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?
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – September 2007Shout Out Louds, Our Ill Wills (Merge Records) It’s natural that Merge would want to build an entire suite of candlelit-bathtub-indie products around
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
“As expected, Neil Young will tour this fall in support of his upcoming Reprise album, Chrome Dreams II. The trek begins Oct. 18 in Boise, Idaho, two days before the album’s release.” Read on for tour dates and more from Billboard…
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?
It’s because the adult in me wonders why they opted for three nights at a smaller venue, selling the same amount of tickets and generating in three nights what they could have with one night at Irving Plaza, where they’ve played twice. But the kid in me loves the fact that they marched into town, set up camp and blew the fuckin’ Blender doors off with three full nights, seven fantastic sets over 10 hours, 62 electric originals, 13 acoustic tunes and one sick cover of Don’t Do It.
(click to enlarge — all photos by the always-awesome Ted Wong)
It’s been exactly two years to the day of Tea Leaf Green’s first headlining land gig in New York City. In that time the California-based band has journeyed east for some truly memorable gigs: two nights and six sets at Coda in November 2005, a three-set rager at CBGB for the 2006 Green Apple fest, and a sold-out show at Irving Plaza, to name just a few of the previous two years’ highlights.
When we look back in five years, however, none of those epic-in-their-own-right shows and runs will hold a candle to the milestone weekend in Manhattan that just transpired. So what if they barely filled the venue on Thursday and failed to sell out on Friday and Saturday — that doesn’t much matter. The carnage this foursome left in its musical wake cannot be measured, and the shows cannot be accurately reviewed without phrases like “Good God, that was smokin’!” and “Motherfucker…they killed that.” This is a band on top of its game.
Read on for more pictures and some videos from TLG in NYC…
Our friend over at Hits from the Blog will review Farm Aid for us tomorrow, but today he’s just alerted us to this piece of satirical brilliance from The Onion.
