About two years ago, Neon Indian released his debut album, Psychic Chasms, and hasn’t had a moments rest since. Every music blog instantly fell in love with then 20-year-old Alan
Iconic country music legend, Country Hall of Famer and most recently a Kennedy Center Honoree, Merle Haggard is releasing a new album, Working In Tennessee, on October 4th. This marks
Megafaun – crowned this week as RollingStone.com’s new "Band To Watch" – have confirmed North American and European headlining tour dates in support of their imminent self-titled album, out September
moe. and Eastern Artists are pleased to announce the final artists in this year’s moe.down music and camping festival lineup. The event will be held Labor Day Weekend, Sept 2-4
The biggest Camp Bisco yet took place at the Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville, NY on July 7 – 9. For the tenth installment of the fest, organizers supplemented headlining sets by the Disco Biscuits with an electronica-heavy lineup that also dipped its toes in the rap, rock and indie worlds.
[All photos by Sebastien Barre]
While unfortunately a series of “technical difficulties” prevented us from giving this fest the full coverage it deserved, we do have a killer photo set from Saturday’s action provided by Sebastien Barre that paints a picture of how things went down at the ILCC featuring the likes of the event’s host – the Disco Biscuits, rapper Wiz Khalifa, DJs MartyParty, Jillionaire and Bassnectar as well as Death From Above 1979, Lettuce, Yeasayer and Neon Indian.
READ ON for a full gallery of Sebastien’s photos from Camp Bisco Ten…
[Originally Published: April 14, 2011]
Back in 1989, when MTV was still living up to its Music Television title, the cable network debuted a show with a simple premise called Unplugged. Artists from a wide variety of genres would perform acoustic sets in front of a small audience. By 1992 the show had produced a #1 single (Mariah Carey’s I’ll Be There) and a #1 album (Eric Clapton’s Unplugged) and dozens of memorable performances.
MTV’s Unplugged is currently in its 21st season with Lykke Li, Train and Adam Lambert among the latest batch of underwhelming performers visiting the show. It’s been quite some time since an episode of Unplugged has generated lots of buzz and we’d like to see that change. For this week’s B List, I’ve put together a list of ten acts I think would kill on Unplugged…
10. Fleet Foxes
While appearing on Unplugged wouldn’t exactly take Fleet Foxes out of their comfort zone since frontman Robin Pecknold usually plays an acoustic, we would love the whole band eschew electricity for a set of pastoral folk-rock.
READ ON for nine more acts that would revitalize Unplugged…
We are very proud to present the first episode of a new in-studio performance webseries running exclusively on Hidden Track. The series will focus on intimate performances by talented artists
We’ve been watching the proliferation of music festivals in Florida over the last few years with great interest and this morning a new player has emerged in the form of
moe. @ Stone Pony Summer Stage – July 15
Words: Kahlil Katool
Photos: Rob Chapman
The five guys named moe. gave the staple Not Coming Down > Wormwood as their opening offering to Asbury Park with bassist Rob Derhak’s signature slapping and dual lead guitarists Al Schnier and Chuck Garvey’s heavy metal shreddings. The New York-based rockers got right down to it and tightly made their way into a very patient, yet spacey segue filled with several teases that marked the transition into one of Schnier’s newer songs, Downward Facing Dog. Schnier then sat down at his Wurlitzer piano for the intro to a prime version of Garvey’s Wind It Up, which then saw, the human metronome, drummer Vinnie Amico, drop the band right into Timmy Tucker. With strong soloing from both guitarists and high-speed mallet-katting (electric xylophone) from percussionist/multi-instrumentalist Jim Loughlin, the band closed the first set nicely leaving the Asbury crowd wanting more.
[All photos by Rob Chapman]
Garvey’s melodic Hi & Lo opened the second set, which usually signifies that good things are yet to come as was the case at the Stone Pony Outdoor Stage. The jamming segue out of Hi & Lo saw the band throw down some major Brent Black teases right before Schnier’s major riffs barreled into a solid version of Big World. This take was sans the big finish at the end, but rather featured another on-point drop into the instrumental Ricky Marten. Next, there was no more teasing about it, Brent Black had arrived and again the Jersey crowd saw the quintet firing on all cylinders, with exceptional work from all members of the band. During Derhak’s bass solo he even scatted along with his bass as he added a little Peter Gunn Theme from the ’70s tv show at which point Garvey used his Talkbox to scat very briefly (video).
Schnier then debuted a new one of a kind 1974 double-neck Gibson he recently added to his extensive arsenal of guitars. Giving a slightly different tone and being able to switch tuning and keys, the band closed the set with the newer rocking anthem Haze that went into the always crowd pleasing Rebubula.
moe. ~ 7/15/11 ~ Stone Pony ~ Summerstage ~ Asbury Park, NJ
{7:23 PM > 8:38 PM EST}
I:Not Coming Down > Wormwood > Downward Facing Dog > Deep This Time, Wind It Up >(nh) Timmy Tucker
{9:04 PM > 10:23 PM EST}
II: Hi & Lo > Big World > Ricky Marten > Brent Black, Haze@ > Rebubula@
Enc: New York City
{BB included jim. solo > vin. solo > rob. solo > rob. playing and scatting the theme to Peter Gunn in which chuck. came out and scatted it as well for a minute before rob. finished his solo
@ al on brand new (to him) ’74 one of a kind Gibson double-neck guitar
al on wurlitzer for WIU}
- Audio: Scott Bernstein’s AUD
READ ON for Kahlil’s report from Bethlehem…
With new longer upload length limits on YouTube these days, we’re seeing more people share entire sets as one clip on the video portal. For example, check out this sidestage-shot
