Mountain's latest release, Masters of War is a Bob Dylan tribute album with original mountaineers West and Laing, Ritchie Scarlett, Brian Mitchell, Kenny Aronson and Todd Wolfe. The CD arrives with uncanny timeliness – in the same way Dylan used his songmenship to protest against the Vietnam War,
Like a good book, Kill to Get Crimson needs some time to get comfortable with, but it’s worth the effort.
Paging Pete Best: Henry Padovani played with The Police on Saturday night for the first time since he was unceremoniously fired from the band in 1977. Padovani joined his old
Langerado‘s long been our favorite multi-day music festival. It’s more than manageable in terms of both size and scope, it takes place well within civilization, and it never forgot its
Wade Ellis Wilby has experienced many angles of the music industry. He’s written songs for Rane and headed up production at Higher Ground; these days he finds himself working for Umphrey’s McGee. On Saturday night, Wade caught Ryan Adams at the Chicago Theater just two short nights after Adams’ latest blowup. Wade filed the following report from the Adams frontlines…
The Chicago Theater is a Windy City landmark. When the movie palace first opened its doors on October 26, 1921, people hailed it as “The Wonder Theater of The World.” The light bulb design of the marquee made it look like it could have been ’21 or ’72. In front of The Chicago Theater, there is no time.
Photo by Chad Leo
I arrived to a sea of hipsters with angels on their arms, women far too beautiful to be walking in to a place this romantic with men so poorly refined. And therein lies the beauty of Ryan Adams: any suburban punk, Williamsburg Trust Rat or drunken cowboy can come and feel like a hero. The music has this cleansing ability, a vindication for everything you’re not going to apologize for and the person you just can’t stop being. There is nothing wrong with any of us. We’re just trying to get through this together. And there is no one more understanding of that than Adams. Read on for Wade’s great review of Adams’ return to the stage…
All four original members of Los Lobos met, attended and graduated L.A.’s Garfield High School during the early ’70s. They must’ve been saddened when on May 20th a Garfield student committed arson and burned down a good portion of the school, including the auditorium. Los Lobos hasn’t forgotten its roots, and the band will perform at a benefit concert on October 14th in hopes of raising enough money to buy a new auditorium for the students of Garfield. Nice guys.
And while you’re still deciding how much you want to pay for the new Radiohead album, read on after the jump for the weekend’s setlists, including but not limited to Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Bela Fleck, The National, Van Halen, Tea Leaf Green, P-Groove, moe. and all your other favorite bands…
Photos by Michael Jones of The Chemical Brothers performing at the Hammerstein in New York City on September 21st, 2007.
Singer-songwriter Fionn Regan has a sweet, sincere style that isn’t overtly British folk but has just enough of that emotional feel on The End of History from the tender opener “Be Good Or Be Gone” to the playful finger-picking of “The Underwood Typewriter.”
The sound on Faces in the Rocks seems to have sprouted effortlessly from a mountain spring or twisting root, nature is imbedded in every note and vocal flutter from Mariee Sioux on her first release.
it’s only fitting that with 2007 welcoming the 50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, that Christopher McCandless’ journey to a destination unknown made it to the big screen. McCandless’ two year adventure was documented in the 1996 best seller Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, and has since served as modern-day thesis for self-discovery.
