The Death Cab For Cutie episode of VH1’s Storytellers will debut this evening at 11PM. Ben Gibbard and the boys share the stories behind their biggest “hits” as well as
Now that the Summer Camp Festival is underway, and radius clauses are out the window, jambands moe., Umphrey’s McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band and Cornmeal have been added to the
These are in no particular order of ranking. This is purely in the order that I witnessed them. And in most cases WITNESSED is the perfect word.
[All photos by Marc Millman]
1) Dave Malone sitting in with Tommy Malone & The Mystik Drones @ the New Orleans Convention Center (7th Annual Threadhead party – Mardi Gras World, May 3)
Monday through Wednesday are the three “off days” between the two weekends of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. They are referred to as the “Daze Between.” For the last seven years, the Threadheads have thrown a party to help support local musicians (this is what the group does in addition to being all things Jazz Fest). I was shoveling plate after plate of free crawfish into my face mere hours after landing in the Big Easy while Tommy and his band were playing. The music was great background music.
I had seen Dave and Tommy standing around earlier. But when Tommy announced Dave was joining them, I grabbed my gear and ran to the front and I’m glad I did. They did two songs together. I don’t know the names of either, but the love you could see between the brothers and the passion they have for playing live music came through. And that’s what Fest is all about. READ ON for more of Marc’s top Jazz Fest musical moments…
Last week I told you about a couple of the places I hit (and enjoyed) on my recent trip to Key West in the posting F4tF: Key West Eating and Drinking. This week I am sharing some other places I checked out both in Key West and on the drive home up Route 1 back to reality.
On one of my daytime walks down Duval St I came across a shop Cocktails, Celebrating the Art of the Drink! seems the mixologist thing has made it all the way down to Key West as well.
READ ON for more on Jon’s trip to Key West…
After a brutal winter of blizzards and mounds of snow, and what has turned out to be quite the rainy spring, we’ve finally reached the official kick off summer as Memorial
After enduring a round-trip total of 28 hours in a Rav4 and extreme sunburn, I managed to survive the 2nd annual Hangout Music Festival on the beaches of Gulf Shores, AL. The sold-out festival featured three days of incendiary music, including over 60 acts right on the Gulf Coast. Festival headliners included Paul Simon, Foo Fighters and Widespread Panic, and those were not even the weekend’s best sets.
Gulf Shores was the epitome of a tacky tourist town; think Myrtle Beach crossed with Wisconsin Dells, with an added pinch of southern hospitality. The main strip, Highway 59, was lined with attractions including over the top souvenir shops, an amusement park (featuring the Wild Woody go-cart track, definitely worth the ride), bold colored beach houses and neon-lit restaurants including oyster bars and shrimp shacks.
The festival itself was set on the beach, roughly 25 feet from the coast. Everyday the sun beamed down from cloudless skies, incinerating the flesh of thousands of scantily clad fans. Stumbling through sand, insane music fans and sweaty southerners while watching the likes of My Morning Jacket, the Flaming Lips and Ween made the Hangout Festival a priceless experience. When the overabundance of skin and scorching temperatures became too much, all one had to do was walk a block out of the festival grounds, and take a dip in the ocean. I was honored to represent Hidden Track in witnessing all the glory the Hangout Festival had to offer.
Day 1: Easy Star All-Stars, Umphrey’s McGee, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, My Morning Jacket
Hangout officially kicked off Friday May 20 to 85 degree heat and blazing sunny skies. I started my experience with some mid-afternoon, soul soothing dub-reggae by the Easy Star All-Stars (ESA). The seven-piece collective are best known for their dub renditions of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (Dub Side of the Moon), Radiohead’s OK Computer (Radiodread) and the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band). ESA heated the afternoon with signature Dub Side and Radiodread selections. They also performed original songs off their April 2011 release First Light, the collective’s first full-length album of original songs.
- Hangout Music Festival – Day One Recordings: My Morning Jacket, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Umphrey’s McGee, Widespread Panic and Warren Haynes Band
READ ON for more on the first day of the Hangout Festival…
Garage A Troi performing at the North Star Bar in Philadelphia, PA 5.19.11.
Dropkick Murphys have announced additional North American summer tour dates in support of their critically acclaimed Going Out In Style CD (Born & Bred Records/ILG), which debuted at #6 on
Deliberately poor production is a badge of honor proudly worn by most indie bands today, with terms like ‘honesty’ and ‘rebellion’ casually thrown about. But Times New Viking, the quaintly-named indie-pop/rock trio from Columbus, Ohio (fondly categorized by some as “shitgaze”), are definitely pushing their luck with their latest release Dancer Equired.
For a band like Phish, who rely so much on onstage chemistry, the first show of a tour is rarely if ever the best show of the run. Now, that is not to say there are not gems to be had. If you poke around there is a takeaway moment from practically every Phish show ever played. With that in mind, we put together this list of 10 memorable musical moments from past tour openers, not just any tour openers, but all shows where the band had not performed publicly in at least 90 days to give a taste of what’s possible at tomorrow’s tour opener in Bethel, NY.
Keep in mind, you won’t find the crowd eruptions such as the hiatus-ending Piper at Madison Square Garden 2002 or the breakup-ending Fluffhead at Hampton in 2009, because well – that would be too easy, and that is not what we do. Here’s what we came up with in reverse chronological order…
06/11/2010: Toyota Park, Bridgeview, IL
Ghost:
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Taped By: TaylorC
Phish came out of the gates with an improv-heavy first show of the summer last year at Toyota Park in Chicago, IL. The first set featured jam songs Down With Disease, Wolfman’s, Reba and Bowie, while the second stanza was top heavy with a potent Light that went into a Maze that had two ferocious solos. For our money, the highlight of the night was a Ghost that was dotted with tasteful Orca usage by Trey, bass bombs a plenty by Mike and some adventurous clav work by Page before the band worked their way towards Limb By Limb. Let’s hope tomorrow night is on par with the 2010 opener.
- Previously on HT: The B List – 10 Best Phish Tour Openers and Predictions – Phish Summer Tour Leg One
READ ON for nine more strong tour-opening moments…
