Jenny Lewis, The Rilo Kiley front-woman has struggled with her child star-meets-sex symbol status with grace, yet after a summer of opening the big sheds for Coldplay, you knew her star was about to shine brighter. Rabbit Fur Coat reinvents Lewis as a brainy borderline diva, who merges her indie spunk with cozy bygone harmonies.
Lollapalooza will return to Chicago’s Grant Park as a three-day event in 2006. Organizers Capitol Sports & Entertainment confirmed that the one-time touring festival is not only growing in length, but in size as well, taking over more of the park to house eight stages that will present as many as 130 acts.
The Lollapalooza Web site confirms the dates and location for the show, but confirmation of participating artists and ticket information isn’t expected to emerge for about a month. The show will take place August 4-6, 2006 in Chicago’s Grant Park.
Of course, that that hasn’t stopped the rumor mill from churning. As previously reported, a reunion of the Windy City’s own Smashing Pumpkins is among the most persistent rumors, while the likes of the Flaming Lips and Disco Biscuits also the focus of speculation. Members of Thievery Corporation recently told Billboard.com that the group would be on hand for year’s festival.
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David Byrne and Brian Eno’s landmark 1981 collaboration “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” will be reissued March 28 via Nonesuch. The new edition features seven previously unreleased tracks that date from the original recording sessions.
By 1979, the artists had worked together on the Talking Heads albums “More Songs About Buildings and Food” and “Fear of Music.” While recording the follow-up to the latter, “Remain in Light,” they set out to make an album inspired by their fascination with the groove-driven music embodied by African artists like Fela Kuti. The pieces were then accented by African field recordings, as well as samples of everything from talk radio shows to evangelists.
Byrne and Eno were aided in the studio by Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz, bassists Bill Laswell and Tim Wright and conga player Steve Scales, who later played with Talking Heads on the tour in support of “Remain in Light.”
The extra tracks on the reissue, “Pitch to Voltage,” “Two Against Three,” “Vocal Outtakes,” “New Feet,” “Defiant,” “Number 8 Mix” and “Solo Guitar With Tin Foil,” are bolstered by a film for album track “Mea Culpa” by Bruce Connor.
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Singer-songwriter Glen Phillips, whose unique blend of folk-pop has been lauded as
There are few bands so revered by their contemporaries as the SOLEDAD BROTHERS, who formed in 1995 and hail from the same Detroit scene that spawned the likes of the White Stripes, Brendan Benson, and the Greenhornes. ‘The Hardest Walk’ arrives a full two years after the release of their acclaimed third album ‘Voice Of Treason,
Of all the giants in the Giant Forest (a grove at roughly 5,000 feet which is home to a bevy of colossal trees), it is the General Sherman tree which stands as the Largest Living Thing on Earth.
