July 2008

Return to Forever: The Anthology

Bob Belden’s extensive liner notes for Return to Forever’s The Anthology depict the chronology of the band in such a way that the evolution of the group in its various incarnations becomes very distinct. In the same way, the music on the two-disc collection delineates how the four-man group distinguished itself from its peers during the halcyon days of jazz-rock fusion.

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Tanya Tagaq: Auk ~ Blood

This album is avant garde to the extreme. Tagaq is, after all, one of the only Inuit throat singers to work as a soloist. While throat singing is a vital part of her music, it isn't that obscure practice alone that makes Auk ~ Blood though.

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Bumbershoot Announces Lineup Additions

The 38th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, Presented by Samsung Mobile announces the full 2008 lineup and a complete interactive schedule available at bumbershoot.org/lineup.htm. The 3-day urban event

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AfterNews: Rush/The Spectrum/Feist

Prog-rock innovators Rush, who haven’t performed on US Television since 1975, will appear on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report tomorrow night at 11:30 PM [EDT]. Here’s a shocker: according to

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Cover Wars: Sledgehammer Edition

Last week’s She Said She Said voting reassures something I’ve always known to be true – Gov’t Mule destroys covers. So Mule takes home their first CW trophy and one note about last week: Audio has since surfaced of Mike Gordon’s band performing the song (previously we only had a YouTube) and has been added to the playlist.

Moving on to the new stuff…known for its sexual innuendos and bangin’ horn lines, Sledgehammer is Peter Gabriel’s only #1 hit to date here in the USA. This song comes to us off the 1986 release So.

As always, you gotta register/login with Imeem to hear these clips in their entirety.

READ ON after the jump to see some video of our seven contenders this week and to place your vote for the most deserving band of this Cover Wars title…

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Briefly: Farm Aid 2008 @ Great Woods

Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Neil Young will once again bring Farm Aid to the Northeast this September. Farm Aid’s 2008 concert will take place at the Comcast

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