Coming home is a theme that many novels, plays, and songs often visit. Maybe even the proverbial "Prodigal Child" has to take a break from the road. Then again, maybe all those people's children raised on the road or who escape like Walt Whitman to the open road meet at a place like 10,000 Lakes.
On the second album by the pride of Sydney, Australia, Dappled Cities delivers hooky pop-rock that is eclectic and experimental, but still manages to be a little bland.
Dressed in a solid, blood-red and standing in front of a plain red stage, with an apple red guitar, Jack White kicked off the White Stripes’ first show at Madison Square Garden in style with the bare-boned power-blues of “Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground”, kicking the fictional brother/sister team off and running and they didn’t stop for the next two hours.
Photos by Ashley Suszczynski of Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto performing at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA on July 13th, 2007.
Photos by Robert Fischer of the 5th Annual 10,000 Lakes Festival held in Detroit Lakes, MN – July 18-21, 2007.Photos – Copyright 2007 Robert Fischer/Sol-A-Koa.comYouTube.com/Echoesfilm
Every Panic fan knows the band’s legacy, has felt the tragedies, knows the song rotation cold, can talk album shop, and for the most part, has accepted Jimmy Herring as their mighty new lead guitarist. However, what few know is that that Bell (JB to most) is perhaps even more humble than most would assume.
If taking eleven years off helps a band's sound as much as it did for Crowded House, perhaps every band needs to take an extended hiatus. Crowded House returned to New York City for the first time since 1996 on Thursday night for a brilliant performance at the Masonic Lodge. The band played in the stately Grand Lodge, a room better known for housing meetings of the usually secretive Free Masons than as a venue for a rock band.
The minimalist veterans are back restraining their outward energy but grinding the internal millstone on their newest effort, Drums and Guns. Low went a bit poppy/mainstream (for them at least) with their last effort The Great Destroyer, but now it is back to bleak with Drums and Guns.
Although it’s unfair to compare Our Love to Interpol’s powerful debut, Turn on the Bright Lights, it’s easy to be disappointed. even it still holds that 4:00 am Interpol vibe.
Like Los Lobos, Ozomatli was born and raised in Los Angeles and their music reflects the essence of the city, blending the city's multi-cultural flavor. Where Los Lobos used the traditional sounds of Mexican folk and fused them with the rock ‘n’ roll, Ozomatli brings together hip-hop, ska, rock, and the Latin flavors that are so prevalent in their home city.
