Atlanta-based Deerhunter are set to tour in support of Microcastle, the follow-up to 2006’s Cryptograms. Microcastle will be released simultaneously on CD and LP via Kranky in North America and
Brooklyn based Israeli Rocker Yosi Piamenta, affectionately nicknamed The Hasidic Hendrix, and Sephardic Santana by members of the press, continues "Bridging The Gap”, between peoples of different cultural backgrounds through
Anything Milwaukee in your name usually won’t get you very far in St. Louis these days. The Cardinals are chasing the Brewers (and the Cubs), and once-proud Bud Light drinkers are depressed about the sale of Anheuser-Busch, so don’t come at them with your Miller Lite or High Life. So really, who in St. Louis gives a crap about a band named What Made Milwaukee Famous, right?
Noah and The Whale have announced details of their first-ever US tour, which will support the North American release of their debut album ‘Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down’. Vocalist
Welcome to the first-ever Hidden Track live blog, where we’ll be providing the setlist, commentary and hopefully some photos from tonight’s Classic TAB Warmup concert at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg.
[Photo by Adam Kaufman]
Classic TAB
August 7, 2008
The Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NYSet I: Alaska, Gotta Jibboo, Peggy, Sweet Dreams Melinda, Sand, Cayman Review, Gone*, Windora Bug, Night Speaks To a Woman
Set II: Tuesday, Drifting, Backwards Down The Number Line, Spin, Valentine*, Greyhound Rising*, The Way I Feel, Mr. Completely> Light*, First Tube
E: Heavy Things, Bug
* First Time Played (Original)
4:00 PM: Only 60 more minutes before I blow this Popsicle stand to make the forty-minute commute down to Williamsburg. Meanwhile, have you seen the latest batch of Craig’s List ads? Not exactly as brilliant as the tour dog trade, but certainly some interesting offers…
Will blow you for a Trey ticket
Will sell my testicles for Trey
Trey tickets gets you a serious lickin’
READ ON for the full live blog…
For this week’s B-List, a Scotty/Rupert collaboration, we’ve taken the liberty of handpicking some of the world’s finest locales where the pickin’s are ripe for a hippie festival. Some places are just begging for a few stages, several thousand hippies, and our favorite jambands. Where you ask? I’ll tell you where. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called…
Green Bay: Not only are the fans in green Bay fervid supporters of just about everything, but they are apparently quite skilled in coercing their idols out of retirement. Perhaps they can put those skills to work and convince Kang, Nershi, and crew to come out of retirement for a big festival group scream. You know those guys would be all about the Cheesehead hats.
Reykjavik: Of course the Sigur Ros headliner appeals, but also if the organizers time it right, this festival could exist entirely at night. This serves a dual function: A) the spun folk never have to feel bad for not sleeping over the course of 72 straight hours, because it would really be just one night and B) we all avoid the inevitable embarrassment of returning to work on Monday with 3rd degree sunburn.
Central Park: Self serving perhaps, but how fun would it be to camp out for the weekend in the middle of Central Park with bands set up throughout the horticultural masterpiece? Come on; throw us a bone. A lot of us poor saps in New York don’t have cars, so it’s getting tricky to make it to many of the good festivals without spending multiple thousand dollars. Besides, parking will be a snap for the rest of you.
Fallujah, Iraq: Maybe the Sunnis and Shiites can come together over a game of hacky sack while listening to the latest String Cheese Incident side project. We just want to see Michael Franti say “How ya feelin’, Fallujah?” READ ON…
I woke up with a huge smile on my face when I realized today is the day I’ll finally get to see Trey rip shit up on the ‘Doc for
I ended part one of my Newport Folk Festival review discussing Jim James’ sublime sit-in with She & Him during the mother of all rainstorms. That wasn’t James only cameo of the weekend, as he also sang Dylan’s Goin’ To Acapulco with Calexico on Sunday afternoon. I love that JJ fully embraced the Newport Folk Festival and stuck around for all three days, unlike Trey Anastasio who took off mere minutes after his set ended.
[Photo by Drew Granchelli]
While Jim James’ sit-ins were outstanding, the highlight of the whole festival was his solo set on Saturday afternoon. Just as the rain was dying down My Morning Jacket’s lead singer treated the soaked crowd to an fan-fucking-tastic performance that mixed old favorites with a couple’a gems from Evil Urges. Jimmy also busted out a scintillating cover of Gil-Scott Heron’s When You Are Who You Are that had many in the audience scratching their noggins trying to figure out what tune they were hearing.
JJ paced the set fantastically moving from new tune to old tune and back again. M. Ward added backup vocals and a second guitar to Wonderful (The Way I Feel), Golden and Look at You, which gave each tune some nice depth. James’ voice was in fine form throughout the set and the crowd cooperated by remaining extremely quiet in awe of what they were witnessing. My favorite part of the set was the final tune: Z’s Anytime. I didn’t imagine that a solo version of that tune would sound so good. JJ eschewed use of his guitar in favor of an Omnichord, which he worked to perfection on Anytime. Once he finished singing Anytime Jim pressed a few buttons on the Omnichord which increased the tempo of the beat and ran off stage. It was a weird ending to a marvelous set. READ ON for more…
Long bootlegged and sought after by collectors, the Clash’s Oct. 13, 1982, performance at New York’s Shea Stadium will finally see official release Oct. 7 via Legacy.The gig found the
Tricky has announced a tour of the US and Canada which will see the Bristonian perform on the continent for the first time in five years. The dates will support
