While Bon Jovi may have made more money on the road than any other band this year, but there’s one thing they didn’t accomplish – getting into the Rock and
The latest Funny or Die clip had us cracking up this afternoon, so we just had to share. Take a look as comedians Will Ferrell and John C. Rilley do
Guess it’s a week to talk about comebacks from the world of hip-hop, as Lauryn Hill has announced a ten-date Northeast tour that will kick off at the Higher Ground
In the pantheon of gut wrenching, emotionally charged break up albums none may top the sheer heartbreak found throughout Bob Dylan’s 1975 release Blood On The Tracks. The album has been mined for its share of covers over the years, but it’s the first time we are actually featuring a track from what is arguably one of Dylan’s best LPs.
While there may be a few more obvious choices, we’re going with the moody album’s melancholy closing track, Buckets Of Rain. The tune, which according to Wikipedia has astonishingly only been played live once by Dylan, is as tender as it is devastating with lines such as, “Like your smile, and your fingertips. Like the way that you move your lips, I like the cool way you look at me. Everything about you is bringing me misery.”
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Before hitting it big on his own, M. Ward was a member of Beth Orton’s touring band. The duo’s version finds Orton and Ward trading off on the verses, which was released as the B-side for the digital single of Heart Of Soul, a track that Ward co-wrote with Orton for her 2006 album Comfort Of Strangers
READ ON for more covers of Buckets Of Rain from the likes of Neko Case, David Gray, Vic Chesnutt and more…
We’re less than two weeks away from the start of Phish’s first five-show New Year’s run at the DCU Center in Worcester. Outside of 1998’s four-show stand at MSG, Phish New Year’s runs usually contain at least a few bust outs – a holiday gift of sorts from the band. What’s interesting is that there actually aren’t many tunes the group has played more than ten times in their career that they haven’t performed at least once since Hampton ’09.
[Photo by Jeremy Gordon]
To give you a visual on what Phish cover and originals have yet to be performed in the current era, we’ve put together a list of songs the quartet has played at least ten times in their career – and at least once since 1994 – but have yet to be dusted off since Hampton. Many of these tunes are Fishman songs or a capella tunes; we’ve marked those compositions in italics. Here’s what’s left listed by the last year the songs made it into a Phish setlist…
Last Played 2004: Terrapin, Friday,
Last Played 2003: Carolina, Magilla, Beauty Of My Dreams, Dogs Stole Things, Dog Log, Life On Mars?, Daniel Saw The Stone,
Last Played 2000: The Curtain, I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome, Inlaw Josie Wales,
Last Played 1999: Sweet Adeline, La Grange, Cracklin’ Rosie, Whipping Post, If I Only Had a Brain, Purple Rain, Foreplay/Longtime
READ ON for the rest of this potential bust out list…
Last week, Widespread Panic kicked down a free video of Bring It On Home from Halloween in New Orleans as “a thank you for an awesome 2010.” Not only can
Sam Bush is best-known for his prodigious skills on the mandolin and the fiddle, but it would be a mistake to label him simply a bluegrass musician. Throughout his years with the New Grass Revival, the Nash Ramblers and Strength in Numbers, he’s explored a wide swath of traditional American music, and his cross-genre blending has continued with the many iterations of his solo band over the years.
Some documentaries are for casual fans, others are for more serious fans and others are almost for musicians themselves. This one falls into the latter two categories. There is a bit of narrative that takes him from childhood to the London of 1967 and a bit more that surrounds his death, but the focus is more on his music, his legacy and the many wild guesses as to what he would have done had he lived.
Andy Hunter’s fourth album, Collide, bears little resemblance to his last album, Colour, and its more traditional song structures. A return to the epic and ethereal rhythms and beats that were found on his first two records—particularly on his debut Exodus—Collide is a thirty-five-plus minute dance party that is tailor-made for the club scene, and it is one hell of a show.
Diving into their brand new release, Worm Moon Waning, it is apparent the band is a creative and inspired trio lead by songwriter and vocalist Jody Nelson. With so much folk and Americana indie rock being released these days it is challenging for a band to stand out from the heaps of mustached hipsters but Through the Sparks manages to strike a solid balance inside their melancholic lyrics and wistful, creative arrangements.
