Ween will mount a short summer headlining run in July behind their latest full-length album, "La Cucaracha," and mark the arrival in stores of their "Friends" EP. A re-release of
The U.S. Justice Department approved the merger between satellite radio companies Sirius and XM Monday, more than a year after the two companies first announced their deal. But for fans
We envy Taylor Hawkins. Not only does the guy have a cushy job as the Foo Fighters’ drummer, but he’s gotten to live out his childhood dreams. Hawkins spent the majority of his time growing up in Fort Worth, Texas listening to Queen and Rush records. A few years back Taylor got to play with Queen’s Roger Taylor and Brian May, and Saturday night he jammed with Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson at a Foo Fighters gig in Toronto. That’s one lucky dude.
Geddy and Alex joined the Foo Fighters an hour into their set just as Taylor Hawkins started his drum solo. The trio improv’d for a bit before busting out a killer YYZ that showed off Hawkins’ prowess on the kit. Check out the crowd’s reaction on this decent video of the YYZ.
Here’s a look at what else went down this weekend:
We loved the lo-fi feel of the Black Kids demos that made the rounds a few months ago, so we were a little worried that the band would overproduce their Almost Gold debut. Well perhaps we should spend less time worrying and more time writing, because the re-recorded version of I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You sounds pretty fuckin’ good.
Read on after the jump for the deliciously bizarre video for the single…
When James Dolan and his MSG henchmen took over the Beacon Theatre, we thought they would be closing the venue for nearly a year to perform a restoration. Well apparently
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“Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I
There’s nothing we love more than opening our inbox to find an email message announcing a new edition of Live Phish. They don’t call this day Good Friday for nothin’. This time we get the first official release from the Europe ’98 tour, namely the show from July 6, 1998 at the Lucerna Theater in Prague.
And you don’t even have to wait much longer to download the show, as the professionally-mastered MP3s and FLACs will be available at Livephish.com on Tuesday. Those who prefer their music in physical form can order the CD package at Dry Goods. Read on after the jump for the full press release, but first check out the phenomenal Ghost from the new release:
I hate the fact that music is divided among race lines. I hate that there is “black” music and “white” music. The musical color line serves only two purposes that I can see: 1) institutional racism within the music industry, and 2) lazy marketing departments within the music industry.
Now, I’m not a religious man, but I like to think that God doesn’t much care about the race of musicians. I like to think He gave Jimi Hendrix mad skills as kind of a joke on white people, and He gave Eminem mad skills as a joke on black people.
But what has the Big Man done to help His children sing? What gifts did He lay upon His African offspring that he denied to their European siblings? And did he bestow a certain musical something-something on his pale children that he didn’t share with their darker brothers and sisters?
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (SFR) has put out a couple of interesting CDs that look at “black” and “white” gospel music. One is called Classic African American Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways and the other is Classic Southern Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways. Read on for more…
In our relentless pursuit of informing you about every festival that gets announced we let one slip through our fingers last week with announcement of the initial line-up of the
If you saw Peter Bogdanovich’s brilliant documentary on Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers odds are you remember the 20 minutes he spent talking about Mudcrutch. Mudcrutch was Petty’s first band,
