VH1 Classic airs the documentary Soul Train: The Hippest Train in America this Sunday at 3:30PM. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of The Roots provides the score for this profile of the
Logging time as a member of the Polyphonic Spree and in Sufjan Steven’s band, Annie Clark has been recording under the moniker St. Vincent, putting out two fantastic albums including
In addition to the superb playing throughout the album, the compositions, all by John Ellis, are outstanding. That is for good reason, he has been at this for a long and dedicated while and has honed his chops with some of the best in the game including Ellis Marsalis and Charlie Hunter. In his writing, Ellis really has a knack for infusing that subtle New Orleans undercurrent into just about any flavor he is concocting.
I once dated a guy from Iowa. Over winter break of my junior year in college, I drove eight hours to his home in the blasting snow, mostly on a one-lane highway, so that we wouldn’t have to go an entire month apart. I listened to David Gray’s White Ladder on repeat the whole way there. The album was completely different than anything I had heard before; it felt symbolic of my budding relationship.
Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB bring their tour to the heart of the Midwest this evening for a show at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Wade Wilby is providing
PlanetAnthem.com has gone live allowing Disco Biscuits fans to take a peak at a number of pre-order options for the jamtronica act”s long-delayed studio album. The pre-order opens on Monday
It isn’t often that music festivals get scheduled for the beach, so we’ve had our eyes on The Hangout Music Festival which is set to take place on the beach
The Grateful Dead were firing on all cylinders through much of Summer Tour in 1989 including a stellar performance on an extremely hot July day in Philadelphia, PA. Crimson, White
As part of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th anniversary, Animal Collective have collaborated with artist Danny Perez on a site-specific performance piece that will transform the museum’s rotunda into a “kinetic, psychedelic
For this month’s Track x Track, welcome keyboard wiz Zac Lasher from prog-meets-jamtronica act U-Melt who will share an anecdote or factoid about each track on the group’s new album, Perfect World.
1) Disclaimer — This album was conceived a few years ago when we were reading a lot of philosophical material. We’d all started writing along those lines independently of each other and thought that was kinda cool, we decided to nurture that instinct and specifically set out to write the songs that would become this album with that in mind. One day while sitting in the van on the way to a show, i was contemplating some of the lyrics i was working on, and i realized that i was spouting a whole lot of bullshit — which isn’t to say i don’t believe in the ideas we were writing about, but, you know… who am i to say “You are the center of the universe” anyway? i decided that it was necessary to put a disclaimer onto this album. I finished the lyrics before we got to the venue, and the music followed quickly, which brings me to…
2) Disillusion — This is the companion piece to “Disclaimer.” the initial intent was that they would always be played together, but we’ve since deviated from that. This was a fun track to work on in the studio as we were able to take what was usually a jam with a bit of structure to it, and turn it into a concise album cut. The fade out at the end is one of my favorite bits of production on the album.
READ ON for more from Zac on U-Melt’s Perfect World…
