2010

Gilmour To Guest At A Wall Tour Gig

We’re happy to see that David Gilmour and Roger Waters seem to have buried the very large hatchet that kept the two at each other’s throats for decades. This past

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Video: Grateful Dead – Candyman

We can thank Bill Graham for today’s clip as he had enough foresight to install video cameras at many of his venues back in the ’70s. The cameras at the

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The B List: Top Six Of The First Six

With the first six months of 2010 beginning to feel like a distant memory, I figured it was time to continue a tradition by taking a look at my favorite six albums of the first half of the year with the Top 6 Of The First 6.


6) CornershopJudy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast


Cornershop sure seem to like taking their time in releasing studio albums, managing only two in the 13 years since their critically acclaimed When I Was Born For The 7th Time came out in 1997. At points you almost forget the band still exists. For the group’s first full-length since 2002, the Brit-pop act returned with another album full of their unique blend of British Invasion rock, mixed with sitars, eclectic samples and sound collages. The LP includes a fantastic cover of Manfred Mann’s version of The Mighty Quinn and the soaring 16-plus minute psychedelic-gospel-funk-soul jam Turned On Truth.

READ ON for more of my Top 6 Of The First 6…

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Damon Castillo Band

e Damon Castillo Band is all about music and love. The quintet from San Luis Obispo, CA, entertains its loyal home base time and time again.  They operate out of a quaint recording studio on a street called Laurel Lane, and have toured the West Coast and beyond.

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Derek Trucks Band : Roadsongs

Roadsongs is a two disc live set recorded with Derek Trucks Band in Chicago after release of their most recent 2009 studio album, Already Free.   This live recording captures the band fresh from the studio with increased energy and fluidness complete with Trucks’ staggering solos and New Orleans style horn section.

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William Brittelle: Televison Landscape

An indie-rock/classical/concept album trifecta may seem like a broad over reach, but in reality artists like Frank Zappa and more apropos for Television Landscape – Prince, have shuffled down these paths before, now whether the combo actually works is another question entirely.  In William Brittelle’s case the answer is yes, for the most part.  Fully orchestrating the Television Landscape with electronic and acoustic instrumentation infuses a sense life to the disenchanted themes presented. 

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Wednesday Intermezzo: Stockholm Syndrome

Gov’t Mule fans were a bit confused when a fresh batch of Stockholm Syndrome  tour dates was announced that included a few shows which conflicted with Mule’s trip out west

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Review: All Good Music Festival, Pt. 1

Words & Images: Andrew Bender

All Good Music Festival – Masontown, West Virginia; July 8-11

Prelude – Wed. 7/7/2010:

On Wednesday, I find myself sitting at work, watching the clock, and counting the minutes until I’m on the road from my home base in Detroit to the mountains of West Virginia. My traveling companion – who also happens to be my wife – and I are driving tonight half way, meeting up with some friends from Michigan who have to work late, and cruising up on Thursday morning for what I hear is the inevitable wait in the car to get in.


I’ve never been to All Good before, and most of what I have to go on I’ve gleaned from prior years’ reviews, and talking to friends and family that have been in years past. As a photographer, I have to look after my gear, but when a close friend of mine who’s been at All Good for the past few year said that it was the only festival he’d been to where you should be concerned about people stealing from unoccupied tents and campsites, I got a little extra sketched out.

I’m definitely of the ‘do unto others . . . ‘ or ‘do what you want as long as it doesn’t mess with others’ school of thought, and it was hard to imagine a scene like that. Festivals are one of my all-time favorite means to cut loose, get loose, dance, drink, party, make new friends, and let it all hang out. Maybe as I get older I get a little more uptight. I’ve always been more responsible than many of my friends – going to a few shows rather than the whole tour, or only going to one or two summer music and camping festivals a year.

READ ON for more from Andrew on All Good 2010…

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Phantasy Tour Returns moe.’s Volley

Yesterday, we hipped you to moe.’s joke at PT’s expense as the jammers posted a setlist on the official moe. Facebook page in which the first letters spelled out “PT

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