We’ve always had a soft spot for Coheed & Cambria, which has garnered a legion of fans over the years as it continues to top itself with prog/alt concept record
The latest issue of Spin features a really interesting read on what has become the cult phenomenon of The Rock-afire Explosion. If the name doesn’t sound familiar, think back to
My apologies for not getting a Cover Wars up last week. I was fighting off what I affectionately refer to as the “Tour Flu” after logging a four-day-weekend full of live music from the likes of Trey Anastasio and Umphrey’s McGee. The extra time provided an opportunity for Widespread Panic and The Punch Brothers to duke it out for the title of best cover of Ophelia. Chris Thile and the Punch Brothers ultimately walked away victorious.
This week, we look at six renditions of the first track on Van Morrison’s 1970 release Moondance: And It Stoned Me. The song, while adopted as a stoner anthem, seems to have more to do with what’s in the gallon jar mentioned in last verse than it does to smoking anything. In the artist’s own words, taken from a biography [via wikipedia]:
I suppose I was about twelve years old. We used to go to a place called Ballystockart to fish. We stopped in the village on the way up to this place and I went to this little stone house, and there was an old man there with dark weather-beaten skin, and we asked him if he had any water. He gave us some water which he said he’d got from the stream. We drank some and everything seemed to stop for me. Time stood still. For five minutes everything was really quiet and I was in this ‘other dimension’. That’s what the song is about.
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Here’s Brent Berman with a review of something completely different…
At a corner bar on the outskirts of Athens, Georgia this past Saturday night, something cutting edge and ground breaking was going on and I was there to witness it all. In our small town there is a Burlesque troupe called Effie’s Club Follies. They call their unique style of entertainment “slap-strip comedic burlesque.” These girls were spot on and need to be recognized for offering an incredibly entertaining and unique night of entertainment.
So what’s this brand of burlesque all about? Look no further than this description on the Effie’s Club Follies MySpace:
imagine a combination of the weirder side of SNL’s glory days, throw in a dash of good drag, a sprinkling of raunchy humor (a la Mae West, or even Sarah Silverman), and a pinch of Broadway…with the striptease as the luscious cherry on top. We are NOT: prostitutes, escorts, porn stars, or garden-variety strippers (though we do occasionally play them on stage)
In most cases today, burlesque has become little more then a sexy strip tease. Effie’s Club Follies brings back satirical burlesque with an umph!
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The house looked like any other neighborly dwelling except for the fact that it was huge, ancient, had a large iron gate at the foot of the driveway, and I think I saw a talking rat scurry past me as I walked up to knock on its formidable front door.
I was there to sign up voters on my little growing election list, and when I knocked on the door, I heard a series of loud thumps, a deep, resounding echo inside, and footsteps, before a very friendly face peeked out to see who had dared knock on his door. The man who answered the door was an aging hippie wearing a tie-dyed shirt. He asked if I’d like to come in as he filled out my forms, and I obliged because a) he didn’t appear to pose a threat, b) he was an aging hippie wearing a tie-dyed shirt, and c) in the room on the right, I could see Phantasm
Phantasm
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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC on October 17th, 2008.
The Killers will begin an early 2009 tour Jan. 17 in Denver in support of their third Island album, "Day and Age," due Nov. 25. First single "Human" is No.
For one night San Francisco was the rock central of the universe and Rose Hill Drive was the focal point.
Mute Records is proud to announce the special release of all five M83 albums on vinyl. Each of these releases will include a bonus CD, and are all double LP’s
The Beastie Boys have been hitting the studio recently working on the follow up to last year’s The Mix-Up. Not much is known about the new record, but Adam "Ad-Rock"
