2008

Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Flying Blind

I thought that I had cemented my list of favorite albums of the year about a month or so ago, but after listening to All Songs Considered’s Year In Music

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2008: The Year of My Morning Jacket

Besides singer/guitarist Jim James falling off a stage, 2008 couldn’t have treated My Morning Jacket any better. The boys roll into New York City for the biggest gig of their career headlining Madison Square Garden on New Year’s Eve on top of the world. Their latest release, Evil Urges, was ranked in most critics Top 10 lists and Jambase recently named them the Band of the Year. Things couldn’t be better for the Kentucky-based quintet.

[Photo by likethetwilight]

New York Magazine spoke with James and drummer Patrick Hallahan about MMJ’s epic rise, James’ epic fall and what we can expect for at Wednesday night’s New Year’s show…

“After this huge election, and such a big, crazy year that had so much to do with New York for me, to be tying things to a close at the Garden is such a big deal,” says James, who admits to being nervous about his injury while still promising the usual marathon performance, special guests, and new covers. “It’s one of those transformative nights, because no matter how bad the year has been, I feel like I’ve got a new chance.”

Marathon performance, special guests and new covers are the key words we’ve been hoping for and expecting. We already know that Sex Mob slide trumpet great Steven Bernstein and sax star Jeff Coffin will join the band and that we’re in for some Zeppelin covers, but we’re sure MMJ has plenty of tricks up their sleeves. Tickets for Wednesday night’s show are still available.

READ ON for setlists from MMJ’s rescheduled shows in Chicago…

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Setlists: Disco Biscuits @ Nokia

The Disco Biscuits’ five-show run at the Nokia Theater in New York City kicked off with a heady mix of new tunes, old classics and the debut of a cover of P-Funk’s Standing On The Verge of Getting It On complete with bassist Marc Brownstein in pimp gear. Let’s take a look at the setlists from Friday, Saturday and Sunday’s shows, some videos as well as a few pictures from Jeremy Gordon and a recording of Saturday night’s show…

[All Photos by Jeremy Gordon]

12/26/08 Nokia Theatre, New York, NY
Dub War NYC opened
Set I: Floodlights1> Shem-Rah Boo1> Little Betty Boop2> Svenghali3> Kitchen Mitts, Save The Robots
Set II: M80, Munchkin Invasion> Liquid Handcuffs> Story Of The World
Encore: The Autumn Breeze4

1 unfinished
2 middle section only
3 ending only
4 1st time played

[All Setlists via PT-Bisco]

READ ON for Saturday and Sunday’s setlists as well as videos and a stream…

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Televised Tune: On The Tube This Week

One of our Top 10 Music DVDs of 2008, Wetlands Preserved returns to the Sundance Channel this afternoon at 1:15PM. The engaging Wetlands Preserved tells the story of New York

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Jenny Lumet – Rachel Getting Married

For writer and teacher Jenny Lumet, this has been a long time coming.  Her first screenplay to be made into a film, the Jonathan Demme-directed Rachel Getting Married, has made waves in the movie world, something that Lumet, daughter of Academy Award-winning director Sidney Lumet, didn’t necessarily see coming, but has enjoyed.

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The B List: Best New Year’s Shows

From 1994-99 and then from 2002-03, I spent my week in between Christmas and New Years seeing popular rockers Phish. It was nice never having to worry about what I was going to do for New Year’s. This week, The B List offers a virtual reacharound to my favorite five Phish NYE shows.

5. 12/29/95 – When God invented segues, he must have had Bathtub Gin > The Real Me > Bathtub Gin in mind. That mind-blowing segment is just one of the highlights from a second set that included Trey running laps around the stage David Byrne-style during BBFCFM and Mike Gordon’s bass instructor Jim Stinnett participating in a rare suck-free bass duet. The recently released 12/31/95 from Madison Square Garden is a close number six here, but the evil looking pot I got in the Centrum parking lot gives 12/29/95 the edge.

bassduel

4. 12/31/98 – When Phish came on stage and busted into Prince’s 1999 I thought the Garden was going to explode. Some New Year’s Eve shows have a tendency to be a letdown, but Phish came through with a killer three-set show to end the year. The Antelope, Hood, and Tweezer from this show need to be heard to be believed. 12/29/98 is the other monumental show from this run.

3. 12/29/94 – The night of December 29th, 1994 is when the word “epic” entered my vocabulary. I nearly wet my pants after witnessing the most mind-blowing David Bowie ever that night — the beginning of the song was so evil I was literally scared. The evil theme continued throughout the first 25 minutes of Bowie until the band dropped into one of the most uniquely beautiful pieces of improv ever played (String Cheese Incident enjoyed that beautiful jam so much they decided to play something extremely similar at the end of their version of Lands End). Other highlights from the shitty little arena that could include a dark version of Guyute, a tasty Runaway Jim > Foam, and a Possum that included teases of Auld Lang Syne and LA Woman.

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Read on for the rest of Scotty B’s favorite NYE Phish shows and more…

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