With the Inauguration a week away a veritable who’s who of the music industry will descend upon our nation’s capital to help celebrate the swearing in of our 44th president
Time Out Take Five lets Glide contributor Doug Collette takes a pick at five recent jazz releases,
Some albums kick off with the strongest or most accessible song as a means of sucking the listener in. Others, ease their way into the real meat of the album so as not to scare the listener with their boldest material. But very few jump in with their most grating and difficult content. Women's self-titled album is, however, just one of those anomalies.
Ohio rock trio Heartless Bastards return with their third album The Mountain on February 3 via Fat Possum. Following the critical acclaim of their two previous albums Stairs and Elevators
Twelve Radiohead singles are reportedly set to be reissued on limited-edition vinyl. After reissuing several of Radiohead’s albums on vinyl last year, Capitol Records intends to release a handful of
Sonic Youth are in the final stages of recording their new album. The band say they hope to release the record, which currently has a working title of ‘The Eternal’,
Former Pavement guitarist Scott Kannberg has said that the band may reform soon – and that their booking agent has had talks with Coachella festival chiefs about them performing at
Leonard Cohen will play his first U.S. concert in 15 years at the Beacon Theatre in New York on Feb. 19, and speculation is that it will serve as the
With the long winter weekend coming up, it’s time for the fourth installment in the Acoustic Mix series. Past volumes have been among the most popular downloads we’ve had, and this one, like those, represents the very best of what we do around here. It opens with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss doing a nasty version of Black Dog from over the summer, followed by Ryan Adams and the Cardinals with Born into a Light off last fall’s Cardinology.
Next, Warren Haynes and Grace Potter team up with Steve Kimock on steel guitar for a devastating version of Wild Horses, and Dylan covers an old Robert Johnson joint, 32-20 Blues, a regular feature in Warren’s sets for years now. Scaring the Children give a stunning performance on – this one’s worth it for the quality of the recording alone. The guitar and bass create absolutely mesmerizing reverberations through the central jam; it’s long been one of my very favorite recordings. The mix closes with George Harrison playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps all alone (with a couple extra verses thrown in for good measure), and a barn burning acoustic Drowned from Pete Townsend in the mid-90s – unlike anything I’ve heard. This is the best of the best, so as always, enjoy!
READ ON for a special second Stormy Mondays download and Dan’s reviews of both The Bad Plus & Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet at The Village Vanguard…
Instant gratification. That’s the name of the game these days with music fans. With a few clicks of the mouse and a quick trip to Google one can go and find almost any album by any artist. And while today’s mainstream artists are hardly starving, it’s safe to say not many are making money off of albums and that’s the trend we’ve been seeing since Napster started.
I mean hell, look at Britney Spears’ most recent release Circus.
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