Archive: 2009

6/18/2009 = Return to Burgettstown, PA

Punk rock lost a pioneer on Tuesday when Ron Asheton of The Stooges was found dead at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Asheton’s biting guitar sound helped the Iggy Pop-led band break out of the local scene and into the national spotlight. Greg Kot runs down Asheton’s accomplishments. Here’s a full batch of links […]

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ETmFEixgk Gov’t Mule – Black (12/31/2008)

A few weeks ago, a group calling themselves People For A Compressed Trey pooled their resources on Phantasy Tour’s message board to send Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio a vintage Ross Compressor. These folks made the decision that Trey’s tone wasn’t cutting it anymore and decided to tell the legendary guitarist what he should sound like. […]

Following dates with Jenny Lewis, a national tour with The Felice Brothers, a stint in Spain, and a New Year’s blowout last ever show at the Knitting Factory—Deer Tick is poised to hit the road again this February. First, the band will headline a handful of dates throughout the northeast (as well as a stop […]

Pop-punk’s reigning champs, New Found Glory, come out swinging on their hotly anticipated new album, Not Without A Fight, due March 10th on Epitaph Records.  Defending their title against any and all contenders, the platinum-selling group’s sixth studio album delivers a one-two knockout with fist-pumping hooks and catchy sing-along choruses. Working with producer Mark Hoppus […]

The Shotgun is monthly series of "Shotgun" CD reviews by Glide contributor Eric Saeger

Radiohead has drafted legendary German electronica act Kraftwerk to support its spring tour of Latin America, which begins March 15-16 in Mexico City. Kraftwerk will also play headlining shows April 25-26 in Wolfsburg, Germany. However, the group’s lineup appears to be in flux. Founding member Florian Schneider, who did not appear onstage with Kraftwerk during […]

J Mascis Side project Witch and labelmate Earthless will co-headline a winter tour that will keep the rockers on the road through the end of February. The jaunt kicks off Feb. 20 at The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, Canada, and makes stops at Les Saints in Montreal, Quebec (Feb. 21), AS220 in Providence, R.I. […]

Jimmy Page’s manager today confirmed that Led Zeppelin are planning to tour and record a new album with a replacement singer for Robert Plant. Plant confirmed in December that he wasn’t interested in a full Led Zeppelin reunion, despite still remaining on good terms with his former bandmates. In October, Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones […]

With the imminent return of Phish in March it makes sense that there would be some late-night shows popping up in the area to cash in on the scores of people that will be descending upon the greater Hampton, VA area. The first act to recognize this opportunity is guitar-slinger Steve Kimock who will play […]

I love snowboarding and I love Widespread Panic, so when Panic announced they were taking New Year’s Eve on the road to play two shows at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO I knew I had to be there. To channel the band’s famous Sit and Ski run in 1996, I headed to Breckenridge to snowboard a few days before the shows to get my adrenaline up and have a little fun. I was so close to the Mile High Room in Breckenridge, which led me to start thinking about the good old days when the boys would play every song I was familiar with and enjoyed over the course of two sets.

[All photos by Ian Rawn of Playindead.org and atlantaphotog.com]

I headed to these shows with my girlfriend and decided the most efficient way for us to see as many shows as possible, was to go with a package deal at the Crowne Plaza which included a room at the Crowne, wristbands for after-shows, a shuttle for New Year’s, and a private after-show through Sage and Spirit Travel. I couldn’t pass this up.

When we arrived at the hotel, it was obvious that no one else passed it up either. This was more than the usual hippie hotel as there were dreadlocks, vending, girls in patchworks, patchouli, dogs and a couple other familiar scents.

We got to the Crowne Plaza on the 29th, ready for the after-show party with the Everyone Orchestra at Cervantes in Denver. The show was amazing. The Colorado hospitality was like none I had experienced in a long time. During the show, three people were painting in the audience, which was very cool. Hippies were everywhere and generosity abound. The show was going strong when I left at 2:00 AM and I heard it went on until five in the morning. However, I had two more nights of shows and this 31-year-old body doesn’t quite bounce back like it used to.

READ ON for the rest of Brent’s review of Panic NYE in Denver…

As we previously declared 2009 is shaping up to be The Year Of The Boss – with his latest E Street Band backed album – Working on a Dream – hitting stores later this month, a Super Bowl halftime performance in Tampa as well as possible inauguration and Bonnaroo appearances in the works. With the […]

After a nasty case of either pneumonia or the boogie woogie flu that led to the cancellation of a number of tour dates, Ween vocalist Aaron Freeman has just announced the rescheduled dates for his Gene Ween Band project. Gener, guitarist Scott Metzger, bassist Dave Dreiwitz and drummer “Sir” Joe Russo plan to hit Brooklyn’s […]

[Originally Published 07/01/2008]

We enter an intermission in our bi-weekly search for the ever elusive Hidden Flick, and look at films that were once praised but have since been somewhat forgotten. As we walk up to the ethereal snack bar and pile up on the keg-sized Popcorn, boxes of Raisinettes, Red Vines, SnoCaps, Peanut M&M’s (Jesus, take it easy, fatso), Goobers, and 99-ounce Diet Cokes (trying to cut back a little?), we ponder yesteryear’s sublime cinematic pearl.

This installment of our Intermission column—appearing every ten issues if one is either an accountant, an obsessive fan, or prone to keep track of these mathematical things—will focus on the 1979 coming-of-age film Breaking Away, based in Bloomington, Indiana, and featuring a squadron of snotty college dorks racing each other on steroid-enhanced bikes, while another quartet of less-than-privileged town folks—sons of the almighty “Cutters,” limestone quarry workers in Indiana who helped build the very university in which they occasionally drive by and mock the Richie Riches—ponder their next step as they move away from the warm comfort of high school and look ahead into the abyss that is one’s future when colleges aren’t exactly knocking on your SAT door.

Breaking Away was the little film that could as the 1970s came to a close. The film was a winner before a shot had been printed as it featured an Academy Award-winning script by Steve Tesich, ace casting of future stars-to-be Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern and Dennis Christopher while also amassing a stellar supporting cast of seasoned veterans: Paul Dooley—who played the coolest, most realistic dad in cinematic history—Barbara Barrie, who was humor, warmth and pathos-personified, and Bad News Bears veteran Jackie Earle Haley, the cool kid who was only 3 feet tall in that baseball film (O.K. I exaggerate. He was 2’10”), but hey, he could hit a ball 400 feet, smoke a pack of Marlboros (it WAS the 70s), date that hot chick that had the hair-wings blow-dried just right, ride a killer motorcycle, and score tickets to the Stones show at the heady age of 12.

READ ON for more on this week’s Hidden Flick: Breaking Away…

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Dan Tyminski’s rise to fame came through years of touring as a vocalist and guitarist for bluegrass megastars, Alison Krauss and The Union Station.  Then, a few years back, he became a household name when he was thrust into the spotlight as the vocalist for the hit single, "Man of Constant Sorrow," from the hit movie, O Brother Where Art Thou?.  With his second solo release, Wheels, Dan Tyminski creates an ensemble of virtuoso pickers to compliment his strong tenor voice without ever getting in the way of the song.

Prog is a genre not particularly known for being understated. Restraint is a quality seldom found among its purveyors. Heavy Water Experiments is not quite a traditional prog band, but clearly wear their prog influences for all to see. However, they manage to do it without the esoteric musical exercises and unabashed bombast that seem to be the norm.

Ron Asheton, the guitarist and bassist with The Stooges, has been found dead today (January 6). He was 60. Asheton was found at his home in Ann Arbor this morning, according to police. A cause of death is yet to be confirmed, although initial reports suggest that Asheton died of a heart attack. Detective Sgt […]

We’ll be updating this list of New Year’s Eve Concert downloads throughout the week and converting some of the FLACs to MP3 files for your iPod…

Bonerama – City Limits – Delray Beach, FL

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Brothers Past – The Note – West Chester, PA

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Clutch – The Orbit Room – Grand Rapids, MI

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Deep Banana Blackout – Stage One – Fairfield, CT

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Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi’s Soul Stew Revival – Fox Theatre – Atlanta, GA

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READ ON for New Year’s Eve concert downloads from Widespread Panic, My Morning Jacket, Gov’t Mule, New Mastersounds and over 20 other artists…