May 2, 2007

Wilco Becomes a Brooklyn Brawler

Remember the night back in October when Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy took a swing at some jerkoff fan that hopped on stage? [youtube]5wmAvy7C2co[/youtube] Well, the Yankee Hotel Facepunch heard ’round

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Grousing The Aisles: One-Off Pavement

We are gonna switch things up for this week’s edition of GTA. Usually we review four or five shows in this space, but this week we’re featuring just one. ‘Cuz really, this show deserves it’s own post. Dale “Sociable Chappy” Chapman turned me onto this incredible Pavement soundboard from the Great American Music Hall in 1994, and it comes with a piece Dale wrote about his experience at the show:

Pavement 04/23/1994 SBD (MP3):

The buzz around Pavement started in 1990 or 1991. Nobody knew for sure if these guys were actually a band or if they would ever release anything other than quirky 7″ and 10″ vinyl singles. By early 1992, however, months before Slanted & Enchanted was released, Rolling Stone called it one of the best records of the year, or the decade, or the millenium. One of those things.

When tour dates were announced and I secured my ticket for the show at San Francisco’s Kennel Club (now The Independent), my mind was exploding with anticipation. The performance was tentative, awkward and aloof, but it was absolutely spectacular. The first song they played was Loretta’s Scars, and I regressed to that kid in a candy store. A pig in slop. Grin from ear to ear.

Read on for the rest of Chappy’s tale and the downloads themselves…

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Bringing Up Babies: Hamilton’s Best Crew

Tom Hamilton’s putting his energies into the wrong band. Brothers Past is good at what they do, and I’m sure it’s more lucrative. But I can’t say that BP’s music has ever ensnared me quite like his American Babies side project did at the Knitting Factory last night. Given a proper upbringing, the Babies can grow into Monsters.

AmericanBabies

Hamilton’s slimmed-down version of American Babies — a powerful quartet featuring brother Jim Hamilton on bass, Sir Joe Russo on drums and Scott Metzger on guitar — expertly showcases his incredible songbook. I don’t mean to trip on over-enthusiasm here, but this show for me catapulted Hamilton onto the list of great young songwriters. His originals strike the perfect lyrical and musical balance between wide commercial appeal and misunderstood critical acclaim.

Capitalistic endeavors will likely lead him to pursue success for his more well-known band, but watching this semi-supergroup made me wish he’d put the Brothers in the Past and concentrate on bringing up the Babies.

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Wednesday Intermezzo: Argh? Urgh!

Urgh! A Music War is one of the most criminally overlooked music films ever made. In 1981, the music scene was smack dab in the middle of punk giving way

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Kyle Hollingsworth To Debut soleside

With the String Cheese Incident approaching the band’s final show, Kyle Hollingsworth is stepping out with his latest collaboration – soleside – featuring Kyle, Speech (of Arrested Development) and DJ

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