The final tally on the Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang tour is in and it topped a half billion — $558,255,524 to be exact. The staggering total was accumulated between
With Neko Case and Dan Bejar playing live with The New Pornographers, artists that had two of 2006’s best albums (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and Destroyer’s Rubies), the evening’s performance in Tucson could have been billed as: The New Pornographers feat: Neko Case and Dan Bejar.
Newbies may find Live at the Murat a difficult entrée to the band, but Umphrey’s fans should be satisfied with a well-produced if uneven collection.
Arcade Fire have posted a cryptic message online. On their Neon Bible site vistors click on a closed eye to see it opening and revealing a message. The message says:
I don’t keep a personal MySpace page, my love of malleable 15-year-olds notwithstanding. So it came as quite a shock to me when we set up the Hidden Track profile
When I first started collecting bootlegs, the quality on most of the cassettes and LPs I purchased was downright awful. Many were sourced from audience recordings that sounded like they were taped under Rerun’s trench coat. In the early ’90s a few bootleggers from Italy began focusing on releasing high-quality recordings that came from the soundboard. Now that the Interweb has made sharing shows so easily, you can find the crispiest of recordings everywhere. This week’s GTA presents four A+ quality soundboard-sourced boots for your pleasure.
Marvin Gaye ??-??-1983 SBD [FLAC, MP3 ] (date unknown, from Atlanta)
It’s just not right that Marvin Gaye was stolen from us in 1984. Just check out this bootleg from 1983 for an example of how The King of R&B was just hitting his stride. Gaye shows throughout the evening that it just doesn’t get better than his mix of well-written songs performed with the passion that was a trademark of his sound. Check out the moans from the ladies in the audience when Marvin starts Distant Lover. Even though this recording is a soundboard, you can hear the mostly female crowd voice their approval throughout.
Gaye’s voice sounds great from the opening notes of Let’s Get It On through the scintillating Sexual Healing closer. The backing band performs its job admirably, especially during a wild romp through Rockin’ After Midnight. Marvin Gaye is well-regarded as an artist, but he’s underrated as a live performer. Hopefully terrific sounding bootlegs like this one will help show that you Gotta Give It Up to him live. Read on after the jump for three more GTA SBDs from the Flaming Lips, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and The Band…
Leave it to Bill Frisell and Matt Chamberlain to produce one of the best albums to hit our desk this month — you have to hear this new Floratone disc.
Excitable boys and girls flooded Radiohead.com on Sunday night and all through the day on Monday with orders for the new album, thanks of course to the revolutionary “name your
Blues Traveler is celebrating its 20th anniversary by releasing an acoustic greatest hits album, Cover Yourself, and embarking on a U.S. tour The 31-city tour kicks off October 6 at
Prolific Canadian MC Buck 65 takes to the States in November with a series of live shows in support of his forthcoming full length, Situation, out October 30th on Strange
