We’re pretty geeked up about heading down to Austin City Limits for the first time, and truth be told, nothing can hamper that virginal geekery. But it’s been a tough
Former Miles Davis collaborator and Weather Report co-founder Joe Zawinul died earlier today at the age of 75. Zawinul isn’t exactly the most well-known figure in jazz history, but his
Bob Dylan didn’t die of drugs. He’s got a new greatest hits album coming out soon, and he’s got a message for you, Subterranean Homesick Blues style.
The Ryan Montbleau Band has spent the last few weeks in the recording studio where it was in control of all the variables. But when the band returned to the stage on the last day of August for a gig on Rocks Off’s Half Moon cruise ship, it didn’t control a thing, including the setlist.
Photos courtesy of Tara Raymond
The band eschewed the use of a planned setlist on this night, choosing instead to embrace the moment and fly by the seat of their pants. Great bands know how to please the audience under any conditions, and the Ryan Montbleau Band showed what they are made of by putting on one helluva show.
Read on after the jump for a full review of Scotty’s trip aboard the Half Moon and a Live Music Archive download/stream of the 8/31 show on the Hudson…
Spielberg, Lucas, Harry Ford, everyone’s on this thing but Sir Connery. And, of course, the honor of revealing the closely held name of the fourth installment of the deservedly legendary
Here’s a riddle: Why did Tea Leaf Green’s three-night run at the Blender Theatre at Gramercy leave me hungry for some Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheats?
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Under the Blacklight is fun and catchy, yet for a band renowned for intricate songcraft and interesting melodies, they have made themselves sound unoriginal and contrived.
Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who played with Miles Davis and helped shape jazz fusion with his band Weather Report, died today (Sept. 11) in his native city of Vienna. He was
