Our friends at HeadCount have teamed with the NRDC Action Fund and a number of our favorite artists to offer up a free Best of Bonnaroo download featuring unreleased tracks
On March 13, San Francisco’s Big Light finally makes their New York City debut at Sullivan Hall. All of our West Coast friends have been raving about this band since
When it comes to giving a nod to the past, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals have never shied away from including classic rock covers in concert, tackling tracks from the
A few weeks back, we brought you news about Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s latest release – Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program
Black Joe Lewis probably isn’t that sick of the James Brown and Wilson Pickett comparisons yet (I mean, what a compliment, right?) But it’s inaccurate to portray Black Joe and the Honeybears as a 21st century version of the Godfather’s JBs. They’re more a rock band with a serious Stax problem, or a punk band riding a soul train, or a garage band with blaster horns, on an R&B mission. Really, they’re all those things, not to mention the arrival of one of the most commanding new frontmen in ages.
As the story goes, Austinite Joe Lewis was working in a pawnshop when he started fooling around on guitar, eventually picking up gigs with a blues trio. He met guitarist Zach Ernst and the (now) seven-piece Honeybears were born, initially as an opener for Little Richard, then as a hot-shit regional band in the Austin area, and then, thanks to hugely buzzed about performances at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits in 2008, then SxSW in 2009, a national act.
The buzz is justified: the band takes the stage and wallops an audience with an almost brutal mix of garage rock, blues-punk, hot-skillet soul and pummeling energy, and does so with a refreshing lack of slickness. The sense of abandon is key to their appeal: they’re not all too polished and they don’t feel like a band hatched in a soul studio with meticulous attention paid by producers. If Joe didn’t already have a moniker, Smokin’ Joe would fit.
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The Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB Tour concluded last night with one final show at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville that found the band channeling the same formula for success
Galactic makes a rare appearance on network television this Thursday, when the New Orleans funksters visit ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. According to Jambands.com, Galactic will perform Bacchus with legendary soul
Furthur performing at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA on February 8th, 2010.
The Dejas may be fall into the dream pop/ indie-pop/rock duo category, but these two kindred spirits are far from pretentious. Following their sold out Speeding Softly CD release show in late February at the House of Blues Foundation Room in Boston, Callie Lipton and Aaron Katz, who make up The Dejas, proved to be more than grateful to the packed room
On April 20, Merge will reissue Destroyer’s City of Daughters and Thief on CD and Streethawk: A Seduction on CD and LP. All three releases have been remastered and the CDs will feature shiny new packaging.
