Just a reminder that WXRT will broadcast MMJ’s epic performance from June at Radio City Music Hall tonight at 8PM CST. If you happen to see any download links after
For those of you who have been waiting for Brooklyn’s Sam Champion to release their new album on September 2, your wait is over. For the next three days, you
Last night in Los Angeles, future Phish bassist Mike Gordon invited Puff Daddy’s former Umbrella Holder Fonzworth Bentley to join his band at The Roxy to perform one of Bentley’s
Checking on last week’s edition, we had two popular choices for covers of Bell Bottom Blues. Once the votes were counted, Trey Anastasio had a slight edge over Umphrey’s McGee – so Trey takes home his first Cover Wars trophy sans Phish.
This week we’re taking on one of the most ambitious Cover Wars to date. We’ve compiled the most entries we’ve ever had as we take a look at covers of Radiohead’s catalog. Musicians in the 21st century seem to be more reluctant to cover other modern artists than bands were say 30-50 years ago. However, a few artists can be influential enough that bands just can’t help themselves. We saw a little bit of this in the Nirvana Cover Wars as jambands, jazz acts and pop artists paid tribute to the grunge era. We have a similar cross-section of artists this week as well, the contemporary jazz guys love Radiohead.
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Be sure to READ ON after the jump as some of the best covers this week are embedded via video clips and are not included in the playlist above.
In our never-ending quest to dig up some great bands that cost less than a corned beef sandwich at Katz’s Deli, we bring you another round of Blips. Blips highlights some great bands that are largely still in their larvae stage, but will soon morph into their beautiful butterfly. In this edition, we have some really cool new music, so take a sec, poke around their various websites, and see what you think.
The Station
On heavy Midwest touring behind the May release of their accurately named album, Speed of Sound, and nine years of tour experience, the Station is finally filling up with passengers ready to hop on the bandwagon (I should get fired for that one). While the band cites Rush, late-era Coltrane, and Skerik as influences, compositionally it’s impossible to ignore the Umphrey’s similarities as they meld intricate melodies and rhythms with touches of metal, funk and reggae. Still, The Station is quick to refute that they sound like pre-existing connotations of the jamband and rightfully so, as they defy categorization. The only deserving categorization that came to mind when listening to their Summer Camp set a couple months ago was music lovers with incredible technical ability and a mean case of ADHD.
Podcast #17: RR1 > Ms Ds jam, Revolving Door, Illuminator, The Plain Truth (Karl Denson Trio), Drink From My Well part 2, Questions, Halfway There [74:53]
READ ON to read about Brett Ratliff (no, not that Brett Ratliff)…
After a few years of litigation Sony, BMG Music Entertainment, BMG Music, Arista Records, Santana and the Doors have finally settled with Wolfgang’s Vault. While this settlement doesn’t include the
o be fair about it, for the posters to describe the Jerry Douglas Band’s sound in proper detail, there wouldn’t have been room for any art – and the text pretty fine print … it was probably just as well the way they were. The bottom line: no one left the Strand disappointed.
Rarely, if ever, should a band be compared to the Beatles. However, ever so often a group comes along that is so fab-four influenced, it is unavoidable and these darlings of Australia, Youth Group, fall into this category.
My Bloody Valentine’s two full-length albums, "Isn’t Anything" and "Loveless," will be re-released digitally today (Aug. 26). The releases had previously only been partially available online.In addition, the newly reunited
Muse have been busy in the studio and already have a several tracks written for their next record. As previously reported, Muse had tentatively started work on album number five,
