August 20, 2007

Those of you looking to partake in some schwillage in the PNC Bank Arts Center parking lot before Wednesday’s Allman Brothers & RatDog show can forget it. More than a

From the people that brought you the face-melting, seizure-inducing Bustle In Your Hedgerow comes the next great quasi-tribute band: Tragedy makes its debut at BB King’s Blues Club this Thursday

So Blender.com brought some fancy shit to Lollapalooza and filmed many of the festival’s performances. They’ve been kind enough to slap a commercial on the front end and post some

Neil Young on Friday continued a tradition he started in 1969, when he played material from his new album for about 100 people at his record label in Burbank. Young has recorded 10 songs for a new album entitled Chrome Dreams II. Word from the meeting is that two of the songs are monsters that clock in at over 10 minutes each. Look for Reprise to announce a release date for it soon…

We’ve got plenty of links from the weekend, so let’s get down to bid’ness:

• Gothamist interviews John Vanderslice about his blog tour
• Apparently Aquarium Drunkard likes The Faces as much as we do
• Producer Brendan O’Brien talks about the new Springsteen album
• Amoeba Records is releasing a Gram Parsons show from 1969
• Kermit The Blog re-envisions the top 25 college football teams as albums
• Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood, ALO and New Monsoon are among the artists playing Earthdance in Laytonville, CA on September 14-16
• TV Squad unearths the Beastie Boys’ infomercial from 1998
• Sam Bush’s new DVD shows off his musical schizophrenia
• The Wall Street Journal examines the origins of a few hybrid genres
• A.V. Club counts down the 15 Masters of Onstage Banter
• Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright speaks to Billboard about The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 40 years after it was originally released
• All hell broke loose at the DMB concert at SPAC after a mother served Grey Goose vodka to her underaged daughter and three of her friends
• San Francisco’s Mobile Beat blogger took in a Tea Leaf Green show
• Our good friend SuperDee advises that air guitar is here to stay
• JJ Grey & MOFRO and Los Lobos headline the Blackwater Sol Revue
  

And, as usual, after the jump we’ve got all kinds of setlists from the weekend, including the Allmans, the Crowes, Cake, Zappa Plays Zappa and many more…