September 1, 2009

HT Giveaway: Win A Phish Joy Box Pt. 2

Recently, Phish announced pre-order details for one of the most ambitious merch products they’ve ever created – the Joy Box. This monstrous limited edition box set includes the CD plus

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Geekery: Mixing Phish and The Dead

Mix Magazine has long been known as the world’s leading magazine for commercial and project studio recording, concert sound, audio for film and video and more; so we’re glad to

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Tour Dates: TCV To Tour This Fall

It’s been quite the eventful few days for the super-group known as Them Crooked Vultures. The band, which consists of Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Foo Fighter Dave Grohl and

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Cover Wars: Going To California Edition

This great acoustic Zeppelin tune comes off 1971’s Led Zeppelin IV. This is quite possibly the first Cover Wars selection where the original studio take does not feature any drums. Though there is a tambourine in the mix.

Cover Wars

Also, this song is supposedly about Joni Mitchell – go figure.

The Contestants:

Dread Zeppelin: Longtime readers may remember Dread Zeppelin’s winning combination of an Elvis Impersonator and a reggae band from the All Of My Love edition. Source: Hot & Spicy Beanburger

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Robert Plant on the band:

READ ON for the scoop on the rest of this week’s contestants…

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Review: The Bad Plus @ Highline Ballroom

Although The Bad Plus (bassist Reid Anderson, drummer David King and pianist Ethan Iverson) have spent most of 2009 touring with vocalist Wendy Lewis in support of their album For All I Care, it was back to basics, if that word can be applied to anything the trio does, for a pair of shows that were part of the Highline Ballroom’s piano series.

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Of course, late August is a bad time for a series of anything in NYC, except for buses out of the city perhaps, which led to a full, but hardly packed room for Friday night’s late show. The Highline, a venue that opened with five nights of moe. followed by a series of gigs from the Disco Biscuits, has done plenty to make itself into the only larger jazz club in New York (aside from the relatively conservative Jazz at Lincoln Theater), hosting old masters like Charles Lloyd and McCoy Tyner and luminaries like Josh Redman and Brian Blade – mostly headier, edgier characters who can draw double the capacity of more storied clubs like Birdland and the Village Vanguard. So it was no surprise that the always hip and quirky Bad Plus found themselves featured artists during the weeklong celebration.

They opened the late show with Metal, a tightly syncopated composition seemingly designed to showcase King’s energetic, playful percussion in a series of solos (even if it is a cover). As the song progressed, those solos grew bigger and looser, an early indication of the set’s theme: the show was an exposition of David King and his huge personality and smile.

READ ON for more from Dan on The Bad Plus at Highline…

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