Archive: 2010

While we won’t officially know who will be playing the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival until a week from today (February 9), when Superfly and AC Entertainment unveils the initial line-up, it seems as if Wayne Coyne couldn’t quite wait that long to let the cat out of the bag. Earlier today the enigmatic and […]

Back in April of 2008, we kicked off a series of B Lists devoted to Stage Setlist Porn in which we presented images of 60 stage setlists that rabid fans had saved from the scrap heap. Over the past year and a half over 5,000 images tagged “setlist” have been uploaded to Flickr. We sorted through most of those pics to bring you another batch of 20 kickass stage setlists.

1. moe. 11/07/09 Charleston, SC

[via Kahlil Katool]

moe. has been using the same format for their stage setlists over the past few years. moe.ron Kahil Katool has been keeping a repository of these setlists on his Facebook page.

Previously: Stage Setlists Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3

2. Wilco 8/18/08 Salt Lake City, UT

[via The Real Quiz]

Outside of the stage, one of the best places to score setlists is the sound and light boards. Most sound and light guys are happy to give you their setlists. If not, just take a picture like this guy did.

READ ON for 18 more prime examples of stage setlist porn from the likes of GSW, Of Montreal, Rage Against The Machine, the Disco Biscuits, Animal Collective, Umphrey’s McGee, Passion Pit and more…

Earlier today, the String Cheese Incident announced their first shows since last summer’s headlining appearance at Rothbury. On July 23 – 25 SCI will perform at Red Rocks and on July 29 – August 1 the group will top of the bill of a festival at Horning’s Hideout in North Plains, OR. How did the […]

O-o-h Child was originally recorded by Chicago’s Five Stairsteps, it was released both as a single and on the 1970 album The Stairsteps. O-o-h Child reached #8 on the Billboard charts. What did I learn this week? That the correct way to spell the song title is O-o-h Child.

The Contestants:

Beth Orton: Beth Orton leads us off this week with her down-tempo solo acoustic performance. This cover was included in an episode of the television show Alias. Source: The Other Side Of Daybreak

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

For most of the 1980s and ’90s, it wasn’t officially summer until the Grateful Dead came through town. The same can be said for a new generation of music fans about the Dave Matthews Band. The perennial road warriors will hit the road once again for another mammoth summer run. The 49-date trek kicks off […]

Wilco spent the weekend in Los Angeles for the Grammy Awards and made the most of their time by performing at the MusicCares Neil Young Tribute on Friday and a CBS tv taping on Thursday night. Here’s One Wing from the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson… Wilco – One Wing (Live on Craig Ferguson)

The sixth season of Lost starts tonight so we wanted to re-run Ryan’s Phish Style preview of the upcoming final season of the show.

This is it, folks. After five amazing seasons filled with countless characters, twists, love interests, and sci-fi mind benders, Lost fans finally get to answer those burning questions, put the harebrained theories to bed and close an important chapter in their TV viewing careers.

[Image From the Coventry Blog]

Having watched Lost since the onset and obsessed over it with endless email debates – a topic that perhaps poses the only email subject line rival to that of Phish – my buddy Sean Lalley and I (whom some of you may remember from our short lived Story of the Ghosts days ages ago here on HT), decided to devise a little bloggy preview for the final season. And we figured what better way than to run through the long list of characters with their Phish song counterparts – a job made easy by the fact that roughly 40% of all Phish lyrics reference time.

The Smoke Monster – Walls of a Cave

“It might have been an etching on a marker of a grave, or maybe on the walls of the cave.”

Etched on an underground blast door of one of the Dharma stations existed a map which revealed the other remaining Dharma stations as well as four iterations of the letters “CV.” Later, at some comic book convention, the producers of Lost admitted “CV” stands for “Cerberus Vents” and that they actually refer to the Smoke Monster by the name Cerberus.

In ancient Roman mythology, Cerberus was a three headed watchdog who permitted spirits to enter or leave the underworld. In the case of Lost, the Cerberus seems to act as the watchdog of pointless randoms who don’t belong on the show like Shannon and Nadine, both of both since got waxed by the Smoke Monster. This secret represents arguably the biggest question mark to be answered in Season 6.

READ ON for the rest of our Lost Season 6 Preview…

Two things that The Disco Biscuits have become famous for – indulgently stretched-out peaks and breakneck, trance-based improvisation – are noticeably absent on their new On Time EP. Part of a multi-release series building to the long-overdue March 16 drop of Planet Anthem, the band’s own Chinese Democracy, On Time delivers far more studio polish than the band has ever boasted, morphing this release into a sonic alter-ego. Sounding little like the band’s famed live performances, this EP provides a glimpse at a new side of The Disco Biscuits.

You can’t hear the vocals?!?  What fucking show do you think this is?!?!” Lou Barlow sarcastically yelled this to an ill informed fan midway through Dinosaur Jr’s ass-kickingly-loud concert at Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night in New York City…and really what the hell was that fan thinking?  This is Dinosaur Jr; beasts of feedback, lords of the distortion!

Each time we check our inbox there’s another note about a band or musician putting together a benefit for the people of Haiti. We love that our community has rallied around such a worthy cause. The latest announcement comes from Mickey Hart of The Dead who will perform with Giovanni Hidalgo, Sikiru Adepoju, Rebeca Mauleon […]