Bonnaroo organizers just announced the members of the famed SuperJam, and like the city of Springfield, it’s all over the map. This, from Superfly: Bonnaroo continues an annual tradition with
YouTube has done some good things and some bad things for music fans. Sure it’s great to be able to call up old footage in seconds, but the quality is pretty freakin’ crappy. Have you ever tried watching YouTube videos on anything bigger than a computer monitor? So those who like to watch full shows of high-quality video on their flat screens turn to torrent sites to download DVD files.
The Traders Den and Dimeadozen have hundreds of DVDs to download, burn and watch. If you have no idea how to burn a DVD, leave a comment below and I will help you through the process. If you don’t have a DVD burner, suck it up and pay the $40 to be able to download some amazing free vids. This week’s Grousing The Aisles looks at four great DVDs that you have to see to believe…
Smashing Pumpkins 06/02/2007 PRO-SHOT (DVD, MP3):
The Smashing Pumpkins reunion has been eagerly awaited ever since the first Zwan album was released. People were a little put off by the omissions of James Iha and D’arcy from the lineup, yet all of the early reviews have been good. Now you can judge for yourself by downloading the video (or audio) of the Pumpkins set from the Rock-Am Ring festival in Germany from this past Saturday night.
I was throughly impressed by the Pumpkins performance. Some of Billy Corgan’s new songs are destined to become anthems. The first single, Tarantula, has that classic Pumpkins sound that mixes the angst of grunge with the beauty of power-pop. Other worthwhile new tunes include Starz and Bleeding the Orchid, and the Pumpkins did a nice job of mixing in some old classics with the new material. Today, 1979 and Cherub Rock all sounded fucking awesome, bringing me back to my days in high school driving around and listening to Siamese Dream. Corgan and company return to the states later this month.
Read on for more great downloadable DVDs, as we go Grousing the Aisles…
We’ve got a bunch of links for you today, so let’s just jump right in to the mess… Kings of Leon are playing a free show on Friday at the SoHo
At a breezy 28 minutes, the self-titled demo from Generals and Majors is a lo-fi high-time.
The two-disc release has 20 “best of” offerings, including “The Cutter,” “The Killing Moon,” “Seven Seas,” “Rescue,” “A Promise,” “Lips Like Sugar,” “Bring on the Dancing Horses,” and the newer “Stormy Weather.”
Wilco’s pissed. They’re not fond of everyone writing, inaccurately, that they made a major shift in licensing policy and sold out to Volkswagen, which has begun airing commercials featuring tracks from Sky Blue Sky.
Tweedy & Co. don’t quite get the hate, and they’ve weighed in on the band’s official website. In the missive, Wilco says it likes VW automobiles and sees this as another way to “get the music out there” given the state of commercial radio. As for the media inaccuracies, they’ve produced some actual research everyone should have done on their own days ago. It’s like disclosure. It’s called disclosure, you dickhead:
If you’re keeping track, this is not the first time Wilco has licensed a song to or even been involved in a commercial — most recently a TV spot for Telefonica Mobile in Spain used a Wilco song and some years prior Jeff Tweedy appeared in a campaign for Apple Computer. Wilco have licensed hundreds of songs to television shows and films worldwide… from festival-only indie films to major motion pictures and weekly TV shows.
So far VW’s used The Thanks I Get and You Are My Face, and right now plans call for three or four more to be used. For the record, I’d much rather hear Wilco on television in between my programs than another declaration of love for freedom and liberty and America in the latest Mellencamp composition.
Wilco’s recent performance on World Cafe will air this Friday, June 8. You can listen online here at WXPN. Read on for the full text from Wilco…
As the U.S. Senate convenes this very second to debate the seemingly endless number of curious amendments to the comprehensive immigration reform bill (hey, I ain’t just music), I figure it’s
Page McConnell and his new five-piece returned to New York City last night for the band’s second straight gig in a recently renamed Fillmore Brand® venue. It wasn’t difficult to predict the contents of the setlist, but the former keyboardist for the popular rock band Phish still showed why we come out to see him play.
Much like the Gramercy Theater show in April, we knew we’d hear Page’s entire album with a couple of covers thrown in for good measure. Unlike his old band, there are rarely any major surprises on this tour. So last night was more a charting of the progress of Page’s new outfit, and I must admit I’m still on the fence about this project. Only five or six of the songs he played really made me glad I went (two of them covers), and I’m also totally perplexed by the current lineup.
Still, the last three songs — Beauty of a Broken Heart, the Rolling Stones’ Monkey Man and the Cars Trucks Buses encore — were fucking off-the-charts fantastic, and if the goal is to leave ’em wanting more, Page certainly did just that. Read on after the jump for more of Nate’s great photos from the 5/31 Boston show and more completely honest thoughts from last night at Irving Plaza…
Some of you may know Akon from such memorable moments as “Thug Rapper Dry Humps 14-Year-Old Girl On Stage in Trinidad Then Runs Off, Presumably, To Spank It,” and some of
f there’s one thing you can’t knock the Hold Steady for – it’s being sloppy. Booking arguably the “best bar band in America” on a Saturday night in a small rock club, things are bound to get rowdy. The Paste Magazine cover boys were in the midst of the fifth night of their spring/summer tour, having made the six-hour voyage east from San Diego to Phoenix’s sweaty Brickhouse.
