Photos by Richard Clarke of the Gathering of The Vibes, held in Mariaville, NY, August 17-20, 2006. Artists included Ratdog, the Rhythm Devils, Burning Spear, Hot Tuna, YMSB and more.
In the hands of uber photographer Pixie, the camera becomes a kaleidoscopic conduit between subject and audience. Her photos are evocative, expressive and undeniably fun. You immediately gets that Pixie is exactly where she should be – smack in the middle of the most beautiful, colorful, freaky people on the scene. Her ongoing photography projects include Dresden Dolls, Flaming Lips, Fishbone, Particle, The Mutaytor, Bassnectar and many others.
The tenacity of Daniel Hutchens makes little sense. Over the course of six albums with his band, Bloodkin, and two solo albums, he has skirted both critical and popular acknowledgement, despite writing some of the most prolific verse to grace southern rock in the last decade.
TV on the Radio
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.
The generation gap was apparent, yet irrelevant, as Roger Waters rocked through two sets of premier Pink Floyd material to a sold out crowd at the Tweeter Center. In case the name doesn’t speak for itself, Waters most recent "Dark Side of the Moon” tour has incorporated the complete performance of the landmark 1973 album in its entirety, in addition to an entire set of other Floyd classics, while incorporating a few recent Waters originals into the mix.
Once again the folks at Terrapin Presents have upped the ante on keeping the spirit of the Grateful Dead alive by providing genre bending music that keeps the adventure of improvisation and collaboration alive.
Welcome to Bob Dylan’s Modern Times, which sounds about as “modern” as a Model T Ford. The legend's new album has become his first #1 record since 1976’s Desire, to which Modern Times is a kindred spirit; both follow career defining albums which critics hailed as “The Re-birth of Dylan.”
Instrumental Dissent, The Motet
