Prepare the sodium bicarbonate baths, stock up on calamine lotion: Current Wilco guitarist Nels Cline has contracted a case of the chicken pox. You know, that can’t really be considered
The Van Halen with David Lee Roth reunion tour took its first official step towards reality today, with the band assembling to announce a slate of dates. We’re still firmly in the “I’ll believe it when I see the tight pants” camp, but read on after the jump for the press release and dates (subject to change…for real).
Most warm-up gigs tend to be disappointingly sucktastic, but that wasn’t the case with Pearl Jam’s epic performance at the Vic Theater in Chicago on August 2nd. Pearl Jam played a tight set that was chock full of rarities and obscure covers for the crowd of 1,300. Tickets were only available through Pearl Jam’s fan club, leading the ticketless to offer upwards of $5,000 to get into the intimate gig.
Our good friend Sharptoe was one of the lucky fan club members to receive tickets, and he has kindly shared some of his photos from the show with us — a full setlist and a link to downloads the live show follow this little picture book…
Above: Pearl Jam rockin’ out one of many rarities it played; Below: The line of lucky golden ticket holders stretched for blocks…
Read on after the jump for more Pearl Jam photos from The Vic…
Here’s a fun and lively acoustic mix for the dog days of summer… Let’s go through the tracks: Dance Dance Dance is the set closer from Neil Young’s Live at
Apple is getting in on the social music scene started by Last.fm, MOG and iLike with the launch of MyiTunes. The new service is a series of three embeddable widgets that can help you tell the world what is in your iTunes collection. But there’s more: Tech Crunch does a nice job of examining why Apple started MyiTunes, and like Brown, what the new widgets can do for you.
And as always on Mondays, read on after the jump for a full roster of setlists from the weekend, including The Black Crowes, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch, Ween, Rush, Ozzy, Peter Gabriel and the String Cheese Incident’s final notes…
The Untz Untz Community will descend upon the Indian Lookout Country Club on Thursday for Camp Bisco VI. The Disco Biscuits headline all three nights of the now-three night festival at the ILCC, which is about 25 minutes from Albany.
As usual, the Biscuits have put together an eclectic lineup that should appeal to all of the various contingencies within the Bisco community. The Breakfast, Umphrey’s McGee and Zeppelin tribute Bustle In Your Hedgerow should satiate all of the rock fans in the audience. Hip-hop is well represented by Lyrics Born and Slick Rick, among some others, and there’s no lack of livetronica bands thanks to the likes of STS9, The Join and Future Rock.
Girl Talk’s Gregg Gillis, a man who cuts through all of those genres, will be making his first appearance at Camp Bisco. Recently, we talked to Gregg about performing at Camp Bisco and what the future holds for Girl Talk:
Scott Bernstein: How familiar are you with Camp Bisco, and the music of the Disco Biscuits in general?
Gregg Gillis: I’m not too familiar with the whole world of Camp Bisco. People tell me I’m going to have an enlightening experience though.
Read on after the jump for much more of Scott’s interview with Gillis, including fights with 30-person G-Unit entourages, opening for Widespread Panic, and whether or not his new project, Trey Told ‘Em, is about a certain redhead…
Photos by Ashley Suszczynski of the Sounds of the Underground Tour at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia PA on July 15th, 2007.
week of 8.12.07
New Maps of Hell is direct, short, catchy and attacking – what more can you ask for in a good punk album?
The theatrical release of Martin Scorsese’s concert documentary about the Rolling Stones has been postponed by seven months to sometime next April, distributor Paramount Classics said. The film had originally
