Archive: 2009

Mountain – Mississippi Queen (Live At Randall’s Island)

When Crowded House reunited in 2007 after a 12 year absence they made one of their first North American television appearances on Austin City Limits. Neil Finn and the boys ran through a number of their greatest hits and a few chestnuts off of their new-at-the-time album Time On Earth. PBS will air a repeat […]

As we’re sure you’ve heard by now, Michael Jackson passed away this afternoon after paramedics found him in a coma at his home near Los Angeles. We’d like to pay tribute to the “King of Pop” by re-running an old column from March 6, 2008 featuring jambands covering his songs…

You’ve probably heard the bad news by now, Michael Jackson is at risk of losing his Xanadu of weirdness, Neverland Ranch. Unless he can come up with a cool $24.5 million to avoid foreclosure, it’s so long to everyone’s favorite funny farm. Well, don’t fret folks. We’ve arranged a Michael Jackson tribute concert to help raise money to save Neverland Ranch.

This week’s edition of Bust Outs includes some of the best and brightest musicians we know paying homage to the King of Pop himself. We had no idea what we were getting into with this one, because we were quick to discover that the Neverland Ranch edition should probably be segmented into a 12 part mini-series, but regardless we’ve weeded it down into a single veritable powerhouse of Michael Jackson teases, jams, and full length covers. So, get out your tight black pants and dancing loafers, because this is undeniably the best Bust Outs yet.

Read on for Jacko covers from the likes of Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Santana, Phish, RAQ, The Biscuits, Miles Davis, PGroove and more…

Few bands have successfully produced two decades of quality music and lived to liven listener's senses for a third. Even fewer bands staking that claim hail from that musical-bridge between the late 80’s and early 90s. Yet that is exactly what Dinosaur Jr. has re-affirmed with their newest release: Farm.

Yesterday, word came down that the name of the new Phish album will be Joy. While the band announced the tracklist last night on Phish.com, we’re still awaiting our first look at the cover art for the new release. We figured we’d take a shot – as we did for Wilco’s Wilco (The Album) – by proposing five different images that would work well as the cover art.

Here’s what our resident artists came up with…

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[By Monk]

READ ON for four more potential album covers for Phish’s Joy…

The latest release on STS9’s 1320 Records label, Peaceblaster : The New Orleans Make It Right Remixes, features remixes of songs from the group’s 2008 release, Peaceblaster, from a veritable all-star team of artists including Pretty Lights, The Glitch Mob, Count Bass D, Richard Devine, Eskmo, Alex B., Ronald Jenkees and many more. This fantastic compilation is […]

Here in the U.S., when we think about a summer music festival, we automatically think of multiple days, stages, camping and lineups of artists ranging from established to mega-star. The Fete de La Musique in Paris, which translates ever so creatively to, “The Festival of Music,” takes a completely different approach. Each year on the summer solstice (June 21st), musicians of all kinds inhabit virtually every nook and cranny of the City of Lights and transform the beautiful metropolis into one massive celebration.

[Photo via Fete de la musique Flickr]

What is so striking about the Fete de la Musique is not necessarily jaw-dropping exhibitions of music or big name draws, but rather, simply, the spirit the city takes on. From the early afternoon to the wee hours of the night, Paris pulses with energy as both natives and tourists from every country under the sun dance, drink, stroll and sing their way around the city as the musicians perform not on stage but in the midst of magnificent stone archways, outside the sidewalk cafes, at the foot of Notre Dame, in pubs, on the bridges of the Seine, in the courtyard of the Louvre and anywhere else where there is a plot of open air.

Interestingly, nearly all of the musicians are asked to perform for free and hence the entire festival is free. This means that across Paris and throughout France over 10,000 groups lay down their chops and try to win over passersbys – some succeeding, others failing miserably. READ ON…

Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring column featuring recordings of shows that took place the previous week. This is a special edition that exclusively features recordings from Bonnaroo captured the weekend of June 12th – 14th. Thanks to caymenreview for this week’s photos.

Artist & Title: Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
Taper & Show Download: Jeff Hatcher

Al Green, 63, is still out there doing it and sounding great as he leads the Bonnaroo crowd through a great rendition of Let’s Stay Together. Green plays this Saturday at the Ottawa Jazz Festival.

READ ON for nine more selected cuts from Bonnaroo 2009…

Earlier today, our friends at HeadCount announced that music journalist Richard Gehr has been named as the editor of their blog. Gehr has been covering Phish and other jambands for over 15 years at this point and in 1998 he co-authored The Phish Book along with the members of quartet. The HeadCount Blog has really […]

Here’s a clip from last night’s The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien of Wilco performing You Never Know along with guitarist Jimmy Vivino… Wilco – You Never Know – Conan O’Brien

A couple of months back, we told you about roots-jam-rockers Assembly Of Dust’s new guest-laden album Some Assembly Required which includes appearances from a who’s who of the jam scene. In anticipation of the album’s July 21 release the band is offering up select tracks from the album for free through July 14. All you […]

Dave Matthews Band performing at SPAC on June 12th, 2009.

Drive-By Truckers front-man Patterson Hood’s second solo record, Murdering Oscar (and other love songs), flows like a DBT rock show—hook ‘em, rest ‘em, then beat ‘em senseless—and while saving the best for last may not always be the best recipe for an album, Hood leaves nothing on his plate.

Phish.com announced today the band will be releasing Joy, their first studio album in five years, later this summer on JEMP Records. The record was recorded in New York City this spring with producer Steve Lillywhite. The track listing for Joy is as follows: 1. Twenty Years Later 2. Backwards Down the Number Line 3. […]

John Lennon once said he didn’t believe that musicians created emotions in their listeners.  Rather, he believed that an artist’s role is to bring feelings to the surface that already live deep within us.  Thus, while all human beings are connected to one another in some way, there is a special bond we feel with […]

This isn't intended to be a comprehensive list of vinyl (or even just the cool vinyl) that's come out over the last few months, but there have been some releases that definitely deserve to be highlighted.

Michael Jackson was pronounced dead this afternoon by doctors at UCLA Medical Center, according to the Los Angeles Times and NBC News. Jackson was taken by ambulance to the hospital this afternoon, according to multiple reports. TMZ claims that Jackson was in cardiac arrest and that "paramedics administered CPR in the ambulance."

Rolling Stone’s David Fricke discusses the new Phish album, which he reveals is titled Joy, with the band members in the latest issue of the magazine. Anastasio tells Fricke that Joy “feels more like a live record than a lot of our live records” and the teaser article on RS.com contains details on the new […]

One of the most recent uploads to the God Street Wine collection on the Live Music Archive brought back some bad memories for me. I’m talking about a show from March 10th, 1995 at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. I was 17 at the time and the Stone Pony was an 18 […]

With the announcement of a set of three shows at Citi Field in NYC and another show at FedEx Field in Washington D.C., a real live Paul McCartney Tour is breaking out. Today comes the news of two additional stops on this pseudo-tour. Sir Paul will perform at Boston’s Fenway Park on August 5 and […]