Since getting back together with the E Street Band in the late ’90s The Boss has kept busy with his backing band churning out some great albums and epic concerts.
[Grateful Dead Converse via The Daily Swarm] Previously on HT: Someone Must Stop Courtney Love
iClips is at it again! Last weekend they webcasted three full days of Summer Camp performances (with minimal technical difficulties) and starting now, they move about 900 miles to the east to broadcast Mountain Jam live from Hunter Mountain.
<
>
If you’re anything like me, you’ll be creating a personal multimedia presentation combining the likes of live music and playoff sports starting tonight.
READ ON after the jump to see the schedule. It’s starting right – meow.
Earlier this week, I watched the new HBO movie “Recount.” The movie tells the story of the 2000 presidential election and the debacle that occurred in the great state of Florida. It’s a great depiction and even though it did have it’s obvious democratic leanings, it stuck to the story pretty well.
This week we also saw the release of former Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s tell-all book entitled “What Happened” which apparently highly criticizes the Bush Administration and their actions with everything from the war in Iraq to the handling of Hurricane Katrina.
The movie, along with the news of McClellan’s criticisms on our current administration got me thinking – what if Al Gore had won the presidency in 2000? Well, for one, he certainly wouldn’t be living in Nashville…
“No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” – Al Gore
READ ON for more about what Gore and Bush accomplished since 2000…
I always viewed We Are the World as America’s crappier, soft batch answer to the UK’s far more awesomer and – let’s face facts here, people – BETTER famine-ending tune,
Lou Reed performing at the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC on April 29th, 2008. Photos by David Oppenheimer
In just a few short hours Mountain Jam kicks off what should be the first rain-free festival in the history of the event. (Jinx!) If you can’t make it up
Everything Is Alive is a very good record. It makes me excited for their next album, because these guys just might have a great record in them. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I need to go call my shrink and tell him why I'm having dreams about skipping through Central Park as I'm holding hands with an indie rock boy in a sundress.
“If you don’t have a ticket, you ain’t getting in tonight,” proclaimed the burly bouncer at the door of the sold out Bowery Ballroom last Saturday night.
Starting the evening off was the white-faced-but-naked-to-the-waist, duo of the Awesome New Republic. With their indie cover versions of Thriller and Eye of the Tiger, they held the crowd’s attention as they waited for the New Deal to appear. Finally with the lights going low Darren Shearer appeared on the stage and announced, “Thanks everyone for coming out tonight, you always make this place feel like home” and you knew something was about to go down.
For the first time since December ’06, Darren, Jamie Shields, and Dan Kurtz put aside their other projects and returned to the Bowery stage with their original livetronica sound. With quick hand gestures, subtle eye movements, and an uncanny ability to improv, The New Deal weaved the jams through a handful of songs and teases during their two sets. The crowd responded with yells of encouragement, fist pumping, and grinding to the beat, while shaking the dance floor and bar below.
READ ON for more of Jeremy’s review and photos from the Bowery Ballroom…
It looks like Trey Anastasio can’t wait until the Newport Folk Festival to get back on stage for his own gig for the first time in 17 months. Big Red
