Medeski, Martin & Wood has announced a series of October & early November dates. Beginning Oct. 14th, the versatile jazz trio will play on the Xingolati Cruise to be followed by a California and Arizona run. The band will head out east to play shows at the Hammerstein in NYC, Higher Groud in South Burlington, VT, Toad
The full track list has been confirmed for the soundtrack to “Elizabethtown,” Cameron Crowe’s highly anticipated new film. Due Sept. 13 via RCA, the project features exclusive tracks from Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and My Morning Jacket.
More tracks are turned in by Wheat, Ryan Adams, Elton John and the Hollies, among others.
Members of My Morning Jacket also appear in “Elizabethtown” as the band Ruckus, which performs the Lynyrd Syknyrd favorite “Freebird” with disastrous results during one scene.
Full tracklist
“60B (Elizabethtown Theme),” Nancy Wilson
“It’ll All Work Out,” Tom Petty
“My Father’s Gun,” Elton John
“i.o.,” Helen Stellar
“Come Pick Me Up,” Ryan Adams
“Where To Begin,” My Morning Jacket
“Long Ride Home,” Patti Griffin
“Sugar Blue,” Jeff Finlin
“Don’t I Hold You,” Wheat
“Shut Us Down,” Lindsey Buckingham
“Let It All Hang Out,” Hombres
“Hard Times,” eastmountainsouth
“Jesus Was a Crossmaker,” the Hollies
“Square One,” Tom Petty
“Same in Any Language,” I-9
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On their newest effort, Save Me, The Pat McGee Band proves that they are looking to take over radio waves everywhere.
If any four night run is a moment in time for Phish, the Island Tour epitomizes the power of a snapshot. It
On their third album, Twin Cinema, and their first since 2003
Akron, Ohio-based rock duo the Black Keys will release their first DVD Oct. 4 via Fat Possum. The appropriately titled
Ween played its first New York show in nearly two years Saturday (Aug. 20) at the Knitting Factory as part of a private party for the skateboarding magazine Thrasher. The 28-song, 135-minute set was open only to Thrasher guests and a select group of contest winners.
Having only recently returned to live duty after an extensive hiatus, Ween was in fine form as it rocked through early classics like “Dr. Rock,” “Fat Lenny,” “You F*cked Up” and “Touch My Tooter,” dipped into its signature psychedelica on “The Mollusk” and “Buckingham Green” and turned tender on “She’s Your Baby,” “Mutilated Lips” and closer “Someday.”
While it accumulates new material for its next studio album, the group is preparing for a short fall tour, beginning Oct. 25 in Albany, N.Y.
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Bob Moog, inventor of his namesake range of synthesizers and one of the most significant figures in the evolution of electronic music, died yesterday (Aug. 21) at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 71. A native of N.Y., Moog was diagnosed with brain cancer in late April and had since undergone radiation treatment and chemotherapy.
After a decade of building theremins with his father, Moog created his prototype, the Moog Modular Synthesizer, in 1963 and unveiled it the following year before the Audio Engineering Society Convention.
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Iconoclastic journalist Hunter S. Thompson would have loved the 153-foot tower built to blast his ashes into the sky, said one of his many friends and admirers gathered for an unsolemn farewell.
It’s a beautiful structure. Of course, he would not have been able to resist putting a few holes into it,” said Michael Cleverly, referring to his former neighbor’s love of shooting guns. “But it weighs several tons, so it could handle a few holes.”
The counterculture author killed himself six months ago at his home near Aspen. His ashes, intermingled with fireworks, were to be fired out of the tower Saturday evening in front of a star-studded crowd at his Owl Farm compound.
“He loved explosions,” his wife, Anita Thompson, explained during the planning of the fireworks sendoff.
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