Big Red’s long local nightmare may soon be over. The latest from The Post Star: Ernest “Trey” Anastasio, the former frontman of the jam rock band Phish, has been offered
Most reviews I’ve read of last night’s performance are as down on the former Grateful Dead bassist as anything ever written on the world wide web. As we expected, for the
Al Gore’s been quite successful so far in inventing a seven-continent, 24-hour rock concert, and today he’s sticking it to Hidden Track. A month ago we relayed a reliable double-sourced rumor
For the past few years, any news from the Ween camp has been few and far between. Finally, The Mighty Boognish has awoken, and we’re about to get our fill of brown. Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo published an exciting update on the band’s website. First, Deaner gave an update on Ween’s new album:
We’ve been in the studio the past couple of months with our producer Andrew Weiss recording our new album. It is going to be an amazing record. I’m very skeptical when anyone makes claims about their new music so I’ll just say that I can’t wait for the album to be released. We have a few more songs to record and we will hopefully be finished with the tracking by the time our gigs start at the end of the month. We started out with 50 or 60 demos and whittled it down to around 20 songs. We recorded the album to 24 track 2 inch tape so it sounds the way music was meant to be heard.
As if the prospect of the first Ween studio album in four years didn’t get me excited enough, news of an archival release (on DVD, too) made ‘it’ move.
Check it out after the jump, as well as summer tour plans and more pics…
With any luck, Because of the Times will eventually become the litmus test for other bands that, hopefully, will be given the same opportunity to naturally grow without the pretense of music as a disposable commodity. The album is a brash and unrelenting effort that remains humanely articulate to the very end.
Griffin’s performance at The Pageant during her current tour supporting her new album, Children Running Through, helped further reveal to me what she is all about. She rocked in high heels. She sang alone with her acoustic guitar. She was passionate and humble for every moment—sitting at the piano, sliding in her heels, smiling at and with her band, feeling overwhelmed by an appreciative crowd.
String Cheese Incident is quickly becoming the Sugar Ray Leonard of the jamband world. We’re pretty sure the band announced its retirement some time between the fall of the Berlin Wall and end of the global Y2K freakout fakeout. Yet here we are, one quarter through the Year of Our Lord 2007, and dates continue to emerge from the Madison House corporate headquarters. Here’s the latest from the SCI camp:
We’ve gotta hand it to SCI for a job well done booking an undercard that’s strong to quite strong. It’ll take an awful lot to get people to converge on Salem, Missouri for the String Cheese Coventry, but we’re guessing Greyboy, JJ & MOFRO, Los Lobos, The Wailers and Yonder Mountain will help draw a sizeable crowd.
Catch ’em before they go (for real): SCI also hits Bonnaroo, three nights at the Beacon, the Greek, and somewhere in Oregon before Sam Malone sells the bar and the band hangs it up during a three-night stand at Red Rocks. That is, presumably, until they replace Billy Nershi and get back out on the road.
Read on for the full list of SCI’s Summer 2007 tour dates…
Seriously, where was I when the Fantastic 4 formed and decided to melt faces on a temporary but supernaturally unbelievable basis? Although it’s a recently established league of musical justice, I have no
The Allman Brothers Band concluded another epic run at the Beacon Theater last night. And just when you thought they had run out of possible guests, they bring out a
Major news from the Drive-By Truckers camp: Jason Isbell has left the band, and the Truckers will finish their tour with John Neff on guitar. Isbell was a big part
