Archive: 2007

Twenty-seven of you have entered our Win Free Ducats & Spin With Hippies in the Minnesota Summer contest. Here’s your last reminder before the giveaway concludes Thursday at midnight — we’re Robin Hooding a pair of tickets to the 10,000 Lakes Festival to two lucky commenters, so get on over to the original post and […]

HT Contributor Eliot Glazer has tremendously terrible taste in music. But he’s an adroit wordsmith, and he’s gonna try to convince us that the bad is really good. Way before Sex and the City, Natalie Cole turned Bruce Springsteen’s Pink Cadillac into a girly ode to naiveté, a song about which Carrie Bradshaw might ask […]

The best thing that can be said about God Save the Clientele is that it’s so consistent that it’s quite scary. Whether you’re enjoying short gems like “Carnival On 75th Street” or the urgent feel on “No Dreams Last Night,” you feel as if they’ve been possessed by The Go-Betweens in their prime. A great album!

Eddie Vedder has reportedly written several original songs for a film directed by Sean Penn that is due out this fall. The Pearl Jam frontman wrote almost an entire album’s worth of songs for ‘Into The Wild’, which also features contributions from Academy Award-winning composer Gustavo Santaolla (Brokeback Mountain, Babel), reports the Playlist. Vedder will […]

As the July 10 release of their comeback album approaches, the reconstituted Smashing Pumpkins have revealed their fall tour itinerary. The outing begins Sept. 8 at Montreal’s Osheaga Festival and will run through Nov. 5 in Nashville. The group is presently in the midst of a nine-show residency in Asheville, N.C., and will also play […]

Steve Earle will release his New West debut, "Washington Square Serenade," on Sept. 25, Billboard.com can reveal. The 12-track set was produced by the Dust Brothers’ John King and features a duet with Earle’s wife, Allison Moorer, on the track "Days Aren’t Long Enough." Also included on the album is a cover of Tom Waits’ […]

week of 7.1.07

The pyrotechnics this Fourth of July week come courtesy of Mr. Warren Haynes as he, like America, conquers the British [songbook]. Elton John’s Madman Across the Water comes from The Dead’s 2004 summer tour, which unfortunately was overshadowed by Phish’s demise (but the tour is filled with so many highlights that I’ll return to it […]

As they say in Elaine Benes’ office, “Get well, get well soon, we wish you to get well.” A hearty “Get Well Soon” goes out to Mark Karan, who will be unable to join RatDog on its summer tour due to a lump on his neck that may or may not be cancerous. Karan will be replaced for an undetermined time period by Steve Kimock. As expected, Grateful Dead fans seem to be excited for KimDog, as evidenced by the SummerStage show selling out yesterday. Hopefully Kimock won’t bail on the tour after a few shows like he did to Phil Lesh in October of ’99.

And looky here, we’ve got plenty of other links to keep you busy:

• The Concert for Diana went off without a hitch after a tense, terror-filled weekend in the United Kingdom
• Two Rolling Stones stage hands died during load out after a gig in Madrid
• John Bell of Widespread Panic will throw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field on July 15th
• George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic are going on tour
• Check out these fabulous Billy Joel and Al Green boots
• Chad Berndhtson interviewed Jason Isbell for Glide
• Thanks to The Weight for pointing us towards this video of Levon Helm and friends performing Atlantic City at Summerstage
• I’ve only seen good reviews of this summer’s Rush tour
• Livedownloads.com has a Disco Biscuits’ Tractorbeam show up for sale
• Jefito’s Mix Tape includes underrated favorite Freedom Overspill
• Yesterday’s Chicago Sun-Times featured three articles previewing this week’s Police concerts at Wrigley
• The Laguna Art Museum is showcasing the work of rock poster artist Rick Griffin
• Largehearted Boy posted their second list of Smashing Pumpkins gems on the Live Music Archive
• Former Grateful Dead Manager Rock Scully reflects on the Summer of Love
• NYCTaper shares his recording of Saturday’s Fiery Furnaces show with us

And as always on Mondays, read on after the jump for a full list of setlists from the weekend, including the Beastie Boys, Bela Fleck, Bob Dylan, Umphrey’s McGee, The Police, Wolfmother and many more…

It was supposed to be Apple’s finest hour, but this weekend’s absurdly hyped launch of the iPhone brought some serious complications for Steve “Mock Turtlenecks Rock” Jobs. Customers lit up help lines after activation delays plagued new buyers, and some AT&T locations successfully strong-armed shoppers into purchasing unnecessary accessories. Big sales, but headaches abound. There’s […]

 Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of "The Simpsons" fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.   A Dallas, Texas, 7-Eleven has temporarily become a Kwik-E-Mart as a tie-in to "The Simpsons Movie." Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens […]

On September 25, 2007 Arts & Crafts will release In Our Bedroom After The War, the new album by Stars. After spending two years touring the world in support of the internationally acclaimed, Set Yourself On Fire, Stars set to work writing and recording their fourth studio album. In Our Bedroom After The War was recorded at the Warehouse Studios in Vancouver, BC and was […]

The Comas have recently announced their summer touring plans will include a four week co-headlining run across the U.S. with The Great Northern.  The summer road-trip will take The Comas to twenty-three cities across the country, kicking off in Minneapolis on July 17th and wrapping up in Seattle on August 14th. The Comas are hoofing […]

June 28, 2007 – Amoeba Music gave close to a thousand fans a once in a lifetime opportunity to see Sir Paul McCartney perform for free, Wednesday night in Hollywood.  Devout fans camped out for days to gain admittance into the store, coming from all over the United States and as far as Japan.  Finally […]

Jason Isbell is untethered and seems to be enjoying his new direction away from the Drive by Truckers. A solo album we've been hearing about for a while,Sirens of the Ditch, finally drops from New West on July 10, and he will also kick off a tour with a new group, the 400 Unit, the day before. The group, which includes Isbell's Muscle Shoals pals Jimbo Hart, Ryan Tillery, and Browan Lollar, will hit major U.S. markets through the end of August, wrapping up in Chattanooga on August 31.

Another gorgeous weekend’s in the works, a blast of breezy sunshine pushing out the stormclouds that threatened our Friday post-work jaunt to South Street Seaport for a date with Sam Champion (and, for others, Ra Ra Riot). The coolest venue in the city played host to one of the coolest bands in the area, and […]

Take a break from the heat, and head inside to check out these performances: Friday (all times Eastern) Former Smiths lead singer Morrissey returns to the Late Show with David Letterman [CBS 11:35 PM] Check out Coldplay’s set from the 2006 Isle of Wight Festival [Mojo 10:00 PM] The Unplugged series is back with Bon […]

We’ve written extensively on the upcoming 10,000 Lakes Festival, one of the few surviving jamband-centric music events left in the live music scene. Now, with an assist from our friend AJ at WFOV‘s Sharin’ In The Groove radio show (which airs every Wednesday night from 6-10 Eastern), we’re offering two lucky people the opportunity to each win a pair […]

It’s Uncle Neddy’s mix tape time, so let’s all gather ’round the campfire and listen to what our main man has in store for us this week… Ain’t New York City just the center of the live music universe? Don’t roll your eyes at me. We’ve got another stellar weekend of music in the big […]

The newly reunited Smashing Pumpkins have given the Live Music Archive permission to store their live shows, and they’ve reiterated that taping is allowed at all of their concerts. In the five days since Saturday’s decision, 55 Pumpkins shows have been uploaded to the LMArchive. Largehearted Boy has done a nice job of compiling the best of what’s been upped thus far. I’d love […]