September 3, 2007

Tomorrow we’ll present our regular Wednesday Intermezzo links, but there were a few stories from the long weekend we just couldn’t wait to share:

Photo of Eddie Vedder and Neil Finn of Crowded House by Aprilcott

• The word from the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle is that Eddie Vedder sat in with Crowded House for kickass versions of World Where You Live and Something So Strong, while The Shins delivered an unbelievable version of Pink Floyd’s Breathe on Saturday. Sunday’s highlights included terrific sets from Kings of Leon and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. The Wu-Tang Clan closed the festivities last night with a set peppered with their greatest hits.
• Live Nation has bought, and hopefully won’t ruin, New Jersey’s Bamboozle Festival. The concert behemoth already has plans for a Bamboozle West, as well as international Bamboozle festivals. You’d think Live Nation has their hands full trying to bring down Ticketmaster, but in order to completely dominate the concert industry I guess you have to multi-task.
• Our buddy BGentzel will be excited to hear that there will be more Rush shows in his future. The band will be continuing the Snakes and Arrows tour through the Spring, including another run of shows in North America.
• We’ve heard nothing from good reports about the weather, music and scene from moe.down 8. The self-proclaimed “indie jam rockers” debuted The Band’s Don’t Do It on Friday night, completed a band switch with the Meat Puppets then had Perry Farrell sit-in on Saturday, and even switched spots with their crew, who did a nice job with Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere on Sunday. It wasn’t all sunshine and lollipops in Turin, as the local police busted a dude who brought 30 rice crispy treats and over 80 small bags of pot to the festie. That’s for personal consumption, no?

Read on for some more stuff from moe.down, including some setlists…

It’s Labor Day, so we’re shirking all labor-related responsibilities today. Our friends Shaggenstein and Felonius Monk are hard at work, though, and they’ve teamed up to bring you this holiday