The AT&T blue room will be bringing you hours of free uninterrupted live streaming coverage from Bonnaroo starting on June 16th. This year
Jeremy Enigk, Badly Drawn Boy, Zero 7, Lady Sovereign, Alejandro Escovedo, Jose Gonzalez, the Veronicas, Particle, Great Big Sea, Sonya Kitchell and Rogue Wave are among the acts that have joined the lineup for Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival.
As previously reported, the event will take place Sept. 2-4 at the Seattle Center. Among the earlier confirmed acts are Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, AFI, Hawthorne Heights and Yellowcard. More artists will be announced next month; tickets go on sale July 15 via Bumbershoot.org and Ticketmaster.
The great singer-songwriter and performer Billy Preston, the real “Fifth Beatle,” has died after a long illness as a result of malignant hypertension that resulted in kidney failure and other complications.
As a result of a medical insult, he’d been in a deep coma since last November 21, but was still struggling to recover. He died at Shea Scottsdale Hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he’d lived for the last couple of years.
Billy was called the Fifth Beatle because he played keyboards on “Let It Be,” “The White Album” and “Abbey Road.” He also played on the Rolling Stones’ hit song “Miss You,” and often played with Eric Clapton. He also did the organ work on Sly & the Family Stone’s greatest hits.
Preston’s own hits include “Nothing From Nothing,” “Will It Go Round in Circles” and “You Are So Beautiful,” which Joe Cocker turned into an international hit.
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Rock trio Oysterhead is hoping to mount its first tour since 2001 later this year, drummer Stewart Copeland said during a teleconference with journalists today (June 6). As previously reported, the group, which also features guitarist Trey Anastasio and bassist Les Claypool, will return to live duty later this month at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn.
Oysterhead’s lone album, “The Grand Pecking Order,” was released in 2001 by Elektra. The trio spent Memorial Day weekend rehearsing at Claypool’s California home in preparation for Bonnaroo.
“The plan was always to be an intermittent band and come down from the mountain every five years or so,” Copeland said. “It’s a shoot from the hip sort of thing – not tour, album, tour, album. We come together when we goddamn feel like it. [But] the Bonnaroo invitation came at the right moment. As soon as the three of us are together, all kinds of stuff starts to happen.”
Copeland is thrilled that playing with Oysterhead exposes him not only to different audiences but unique approaches to his craft. “In my world you have to have a song and you play songs and a set list, for that matter,” he said. “We actually do have songs and lyrics [but] we use those songs to leap out from. It’s a whole new thing for me to get that buzz from an audience that’s expecting a brand new piece of music. If we reach those pinnacles, reach those surges, that will enliven the bus ride back to Nashville!”
In related news, Copeland revealed that his documentary “Everyone Stares,” culled from home movies shot during the Police’s heyday, will play on Showtime in August and then arrive on DVD a month later via Universal Music Enterprises.
The DVD will include extra material such as backstage footage with “a different vibe,” according to Copeland. “You can see [guitarist] Andy [Summers] scowling at me. It’s band life that I didn’t have room for in the movie.” “Everyone Stares” will also be screened during Bonnaroo.
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Beck has finished recording his next studio album and will release it this fall via Interscope. While there is no official street date for the as-yet-untitled effort, it comes only a year-and-a-half after his last full-length set, “Guero,” hit stores.
According to Beck’s Web site, the new album was produced by Nigel Godrich, who has been behind the boards for such prior releases as 1998’s “Mutations” and 2002’s “Sea Change.”
Beck will be previewing new material this month during a 10-date North American tour, which also visits Tennessee’s Bonnaroo festival. In August, he will hit the European festival circuit and open two dates for Radiohead in Edinburgh and Dublin.
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Matisyahu proved that his “Chasidic-Reggae-Superstar” gimmick is just that, but he has the skill, and the material to back his gimmick up.
Photos by Andrew Zrike of Ramble Dove at Irving Plaza in New York City on May 31st, 2006. Trey Anastasio sat in for a majority of the performance.
U.K. rock trio Doves has hit the studio to record its fourth studio album. The as-yet-untitled set will be put to tape on a farm in Manchester, according to the group’s Web site.
“We’ve been in there for a couple of weeks now mainly setting gear up and ironing out our usual technical problems,” the band wrote in a recent posting. “We’ve also bought some great vintage studio gear we’ve always fancied.”
The band is planning to record everything on the farm and produce the record itself. “But knowing us lot, that could all change if we get sick of the smell of cow sh*t on the farm,” the band said.
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John Vanderslice has notched a hot streak of gems, including 2005’s Pixel Revolt. And then there is his techie jones: a tireless and self-professed production geek, as much enamored of a well-kept studio as he is of guitar strums and performance.
The most tremendous feat on Ammunition is Tim Easton
