The Disco Biscuits have announced a four-night run in Colorado, Thursday January 13 through Sunday January 16 2011. The band will spend two nights at the Boulder Theater, Thursday and
On December 14th, JEMP Records will release Alpine Valley 2010, a two-DVD/two-audio CD collection capturing Phish’s entire August 14th, 2010 performance at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, WI.
Public Domain (Spire Artists) is the follow-up to Charlie Hunter’s first such album, 2000’s Solo 8-String Guitar, now long out of print on disc from Contra Punto Records (though still available as a download). As indicated by its title, this new work consists of largely familiar tunes, all of which have been around long enough for their copyrights to expire (as stipulated by law, after seventy years). In doing justice to the material in his own imitable fashion, however, Hunter insures the songs will retain their indelible mark on contemporary culture.
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
Kelley Stoltz has put together a snappy collection of 50’s-60’s dreamy garage-pop with his most recent effort To Dreamers. Echo vocals, glimmering tambourines, a dash of feedback and random horns all come and go like the breeze as Kelley sings about “getting the girl” and “all of our stars aligning”. The retro vibe is obvious, but this album was certainly produced in the digital age with clear sound and at times too many instruments/sounds trying to make a mark like on “Keeping the Flame”.
It was chilly air and cloudy skies during the day, but Widespread Panic was sure to warm everybody up and make it a beautiful night. The up-tempo and loose “Wondering” soared like a sports car going 90 miles an hour on an open highway, while the heavy thunder of “Imitation Leather Shoes” hit like a Mack truck crashing 90 miles an hour into a brick wall.
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
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
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
