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.
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.
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.
After spending most of June in Berlin, R.E.M. has apparently finished recording their new album. Their yet-to-be-titled 15th studio album is their follow up to 2008’s Accelerate and they plan
The Hold Steady have added a slew of tour dates for the fall. The dates run through October 22nd and include a show at NYC’s Beacon Theatre. Tour Dates:
moe. is very excited to announce the final lineup of artists for their annual Labor Day weekend festival, moe.down. Joining moe. will be: The Black Keys, Nas & Damian "Jr.
A movie chronicling Joaquin Phoenix’s puzzling 2008 decision to retire from acting and reinvent himself as a hip-hop musician will debut in U.S. movie theaters in September — and distributors
After breaking up Guided By Voices in 2004, Robert Pollard is reuniting the "classic" Guided By Voices line-up for just one brief US tour. Tobin Sprout (guitar) Charles "Mitch" Mitchell
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
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…
