Phish’s fall tour will kick off at Detroit’s Cobo Arena on November 18th. It willinclude three shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden (December 2, 3 &4) and conclude
Dethklok's mere presence in any one location for an extended period of time brings fans to their knees, because of their godliness. And I got to interview them. Dethklok is: Nathan “Tonto” Explosion – Frontman and Visionary, Skwisgarr Skwigelf – Lead Guitar, Toki Wartooth – Rhythm Guitar and Keys, Pickles – Drums and William Murderface – Bass.
My Old, Familiar Friend is Brendan Benson's newest solo effort (recorded between Broken Boy Soldiers and Consolers of the Lonely) and it again finds him digging in his familiar rut of broken hearts and failed relationships most of which are apparently his fault; some things don’t change.
When you hear Justin Vernon talk in between songs with a deep vibrato, you wonder if this is the same guy with the ghostly falsetto responsible for that album of songs penned around a frigid Wisconsin winter. But then when he starts to sing, you nod in clear realization.
Wilco has announced a new round of dates through early 2010, which includes dates in Canada and the northwestern U.S. The band, which continues its current stretch tonight (10/9) in
I didn’t know much about guitarist Jim Weider’s Project Percolator band before I listened to the ensemble’s latest album, Pulse. I was familiar with Weider’s work as a member of both The Band and Levon Helm’s band, so I expected to hear your standard classic rock fare. Instead, I was treated to a wonderful disc full of complex, proggy tunes that grooved.
Jim Weider & Project Percolator – Squirrels in Paris
In fact, I enjoyed the disc so much that I reached out to Weider – known among musicians as the “King of Tone” – about Pulse, Project Percolator’s live shows and his time as a member of The Band.
Scott Bernstein: Please tell us about how you put Project Percolator together? The sound on the group’s two albums seems like a departure for you.
Jim Weider: The record I did before this was Percolator and this was a new direction I decided to take – more groove-oriented. I wanted to write myself out of the classic rock thing I had been doing on my earlier solo records. I cut that record with John Medeski, Tony Levin and Rodney Holmes. I went out and toured it with Tony Levin and Jesse Gress and we toured it for a while and then eventually I started working with Mitch Stein who’s fantastic. He used to play in the Kimock band. When Rodney freed up, Rodney joined up with us and they’re old buddies and have a great chemistry.
We slowly formed the band that you hear on this record. We’ve been touring for about a year and a half, so when we went into the studio to record Pulse we had been playing about half the songs. I really wanted to capture that live feel and I think we did it. We pared the songs down enough and didn’t overdub anything besides two or three tunes.
READ ON for more of Scotty’s chat with Jim Weider…
In what seems like a plot line ripped straight out of Entourage, what if I told you that FOX Searchlight wants to make a biopic based on the seminal punk
The members of Temple of the Dog reunited on Tuesday night in Los Angeles when Chris Cornell joined Pearl Jam to perform Hunger Strike… Pearl Jam w/ Chris Cornell –
One of the best part of watching Bravo’s addictive reality show Top Chef is tuning in to see the show’s insanely hot host, Padma Lakshmi, torture the chef-testants week after
Demand for the limited-run revival of comedian Paul Reubens’ “The Pee-wee Herman Show” has been so overwhelming, the show’s producers have been forced to move it to a larger venue.
