The momentum behind Tokyo Police Club’s second proper album, Champ, reached a rolling boil yesterday as the song Gone made an appearance on Gossip Girl. Glad to see TPC getting
We first visited the catalog of Tom Waits a couple of months ago when we made the Cold Water edition of Cover Wars. Goin’ Out West was released on the 1992 Waits album Bone Machine. Fun bonus this week, we’ve got both very old and recent video to compare from two of our four contestants. You don’t see a whole lot of Mid ’90s live concert footage on YouTube, so that was a pleasant surprise to find. Ten points to anyone who can identify what scene in Fight Club features this song.
The Contestants:
British band Gomez leads us off this week with a strong performance from 2005. A fantastic recording of a show that also features covers of The Beatles and Buddy Holly. Audio Source: 1-24-2005
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/gomezwest.mp3]READ ON for the scoop on the rest of this week’s contestants…
Crowdsourcing is all the rage among jambands lately and instead of asking their followers to design merch the Disco Biscuits continue to solicit dream setlists from the fanbase. The jamtronica
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals found themselves in Dallas tonight with a few days off and nothing to do. Potter sent a tweet asking her followers what area to visit
Keller Williams has announced plans for a set of very special East Coast New Year’s Eve concerts. Starting on December 29 in Virginia and concluding on NYE in North Carolina
The Hold Steady have expanded their tour of North America. Currently playing throughout North America, the group have added a series of dates in October and November. Their next show
The first Life Is Good Festival held September 11 and 12 in Canton Mass, promises to be another premier stop on the summer circuit. Put on by the Life Is Good Company, it drew over 30,000 over 2 days according to the organizers. The non-profit event raised over $600,000 for the Life Is Good Foundation, devoted to helping kids overcoming obstacles and challenges in their lives.
Upon first listen to The Red River’s Little Songs About The Big Picture, I was grabbed by its nods to Iron and Wine, Sufjan Stevens, the Cave Singers, and Animal Collective (and even occasional hints of early Bright Eyes, as on “Grand Fasse”). However, it’s got something more… it feels like something one could listen to on one’s porch, happily sipping some summery drink while rocking back and forth. It carries a melancholic joie de vivre, if that’s possible – a sense of awareness of things beyond one’s vision, carried all the while on a melody that reminds one of life’s short, bittersweet nature.
“We’re going to rip this place!” announced a smiling Dave Pirner and he wasn’t kidding. The Minneapolis quintet kicked off their show in a rainy Biloxi with an energetic “Somebody To Shove” and never thought about letting up. Fans braving the nasty weather were treated to a band not exactly on the Billboard radar anymore, but you wouldn’t have been able to tell as Soul Asylum were, as lead vocalist Dave Pirner said, still ripping it up.
We’re quickly approaching the end of the year which means it’s time to start thinking about Warren Haynes’ annual Christmas Jam. According to the Asheville Citizen-Times, this year’s event will
