The latest video from The McLovins features Milktoast Man – the group’s new original composition. Milktoast Man contains a laidback, reggae groove and owes more to The Police than the
The best source for free Widespread Panic MP3 continues to get better. PanicStream’s iPod-Ready Widespread Panic Downloads page grows each week. At this point, you can access Sendspace links for
Tibet House US is proud to announce the complete line up of the 20th Annual Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall. This year’s esteemed line up, guided by artistic director Philip
In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum presents Animal Collective in collaboration with experimental visual artist Danny Perez for a site-specific performance on Thursday, March 4, 2010. In
Lindsay White's vocal style gets compared to Jewel’s quite often, which is taken as a compliment; however, she believes that her lyrics are just a tad more sarcastic. For example, her song, “All Damn Day” explains her frustrations with happy people. As dark and as negative as it sounds, Lindsay uses her songwriting as an outlet. In other words, she keeps it real.
Mark Everett is back at it. His Eels have been quite busy in the last few years, recording a record in each of the last three years if you include the soundtrack to Yes Man, which was comprised mostly of songs by Everett. For those familiar with Eels music, this latest release, End Times, won’t provide anything new to the puzzle in terms of style or feel, though it may be the darkest release yet.
Our pal Michael Weiss recently uploaded an important piece of God Street Wine history, The Bedroom Sessions, to the Internet Archive. Shortly after signing with Geffen, GSW recorded nearly every song in their repertoire for their new label as Geffen wanted to hear as much of the group’s material as possible before they went in to record an actual album.
Bedroom Sessions #1 features Molly, Bring Back The News, Epiphany and 13 other God Street classics. Bedroom Sessions #2 contains a number of rarities along with fan-favorites Imogene, Into The Sea and Ballroom. The cherry on top is a collection of tunes labeled Ossining Demos and Rehearsals from 1995.
[Photo Courtesy of Michael Weiss]
Lo Faber shared his thoughts on these recordings on the Archive…
First off, this is in no way a “review,” since I obviously have no right to review my own work, but I thought I might add a few thoughts and recollections about the recording of this particular collection, which I am delighted to see up here on archive.org.
The terse description says this material was “recorded in Lo’s Bedroom at the band house in Ossining, NY.” This is true as far as it goes; but it conveys perhaps a misleading impression of intimacy, since my “bedroom” in the Ossining house was a gigantic, brick-floored, cathedral-ceilinged modern addition to a very old house, considerably bigger than the tracking rooms in many major NYC recording studios. How did this monstrosity get to be my bedroom? Well, let’s just say when the rooms were divvied up in the GSW house, I opted for square footage over privacy. Yes, I had space, but I also had a door that was inches from the kitchen fridge, a balcony overlooking my sleeping space that anyone could wander out onto, and huge curtainless picture windows facing out on the lawn. Not to mention those bricks were mighty cold on the feet on winter mornings.
READ ON for more of Lo’s thoughts on The Bedroom Sessions…
Ween is not for everyone. It seems that a lot of people can’t get past the silliness, raunchiness, and perceived-offensiveness to grasp the deranged beauty that is Ween. For those of us privy to the Brownness however, the band holds a special place that could not be filled by anything else. There is a delicate balance that is always at play when it comes to Ween. They can make you laugh, want to cry, question everything you know about life and then laugh again – often within the same song.
Often lost in a sea of ridiculousness and loud noises, it was impossible not to notice just how wonderful the songs themselves are seeing them stripped down by Gener with only his own acoustic strumming accompanying. It was also hard to ignore how fantastic a singer Gener is. The man has an incredible range and a full palate of tones that are freakishly similar to the effects-drenched vocals on Ween studio records.
The magnificence and absurdity housed in the Ween catalogue was impeccably on display last weekend as Gener brought his solo tour to Chicago’s new, fantastic Lincoln Hall for a sold out show. From the opening notes of Now I’m Freaking Out through the rousing ending of Buenos Tardes Amigos, Mr. Freeman was all smiles and treated the attentive audience to nearly an hour and a half of Ween classics and rarities.
Setlist:
Now I’m Freaking Out, Tried and True, Stallion Pt. 3, Golden Eel, Flutes of the Chi, Spiritwalker, Don’t Get 2 Close 2 My Fantasy, Ooh va lah, She’s Your Baby, I Don’t Want to Leave You on the Farm, You Were the Fool, The Argus, Boy’s Club, The Grobe, What Deaner was Talking About, The Mollusk, Mutilated Lips, Tender Situation, Oh My Dear (I must be falling in love), Baby Bitch, Oh Yoko, Buenos Tardes Amigos
READ ON for a gallery of Joel’s Gene Ween photos…
As Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB move on from the Northeast leg of their tour onto the Midwest and South, they have left a trail of happy faces in their path. The “anything can happen at anytime” M.O. that Phish lives and dies with is nowhere to be found on TAB Tour, alleviating all the pressure that comes with Phish shows for Trey Anastasio. Big Red and his bandmates are clearly having fun and the happiness is contagious.
[All photos by Adam Kaufman]
What’s most impressive is how well this band has gelled over the first seven shows of the tour. Flubs are few and far-between and the interplay between the musicians ranges from impressive to stellar. TAB newbie Natalie Cressman has filled her father’s shoes with the aplomb of a veteran with Anastasio getting a huge kick out of his first second-generation band member. While the setlists from the shows may look similar, each of the past three shows that I’ve caught (Wallingford, Red Bank and NYC) couldn’t have been more different from each other.
Wallingford was the most button-downed show of the three with Trey and his ensemble focusing on the songs for a large audience that included Cressman’s 93-year-old grandmother. Red Bank was a high-energy affair that featured a slew of jams that kept on peaking. Last night’s show at Terminal 5 was a marathon feast for the senses that included an acoustic interlude at the end of a nearly two-hour first set.
READ ON for more of Scotty’s thoughts on Classic TAB…
We were a little wary on posting another UM article today, but the UM Bowl just sounds way too cool to ignore. Today, the band announced that they will hold
