Fireside Live is loads of fun, as if Joey DeFrancesco or Jimmy Scott traded in the more academic jazz aesthetic (but retained same chops and improvisational proclivities) to front a boozy gospel-rock outfit Ginty’s taken to calling “outlaw gospel.”
Skerik's latest album Husky, is a live recording featuring his Syncopated Taint Septet, a mix known as a “punk-jazz version of the Thelonius Monk Octet. ” For the musician known as Skerik, the word "collaboration" never grows old.
Apple Computer Inc. said on Sept. 12 that its iTunes online music store would begin selling movies from Disney, Pixar, and Touchstone as the company makes its most aggressive move yet into the digital home.
Chief Executive Steve Jobs said newly released movies would initially cost $12.99 if pre-ordered or bought during the first week available. Library titles would cost $9.99, Jobs said at an event in San Francisco where the company also introduced new versions of its iPod digital music devices.
He said there are about 75 films now available for purchase on iTunes and that they would take about 30 minutes to download for those using a high-speed Internet connection.
The new iPods include one with the most capacity to date and sport video games such as Pac-Man and Tetris. Jobs said the new 80 gigabyte iPod would cost $349. The company also introduced a new, thinner iPod Nano available in five colors with 24 hours of battery life.
Source billboard.com.
25 years ago, in October of 1981, the Grateful Dead played at the Melkweg in Amsterdam, home of Jam in the ‘Dam, for the first and only time. It’s an event that venue owner Cor Schlosser remembers with fondness to this day. Cor still owns the venue, and is as much an Amsterdam musical fixture as his legendary venue, which has hosted a who’s who of rock n
The Flaming Lips’ latest album, “At War With the Mystics,” has been expanded into a two-disc set due Oct. 24 via Warner Bros. The original album will be augmented with the outtakes “Why Does It End?,” “You’ve Got To Hold On,” “Your Face Can Tell the Future,” “The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness,” “Time Travel?? Yes!!” and a cover of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Also featured are eight tracks from various live radio sessions, one of which is a blend of Sonic Youth’s “Unmade Bed” and Led Zeppelin’s “No Quarter.”
The DVD disc of the new “Mystics” rounds up videos for “Mr. Ambulance Driver,” “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song” and “The W.A.N.D.,” plus frontman Wayne Coyne’s videotaped 2006 commencement address for his high school alma mater in Oklahoma City.
Source billboard.com.
