Before we take off for the weekend, we wanted to share a video put together by Slate that ponders the question – “what if famous filmmakers directed the Super Bowl?”
Freak-rock faves Ween took an extended hiatus from Late Summer 2008 to Late Summer 2009 and then didn’t play all that many shows upon their return. This year looks to
Fifty-one years ago this past Wednesday, a plane carrying rock legends Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa killing all three musicians
Phish became my favorite band in 1994 and since that time they’ve remained my favorite band, but just before I got into the world of jam my favorite band was The Lemonheads. Evan Dando’s power-pop outfit captured my attention with their quick and catchy tunes that resonated with this young kid from the Jersey suburbs. Last Friday night, I relived my youth when I caught Evan Dando at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ.
Evan Dando @ Maxwell’s – Hannah and Gabi
My older sister got me into The Lemonheads and it was a thrill for me to take her to this concert the way she took me to Roseland in 1993 to see the band in their glory days. We got to the grungy club at 10:30 giving us a chance to see three songs by the opening band, The Candles. Led by lead singer Josh Lattanzi, The Candles seem to have picked up when The Lemonheads left off with jangly rock tunes that would be more radio-friendly if it was 1994. The Candles’ last tune, Here or Gone, was the best of the bunch and reminded me of The Strokes musically and Buffalo Tom lyrically.
Shortly after 11PM, Evan Dando took the stage wearing a construction helmet and a bulky winter coat. Mr. Dando hasn’t exactly aged well as you could see each of the past seventeen years on his face. What didn’t change was the music. Evan ran through many Lemonheads classics, a few solo numbers and a couple of fantastic covers over the course of the 70-minute set. As a jam fan, it was refreshing to see a bunch of three-minute tunes back-to-back; there were no seven-minute noodle jams at Maxwell’s.
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With the Mid-Atlantic and parts of the Northeast about to get slammed with a massive snowstorm this weekend, I thought we’d turn to indie-pop act Nada Surf for the lead
Rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures make their Saturday Night Live debut this weekend on NBC, but Dave Grohl is no stranger to the long-running show. In fact, after Saturday night’s
Owen Pallett is pleased to announce a North American tour in support of Heartland, his third full-length and first for Domino Records. OWEN PALLETT TOUR DATES Apr 08 –
This Fourth of July weekend, music fans will have something new to sing about when the inaugural Nateva Music & Camping Festival takes over the Oxford Fairgrounds in Oxford, Maine
The gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello will headline an international mini-festival of their own, the Casa Gogol Tour, an evening’s worth of insurgence from the multi kulti revolution, launching April
The Shotgun is a monthly series of "shotgun" CD reviews by Eric Saeger. This month he shotguns Dios, Hank Willams, Hawke, Phantogram and more.
