2009

Video: Pavement – Shady Lane

Jeffrey Greenblatt September 21, 2009 No Comments

Pavement – Shady Lane

Review: Richard Lloyd and Jounce @ LPR

Chad Berndtson September 21, 2009 2 Comments

I wasn’t sure Jimi Hendrix’s iconic songs could withstand any more bent-note guitar storms, feedback or art damage; as you probably know, the dude became, oh, a bit of a name for not exactly playing solos that sounded like everyone else. But then I hadn’t before heard them through the prism of Richard Lloyd, who has quite the back story with Hendrix & this year released an intriguing album, The Jamie Neverts Story, in tribute to the late Velvert Turner, a Hendrix protege & one of Lloyd’s dear friends. (There’s good reading to be done on the subject, and Lloyd, in this Times article.)

The album itself is fun, but winds up a tad slight: sure, hearing Lloyd deconstruct classic Hendrix like Purple Haze, Spanish Castle Magic and Castles Made of Sand is a lark, but there’s not enough Lloyd in any of it – he rarely cuts loose beyond straight covers, bending the edges slightly at times but never making any of the songs his own.

Lloyd’s Thursday night set at (Le) Poisson Rouge, however, saw him bringing many of the Hendrix material to bear the way you’d hope a guitar sorcerer like Lloyd would: still played straight, yes, but with a lot more of Lloyd’s personality and lengthy guitar heroics that sounded more like the mind-squishing art-rock of Lloyd’s career, and helped, of course, by his mixing of other chestnuts from that decades-long catalog (yes, including Television) into the mix. READ ON for more from Chad on Jounce & Richard Lloyd…

Televised Tune: On the Tube This Week

Luke Sacks September 21, 2009 No Comments

Biography will air profiles of two musicians that couldn’t have less in common on Thursday with looks at both Cat Stevens and Weird Al Yankovic. Stevens, now known as Yusuf

Rob Marscher : Addison Groove Project to Matisyahu

Melissa Brodeur September 21, 2009 No Comments

These days Rob Marscher is a proud member of Hasidic reggae star Matisyahu’s touring band. Although laying down dub reggae grooves is a bit of a departure from Marscher’s improvisational/jazz routines, he’s keeping active and relevant to a new beat.

Please Step Back: by Ben Greenman

Brian Robbins September 21, 2009 No Comments

It’s a tale that’s been told before: young person grows up on the poor end of the avenue with a dream of making it in the music world; works hard; gets knocked down; works even harder; gets a break/makes a connection; career takes off; explosion of fame, fortune, and bad habits followed by a roller coaster of comebacks and nosedives. After a number of chapters of tightrope walking, we end up with either a tragic crash-and-burn or a soul salvation.

Gov’t Mule: By A Thread

Doug Collette September 21, 2009 No Comments

Gov't Mule's By A Thread might be the closest thing we ever get to a modern day Warren Haynes solo effort (unless rumors of such a project from the last few months turn out to be true.) Every individual element of style favored by the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter is covered within the album's hour-plus running time, which might make for a splintered sound except that his connection to Gov't Mule as a group is absolutely unyielding. And vice-versa.

Leftovers: Pearl Jam = Grateful Dead?!?!

Scott Bernstein September 18, 2009 3 Comments

Paste is devoted to Pearl Jam today as they posted a number of articles about Eddie & Co.. One piece that’s of particular interest to our readers compares the grunge

HT Interview: Drew Emmitt of Emmitt-Nershi

Chad Berndtson September 18, 2009 2 Comments

If there’s pickin’ to be done, you could do far worse than Drew Emmitt, who thanks to his long tenure in Leftover Salmon and later projects like the Drew Emmitt Band, is one of the scene’s most visible mandolinists and bluegrass aficionados.

Never short on a strong opinion, Emmitt caught us up on all he has going on now, most notably a lengthy tour with the new Emmitt-Nershi Band (featuring Emmitt, Nershi, banjoist Andy Thorn and bassist Tyler Grant) and how getting back to basics — that is, the fun and fleet-fingered business of bluegrass — has been a blessing for both he and String Cheese Incident’s Bill Nershi.

With more on the horizon from the ENB, Emmitt’s band — and a stray Leftover Salmon reunion or two — it’s looking good that Emmitt’s year will finish better than it started, though if you’re holding your breath for that 40-date Leftover Salmon tour, it’s time to let go.

HT: Can you talk a little bit about how you and Bill decided to form a band together. Obviously you go way back and given the Colorado origins, have a lot in common as musicians and otherwise.

DREW EMMITT: Yeah, definitely. I guess where it started was we were at a benefit show in Boulder for the Mark Vann Foundation in 2007. We did some playing together there and just started talking backstage about how it’d be cool to play some bluegrass together. Later, I was down in Florida for a tour with my band and I heard from Billy. He said he was quitting String Cheese and wanted to put this band together and from that point on we’d planned to do it six months later so we’d have time to get it going.

READ ON for the rest of Chad’s chat with Drew Emmitt…

HT Giveaway: Pair of Phish Festival 8 Passes

Scott Bernstein September 18, 2009 333 Comments

We’re a mere 46 Days from the start of the eighth Phish festival, and first since Coventry – Festival 8 – at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California on

HT Giveaway: Phish Joy Box Giveaway Pt. 7

Scott Bernstein September 18, 2009 138 Comments

We’re nearing the end of our way-too-long Phish Joy Box giveaway as we’ve only got two questions left. As we’ve been telling you, the Phish Joy Box includes the CD

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