2006

Widespread Panic, Blossom Music Center, Cleveland, OH

August 22, 2006 No Comments

Photos by Robert Massie of Widespread Panic’s performance at the Blossom Music Center in Cleveland, OH on August 10, 2006.

Gov’t Mule: High And Mighty (Warren Haynes Interview)

Sven Philipp August 22, 2006 No Comments

Looks like our six-string shaman won

James Hunter: People Gonna Talk

Jason Macneil August 21, 2006 No Comments

Chris Farlowe and Van Morrison are in a class by themselves when it comes to British soul, but James Hunter seems to be scratching at the door containing those stars.

String Cheese Incident: Cuthbert Ampitheatre, Eugene, OR – August 4-6, 2006

Jason Gershuny August 21, 2006 No Comments

Hearing the news that the String Cheese Incident

PJ Harvey: PJ Harvey on Tour, Please Leave Quietly

Lauree Guyer August 18, 2006 No Comments

PJ Harvey is a powerful performer and an interesting artist. If you can get past the generic music video filler, there are some truly rare gems worth the look.

Sonic Youth / Yeah Yeah Yeahs : McCarren Pool, Brooklyn NY 8/12/2006

Shawn Donohue August 18, 2006 No Comments

It is amazing that a band playing together since 1981 can still manage to play with such grace and fire, fresh songs alongside classics, with everything working out so seamlessly. Hopefully the Yeah Yeah Yeahs can reach that point someday. But if they needed any guidance, all they had to do was open their ears to one of the best bands of the last quarter century playing beside them.

I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You’ve Ever Heard: By Tom Reynolds

Lauree Guyer August 17, 2006 No Comments

I Hate Myself and Want to Die is an amusing book written not just for collectors of kitsch and lovers of lists. Author Tom Reynolds has chosen the 52 most depressing songs you've ever heard and explains in detail why each deserves to be on the list.

Maria de Barros : Town Hall, Seattle, WA 7/21/2006

Gabriel Scheer August 17, 2006 No Comments

Senegalese native Maria de Barros is the kind of musician to whom one can’t help but surrender oneself. Full of the joie de vivre endemic to so many performers of African heritage; the music, dance moves, and smile of de Barros clearly captivated the Town Hall crowd. They displayed seemingly boundless enthusiasm, dancing and singing along with de Barros’ music, despite the almost unbearably high temperatures in the non-air conditioned building.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: The Letting Go

Jamie Lee August 16, 2006 No Comments

The Letting Go maintains Bonnie Prince Billy’s trademark style while giving those simple songs the opportunity to puff and billow with passionate, dusty bravado.

Detroit Cobras / The Legendary Maxine Brown / The Everyothers / Trick and the Heartstrings 7/06/2006: McCarren Pool, Brooklyn NY

Shawn Donohue August 16, 2006 No Comments

Mad props need to be given to the good people at JellyNYC for providing free Sunday concerts in a quintessentially Brooklyn atmosphere, an old abandoned swimming pool.