Archive: 2009

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 the band’s singles on 180-gram vinyl, reports Atease. The vinyl covers will feature the original 5" CD artwork printed as a sticker on the record […]

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’, this June. Thurston Moore told NME‘s sister publication Uncut that the band were focussing on making "a record replete with juicy supersonic songs!" The record […]

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 anchor for a North American tour. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday (Jan. 16) via Ticketmaster.Last summer, the artist embarked on his first […]

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 the event. He did, however, warn that despite negotiations having taken place, it was more likely that the band would reform after 2009 had finished. […]

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!

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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. She had to host an infomercial on MTV just to sell her CD (aptly titled For the Record). She played the “feel sorry for me” card quite well and guess what? It actually worked — she’s selling albums. So are infomercials the way to go? Artists as huge as Britney have to stoop to this level of salesmanship. Artists are struggling to find new and inventive ways to market their music. The industry is in knots trying to figure out how to market and distribute albums, but also do so at a minimal cost.

READ ON to find out just what sets UM’s Mantis apart from the pack…

READ ON to find out what HT Faves Fleet Foxes will play on SNL…

The era of the $100 ticket started many years ago, but for the most part jamband ticket prices have remained in the double digits. The surviving members of The Dead recently announced their first tour in five years and the ticket prices listed at GDTSTOO range from $45 to $105. Most top tier tickets are […]

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMgDUv_F3fw The Dead – We Strike At Dawn

Former Wetlands owner Peter Shapiro and his brother Jon produced All Access – a film that shows two musicians from different backgrounds performing together. All Access features concert pairings of B.B. King with Trey Anastasio & the Roots, George Clinton’s P-Funk with Mary J. Blige, Dave Matthews & Al Green. Sting with Cheb Mami & […]