The Joy Formidable will return to the U.S. for some brief tour dates in August, including a stop at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago on August 7. See tour dates
Tonight we’re going to break all the rules”. And with that simple statement the Mothership known as Bootsy Collins & The Funk University landed in Uptown to spread the gospel according to funk on a very ready New Orleans packed-house crowd inside Tipitina’s, a legend among legendary music haunts in the Crescent City.
If Black Dub is the vehicle that has broadened listeners’ ears to the darker interpretation of untraditional dub, then Daniel Lanois is steady in the driver’s seat with lead singer Trixie Whitley as the co-pilot.
The Arctic Monkeys fourth proper release is unlike any of their past work which keeps things fresh and adds to their growing catalog of enchanting songs. This time around the group focuses their talents on 60’s pop, crafting ditties that can jangle a tambourine or trip out a touch in front of Alex Turner’s ear catching lyrics.
If you called 212-330-9092 today, aka Mike Gordon’s “hotline” you’ve heard the Phish bassist address an issue many fans have discussed over the course of the group’s recently completed 18-show
Longtime Dumpstaphunk drummer Raymond Weber has parted ways with the band after a seven-year tenure behind the kit for the Ivan Neville-led group. Yesterday, Weber took to his Facebook page
[Originally Published: January 26, 2010]
Harvest Moon is the title track from a 1992 Neil Young album. Released a full twenty years after Young’s album Harvest, a number of supporting musicians appear on both albums. Many things can influence my choice of songs for Cover Wars each week and one of them is other music blogs.
Snarky Indie Blog Pitchfork had a post last Thursday where they pointed out that both Kevin Barnes and Ben Gibbard had both contributed covers of Harvest Moon for charity releases. P4K theorized…
Neil Young: Having a moment! One possible explanation for the two simultaneous covers: The recent release of Young’s archival live album Dreamin’ Man, which collects live versions of every song from Young’s Harvest Moon album.
Well if they checked YouTube, they would have realized that both artists performed the song 3+ years ago. Pitchfork, I give you a 3.6 for doing your Internet research.
The Contestants:
Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie): As was mentioned in the intro, Gibbard recently contributed a cover of Harvest Moon to GIVE Seattle 2009. Proceeds from this compilation go to Food Banks and Art Corps in Seattle. Gibbard performed this tune frequently on his 2007 solo tour.
READ ON for the rest of this week’s contestants…
Earlier today we showed you New Jersey boys Bon Jovi’s cover of Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out in honor of the late Clarence Clemons and now we’ll take a look at another
Fellow New Jersey natives Bon Jovi paid tribute to the late Clarence Clemons by performing the E Street Band’s signature song, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, at the CASA Arena in Horsens,
We’re a little over a week away from the start of Phish’s ninth multi-day festival otherwise known as Super Ball. In addition to the seven scheduled sets of music from
