Warriooooors…come out and play-ayyyy. And by ‘Warriors’ I mean ‘Commenters,’ but Commenters would be a ridiculously shitty name for a hardcore street gang, even if they had the coolest jackets
You know when you see a precocious band comprised of young musicians with chops, and all you want to do is grab them by their fresh faces and beg them
You don’t know how closely Hidden Track came to running a name-your-own-price promotion after Radiohead announced its own unique marketing plan. But then we realized that not only are we already an entity gratis, nobody’d pay a dime to read stuff ‘n nonsense from one guy with a strange nom de plume and one Jew-sounding dude. In any event, Paste Magazine is giving it a go…read on below.
Our intrepid reporter Sleepy Floyd probably can’t feel his face this morning…but he sent in this communication from the Vegoose festival this weekend:
This year’s Vegoose festival surely is different from the two prior incarnations. Sam Boyd Stadium — off the “lovely” Boulder Highway, lying next to a cookie-cutter subdivision that’s infinitely more Phoenix than Las Vegas — is still very much the same. But the lineup and the scene have each evolved in record time.
More closely resembling Lollapalooza than a typical jamband festival, there were more Daft Punk T-shirts than tie-dyes, and Trojan condoms were being passed out instead of free hugs. If a lineup of Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age and Rage Against the Machine weren’t enough to scare the hippies away, try adding Public Enemy, Lupe Fiasco and M.I.A. And if that didn’t do the trick, maybe invite Muse, Ghostface Killah and the biggest anti-hippie of ‘em all: Iggy Pop.
Gogol Bordello makes people forget about Big Ten football
Although the “scene” itself has changed, the mission is still the same for the folks at Superfly: throw a ton of music our way at the same time and keep us running between stages. Not a bad way to be spending your afternoon, as long as it keeps you away from the $5-a-slice pizza. I love Spicy Pie? Maybe at $3 a slice I’d love you long time — talk about a markup. So read on after the jump for a recap of the festival and some quality photos from our man on the ground…
Rounder Records promoted Ween’s latest record in typical fashion, sending out preview copies to 100 journalists in the hopes of building buzz. The plan backfired when one of the scribes leaked La Cucharacha onto the Interweb two months before the release date. Dean Ween became violent when he heard that the fruits of his labor was freely available as shitty sounding MP3s with no cover art. We certainly understand Deaner’s frustration, but if Ween had released an album in the past four years, they would realize Internet leaks are par for the course.
Finally, control of oink.cd has been returned to the OiNK administrators, who supply a link to a list of torrents sites to use now that OiNK is out of action.
Photos by David Oppenheimer of The Black Crowes performing at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, NC on October 24th, 2007.
I have but one complaint about this DVD although I have no reasonable solution to remedy it: I wish the DVD was made up of complete concerts rather than songs culled from various shows over the years. Of course the sacrifice would be the variety of shows that a career overview should cover, so it's a fair trade-off. That being said, I can find no other fault with it.
