2006

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.

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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

Fresh off a headlining tour with opening acts Juana Molina and Psapp,Jos

On September 26, Indirecto Records releases OUT LOUDER, the improvisation-fueled album from John Medeski, John Scofield, Billy Martin, & Chris Wood.

This fall, MSMW will embark on their first-ever headlining tour. Look for the collective to perform music from both OUT LOUDER and Scofield’s A GO GO. Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood’s current tour itinerary is as follows:

11/10/06 Washington, DC / 9:30 Club
11/11/06 Philadelphia, PA / Electric Factory
11/12/06 Northampton, MA / Calvin Theatre
11/14/06 Burlington, VT / Higher Ground
11/15/06 Providence, RI / Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
11/16/06 Boston, MA / Berklee Performance Center

12/03/06 Lawrence, KS / Liberty Hall
12/04/06 Columbia, MO / The Blue Note
12/05/06 St Louis, MO / Mississippi Nights
12/07/06 Minneapolis, MN / First Avenue
12/08/06 Milwaukee, WI / The Eagles Club
12/09/06 Chicago, IL / Vic Theatre
12/10/06 Indianapolis, IN / Vogue Theatre

Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood first recorded together on Scofield’s A GO GO (Verve 1998), a disc that has become a must-have classic. That project united jazz guitarist Scofield with the eclectic improvisational jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood on material composed by Scofield and interpreted by all four musicians.

OUT LOUDER is the inaugural release for Medeski Martin & Wood’s Indirecto Records label, which is distributed by Sony/Red, and is a genuine four-way collaboration between Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood.

“A Go Go was John’s record and we were essentially sidemen, where OUT LOUDER musically comes from all of us” explains Wood.

Recorded in under a week at Shacklyn, MMW’s fabled downtown Brooklyn studio, OUT LOUDER includes highlights such as the undeniably funky “Little Walter Rides Again,” the free jazz excursions of “Miles Behind,” and the improvisation-rich take on Peter Tosh’s reggae anthem “Legalize It.”

Organist/pianist John Ginty has released his debut record titled

After making the rounds at such lofty festivals as Sundance and SXSW, the Beastie Boys’ venture into concert filming will soon drop down to your level, where you can watch it on your couch. Billed as an “authorized bootleg,” Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That! will be legitimately released (complete with Star Wars-style packaging) to DVD retailers everywhere on July 25, courtesy of THINKFilm.

In case you haven’t been following the Beasties’ every move lately, the Awesome footage was culled from 50 fan-held cameras scattered among the audience at the Boys’ October 9, 2004 show at Madison Square Garden. MCA’s anachronistic director persona Nathanial Hornblower then took a year to edit (and thereby bestow authorization on) all the footage from the cameras, making it worthy for film festivals, DVD players, and local cinema screenings.

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