2008

Cover Wars: Burning Down The House

Though the contests are still very close, we’re going to call The Seeker for Pearl Jam and All Of My Love for Ween. Now that’s cleaned up, we’ll move on to this week’s edition which looks at Burning Down The House.

Remember Pop-Up Video? It appears MTVMusic.com has these up for free streaming now – awesome. I was inspired to to pick this song after seeing David Byrne’s production last week in New Bedford at the Zeiterion Theater. A fantastic, almost too perfect, production complete with beautiful vocal harmonies, choreography and cult-like matching white outfits for all onstage.

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Langerado 2009 Lineup Announced

After a lengthy delay the lineup for Langerado 2009 has finally been announced and it’s way more eclectic than ever. Headliners include Snoop Dogg, Death Cab For Cutie and Ryan

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Review: Dr. Dog @ 9:30 Club

Over this past year we’ve expanded our coverage from NYC to all four corners of America. One city we’ve always had our eye on was Washington D.C. and we’re excited to welcome a new contributor to cover the live music scene in our nation’s capital. Please welcome Rudi Greenberg to Team HT…

[All Photos by Zachary Herrmann]

Apparently, Dr. Dog didn’t know it was December. With ornate flower arrangements, faux palm-like trees on stage and three band members wearing sunglasses, the band tried to heat up the 9:30 Club on a chilly Wednesday night in Washington last week with its psychedelic power pop. All the better, considering the Philadelphia-based band’s music is more fit for a summer day than a winter night.

With an 18-song set and a three-song encore, Dr. Dog powered through its 85-minute show with the energy and enthusiasm of a young band out to prove itself, which makes sense. While the band released its first album, Psychedelic Swamp, in 2001, the band’s current style dates back to 2007’s We All Belong, which saw Dr. Dog ditching its lo-fi roots for more ornate studio tricks and more cohesive songs.

READ ON for more of Rudi’s Dr. Dog review…

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Hidden Flick: Exile on Glimmer Street

[Originally Published April 18, 2008] The recent release of Shine a Light had all the veteran rock critics throwing roses to the Stones and Scorsese. Others marveled at the Mt. Rushmore crevices on the weathered faces of the Glimmer Twins. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards do, indeed, look about 2,000 light years past “elegantly wasted” at this point—not to mention the miracle man, Charlie Watts, on the kit, Foghorn Leghorn on rhythm guitar, and that cat that AIN’T Bill Wyman still holding the bass notes all down the line.


Actually, the flick is damn good. Martin Scorsese is still a master at rapid pacing, wicked close-ups and quicksilver edit cuts. Marty is also America’s Best Director (to watch if you just scored a huge bag of blow). The Stones are not the Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World—that was more of a sweet bit of chutzpah spoken by a road manager rather than an actual claim. Hell, for a few moments in 1969 when The Who wasn’t touring behind Tommy, Hendrix wasn’t napalming the hippies in upstate New York, Iggy wasn’t stroking blades, Zeppelin was in between tours, groupies, mud sharks, Acapulco gold, Ballantine beer and a heaping pile of coke, that rock crown claim may have been true.

But by the early ’70s, the Stones had begun a love affair with the jet setters, Jann Wenners, Truman (Where’s Waldo?) Capotes and scenemakers on the edge of rock music and, for all intents and purposes, that trip really never changed much. Except, of course, the Twins got older, stopped doing loads of drugs, cut back on inspired songwriting and, in their fifties, started to tour way more often than they ever had in the past. Money, my friends, will get anyone off the velvet couch and onto the sprawling stage amidst 40-year old songs and a frontman who defies time, taste and a treadmill. Read on for more of this week’s Hidden Flick…

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Briefly: Langerado Announcement @ 11AM

December 8 has come and gone with no Langerado lineup announcement and plenty of rumors of the festival’s demise. Well, hold tight kiddies because the lineup drops in a little

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Grateful Dead: From Egypt with Love: Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4

Approximately a month after returning from the historic adventure to the Great Pyramid (captured on Rocking the Cradle Egypt 1978), the Grateful Dead staged a grand gesture of homecoming in the form of a three-night run at Winterland Arena. Little did they know at the time, these shows would be their last at the venue until they closed it at the end of the year or that these recordings of the October performances, thirty years later, would form the basis for the fourth installment of Road Trips.

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New Live Phish: December 30, 1997

The next release in the Live Phish series will be one of the greatest shows Phish ever played, December 30, 1997. With little fanfare, this fully remastered three disc set has just been put up at Dry Goods for $21.

Video of this three and a half hour masterpiece and MP3/FLAC downloads are also available at LivePhish.com. December 30 was always a special day for a Phish show, but the concert the band played on that date in 1997 was some next level shit. We can’t wait to hear the official version of this blockbuster that we’ve been begging for since it happened.

During Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro’s last From The Archives broadcast he hinted that this show might get the Live Phish treatment and this evening we’ve got confirmation. A 1997 Holiday Tour t-shirt has also been put out by the band. I know what I want for hanukkah.

READ ON for the full track listing and Kevin’s essay…

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Update: Gossip On Rich Pagano’s New LP

We’re getting very excited to check out Rich Pagano’s full-length CD after hearing the three song EP he’s been giving out through his website and at Fab Faux shows. Rich

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Review: New Riders & Moonalice

Remember G.E. Smith? You remember, long blond hair, a jaw line that is kindly referred to as ‘chiseled’ and enough guitar playing talent to be the de facto band leader whenever he plays anything, even the radio. Sure you remember him. He toured for years with Hall & Oates. Led the Saturday Night Live Band for about ten years. Heck, I think he was even married to Gilda Radner about that same time. Played with Dylan, Jagger, and Bowie. He even led the house band at Live Aid back in ’85. Yeah, THAT G.E. Smith.

Well, he’s taken on a new persona in 2008. He is forever on to be known as “Hardwood Moonalice”, tireless guitarist and bass guitarist for Moonalice. Moonalice, according to legend, is a Native American tribe that dates back to the beginning of time. They were nomadic hemp farmers whose clans were called bands.

You see where this is going already, don’t you?

Moonalice, the band, played the Aladdin Theater the other night as opening act for the New Riders Of The Purple Sage. I was pumped for the headliner, but was blown away by the nomadic minstrels who came on first. The current Moonalice line up include the following, in no particular order: Jesus H Moonalice (the incredible Barry Sless) on bass, guitar and pedal steel, Sir Sinjin Moonalice (Pete Sears, from Hot Tuna, Rod Stewart Band, Jefferson Starship et al.) on bass and keys, Blue Moonalice (Ann McNamee) on vocals and percussion, Chubby Wombat Moonalice (Roger McNamee) on guitar, bass, and finally, Dawnman Moonalice (Jimmy Sanchez) on drums.

READ ON for more about the New Riders and Moonalice at the Aladdin…

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Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Silly Rabbit Trix

We have to give credit where credit is do with today’s ‘Tubes selection. Six months back when the HT Staff dropped their favorite albums from the first half of the

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