Steve Kimock hits the road in March with a new project called Steve Kimock Crazy Engine featuring Melvin Seals on B3. READ ON for all the gory details on the band’s lineup as well as what and where they’ll be playing…
Around this time last year I kicked off my semi-regular Better Than Noodling column with a post on on the Grateful Dead meets Pavement stylings of Blitzen Trapper. The band,
It is sometime in January, 2009. January is the season of lists. The best, worst, sexiest, scariest, highest grossing, lowest common denominator, fill in the blank type of lists that are generated, ad nauseum, between Thanksgiving and whenever the February issues of magazines first hit news stands. Who had a baby, affair, divorce, face lift, pilot picked up, sitcom cancelled or got left at the altar. There are a million of them out there. I really admire the spin most periodicals put on their “In memory of . . .” lists. They come in handy when the ‘Ghoul Pool” finals are tabulated.
[All photos via LedZeppelin.com]
On a grand scale, the lists are just to remind the public of what occurred over the last 12 months before the awards season starts. I mean, really, does the content of any given list matter to anyone other than those on the actual list? Other than the smug self satisfaction and validation one may feel by having a common thread in any of these lists, (“Marion and I saw six of Leonard Maltin’s top ten films this year, aren’t you thrilled?”) they merely serve as fodder for water cooler discussions. These discussions, more often than not, dissolve into pissing matches of one-upmanship, noteworthy only for the imaginative ways the debaters make their point (Gus Van Sant is on that list. He’s from Portland, you know!”)
In any case, this being January, I should be assembling some sort of itemized listing of things that may or may not be important enough to rank in order, from ten up to one, one being the best of these items, in my humble opinion. The most obvious column to select from would be concerts I have attended during 2008. Live music is my muse, if you will. Its power over me has been lifelong and vital and, from it, I derive much more than simple happiness. It could be two guys with guitars in a coffee house or yet another Kiss reunion tour, I would still do my best to get up close and enjoy the show. And I usually do enjoy the show. It is rare for me to pan a performer who, despite how high (or low) on the talent scale his chalk mark reaches, is still baring his or her soul on stage for others to hear. It takes guts and ought to at least be respected for what it is.
READ ON for AJ’s memories of catching Led Zeppelin at MSG in 1971…
It seems like everyone who goes on Jam Cruise comes back raving about the adventure. Head over to JamBase where Brian Bavosa tells the tale of JC7.
The lineup announcement for this year’s 10KLF comes out on January 21 and the festival’s promoters promise “the biggest announcement ever.” Our friends at Breakfast On Tour report that the
The term "supergroup" may be popular music's greatest misnomer. Sure, supergroups are typically made up of musicians who have done some super things, but more often than not, the meeting of their superness is just not all that, well, super. So, as legendary as the meeting of Jaco Pastorius, John McLaughlin and Tony Williams may have become over the years, there's always room for skepticism.
Hidden Track Unofficially Wins 2008 Best Music Blog Award [youtube]9fWvub_WBho[/youtube] Thanks to our loyal readers, family and friends for voting. Winners will be officially announced on Thursday morning. We’ll have
READ ON for P4K’s story on a possible Pavement reunion at Coachella…
I haven’t seen much written about The Dead’s $100 ticket prices by journalists, but the fanbase couldn’t be angrier. Deadheads have taken to internet mailing lists and message boards to
After a brief hiatus, Cover Wars is back. What can I say? I went on vacation for a week to Chicago over New Year’s and I left you guys without a playlist of covers of the same song to listen to at work. How you got by, I will never know. If you can remember, our last edition looked at covers of Hey Bulldog and Toad The Wet Sprocket has emerged victorious. Color me surprised, though they did do a great job with the song.
This week I have selected The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down from The Band’s self-titled second album,
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READ ON after the jump for a look at this week’s contestants…
