David Byrne has been announced to perform at the opening night gala of Celebrate Brooklyn, scheduled to take place on June 8. Byrne will play a set after a cocktails
Many may remember Charley Orlando as the front-man for the psychedelic /folk groove acoustic duo Dexter Grove, who courageously played more than 250+ shows a year for almost ten years straight. After a five year well deserved break from the road, Orlando is back with his Charley Orlando Band.
There was a point in the middle of Leonard Cohen’s performance at the Dodge Theater where he admitted, “I’m very grateful to you all for keeping my songs alive after all these years. “ This was rightfully so, considering his last tour was back in '94. Fifteen years is a long time to wait for this brilliant mind and voice to recreate his songs on the live stage.
MewithoutYou has announced a lengthy US summer tour behind its upcoming May record, "It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a Dream! It’s Alright." Tour DatesApril 200924 – Oneonta,
Nas, Damian Marley, the Roots, Big Boi and Common, among others, will lead this summer’s Rock the Bells traveling hip-hop festival, which is set to visit 10 North American cities
Sigur Rós‘s singer Jón Þór Birgisson is set to release an album with artistic partner Alex Somers. The duo have been exhibiting artwork and staging exhibitions under the name Riceboy
Passing along this information from DiscoBiscuits.com Due to a family emergency, the Disco Biscuits will regretfully be canceling the remaining four shows of their west coast run (Santa Cruz, San
North Carolina based indie-label Merge Records has a big 2009 planned to celebrate their 20th anniversary. The label, which is home to acts like Neutral Milk Hotel, She & Him,
The mythos of Rock and Roll is deep and entangling. A puzzle as sensuous as it is mystifying, the legend seems to grow as each person takes his or her turn trying to unravel what it means to them, to their lives and even further – to people as a whole. The more you dig for answers, the more you want to know, until you come to on a freeway towing a trailer full of used gear to the next gig that doesn’t pay wondering where the last ten years have gone. That’s right, junior…you belong to rock now. There’s no escaping it.
But it’s not enough to want it. It’s not enough to have rich parents. It’s not enough to have connections. It’s not enough to know how to play music.
Sure. No band has ever really made it without at least one of these attributes, but these are all just part of the smokescreen. To truly forge your own voice, to truly get in touch with the spirit of it all, you have to completely disconnect from life as you knew it. You have to put the blinders on. No one can tell you shit. Not your beautiful girlfriend who probably saved your life. Not your parents who raised you and gave you everything, not your teachers, your elders….no one. The only thing that matters is leaving it all out there on that stage every night; nailing the changes and developing the sound. Life becomes those moments and thus imitates art, hopefully often enough to make a living at it.
Enter The Ugly Suit. Together for just four years, hailing from the not-so-happening Oklahoma City scene, these psychedelic warriors bang it out, night after night, forsaking it all for a sound that is anything but ugly. Tube amplified static gives way to thumping bass lines and raging chord progressions. There is a fine line between soothing and blistering and these gentlemen have found the balance. In an age of beaten down indie rock formats they pirouette between grandiose rocking peaks and cricket-like atmosphere that would make Brian Eno blush. The Ugly Suit is your hot, bi- polar, rocker chick girl friend that you just can’t dump because the sex is that good. READ ON for an interview with the guys from The Ugly Suit…
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