2009

Intermezzo: The Return of Jane’s Addiction

Jane’s Addiction’s name was attached to three of yesterday’s biggest music news stories. First came word that the band’s 48 minute set at LA’s Echoplex on Monday was a scorcher.

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M83 Announce West Coast Dates

 Following a 2008 UK tour with Kings of Leon, their own sold-out North American tour, their recent support slot on The Killers‘ US arena tour, and their television debut on

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The Secret Machines: Secret Machines

This album is a regression for The Secret Machines – and one that is to be expected with the amicable departure of guitarist Ben Curtis, who focuses now on School of Seven Bells. 

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Heartless Bastards: The Mountain

Because of The Mountain's emotional depth and Erika Wennerstrom’s amazing voice, this album is a rare and a very beautiful work, reminiscent of the old time blues that inspired Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and countless others.

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MP3 Boot Camp: Umphrey’s Podcast #75

I just spent the past hour listening to the latest Umphrey’s McGee podcast and it’s chock full of tasty highlights including acoustic versions of Liquid and Plunger from September 2008’s

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Coventry To Hampton: Page McConnell

Welcome to part two of a five part series titled Coventry To Hampton filling you in on the four members of Phish and what they’ve been up to these past five years or so. Part one featuring Mike Gordon debuted yesterday. A new installment goes live at 3pm every day this week. Enjoy.

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A compilation of Post-Phish McConnell compositions:

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While Page didn’t stay as active as Mike, there’s still a lot to look back on since Coventry. Most notably, Page recorded his first solo album, a self-titled effort released in 2007. While Page had previously recorded two albums with Vida Blue, this was officially dubbed his first solo album. Page debuted a lot of material from the album at moe.down in 2006 with a band that included Jon Fishman on drums and a number of other musicians who appeared on the disc and subsequently toured with Page in 2007.

READ ON for more about what Page has been up to over the past five years including a full list of shows that he has played and more audio & video…

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Best of Cover Wars: Highway 61 Revisited

[Originally Published: May 13, 2008]

Moving on to this week, we’ve got ourselves another classic album from a different legendary songwriter (with an equally unique singing voice) and that’s Bob Dylan’s 1965 release Highway 61 Revisited. This album was Dylan’s fifth and his first recorded entirely with a full rock band.

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Like a Rolling Stone (Zero): This gentle rendition of perhaps the most popular tune on the album clocks in at 15 minutes. The entire track is full of the tasteful guitar work you would expect from Steve Kimock as well as some beautiful sax solos from Martin Fierro. Check out this great on-stage tape of the whole show on The Archive.

READ ON for more on this week’s contestants…

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