2008

Televised Tune: On The Tube This Week

Linda Ronstadt and Jimmy Buffett appear in FM, a movie made in 1978 giving a behind-the-scenes look at a radio station. Alex Karras, Webster’s father, stars in the film but

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Stormy Mondays: Neil Young Preview

This week’s Stormy Monday is a pair of long tracks from Hall of Famer Neil Young. Back in 2003 Neil and Crazy Horse were on tour playing only Greendale in

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Setlists: Warren Haynes Christmas Jam

Our jaws dropped to the floor after looking at the killer setlists from this weekend’s 20th Annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam in Asheville, NC. From the Good Times, Bad Times featuring Ben Harper’s Relentless7 and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones to the Allman Brothers Band’s Dreams with Karl Denson to the When Something Is Wrong With My Baby sung by Warren and Joan Osborne, this year’s installment looks absolutely insane.

[Photo by Paul Balicky – Asheville Citizen Times]

READ ON to find out what went down from Thursday to Saturday…

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Blue Rodeo Releases Blue Road

BLUE RODEO has released an exquisite DVD/CD documentary, BLUE ROAD just in time for Christmas, which gives their fans a rare look behind the curtain of one of Canada’s favorite

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Best Concert DVDs of 2008

Just as with albums, 2008 wasn’t a bang up year for concert DVDs. Sure, there were plenty of good ones, but nothing that was mind blowing. Last year’s list featured plenty of multi-disc sets including Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker’s epic documentary/concert film Runnin’ Down A Dream, the amazing full-blown release of Nirvana’s Unplugged and AC/DC’s exhaustive Plug Me In box set, but this year we’ve got a bunch of single DVDs.  Let’s take a gander our list of the Best Concert DVDs of 2008…

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BG: Is That Smart Rock? Turn It Up

Have you ever wondered just how to categorize bands like Okkervil River, The Hold Steady and M. Ward? Thanks to the fine folks at NPR we now have a new

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Friday’s Leftovers: Brushfire Christmas

As the holiday concert season kicks into full gear with this weekend’s Warren Haynes Christmas Jam in Asheville, we’ll be celebrating next week with a special feature. HT contributor Jack

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Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

This weekend New Zealand’s Finnest, Crowded House, rocks a set mixed with old favorites and recent gems on a repeat airing of Austin City Limits. If the broadcast’s closing trifecta

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Ben Kweller Announces New Record

ATO Records is excited to announce the release of Ben Kweller’s new record on February 3, 2009. The album is his fourth full-length and is called Changing Horses. It was

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