Archive: 2010

Raul Malo and his band made a stop at Johnny D’s supporting his new album, Saints and Sinners.  The club’s space is well suited to his music, has just enough bar area, just enough dance floor for the 300 plus standing room only crowd, who danced and clapped from the start.

Girl Talk (aka Greg Gillis) is currently working on a new album which everyone is quite excited for. Even more exciting and impressive, is the amount of tour dates that he has just announced. Starting things in November, Girl Talk will be performing a more than generous amount of dates in most states of the […]

Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis has announced details of the release of an acoustic album. ‘Several Shades Of Why’ is due out on March 15, 2011, reports Pitchfork.com. The tracklisting for ‘Several Shades Of Why’ is as follows: ‘Listen To Me’‘Several Shades Of Why’‘Not Enough’‘Very Nervous And Love’‘Is It Done’‘Make It Right’‘Where Are You’‘Too Deep’‘Can […]

Kevin Smallwood, Jonathan Kosakow and Conor Kelly – aka Three Grown Men – will be contributing a number of articles on different topics over the coming months. One of the columns Kevin, Kos and Conor will write looks at stream-able live shows that may not have been detected by your radar called Irregular Streams. Check […]

Jamtronica pioneers the Disco Biscuits have announced their first tour dates of 2011 – a four-night Colorado run that features two shows at the Boulder Theatre in Boulder on January 13th and 14th followed by two shows at the Ogden Theatre in Denver on the 15th and 16th. Head to Bisco Tix for the presale […]

Umphrey’s McGee @ The Pageant – October 30 & 31

Words: Ryan Maher
Images: Tammy Wetzel

The Pageant Theatre is a world-class midsize venue. Sadly, there are few venues that inspire this much fan appreciation: the multiple tiers offering great sightlines from numerous points, the tiered balcony seating, the crisp acoustics and attentive wait staff all adding up to an idyllic place for face-melting for a two-night Halloween run from Umphrey’s McGee.

[All photos by Tammy Wetzel]

Of course, West Coast fans may take umbrage with the move to St. Louis after they became accustomed to Northern Cali visits from UM for this musical holiday. 2008 was the birthplace of the mash-up Halloween show in San Francisco, and with the tremendous success of their novel approach, UM has fortunately left this tradition intact. The Wood Brothers opened to the sold out crowd for a well played, mellow set on the 30th.

Anticipation was already high following a monster two-night run by UM in Urbana the preceding nights. Queue the theme from Jaws to signal the impending onslaught of a band on fire, and the crowd roared as the six members took the stage for the first at two shows.

They led off with All In Time, one of the more anthemic UM tunes, which worked well in the opening slot as it engaged the crowd with a longtime sing-along favorite. Within just a few minutes, they dropped on a dime into The Linear, instantly submerging the mood from celebratory to a contemplative, exploratory atmosphere. And explore they did.

READ ON for more from Umphrey’s Halloween run…

VH1 Classic’s In Concert series debuts a fantastic, vintage concert on Sunday night at 7PM with the airing of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium – 1978. The show, which was featured on a DVD that came with the Live Anthology box set, comes from a time when the […]

A quick internet search for The Tallest Man On Earth yields a number of web pages and pictures of the actual tallest man on Earth – the 7’9” Bao Xishun of China, but also you’ll find those linking to the music of the croaky voiced Swedish singer-songwriter born Kristian Matsson. The folkie, whose highly recommend […]

Undoubtedly, one of the quickest ways for a band to break these days is to land a spot on a heavy rotation television commercial. And while it can be bizarre and annoying to hear something you already like getting the commercial treatment, the corporate suits seem to have put music supervising in pretty good hands […]

Project Object performing at the Regatta Bar in Cambridge, MA on 11.3.10.

Ryan Adams has announced details of the release of a new double album. ‘III/IV’ is a new studio effort by Ryan Adams & The Cardinals and has been "in the vault since 2006". According to Adams‘ Pax Am record label, the release will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally. Pre-orders are due to begin […]

LCD Soundsystem are to release an in-the-studio live album. ‘The London Sessions’ is released on November 9 through iTunes – however, it will only be available until December 6, reports Pitchfork.com. The nine-track release was recorded at The Pool/Miloco Studios in London on June 29 and features the likes of ‘Pow Pow’, ‘Daft Punk Is […]

Last month, Radiohead front man Thom Yorke teamed up with Bryan Ferry, Mark Ronson, Bob Hoskins, tennis player Andy Murray and British Prime Minister David Cameron to record a charity single called 2 Minute Silence for England’s Remembrance Day – a holiday honoring fallen soldiers. Proceeds from the song, which is indeed two full minutes of […]

The folks at Phish Inc. have officially announced the Alpine Valley 2010 CD/DVD set we told you about last week. Those who pre-order the release through Dry Goods will also receive a CD entitled Phish: Wisconsin Edition that contains cherry-picked selections from the Phish Archives of previous Alpine Valley performances. We’ve got a couple of samples […]

HT fave Marco Benevento performed a rare solo piano show this past Monday night at City Winery in New York City. The keyboardist packed his set with covers and originals from his three solo albums.  Photographer Rob Chapman was on hand to capture Marco in action…

[All photos by Rob Chapman]

READ ON for more shots of Marco Benevento in action…

With Phish covering Little Feat’s double-live album, Waiting For Columbus, last Sunday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, there’s been a renewed interest in LF’s music – at least according to the traffic figures for our old posts about that band. As such, we wanted to point you in the direction of four fantastic […]

Doug Martsch and Built to Spill made a rare National TV appearance last night when they stopped by Later with Carson Daly. The band showed off their unique blend of indie/country and classic rock during the song Hindsight… Built To Spill – Hindsight

[Originally Published: 9/14/2010] It’s been a while since I selected a Led Zeppelin song for Cover Wars, over a year actually. Though always a popular song on the radio, Ramble On was not played in full live by Led Zeppelin until 2007, 38 years after the release of Led Zeppelin II.

The Contestants:

Bustle In Your Hedgerow, which features Marco Benevento and Joe Russo of The Duo with Scott Metzger of RANA and Dave Dreiwitz of Ween delivers an instrumental rendition to lead us off for this weeks edition.
Source: 7-31-2005

Bustle Video from Brooklyn Bowl last year:

READ ON for the scoop on the rest of this week’s contestants…

Day 2 of the Voodoo Festival held in New Orleans, October 30th, 2010.

Damon Albarn has formed a new band featuring drummer Tony Allen and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea. The band, who are currently unnamed, have "three-quarters finished" their debut album, according to Albarn. Speaking to Stuff.co.nz, the Gorillaz and Blur man said that the new band is "centred around what [Tony] does," referring to Allen’s […]