When BB King was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987, Sting announced that “the thrill has not gone.” And so it is that twenty-three years later, an 85 year old Riley B. King is still touring the country and still thrilling audiences with his songs, his guitar playing and his stories.
Ladies & Gentlemen … The Rolling Stones is a document of the Mick Taylor-era Stones at their gritty and sweat-soaked finest. If you needed a time capsule item to best explain to future civilizations what rock ‘n’ roll was all about, this movie is it.
Though the landscape of rock music has changed drastically since Helmet’s founding in 1989, Helmet has never worried about what music is popular. With Seeing Eye Dog, Page Hamilton and company offer their most experimental set yet, but it is still undeniably Helmet.
Phish Fall Tour 2010 concludes tonight with the band’s traditional three-set Halloween celebration in which they plan to cover another artist’s album at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ.
[Photo by Regan Teti Marscher]
I’ll be tweeting live from the show for @YEMblog. Head over to PhishTwit for the full “Couch Tour” experience. READ ON for tonight’s setlist…
Regan Teti Marscher shot Phish’s first show in Atlantic City this past Friday night and delivered plenty of amazing photos. Check em out…
[All photos by Regan Teti Marscher]
READ ON for more of Regan’s Phish photos…
Phish returns to the massive Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ this evening for the second of two shows at the venue.
Jim Raras will be reporting from AC for @YEMblog. Head over to PhishTwit for the “Couch Tour” experience. READ ON for tonight’s setlist…
Phish Fall Tour 2010 has reached its final destination – Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Tonight marks the first of three sold-out shows at the venue.
Adam Edelman will be reporting on the show for @YEMblog. Our friends at YEMblog have also compiled a Twitter List featuring over 60 fans tweeting from Atlantic City this weekend. Head over to PhishTwit for the full “Couch Tour” experience. READ ON for the setlist…
After the five day marathon of music that is CMJ, it’s easy to walk away wondering what the hell to make of it. The thing hosts about 1,200 bands from literally all over the globe across god knows how many venues, and the showcases that feature the bands anybody has actually heard of generally fill up to capacity long before those artists perform.
Thus, it’s better to just roll with it. There’s no point in trying too hard to make it to all the buzzy acts. Instead, the fun comes in just popping around neighboring venues, putting on your own personal critic’s cap and evaluating in an American Idol-eque vibe all these bands who are virtually all capable of grabbing your attention – sometimes with their music, but more often with their thirsty stage acts and attempted emulations of what they think will make them the next big thing.
You get everything from up-and-coming divas sporting ’80s garb in complement to their radio-ready pop hits (Spark), to nerd rockers cracking weird jokes about drinking from beakers (Crayon Fields), to hip hop megastars dropping by (Kanye, Chromeo and GZA at Brooklyn Bowl) unannounced. It’s over-stimulation at its finest, but there’s no shortage of quality. Hence, in our quest to pay attention to some of the lesser covered corners of the live music scene, we discovered some excellent new stuff. The following are just a few Hidden Track picks from the fest, including music, panels, and venues.
Jon Hopkins – The first of two of the supporting acts for the Four Tet at Webster Hall to make this list, Jon Hopkins was hands down the coolest show of my week. Hailing from London, Hopkins already has a huge following and has Brian Eno and Coldplay collabs on his CV. The classically trained DJ/multi-instrumentalist has a knack for taking catchy minimalist, ethereal electronic music and slowly letting it carefully evolve to a fever pitch. His music calls to mind Eno himself and Phillip Glass at times, but he allows just enough catchiness in to attract a party crowd and make people want to dance. His video for Light Through the Veins is really something else.
READ ON for more winners from CMJ 2010…
The Classic Albums series dissects Black Sabbath’s epic Paranoid LP nearly 40 years to the day after its release. Tune in to VH1 Classic at 10AM on Sunday morning for
Prior to his success as a solo artist, José González fronted an indie-rock band in Sweden in the late ’90s called Junip – releasing a 4-song EP with the group.
