Archive: 2007

Langerado promoters finally confirmed R.E.M., the Beastie Boys and Phil Lesh will headline the 2008 Langerado Festival alongside 311, The Roots, Ani DiFranco, Thievery Corp. and more. Now settled at Big Cypress on March 6th – 9th, Langerado aims to double the size of last year’s crowd at Markham Park in Sunrise, which hosted the […]

The first time I ever saw Tom Petty was when I caught the trippy Don’t Come Around Here video on MTV back in 1985. I was eight at the time so I thought the Alice In Wonderland imagery was pretty cool, but looking back at this video all these years later it turns out that […]

Fourteen years, two days and one untimely death after Nirvana recorded the salad-days soundtrack of so many lazy college afternoons, the first-ever DVD release of Unplugged in New York will hit online and actual shelves. On November 20th, it’ll be time to break out the flannel.

The new release will feature the complete, unedited 66-minute concert, and if Ron Popeil were here right now he’d tell you that’s not all: The DVD also includes Something In The Way and Oh Me, two performances not aired during the original 44-minute broadcast. But wait, there’s more…if you act now, they’ll throw in five previously unreleased rehearsal performances and MTV News interviews with the band and audience members. Super.

Now as part of our Everybody Wins When I Plug Something And In Return They Offer Me Free Shit To Give Away contest, we’ll send you a free copy of this DVD if you chime in below and answer this query from Lake of Fire, obviously the best track from the evening: Aside from this so-called lake of fire, where do bad folks go when they die if they don’t go to heaven where the angels fly?

If I could enter, I’d guess they go to a cold, secluded room where they’re tag-teamed by the stand-up comedy stylings of Elayne Boosler and Rita Rudner while highlights of Jm J. Bullock‘s best Hollywood Squares jokes run on an A Clockwork Orange-type projector screen in between sets. But I can’t enter, so go get ’em. This contest ends on Friday, November 16th, so sound off early and often…

• Full Video Trailer: Nirvana Unplugged in New York
• Sample Videos: All Apologies and About A Girl
• Read on after the jump for more about the upcoming release

Bruce Springsteen loves Joe Torre, so when the former Yankee manager asked him to play a few songs at his Safe At Home benefit on Friday night, The Boss gladly mumbled “Yes.” Bruce started off with a cover of California Sun, complete with lyrics about Torre’s move to the West Coast. The highlight of the […]

Your ol’ Ace Cowboy heads out on a four-city, five-day work junket at 6:20 AM. I’ll be away from my regular station all week and checking in only periodically, but fortunately you’ll be left in the all-to-capable stewardship of 1st Lt. Scott Bernstein. He’ll treat you right, and if you’re nice enough, he’ll even cuddle […]

As leader of Mott the Hoople, Ian Hunter was as vulnerable as he was acerbic, seeing rock and roll as a metaphor for all facets of the human condition. The perpetually-shaded iconoclast has continued this work through a dozen post-Mott solo albums, the success of which has depended, as is the case with most literate songwriters, on the balance between musicianship/production and the material as means to a message.

Lollipops is the latest offering from alt.comedian Patton Oswalt. Hopefully you know Oswalt as the mastermind behind the brilliant Comedians of Comedy – it’s the antithesis of Dane Cook and Blue Collar Comedy, meaning smart and funny. Odds are though you recognize him from his stint on The King of Queens or from this past summer’s Ratatouille – so you may need to forget your G-rated perception of him before settling into stand-up act.

Producer Aaron Levinson and Ropeadope Records founder Andy Hurwitz return with another genre-bending musical tribute to a specific cultural breeding ground. But unlike Philadelphia Experiment and Detroit Experiment, this one spotlights a single neighborhood, Harlem, one of the most artistically fertile areas in the country. Structured as an imaginary AM radio transmission, “hosted” by Harlem DJ muMs—and featuring a talented house band—Harlem Experiment weaves an aural tapestry of funk, blues, jazz, salsa, hip-hop and beyond.

Having been promoting reggae in Newcastle for the past two years Boss Sounds is proud to announce its return. The 2007 Boss Sounds festival will launch on the 23rd – 25th November, bringing the world’s greatest names in reggae to Newcastle Gateshead. The festival promoted by Newcastle’s ‘Jumpin Hot Club’, is held in association with […]

In 2007, on the 25th anniversary of the debut of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1982 – four short months before they began recording their first album for Epic Records – the sky is still crying over the loss of one of the world’s most renowned young […]