must have been for Marc Friedman, Andrew Barr and Marco Benevento when they attended classes together before they went on to form their revered bands. Their bond still holds strong, as was evidenced at their show to close out

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Liz Phair U.S. Tour Dates

Having previewed her new album with a summer acoustic tour, Liz Phair will hit the road in the fall with a full band. The outing begins Oct. 6 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., two days after the release of the Capitol album “Somebody’s Miracle.”

The 24-date club tour include an Oct. 17-18 stand at New York’s Irving Plaza and will run through Nov. 16 in San Diego. Beforehand, the artist will shoot a video for the new album’s first single, “Everything to Me,” with director Phil Harder, who lensed such prior Phair clips as “Extraordinary” and “Why Can’t I?”

The artist performs acoustically tonight (Aug. 18) in San Francisco and will wrap the run with an Aug. 24-26 stand in her Chicago hometown.

Here are Liz Phair’s fall tour dates:

Oct. 6: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (Revolution)
Oct. 7: Orlando, Fla. (House of Blues)
Oct. 8: Tampa, Fla. (Jannus Landing)
Oct. 10: Atlanta (Roxy Theatre)
Oct. 12: Washington, D.C. (9:30 Club)
Oct. 14: Boston (Avalon)
Oct. 16: Philadelphia (TLA)
Oct. 17-18: New York (Irving Plaza)
Oct. 22: Montreal (Cafe Campus)
Oct. 23: Toronto (Phoenix)
Oct. 25: Chicago (Vic Theatre)
Oct. 26: Milwaukee (Pabst Theatre)
Oct. 27: Minneapolis (First Avenue)
Oct. 29: Denver (Gothic Theatre)
Oct. 31: Dallas (Gypsy Ballroom)
Nov. 1: Austin, Texas (La Zona Rosa)
Nov. 7: Los Angeles (House of Blues)
Nov. 8: San Francisco (Fillmore)
Nov. 11: Vancouver (Commodore Ballroom)
Nov. 12: Seattle (Neumo’s)
Nov. 13: Portland, Ore. (Crystal Ballroom)
Nov. 15: Anaheim, Calif. (House of Blues)
Nov. 16: San Diego (House of Blues)

Source billboard.com.

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Neil Young Debuts Prairie Wind In Nashville

Neil Young debuted material from his panoramic “Prairie Wind” album to an appreciative audience last night (Aug. 18) at the first of two shows at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. The set is due Sept. 27 via Reprise.

As previously reported, the invitation-only (save for a few radio station giveaways) Ryman shows are being filmed by director Jonathan Demme for a concert film to be released by Paramount Classics in theaters and on DVD at a date to be determined. The film will be executive produced by Clinica Estetica and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone.

The near-capacity crowd was treated to a nearly three-hour performance by Young, his first lengthy stage work since recovering from brain surgery to repair an aneurysm last spring. Relaxed and confident, Young engaged in amiable between-song stage patter, name-checking Hank Williams, Faron Young, Nicolette Larson, Vassar Clements and Rufus Thibodeaux.

Referring to the venerated Ryman as a “church of all kinds,” Young delivered stirring renditions of the new songs, conveyed in a sparse, acoustic-based style reminiscent of such classic albums as “Harvest” and “Comes a Time.”

He was backed brilliantly by such longtime collaborators as keyboardist Spooner Oldham, pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith, drummers Chad Cromwell and Karl Himmel, bassist Rick Rosas, and guitarist Grant Boatwright, along with Clinton Gregory on fiddle, horn players Tom McGinley and Jimmy Sharp, vocalists Pegi Young, Diana DeWitt, Gary Pigg and Anthony Crawford and special guest Emmylou Harris on guitar and vocals.

At times more than 30 musicians were on the fabled Ryman stage, but the focus was on Young, who sang and played with authority the album’s sprawling themes of family, love, nostalgia and spirituality. Highlights included the anthemic “The Painter” and “No Wonder” (with Keith’s haunting electric dobro), as well as more personal cuts like the wistful “Here For you” and bluesy paternal ode in the title cut.

After a first set of all new material, the second set dug into the back catalog for such favorites as “I Am a Child,” “Heart of Gold,” “Old Man,” “The Needle and the Damage Done” and “Comes a Time.” Also of a note were a rare performance of the hound dog homage “Old King” (preceded by a rambling but strangely touching intro about Young’s dog Elvis) and a show-closing “One of These Days.”

Source billboard.com.

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