April 23, 2009

Bloggy Goodness: Which One Is Pink?

In these uncertain economic times, even musicians are looking to account for every penny that is owed to them. The members of Pink Floyd have filed a suit against their

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The Dead Are Coming To Town

The Dead are coming to the NYC-area tomorrow and will be in town through Wednesday night. They kick things off at the Nassau Coliseum before moving over to a sold

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B List: Ten Great Trey Band Downloads

Now that Phish is back together, it’s easy to discount the band member’s solo projects, but you’d be missing out on a lot of good music. For reasons we still don’t understand, Phish’s management doesn’t allow the Live Music Archive to host audience recordings of shows by Phish or the members of the band. Thankfully, a collection of Etree tapers/collectors including Ned Struzz and jmaneval have been seeding torrents of Trey Anastasio solo recordings at a fast and furious pace over at bt.etree.org.

To keep you satiated until Phish kicks off their first post-Breakup tour at Fenway Park, we’ve put together a list of ten killer Trey recordings that are available through bt.etree.org. Many of these torrents don’t get much action, so it might take you a little longer than normal to download one of these shows, but good things come to those who wait.

1. 70VP: Midwest Soup – This compilation of some hot soundboard tracks from Trey’s Fall Tour 2005 was recorded by Garry Brown and Ben Collette and compiled by Ben Collette. Highlight: Spin Jam

2. TAB: 05/25/2002 – Trey played a couple of fantastic shows at the Mountain Aire Music Festival in 2002 both of which featured fun sit-ins. On May 25th, Big Red invited Derek Trucks up to jam on Cayman Review and Night Speaks as well as the Extra Action Marching Band for the In The Wee Wee Hours encore.

3. TAB: 03/03/2001 – Ernie’s first tour after Phish went on a hiatus is arguably the best TAB run of all-time. This newly-circulated show, recorded Front Of Board, contains a masterful 23-minute Sand and a number of well-played covers including It Makes No Difference, Mellow Mood and Signed Sealed Delivered.

READ ON for seven more Trey shows you need to add to your collection…

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Review: Lucero @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Words: Carla Danca
Images: Jeremy Gordon

Fresh off their showing at SXSW, Lucero rolled into the Music Hall of Williamsburg with their reputation preceding them. Now, some bands are good while sipping martinis, while others are good for drinking beers. At a Lucero concert, you show your appreciation by chucking your can of Pabst Blue Ribbon at the stage in joyous celebration, while the band pours you a shot straight from their quickly emptying bottle of Jameson.

Titus Andronicus led off the night, loud, hard and fast, appealing more towards fans of punk and rock than southern-twanged ballads. The band warmed up the sold-out crowd until they were eager to take anything that might be thrown at them. Finally, it was Lucero’s turn to take the stage, led by Ben Nichols with Roy Berry on drums, Brian Venable on guitar and John Stubblefield on bass, the Memphis-based band mixed their own version of American punk with country rock.

To round out their sound, Lucero was joined on this tour by Tom Bean on the pedal steel guitar and Rick Steff on accordion. Lucero fans become part of the show, at times screaming out the words before the band could even get to them as the music whipped the devoted denizens into an orgy of moshing, stage diving and crowd surfing. And this was only two songs in!

READ ON for more from Carla and Jeremy on Lucero…

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Mastodon: Crack The Skye

First things first; just by looking at a picture of Mastodon front-man Brent Hinds, you may not want to stare too hard as his gnarly look, he may jump out of the picture and strangle you to death.  But upon listening to his band’s fourth full length effort Crack The Skye, you kind of go the way of Master of Puppets- this shit is heavy by its got melody and texture.

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