Hot off a spectacular four night stand at Red Rocks, Phish heads west for their first Bay Area concert in six years. Our own DaveO will be tweeting live from
The Royal Potato Family artist Nathan Moore, who’s probably familiar to most of our audience as the frontman of Surprise Me Mr. Davis, has put together a batch of beautifully
The attendance figures from last weekend’s All Points West Festival have been released and they ain’t pretty. Paul Tollett, president of Goldenvoice, the promoter, told the New York Times that paid attendance was 71,500 for all three days. Tollett also mentioned to the grey lady that attendance was down about 4,000 from last year due in large part to the horrible weather that enveloped the NYC area over the course of the weekend.
The promoter hopes that All Points West will return to Liberty State Park next summer saying “This show needs time to develop and find its home,” but no contract has been signed with the venue – an ominous sign for the festival’s survival. In my opinion, even if the Beasties were able to play and the weather was gorgeous the numbers still would’ve been bad. The lineup was all over the place and there weren’t any headliners able to draw in the masses like Radiohead did for the first two nights of last year’s APW.
Goldenvoice’s next festival will feature Phish at Festival 8 in Indio, CA on October 30 – November 1. Does anyone doubt that the jam titans will outdraw all of APW ’09?
READ ON to view some videos from APW ’09 including Coldplay covering You’ve Gotta Fight For Your Right…, Jay-Z tackling No Sleep ‘Till Brooklyn, MGMT’s new song, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s doin’ Maps and much more…
One of our newest contributors, Bryan Rodgers, hit a recent Gov’t Mule show and filed this report from the streets of Raleigh…
Fifteen years into its existence, Gov’t Mule is firmly established as a juggernaut of the music world, and their 2009 tour has set a new high-water mark for the band and their performances. The unstoppable force of Warren Haynes and company landed in Raleigh, NC on a Sunday night and proceeded to fill the city streets with perfectly executed, hard-hitting Mule music.
The Gov’t Mule tour is a perfect example of one that might otherwise have to skip Raleigh altogether if it wasn’t for the accommodating Lincoln Theatre street stage. The proprietors of downtown’s Lincoln Theatre have created a series of outdoor concerts that are exactly what the region needs. Since eastern North Carolina is sorely lacking in medium-sized venues, they’ve taken the party into the street and helped assure that Raleigh won’t get left out when it comes to shows that draw crowds in the range of 1000 – 2000 people.
A sultry southern evening welcomed the opening act, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. This show was the last stop of their brief tour with Gov’t Mule, and the Muscle Shoals-based outfit offered an appropriately rip-roaring set that featured diverse covers (Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer and Tom Petty’s I Don’t Want to Fight) nestled among a cavalcade of Isbell originals. The band had the crowd in the palm of their hand from the start – sometimes all it takes is the mention of Muscle Shoals to win favor with certain types of audiences. READ ON for more from the Mule show in Raleigh…
Jellyfish – Hollywood CA – 10/??/1990 [zip file] Jellyfish is one of my all time favorite bands and they are responsible for putting out two of what I consider to
Traffic – Light Up Or Leave Me Alone
We here at Wyllys & The World Party thank you for your patience. As most of you know I’m a transient DJ and Lighting Designer currently roaming the world in the name of Prog Rock and Beats – a nice segue into this episode.
I was scanning DJ-Mixes.com and realized we needed a Hip Hop installment with a quickness. I stumbled upon a domestic purveyor of urban sounds. DJ Digital Green started as a lighting tech at a club and decided that turntables were more of a creative outlet and started playing old school Hip-Hop, Techno, Trance and a little House. His lighting background earned him the nod this week, despite some shortcomings.
He is still a little….green around the edges but the intent is all there. This two part mix is a tight jaunt through mid to late ’90s Hip Hop interwoven with today’s Top 40 Rap fare. The tempo holds steady and the track selection is PERF for the Summer, which is why I chose the mixes. HOWEVER…our boy asks for some advice in his bio (shown below) so we here at HT are going to give it to him straight: Without tempo variation it sounds like one big Jock Jams jerk off session. Vary the tempo a bit and you are on your way to more natural sounding Hip Hop. Till then, check out these two entertaining and head-bob inducing mixes. Guaranteed to have the ladies shaking the goods.
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READ ON for Dj Digital Green’s biography…
Port O’Brien is pleased to announce the release of their third album, threadbare, this October 6th on TBD Records (Radiohead, White Rabbits). The coastal California band, which started as a
Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band has been building an army of fans through relentless touring and from the buzz of their legendary live shows. Practically a musical institution in the
Indie singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson will release her highly anticipated new album, Everybody on August 25th on her own Cabin 24 Records. The first single "Maybe" was released on July 14th.
