Can you imagine Louis XIV going on tour with Ween? That would be as politically incorrect a duo as Larry The Cable Guy and Al Franken. On their new CD, The Best Little Secrets Are Kept, Louis XIV is more sexed up than Howard Stern interviewing Jenna Jameson at the Adult Video Awards.
Somewhere between The Chemical Brothers and the Pet Shop Boys, Fischerspooner interweave themselves within the Williamsburg art scene with robotic art-pop and ironic techno-melodrama.
The official Bonnaroo 2005 schedule has been released, with all the bands filling their respective time slots. Amongst the attractive bills is a late night/Saturday morning 1:00-4:00 a.m. set by the Mars Volta and a late night/Saturday morning show by Sound Tribe Sector 9, alongside Galactic
Today Jam Cruise 4 announces Les Claypool, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Critters Buggin, Hairy Apes BMX, New Monsoon, The Lee Boys and Gabby La La to join its already stellar lineup: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Digable Planets, and Antibalas Aftrobeat Orchestra, Galactic, Umphrey’s McGee, Keller Williams, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, The String Cheese Incident side-projects (Remarkable Elba Kramer featuring Kyle Hollingsworth, Zilla featuring Michael Travis, Honkytonk Homeslice featuring Billy Nershi and Elastic Mystic featuring Michael Kang with DJ Lorin), Steve Kimock Band,Liza Oxnard, and Fantastic 4 (featuring Eric Krasno, Robert Walter, Cheme Gastelum, and Adam Deitch).
Now in its third year, Jam Cruise has become a leader in the evolution of music festivals and cruise travel. For Jam Cruise 4 the Italian cruise line’s MSC Lirica will leave port from Ft. Lauderdale on January 7, 2006, floating for six days and six nights with stops in Ocho Rios (Jamaica), Grand Cayman (Cayman Islands) and Cozumel (Mexico).
Jam Cruise 4 general on sale will happen May 25th at 11 am MST at
www.jamcruise.com. (not the originally scheduled on sale date of May 18th).
While the music industry defines a hit by how it ranks on the Billboard Charts, the essence of a hit is something else. It
He hasn’t been seen on set for weeks. His hit show has been shut down. And his friends are speculating on various reasons for his purported meltdown.
Now comes word that Dave Chappelle is undergoing treatment in a psychiatric facility in South Africa.
Quoting an unnamed source “close to the situation,” Entertainment Weekly said Wednesday that the comedian flew to South Africa late last month and voluntarily checked himself into the undisclosed facility. There is no word on the nature of his ailment or how long he will be hospitalized.
Source eonline.com.
Nearly a decade after hatching the idea for a country album that infuses reggae, Willie Nelson’s “Countryman” will see release this summer by Lost Highway. The album finds the outlaw country icon covering Jimmy Cliff’s “The Harder They Come” and dueting with Toots Hibbert on the Johnny Cash/June Carter Cash composition “I’m a Worried Man.”
The project was originally conceived with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell when Nelson joined the label’s roster in 1995. Basic tracks were recorded with producer Don Was over the next few years, but Blackwell’s exit from the label and a series of sales and mergers involving its parent companies put the album in limbo.
“Here is the “Countryman” track list:
“Something To Think About”
“How Long Is Forever”
“I’m a Worried Man” with Toots Hibbert
“The Harder They Come”
“I’ll Still Be Thinking of You”
“Sitting in Limbo”
“Darkness on the Face of the Earth”
“One in a Row”
“I’ve Just Destroyed the World”
“You Left a Long, Long Time Ago”
“I Guess I’ve Come To Live Here”
“Undo the Right”
Source billboard.com.
Lusty. Loving. Driven. These are just a few of the words that flickered across the screen behind the rock-pop powerhouse, Garbage, at the band’s first tour stop in support of their new album, Bleed Like Me. The stellar New York City performance proved that Garbage is one band that continues to improve after being together for more than 10 years, thanks to the outrageous and uninhibited redhead at the helm.
While the occasionally fuzzy guitars and heavy drumming on Earlimart
