After months of speculation, the tour dates for the first Phish Fall Tour since 2000 have emerged. Phish.com has been updated with a cute little video highlighting the dates, which
Just as with Phish’s Summer Tour, Ticketmaster and Live Nation have started posting information about dates on the group’s Fall Tour before the actual announcement of the tour by the
The Black Lips have been making news throughout the blogosphere lately courtesy of their lead singer’s confrontation with WAVVES front man Nathan Williams, his explanation of the events and Carrie
The current issue of Rolling Stone lists rootsy singer/songwriter Cory Chisel as part of country rock’s new crop along with The Avett Brothers, Dawes and The Duke and the King.
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.
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