Grayson Capps/Joe Adler Playing Burlington’s Parima
Hailing from South Alabama and spending over a decade in New Orleans, critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Grayson Capps has found listeners the world over enthralled by his stinging tales of the Southern Gothic. Nowhere is this more evident than in Holland where his shows draw impassioned fans who hang on every lyric. In May 2008, Grayson […]
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – performing The River: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/8/09
It’s been a little over a week since Bruce Springsteen returned to the NY Metropolitan area. After closing down Giants Stadium with two performances each of Born To Run and Born In The U.S.A apiece (but sadly only one of Darkness Of The Edge Of Town), the two Garden shows looked to be even more special. Earlier that week, it was announced that on the first night, he would play The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle and on the second, the entire 20-song double album, The River. Neither of these had ever been performed in their entirety and the second show looked to be an especially ambitious project, even for The Boss. Then again, Bruce wouldn’t have tried if he knew he wasn’t up to it.
The Strokes Is This It Tops NME Album of Decade List
‘Is This It’ has topped the 100 Greatest Albums Of The Decade list in the new issue of NME magazine out tomorrow (November 18). The 2001 debut album by the New York band was voted top of the pile by a panel of musicians, producers, writers and record label bosses. The Libertines‘ 2002 debut album […]
Larger Than Life 3D Concert Film
If you’re kicking yourself for missing this year’s edition of Mile High Music Festival, All Points West or Austin City Limits, next month you’ll have the chance to attend sets from all three festivals – from the comfort of a local movie theatre seat. The “Larger Than Live … In 3D” film will be screened […]
Phishing in Detroit: A Rare Occasion
We’re getting incredibly excited for Phish Fall Tour around these parts, as the quartet hits the road tomorrow night for a two-week-plus jaunt that begins at the Cobo Arena in Detroit. We’ll have setlists, reviews and photo galleries at the bare minimum for you. As always, our friends @YEMblog will be tweeting the setlist and […]
Now Hear This: 1959 Newport Jazz
Wolfgang’s Vault expanded their operations over the past few years from selling the contents of Bill Graham’s vault to offering streams and downloads of live music from many genres. Music fans have benefited greatly from the expansion as we can now stream for free – or download at a reasonable price – thousands of concerts […]
Turning The Tables on Carrie Brownstein
Jambands.com published a number of new features yesterday including Brian Robbins’ chat with Jim Weider, Mike Greenhaus’ conversation with John Medeski and Greg McLoughlin’s (of BuzzUniverse) heart-warming story. As much as I enjoyed those articles, there’s one piece that jumped out at me – David Paul Kleinman’s The Carrie Brownstein Project. As you might recall, […]
Umphrey’s Conclude Epic Vermont Run
When you put together a list of venues where Umphrey’s McGee always delivers, you’d have to start with Higher Ground just outside of Burlington, VT. The Chicago-based sextet finished a three-night stand at the rock club on Saturday night that will go down among the best in their history. Whether they were kicking out a spirited dose of improvisation, welcoming one of their friends to the stage for a sit-in or dusting off a rarity, everything Umphrey’s touched over the six sets at Higher Ground turned to gold.
[Photo from 11/11 – Toronto by Tammy Wetzel]
As we mentioned last week, Thursday night started off with the first songlist show in years to fill a fan request. On Friday, the band shared the stage with a member of Phish for the first time when Mike Gordon took over bass duties from birthday boy Ryan Stasik for In The Kitchen.
Guest spots are always a crap shoot that have just as much chance of trainwrecking as of working out well. The Mike sit-in worked really well as Cactus came up with some inventive bass lines that kept the jam interesting throughout its 16 minutes. Other Friday highlights were a groovy Pay The Snucka opener and adventurous versions of Hangover and Higgins.
READ ON for more about the Burlington run and Tammy’s photos…
Video: Phish @ Red Rocks Playlists
Incredible multi-camera shot videos of this past summer’s Phish shows at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO have been uploaded to YouTube at a fast and furious pace thanks to gdoucette78. So far he’s uploaded all of the third (8/1) and fourth shows (8/2) of the run and most of the second night (7/31). As someone who grades every video uploaded to YouTube for YEMblog, I can honestly say these could be the best fan-shot Phish videos of the year.
YouTube isn’t the most conducive website for watching multiple videos from the same show, so we put together playlists of each night in the order the shows were played to help that process. Check ’em out…
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Phish @ Red Rocks – 07/31/2009 Playlist
READ ON for playlists of the last two Phish shows @ Red Rocks…
Tour Dates: Sweet Baby Tapestry
Singer-songwriters James Taylor and Carole King share a unique bond, as King made her first public performance with Taylor some 40 years ago at LA’s famed venue the Troubadour. The multi-platinum selling duo will share the stage once again as they will embark on a world tour dubbed the Troubadour Reunion which is set to […]