2008

The Briggs: Come All You Madmen

The Briggs music is so tightly tied to Oi that it's hard to separate the two. Because the band is from L.A. (and even sings an ode to their hometown on this album), it instantly raises the question of whether their music is true or just posturing.

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Return to Forever: United Palace Theatre, New York, NY 8/7/08

Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Al Dimeola and Lenny White could do no wrong for the near capacity crowd populating The United Palace Theatre August 6th. This may explain why the quartet known as Return to Forever, acknowledged the roar of acclamation from the audience by immediately striding to the front of the stage, as performers usually do at the end of their show.

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Briefly: The RANA Return Webcast

RANA returns to the stage this evening at NYC’s Mercury Lounge for their first full show since 2006. If you can’t make it out to the Merc you can stream

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Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

It’s not very often that you get to watch a 23 minute jam on television, but you can tonight when VH-1 Classic broadcasts Led Zeppelin’s newly-remastered The Song Remains The

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Tour Dates: Only By The Night With KoL

On September 23 the band that was once labeled the Southern-Strokes, Kings Of Leon, will release their second album in as many years: Only By The Night. The trashy Tennessee

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Celebrating Phish Friday at UStream

In honor of so many Phish anniversaries today (Clifford Ball, The Great Went, Lemonwheel, Coventry) Andy Gadiel is streaming his iTunes Phish library all day. Andy’s iTunes just hit pay

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Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Conor’s Souled Out

Earlier this week I was able to score a last minute ticket to Conor Oberst’s long sold out, intimate gig at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom. The prolific singer-songwriter, better

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Friday Mix Tape: Olympic Edition

This week’s mix tape is a Lazy Susan of Olympic-themed tuneskis. It kicks off with Glory from Umphrey’s, because it’s plain silly that all those Olympic athletes make such a

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ 7/31/08

On July 31, Bruce Springsteen closed out his three-night stand at his "homefield," Giants Stadium, under even more special circumstances than usual.  An overturned tanker truck (sounding like a Springsteen song in itself) wreaked havoc on concert traffic.  Not surprisingly, the Boss compensated for his fans' inconvenience as Springsteen's management put the word out that the show would be pushed back an hour to 9:30.

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