November 4, 2009

Picture Show: Jay Farrar / Ben Gibbard

One Fast Move Or I’m Gone is a wonderful collection of songs from Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and Son Volt/Uncle Tupelo’s Jay Farrar. The material, crafted together using words from Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur novel, invokes the same optimism, longing, and playfully deep introspection that has made millions of readers identify with Kerouac’s work.

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Last monday, Gibard and Farrar brought these songs to life with a rocking three-piece rhythm section at the brand new Lincoln Hall in Chicago. First, let me quickly say congrats to the fine folks at Schubas for bringing a such a top-notch 500-person room into the mix here. Great sight lines, great sound, friendly staff and an impressive beer selection will definitely bring me back for more shows.

Gibbard and Farrar’s hour-plus set pulled mostly from the record and also included an inspired cover of Dylan’s Absolutely Sweet Marie. The songs had a warmth and subtlety that perfectly brought Kerouac’s words to life. If you’re a fan of Jack Kerouac, Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar or any combination of the three, you will find something that grabs you in this material.

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READ ON for more of Joel’s Farrar/Gibbard photos…

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Wednesday Intermezzo: Festival 8 Express

While I couldn’t make it out to Indio this past weekend for Phish’s Festival 8, a friend brought me copies of the festival’s official newspaper – Festival 8 Express. So

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Video: Weezer – Snuggie Infomercial

Last week, alt.pop-rock act Weezer declared their love for everyone’s favorite blanket with sleeves the Snuggie, by donning them for the second of their two-night stand on the Late Show.

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Last Week’s Sauce: Halloween Edition

Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring column featuring recordings of shows from the previous week. Thanks to JBanyai97 for this week’s photo.

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Artist & Title: The Brew – Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Date & Venue: 2009-10-31 Center For The Performing Arts, Unity ME
Taper & Show Download: Mike Salvo

As the show began, The Brew introduced themselves as Sofia & The Sofia 4 and played a lot of girl tunes throughout the night (like Heart Of Glass, Love Is A Battlefield, etc.) The Brew play tomorrow at Red Square in Albany.

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READ ON to hear more fantastic Halloween covers…

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Interview: John Kadlecik – Dark Star Orchestra

That it’s been a heady year for John Kadlecik is a safe bet: it’s not often that your main band consistently knocks it out of the park, you get a chance to play in a brand new ensemble with the heroes that inspired that main band, and well, you court a little controversy along the way.

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[All photos by Adam Kaufman]

Earlier this year, Kadlecik was invited to take part in a new Phil Lesh/Bob Weir project called Furthur, that combined Kadlecik — long having “played Jerry” in the ever-resilient Dark Star Orchestra — with Lesh, Weir, Ratdog’s Jay Lane and Jeff Chimenti, and the Joe half of the Benevento/Russo Duo. By all accounts — listen to the boots — Furthur’s inaugural run at the Fox Theater in Oakland in September was a barn burner, and the band has more shows coming up, including five northeast dates in early December and a pair of New Year’s soirees back out West.

And that’s a little bit of where the controversy starts — and where we freely admit we’re a little guilty of stoking it. With Kadlecik giving more of his time to Furthur, Dark Star has had to move forward, and has recruited Zen Tricksters stalwart Jeff Mattson to spell Kadlecik for many of DSO’s remaining 2009 dates. There’s nothing to suggest the members of DSO don’t support Kadlecik’s decisions — they held back on announcing Mattson while Furthur finalized its end of year plans, for example — but it’s clear Kadlecik and the band face a number of tough decisions ahead. Decisions that may have been made already, that is, even if no one’s talking about them.

READ ON for our chat with John Kadlecik of the Dark Star Orchestra…

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The Wood Brothers: Flynn Center, Burlington, VT 10/7/09

Opening for Bruce Hornsby at the FlynnCenter October 7th, The Wood Brothers won over the headliner's audience. Chris and Oliver's sly humor and understated country blues made an almost immediate connection and remained effective for the duration of an unfortunately abbreviated forty-minute set.

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The Mars Volta: Sonar, Baltimore, MD 10/20/09

The Mars Volta is a band of mystery.  They're detached, they're impersonal…they're brilliant.  It's commonly accepted that a concert should involve some connection between band and audience.  By conventional thinking, this is often accomplished with a bit of friendly banter between songs or sing-along parts that blur the lines between performer and audience.  But the Mars Volta is anything but a conventional band.  They do things differently.

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Hot Chip Announce New Album For February

British dance rockers Hot Chip have announced that their next release, an as-yet-untitled fourth studio LP is due out February 2010. This will be the first full-length release from the

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Spoon Releasing Transference Jan. 26

Spoon’s new album, "Transference," will be released in the US on Jan. 26, according to a press release. The album is the band’s first full length release since 2007’s "Ga

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