Nice Talking To Me sounds like the same band you played hacky-sack to, but with a new found vigor and a contemporary flair. Still, second chances are hard to come by and rock reunions are typically better received at the twenty year mark instead of just a decade – just ask Motley Crue and Duran Duran. So we put drummer Aaron Comess on the hot seat and threw a few questions his way.
Rock and roll by its very nature is secular music, but few bands have indulged as extremely as Motley Crue. Their exercises in debauchery
Paul Simon and Herbie Hancock will headline the Berklee College of Music’s 60th anniversary concert, to be held Jan. 28 at Boston’s Wang Theatre. The show will be produced by Phil Ramone and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby. Performances will also be featured from vibes player Gary Burton and vocalist Chiara Civello.
Proceeds will benefit the Berklee Presidential Scholarship Fund; Simon, Hancock and Cosby are donating their usual compensation to Berklee scholarships that will be created in their name.
Hancock and Simon teamed up earlier this year for a new version of the latter’s “I Do It for Your Love,” which appeared on Hancock’s album “Possibilities.” Simon is also progressing on his long-in-the-works collaboration with Brian Eno. Billboard.com understands a number of tracks are finished, but no release date has yet been announced.
Source billboard.com.
The fifth annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is confirmed to take place June 16 – 18, 2005. The three-day camping and music festival will once again be held on the same beautiful, 700-acre farm in Manchester, TN, 60 miles southeast of Nashville.
Festival organizers have also announced that they’ve decided to reduce the total capacity in 2006 by 10,000 people, returning to the same capacity as the 2003 festival. The size will create a more comfortable environment for everyone involved and to create the best festival experience possible.
Stay tuned to the official website for all info including lineup announcements, ticketing info, special activities and more.
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On their Steve Albini produced debut, Ahead of the Lions, Living Things rekindle a Stooges/MC5 riot rock energy with them, that muscles up whatever glam inklings their Marc Bolan side wants to reveal. Like most cheap riff living bands, Living Things offer little in the way of lyrics, but many meat servings in the way of balls to the wall guitar hero riffs that would fit into “School of Rock 101. “
On December 10, 2005, Low performed a Christmas concert in the Sacred Heart Music Center in Duluth, Minnesota, for a church full of appreciative music go-ers, to benefit the Maasai School Project in Kenya. Out of a perfectly satisfying seventeen song set, Low performed only one up-tempo song, “It Was Just Like Christmas.”
Sauerwine outfunks even the strongest 70s bands you
The New York Guitar Festival 2006 is honoring Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 Nebraska album with a free gala concert under the glass atrium of the World Financial Center Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street, Saturday, January 14, at 8:00pm.
Entitled The Nebraska Project, this 25th anniversary celebration of the classic Bruce Springsteen album features on one stage a distinctive roster of singer-songwriters, bands and instrumentalists. The Nebraska Project opens this year’s New York Guitar Festival.
Performing their own arrangements of one of the ten Nebraska songs are Laura Cantrell, Dan Zanes, Vernon Reid, Mark Eitzel, Michelle Shocked, Meshell Ndegeocello, The National, Chocolate Genius, Marc Ribot, Martha Wainwright, Jesse Harris, Kevn Kinney, Lenny Kaye, Gary Lucas and Harry Manx.
“Sometimes a recording artist’s demo versions of songs are more brilliant than the final studio product. Nebraska is one of those moments in music history,” said David Spelman, Artistic Director of the New York Guitar Festival. In 1982, Springsteen chose to release the demo versions of his newest songs, recorded with only acoustic or electric guitar, harmonica, and vocals, as his sixth album, Nebraska. The rest is history. www.brucespringsteen.net
The song and artist run down for The Nebraska Project:
Nebraska – Michelle Shocked
Atlantic City – Jesse Harris
Mansion on the Hill – The National
Johnny 99 – Chocolate Genius
Highway Patrolman – Martha Wainright w/ Marc Ribot
State Trooper – Dan Zanes w/Vernon Reid
Used Cars – Laura Cantrel
Open All Night – Meshell Ndegeocello
My Father’s House – Mark Eitzel
Reason to Believe – Kevn Kinney w/ Lenny Kaye
Plus instrumental interludes by Gary Lucas, Harry Manx and Marc Ribot
Visit newyorkguitarfestival.org for complete line-up and details.
Legendary avant-garde composer Philip Glass has another busy year ahead, including a number of live performances scheduled in the coming months.
Glass will appear with the Qatsi Project for two three-night residencies – in Paris December 16-18, and in San Francisco in February. The Philip Glass Ensemble will perform Glass’ original scores for Godfrey Reggio’s trilogy of films – “Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance,” “Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation,” and “Naqoyqatsi: Life as War.” The films will be shown in order, one per night.
Glass also has a number of solo piano performances lined up. February’s schedule includes concerts in Colorado, Oregon, British Columbia and Alberta.
In March, Glass will collaborate with New York-based composer/violinist/bandleader Daniel Bernard Roumain at Newark, N.J.’s Victoria Theatre.
Three full albums of Glass material surfaced in 2005, in addition to a disc featuring remixes of his work by drum and bass, house, techno and ambient producers. He also composed the soundtrack to “NeverWas,” a film by Joshua Michael Stern scheduled for release in 2006.
Source pollstar.com.
