One of the best things to come out of Amy Winehouse’s downward spiral (besides Schadenfreude, of course) is that Sharon Jones got the Dap-Kings back. The Lovely Miss Jones heads
For this cold Monday — and just when was the last time that December was such a wintry month? — we present this warm set of acoustic music. And this cocoa.
Sorry, no cocoa. But a great Cassidy from 1980 opens this download, followed by The Slip doing Predicting the Rain from 2006. It’s not entirely acoustic, but Marc Friedman has a killer bass solo tucked in there. Next up is a pretty stunning rendition of Almost Cut My Hair from a CN&Y show from 1972, and an early Heart of Saturday Night from Mr. Tom Waits. To cap it all off, we’ve got Gov’t Mule doing Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys in ’99 — ‘nuff said.
When bands team up with Web 2.0 companies, they usually come up with some lame gimmick to convince their fans to join their service. But kudos to Tea Leaf Green and Eventful for teaming up to create a contest that’s actually beneficial to their supporters. TLG fans who sign up for Eventful will have a chance to “demand” where the band plays an upcoming show. The city that gets the most demands gets a Tea Leaf show, including an opening set by acoustic alter ego Coffee Bean Brown. While Las Vegas is currently winning, our vote goes to Jena, Louisiana. They totally need to Address that Community.
Let’s start the week with the best link dump this side of Zelda:
Finally, we think we may have stumbled across the lineup for next year’s Vineland Festival. The show poster follows after the jump…
Some good news this weekend from the MMW and Levon Helm camps “In support of MMW’s highly anticipated children’s album ‘Let’s Go Everywhere’, John Billy & Chris will perform a
Fort Nightly, the White Rabbits first full length album, keeps popping up on the endless stream of “Best of 2007” lists and it is fairly easy to see why, particularly with the genre-hopping sound and stout song writing. This six piece (Keys, bass, 2 guitars, 2 drummers) have been earning rave reviews around the country with their energetic live show. Tonight they headlined a bill in their adopted home town of NYC.
The writer’s strike is starting to seriously cramp our style. How many times can you watch the same reruns from Dave and Jay over and over? We love watching new
It’s a brazenly slow Friday at the oficina, so let’s check in with The Whitest Kids U’Know for a semi-old but totally hilarious short sketch. Why not, right? [youtube]BkgMbU-we1o[/youtube] Good
My non-outsourced Mix Tape posts make me sad…and a little hungry, and partially tired, and dangerously randy. You see, somewhere along the way I completely lost the ability to produce
Just in case it wasn’t obvious, now is probably not a good time to be working for a record company. Geffen and Interscope gave 15 employees quite the holiday present
The recently announced late 2007 New York appearances of Sly and the Family Stone will no doubt focus attention on the re-mastered limited-edition catalog titles released earlier in the year.
