Cold War Kids have announced the release of a free digital EP. ‘Mulberry Street’ is a rare, out-of-print EP that features six songs recorded prior to their latest album ‘Robbers
On stage, Ron Wood and Keith Richards often appear inseparable. While Sir Mick and The Human Riff may be responsible for creating the bulk of the Stones' massive catalog of songs, Ronnie has served as Keith's guitar foil while giving those tunes life in concert longer than either Brain Jones or Mick Taylor ever did.
Our good friend Luke Sacks attended one of Neil Young’s New York concerts last Thursday, and he graciously filed the following front-line report…
Neil Young brought both halves of his genius to the United Palace Theater in New York City on Thursday night with the second of six acoustic/electric shows.
The first 11 songs of the show were just Young, surrounded by a ring of acoustic guitars and flanked by pianos on each side of the stage. He wandered between the three instruments and poured his heart into classics like Harvest and After the Gold Rush, as well as the buried treasure Ambulance Blues.
Photo by GRW95
Playing in front of a rustic-themed set-up with random letters, numbers and lights, Young wailed on his harmonica and filled the venue with his lone acoustic guitar.
Read on for more of Luke’s review, a live video of Cinnamon Girl from the run and some downloadable NYC torrents…
Mike Greenhaus certainly looks Jewish, and for his gig as a Relix and Jambands.com scribe he’s been asking a whole lotta people the Four Questions. Only this ain’t for Passover; he’s been surveying musicians, managers, writers and many others for his multi-part year-end review. So what does some lowly yuckster blogger have to say about 2007? Find out in Set 2 of Greenhaus’ Auld Lang Syne effort (fourth man down), or read on after the jump for my silly excerpted answers.
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
Drive by Truckers have announced plans for their Home Front World Tour. The tour, which will be previewed in Athens GA on Jan. 10-13 begins in Anaheim CA on Feb.
A lock of John Lennon‘s hair sold for $48,000 Wednesday in an auction of Beatles’ memorabilia collected by the band’s hairdresser. <img width=1 height=1 alt="" src="http://us.bc.yahoo.com/b?P=F91X1EWTVvor.riPQurhKgpFRr51DUdksgcAATpr&T=19tmdrjr2%2fX%3d1197781511%2fE%3d46079015%2fR%3dnews%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d2.1%2fW%3dH%2fY%3dYAHOO%2fF%3d2099481371%2fH%3dY2FjaGVoaW50PSJuZXdzIiBjb250ZW50PSJob3VzZTtJdDtnaXZlO2l0O3RoZSBCZWF0bGVzO0hlbHA7cmVmdXJsX3d3d195YWhvb19jb20iIHJlZnVybD0icmVmdXJsX3d3d195YWhvb19jb20iIHRvcGljcz0icmVmdXJsX3d3d195YWhvb19jb20i%2fQ%3d-1%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3dF4519345&U=13bnb8584%2fN%3deCzRFtGDJHM-%2fC%3d619213.11618575.12104948.2311907%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d4940782"> The hair — inside
