The lineup for the first annual Outside Land Music Festival has now been completed with their latest round of additions. Joining the likes of Wilco, The Felice Brothers, Tom Petty
07/24/08 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY
Sound Tribe Sector 9 opened
Set I: JaJunk> Higgins, Soul Food I> Ocean Billy, Nothing Too Fancy> Got Your Milk (Right Here)> Jimmy Stewart> Nothing Too Fancy, Syncopated Strangers, Rocker Part II> JaJunk, Come Closer
Famous words from Levon Helm about the first time The Band played NYC:
“New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.”
My count has this as UM’s 30th gig inside the borough of Manhattan, their first appearance being nearly nine years ago at the Wetlands Preserve in October of 1999. These trips have brought UM through: Lion’s Den, Irving Plaza, The Knitting Factory, Bowery Ballroom, B.B. King’s, The Rocks Off Boat Cruise, Nokia Theatre, Central Park and CBGB.
The beginning of the set leaned heavy on improvisation and at the 30-minute mark of the set, the sold-out crowd was whipped into a frenzy by the screaming vocals of Ocean Billy. UM finished off the night with a cover of a mash-up that’s titled Come Closer (that’s a mash-up of Come Together by The Beatles and Closer by Nine Inch Nails).
READ ON after the jump for more pictures and reviews of the next three shows, as well as the link to download full-resolution pictures of the stage…
It’s time once again to check in with irreverent mind behind Uncensored Interview’s blog The Shark for another installment of Uncensored Thursdays… You’d think with a name like Plants and
A big batch of the Boognish invaded Brooklyn early Friday night as the brothers Ween “Dr. Rock”ed the hell out of McCarren Pool. The gargantuan 33-song, 4-hour set may have been the highlight of the last concert series in McCarren Pool, which has proved one of the most unique and satisfying NYC summer venues in recent years.
Fate gives the lie to the notion Dr Dog are too eccentric for their own good. Five albums on at this point, it’s clear the band is working in a most purposeful, albeit unorthodox manner.
The film is about as fun as an evening spent dining out at T.G.I.Friday’s and about as funny as the funnies. Talentless shell of a man Rob Cohen sexifies this Mummy for the audience of seven-years-later, apparently doubling the budget in his requisites.
You probably best know Bob Odenkirk as one half of the hilarious duo that brought us the fantastic cult sketch comedy show – Mr. Show. His comedy partner David Cross
Do you wanna hear Jim James sure-to-be-fabulous set from Newport but can’t make it out to the Folk Festival? Thanks to NPR Music’s webcast you’ll be able to hear every
Maybe you’ve heard; festivals are pretty popular nowadays. While seemingly effortless to concoct, the abundance of all this new festivage has led music fans to take for granted the grandiosity of work involved in building a festival from the ground up.
Think about the nightmare of just planning a Super Bowl party for example, where you had to coordinate keeping the Party Ball cold, picking up the Chicken Wings from Pluck U early enough to make kickoff-but not so early that they’d be cold-and making sure there were places for everyone to sit to see the television. Kinda puts it in perspective, when you realize that building a festival is kinda the same thing only you are arranging the party for anywhere from 500x to 5,000x more people, with the addition of high profile musicians, outdoors with nowhere to take a deuce, with food for everyone… And you have to get the A-ok from the community and the cops. You getting the idea? It’s awfully hard work to build a festival and run it smoothly.
So, we got in touch with Jimmy Hunt and Wes Hight (despite being Appalachian State fans, grrrr), the founders of the first-ever Music on the Mountain festival in Boone, NC to talk about the challenges and of giving it a go for the first time. Music on the Mountain takes place August 23rd in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains featuring Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, and Perpetual Groove. The mission of the festival aims to raise awareness as well as donate a majority of the proceeds to the cause of renewable energy. We are planning to run this as part of a two part series: before and after. So, we’ll check back with Jimmy and Wes after the festival to see how it went. READ ON for more about the making of a festie…
The Walkmen’s fifth studio effort You & Me officially hits stores on August 19th. For next three weeks though the New York indie-rock outfit has teamed up with music website
