Friday Mix Tape: Going Into Labor
Uncle Neddy may still be sleeping off last night’s Bustle show, but somehow he’s found stolen time to throw down a pre-Labor Day minimix: “Here’s some crunchy stuff for a
Uncle Neddy may still be sleeping off last night’s Bustle show, but somehow he’s found stolen time to throw down a pre-Labor Day minimix: “Here’s some crunchy stuff for a
Can NYC handle all of the new venues that are opening in the city this year? The New York Times takes a look at these new concert halls that aim
Photos by Ashley Suszczynski of the Family Values Tour at the Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ on 8/5/07. Artists included Korn, Evanescence, Atreyu and Flyleaf
Overlooking the nitpicky points about graphics and the production, JamCam’s Jam in Jamaica is a great escape.
Bake a cake made of crazy and decorate it with scarecrows and gnomes and bicycles: It’s time for a Syd Barrett celebration. On September 4th, EMI Records will honor the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd by releasing special edition two- and three-CD sets of their debut album, The Piper At The Gates of Dawn.
Now, as part of our recurring Everybody Wins When I Plug Something And In Return We’re Offered Free Shit To Give Away Contests, we’re happy to offer up a free copy of the two-CD special edition to the lucky commenter that best answers this simple query: Piper, The Wall, Dark Side, Animals, or one of the other classic albums — which is the best Pink Floyd album from top to bottom? Explain your answer in 10 words or less (bonus points for Barrettesque insanity).
Read on after the jump for the full details of the special edition releases…
As we mentioned last week in Vol. I, soundchecks are a touring band’s chance to work out new material, get comfortable with a stage and, sometimes, let loose with each other (non-sexually). This week’s B List concludes a two-part series in which we’re featuring the best soundcheck videos out there on The YouTube. Some are hilarious, some rock, and others are simply…bizarre.
So make sure to read on after the jump for 10 awesome soundcheck videos, including Genesis, Skynyrd, Floyd, The Misfits, Zappa and many more…
The intentionally oxymoronic Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued a 20-page report on illegal file-swapping and peer-to-peer sharing, and the results are exactly as you’d expect. Four years after the RIAA
Licorice Pizza has posted some of Eddie Vedder’s demos from 1988, a few years before he joined Pearl Jam. The blogger unearthed a bit of information about the four tracks,
Photos by Scott Preston of Fiona Apple and Nickel Creek performing at the Lifestyles Community Pavilion in Columbus OH on August 7th, 2007.
The staccato sound of struck typewriter keys on opening track “Nickels and Dimes” sets a tone of nostalgia for San Francisco's Scissors for Lefty. the latest in a line of West Coast bands with a penchant for Pulp.