Photos by Eric Townsend of Brandi Carlile at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, NY on May 25, 2006.
One of Umphrey’s most impressive feats is their uncanny ability to take that cheesy 80’s “soaring eagle” guitar tone you loved back in high school, and actually make it cool again.
Calexico has unveiled September tour dates concentrating on the South and Midwest.
After August appearances at New York’s Central Park SummerStage and Lollapalooza in Chicago, the group will head to California for Oakland’s Art & Soul Festival September 3.
They’ll kick off two weeks of solid tour dates in Texas September 16 with an appearance at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Then it’s on to New Orleans and nearly a dozen more cities, finishing September 30 in Lawrence, Kan.
Calexico is supporting its latest album, Garden Ruin, released in April on Quarterstick Records.
Over the years, the band has grown from a duo to a six-piece, now comprising founding members John Convertino and Joey Burns with Tucson neighbor Jacob Valenzuela, Germans Martin Wenk and Volker Zander, and Paul Niehaus of Lambchop.
Calexico toured extensively with Iron & Wine throughout the latter half of 2005 in support of the two bands’ collaborative album, In The Reins. Earlier this year, Calexico played a number of West Coast shows with The Black Heart Procession, then hit the East with Jason Collett.
Source pollstar.com.
Its easy to get complacent with usernames and passwords, but the popular mp3 indie-blog Stereogum has received a rather jarring wake up call that has the blogosphere all a flutter. The daily read for many music fans (including glide) was apparently hacked due to Stereogum’s rather over-indie admin password of “sufjan.” Of course this could just be extremely jaded hacker humor, but as of late this morning, the site is still down.
A simple message reads:
Hello Scott.
What happened to my site?
Your server has been compromised on a root level and has at least 3-4 different exploits installed.
WTF? By whom? Pitchfork?
Perhaps SUFJAN was a poor password.
How am I gonna post that MP3 of snippets from every song on the new Dylan album? Sounds really promising! Heavy on the R&B swing that made Love And Theft his best album in decades.
Fix your fucking blog dude.
See for yourself: Stereogum
