The Dead Weather have released a digital EP entitled ‘Live From Third Man West‘. Recorded at the short lived Third Man Records And Novelties store in Los Angeles, the EP
Cold War Kids have announced details of a new 4-song EP. Called ‘Behave Yourself.‘ it will be released on January 18 in the UK and a day later on January
The stars must have been perfectly aligned when Red Hot Chili Pepper’s drummer, Chad Smith, guitarist Jeff Kollman (Cosmosquad) and keyboardist Ed Roth were brought together to help out Glenn Hughes’ latest project.
Brock Butler’s debut studio album, “Lately Here Though” is now available for digital download on Brock’s official website, www.therevbutler.com. Produced and recorded by David Barbe (Drive-by-Truckers, Cracker) at Chase Park
Each month, HT Contributor Ben Wiser will take a closer look at notable performances of Dark Star. If you have any favorite Stars you would like him to cover, send the date over to darkstarstories@yahoo.com
Last month I touched on the great Halloween night Dark Star from the Oakland Coliseum Arena back in 1991. That was the night Ken Kesey showed up and delivered his eulogy to Bill Graham. He recited some e.e. cummings and gave us the great line – “In any given situation there are always going to be more dumb people than smart people – we aint’ many.”
In honor of that and in honor everyone’s favorite holiday – here is a trick or treat bag of seminal October Dark Stars –
10/9/89 “Formerly the Warlocks!”
It’s been twenty years since Virginia heads got a treat when the boys played two hastily-planned nights at Hampton billed as “Formerly the Warlocks”. The first night featured the return of Help on the Way > Slipknot!, but the second night, whew.
READ ON for the rest of this month’s Dark Star Stories…
Phish’s Festival 8 kicks off on Friday at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, CA and those of us who can’t make it very excited to learn last night that
While Yo La Tengo is taking the year off from their regular run of Hannukah shows, New Yorkers will still be able to celebrate the holiday with music as Matisyahu
In general, when I arrive at a show and learn that I am walking in on an opening act that I was not aware of – I’m not very pleased. I had a timeline in my head of what I thought set times were going to be and realized that now, all of a sudden, every thing had been pushed back an hour. Sunday night however, it only took about five minutes for me to realize that I was going to be catching a great set of music from Clare & The Reasons, a band I had never heard of – in fact I did not know the name of the group until after their set was over and I swung by the merch table.
Clare & The Reasons touring band are a quartet, fronted by Clare Manchon and all four musicians are multi-instrumentalists. There was fiddle, trombone, clarinet, keyboards, guitars and basses constantly being passed around amongst all the members of the band, and while there was no percussionist…Clare had a foot-tambourine setup that added a little extra punch in the choruses of some songs.
They played the majority of their brand new album Arrow including the first-ever performance of the “Japanese Bonus Track”. As her set came to a close, Manchon announced that “You will all know this song” and launched into a great arrangement of That’s All (which is also on the album Arrow). With the signature piano line being played on a clarinet, the crowd – of unfortunately only dozens of people – let out an audible laugh and Clare quickly explained, “It’s not funny” into the microphone. This band is opening for Vic Chesnutt through November 7th, I highly recommend arriving early to check them out. Manchon’s gentle voice is a perfect fit for their type of music which borders somewhere between Twee Pop and gypsy street musicians. As my friend Indie Dan said, “Even though there wasn’t an accordion onstage, I totally could see them having one.”
Here is their music video for the song All The Wine:
READ ON for more from Dave including a review of Vic Chesnutt’s new band and to see the hilarious infomercial for Clare & The Reasons New Album…
The Disco Biscuits’ Planet Anthem Tour moves to the Midwest starting tomorrow in Kalamazoo and continues through Sunday in Urbana with stops in Madison on Thursday, Minneapolis on Friday and
Frank Zappa loved to use Muffin Man as a launching pad for a ferocious guitar solo and this version from October 28, 1977 offers what could be the most intense
