Archive: 2007

This just in: The typical American consumer is a giant fuckface. As it turns out, the music-buying public has worse taste in music than we ever could have imagined. MTV published the top selling albums and songs on iTunes this year, and the questionable results make me want to go Picasso on my aural receptors.

Say the results: “Maroon 5’s It Won’t Be Soon Before Long was the year’s most-downloaded album, followed by Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and Kanye West’s Graduation. Fergie’s ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)’ was the most-downloaded song, ahead of West’s “Stronger” and Soulja Boy’s ubiquitous ‘Crank That.'”

No, friend, crank this. Read on for a pair of intensely frustrating Top Tens…

A week and a half ago, the mass hysteria in our little slice of the music world surrounded the Ween shows at Terminal 5 here in what the Allman Brothers webmaster would call “Manhatten.” Now less than a full fortnight later, the mass hysteria in every crevice of the world at large (hello, CNN reports!) […]

We like to fluff Sir Paul McCartney ’round here, so today we offer a countervailing opinion. Our Bad Music Correspondent Eliot Glazer shall now take Macca down a peg or two. Great, Hidden Track, yet another post about aging Brits.

I like “Feliz Navidad” as much as the next guy, and although my heart lies with Mariah Carey’s go-to-for-the-gays, modern classic “All I Want For Christmas,” the holiday song I can truly call my favorite is, naturally, “Wonderful Christmas Time (All The Best!)” by Paul McCartney and Wings. Honestly, what the shit is this song?

Read on for more on why Eliot wants this song to go the way of Linda…

As if we needed another reason to hate the Dolan Family, it appears their ill-timed renovations of the Beacon Theatre will lead to the eviction of the Allman Brothers Band from their usual 73-show March residency in New York. But the Allmans will plant themselves in New York City for a month, only this year […]

The Duo should not be judged by their album outputs, they are first and foremost a live act. Their performance at Higher Ground, although not one of their “epic” shows, was surely another whirlwind of unclassifiable rock and jazz that proved they are one of today’s elite instrumental rock units going.

In over 40 years of performing, Van Morrison has released records on a variety of labels. Until now, there has apparently not been a best of culled from his entire catalog. Still on Top is a single volume anthology of Van the Man's hits ranging from his time in the mid-60s with Them up to 2005's Magic Time. As such, it is a bit inconsistent as were the times.

The Mars Volta have unveiled a string of US and Canadian dates, kicking off January 9 in Burlington, VT. The band will head out to support the release of ‘The Bedlam In Goliath’, which will be released January 29. Following the January dates, the band will head East for dates in Europe and the UK. […]

Henry Rollins has announced the dates of the second leg of his North American tour, titled ‘Provoked: An Evening Of Quintessentially American Opinionated Editorializing and Storytelling’. The former Black Flag frontman will kick off the spoken-word tour on February 19 in Birmingham, Alabama before hitting cities including Athens, Georgia, Brooklyn, New York and Des Moines, […]

So it finally happened. The next most bewildering reunion aside from the ghosts of John and George jamming with Paul and Ringo, Led Zeppelin reunited and played a full two-hour show Monday night at the O2 Arena in London.

Led Zeppelin – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, son of the late John Bonham, performed together in the headline slot at a tribute show for Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, who died earlier this year and was instrumental in building the band’s career in the 1970s.  The band touched down […]

This just in: It’s a Good Times Bad Times opener. I’m wrong. You’re wrong. We’re all wrong. Nooo, the defense is wrawwwwng. Ramble On and Black Dog followed. More updates in the comments section as we go along here… Click here for some photos of Zeppelin on the O2 stage Setlist and Video Update: Good […]

Ladies and gentlemen, we give you our newest contributor, Sleepy Floyd… “I wonder what Old Man is going to sound like?” That’s just what this Berlin audience was probably wondering during this odd, 1980s skinny tie period for Neil Young during his 1982 Trans tour. Bob Dylan went through some phases, like Christianity for example, […]

The wet dream of Wilco fanboys and fangirls everywhere came true today with the announcement that the band plans to play their entire recorded catalog during a five-night residency at the Riviera Theatre in February. Wilco Guitarist/Singer/Driving Force/Beardface Jeff Tweedy explains the move: “Over the five nights, we will attempt the ‘complete Wilco’ and try […]

Once again, it’s time to take a look at those end-of-year superlative lists that get people more riled up and outraged than the thought of a dogfight in Virginia. Our proud corporate papa hath spoken, so click here to see what 20 releases constitute this year’s Top 20 list (in alphabetical order, no ranking). It’s […]

Oh, we should probably remind youse not to forget about today’s Led Zeppelin reunion. The three surviving members and Bonham’s son take the stage some time after 3 pm EST today as the headlining band at the tribute to Ahmet Ertegun. You’ve got about five hours to leave a comment with your opener call, and […]

Two of this rag’s favorite musicians joined forces on Saturday night when Mike “Silent G” Gordon came out to play bass during Chest Fever at Levon Helm‘s Midnight Ramble in Woodstock. Saturday was Gordon’s second appearance at the Ramble, but it was the first time he actually performed. Levon keeps busy this month with Rambles […]

Warren Zevon invaded the mainstream only briefly during his career but in so doing forged a memorable persona with the public. Preludes, a double disc package of unreleased demo recordings combined with an interview on cd, illustrates how much more there is to the man than the combination of comic absurdity and latent violence in songs such as “Excitable Boy” and “Werewolves of London.”

Every year this seems to come faster and faster, and every year Glide starts off the ‘best of the year’ discussions saying there really weren’t that many great albums to choose from. What used to be flipping through a dozen stacks of CDs, and finding a few forgotten gems, has now become two-dozen page scrolls through iTunes. And before you get to the random, unnamed tracks at the end, you realize how much newly issued music had a truly significant impact on our ears the past twelve months. So, as quickly as we initially dismissed the year, we inevitably end up having a hard time keeping the contenders list under 100.

Multi-instrumentalist Clarence Greenwood, a.k.a. Citizen Cope, has announced a slate of headlining dates for early in the New Year. The singer has a handful of dates left on the books for this year, including December 13 at Next Door in Hononlulu, Hawaii, December 27 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., and December 31 at […]

Wilco will explore the "dusty corners" of its back catalog during a five-night run at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre in February. Shows are set for Feb. 15-16 and 18-20 and will feature what the band’s spokesperson describes as a "distinct, one-of-a-kind set list each night." "Over the five nights, we will attempt the ‘complete Wilco’ and […]