With only 12 American concert dates scheduled this year, Robert Plant walked out onto the stage of the historic Saenger Theatre in downtown Mobile, Alabama, with a gleam in his eye and a smile on his lips. Resuscitating one of his first bands, The Band Of Joy, Plant is moving forward by actually stepping backwards.
With their long hair, beards and edgy blues sound, The Black Crowes have epitomized what a rock-n-roll band sounds and looks like. With a pending indefinite hiatus looming, the band recently decided to record a double album’s worth of acoustic rearrangements from their catalog. Croweology is an exquisite slice of Americana complete with acoustic bottleneck slide, mandolin, and fiddles all done Crowe-style that never loses its swagger.
The challenge for a band with the longevity of Big Head Todd and The Monsters is how to subtly reinvent themselves without undermining the style they’ve cultivated during the course of their career. The Colorado group has struggled in that regard (see 2004’s Crimes of Passion), but Rocksteady is fresh in ways even the band might not expect.
Synth-poppers Caribou has decided to add a slew of new tour dates to his already impressive regiment. Today Dan Snaith announced a new leg of North American tour dates with
Neil Young will perform several shows on the Gulf Coast next month as he hooks up with Tyson Foods to help those whose lives have been affected by the BP
Elvis Costello has announced details of his forthcoming new album. Entitled ‘National Ransom’, the LP will be released in the UK on October 25 and in the US on November
