Archive: 2011

When I put together my list of the Ten Best Concert DVDs of 2010, Ladies and Gentleman the Rolling Stones took the #2 spot. You can catch this 1972 concert film from the Exile Tour tomorrow at 6PM on VH1 Classic. Friday, January 14 [all times EST] The Police – Everyone Stares [ShowNext 6:40PM] Rush […]

The fun continues for Vince Herman and Great American Taxi with a newly added leg of tour dates that kicks Great American Taxi into high gear in the New Year. To date, many of the most innovative and acclaimed players currently on the jamband/newgrass circuit have joined Taxi’s Reckless Habits Tour, which largely features the […]

Partisan Records is excited to announce Middle Brother’s national tour. The tour begins in Washington, DC, on March 2 and ends in Austin at SXSW on March 19. The dates are in support of the band’s highly anticipated self-titled debut album that will be released on March 1. Partisan is offering a live video of […]

On the heels of Phish’s New Year’s week shows, which culminated with a sold-out, three-night stand at Madison Square Garden, Trey Anastasio announces plans for an intimate theatre tour with the Trey Anastasio Band.The outing will kick off on February 18th at the State Theatre in Portland, ME and include a return to New York […]

Everyone is looking for their fountain of youth; a way to stay young if not physically then mentally. And I am here to tell you that it lives inside the heart of rock & roll. ALL rock & roll, no matter which way your tastes lean. As long as you’re rocking, you’re still like the kid you once were in a room full of posters and records. If you actually play rock & roll, it never stops beating. Witness two so-called hair metal bands whose heyday was back in the early 90’s – Kix and Slaughter. They were extremely popular with as many fans as the next band: hit records on the charts, sold out concerts.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker’s Damn the Torpedoes was the band’s breakthrough album, launching an ascent to rock icon status via a painstaking (and often painful) creative process. The combination of the band’s third album in an expanded package with a simultaneously released DVD would’ve made for a truly deluxe edition.

On Kaputt, Bejar’s full-length follow-up to 2009’s Bay of Pigs EP, the formula that has worked so well on past releases returns, however, this time with a twist: an ‘80’s jazz-fused, electronic sound more in line with Roxy Music and Spandau Ballet than previous albums have revealed.

Panda Bear is the project of Animal Collective member Noah Lennox.  Tomboy, his long-awaited fourth album as Panda Bear, and follow-up to Person Pitch, is now complete and will be released on his own label, Paw Tracks on April 19, 2011. Over the past six months or so, Panda Bear has released a series of […]

The year 2010 saw Soundgarden – Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron – reuniting after a 13-year absence to a thunderous roar. As promised, the band have now announced that they’ll be releasing their first-ever collection of live tracks on March 22, 2011 through UMe.  Titled Live on I5 – a reference […]

Well, we flip the calendar year over to 2011 and it of course takes me a little while to make the adjustment. Every week [errr, almost every week] when I go to write this piece, the first thing I do is do an Advanced Search on the Live Music Archive for the range of dates from last week. At first I put in 2010 and got a little confused. Right, 2011. OK, back on track. A lot of the selections this week all come from either Jam Cruise or moe’s destination concerts down in the Dominican Republic. A Caribbean edition if you will.

You can download all of this week’s audio in one easy to listen to MP3 that we call the Last Week’s Sauce Podcast, click here to download.

[Thanks to tonedeaf for this week’s photo]

Little Feat – Fat Man In The Bathtub > Abba Zaba > Fat Man In The Bathtub
Date & Venue: 2011-01-03 – Infinity Hall – Norfolk, CT
Taper & Show Download: Dave Malloy (CTDave)

Well, since I got in alphabetical order – we’re actually leading off with the only selection not from a warm climate. But this is a very hot section of music from Little Feat’s encore which features their classic Fat Man In The Bathtub, a tribute to Captain Beefheart with Abba Zaba, and I heard a little bit of Scarlet Begonias in there too. Little Feat [tour dates] plays tonight at The Neighborhood Theater in Charlotte, NC.

All That You Dream from a few nights later:

READ ON for tracks from Lotus, moe. and Stockholm Syndrome…

A new batch of dates for Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble, held at the legendary drummer’s home/studio in Woodstock, NY, has been announced and we’re happy to see moe. score an opening gig. moe. will be Levon’s special guest at the March 12th Midnight Ramble for which tickets are currently available. Other Rambles announced today are […]

Back in October, HT’s Ryan Dembinsky chatted with Bill Nershi and the SCI frontman let it slip that the band was looking into the possibility of throwing its own festival at Rothbury… “We’re also planning on doing something next summer at the Rothbury site. That will be a weekend festival with a lot of String […]

Priorities change, families have needs and jobs burn energy, so when you can still call your live music diet healthy – that definition’s up to you, friend-o – you’re privileged. As you get older, live music performance becomes no less indispensible. It’s just that you just gotta pick your spots better, right? Or try to, at least?

Here are 15 shows that, for me, stood out from the past twelve months.

1. Another One For Woody, Roseland (NYC), Nov. 22

Benefit shows with pre-determined guests and anticipated, formulated “wow” moments have a way of disappointing. But the best ones – and Another One for Woody was among the two or three best I’ve ever seen – meet expectations and then transcend them through a winning combination of warmth, surprise, thoroughness and dazzling performance.

AOFW had all of that, and then some. You had predictable emotional pushbuttons (Savannah Woody singing on Soulshine) and expected collaborations (I Shall Be Released? Yep. Simple Man? Of course.) But you also had heartfelt stories, had-to-be-there grace notes, blistering jams and a crowd that was totally into it and kept the energy up for nearly six hours. The North Mississippi Allstars duo and Mule were fun, but whoever lit a fire under the Allmans is to be commended; the band was at its strongest since the fabled 2009 Beacon run, blazing through its set and keeping it that way straight through a Whipping Post for the ages. Somewhere, Woody was smilin’.

• Review: Another One For Woody

READ ON for more of Chad’s Fine 15 – Best Shows of 2010…

Jeff Tweedy @ Boulder Theater, January 8

For Jeff Tweedy, the success of a solo performance depends on his audience. He wants to create a moment: during quiet songs he wants silence and during upbeat songs, he’s happy if you sing along. Meanwhile, on stage alongside him are six acoustic guitars and five speakers pointing directly at him. You may think one of two things: 1.) Jeff Tweedy is an asshole, or 2.) Jeff Tweedy loves music, knows music, and cares so much about how he sounds that he wants every note, ever moment, to be perfect. These would be the logical guesses, and it’s nearly impossible to tell which of them, if either, is the right answer.

In honor of the Boulder Theater’s 75th Anniversary, Tweedy played to two sold-out crowds, mostly seated, of college students and young professionals, many in flannel shirts and jeans but a few in dreadlocks and flowing skirts. On the second of these nights some of the most memorable moments came between songs as he joked sarcastically, criticizing the audience from the previous night – “they were horrible people.” For much of the night, at his request, each song was followed by a chorus of boo’s from his adoring fans, who loved him perhaps more, even after he publicly denied them autographs, “Are you the one who wanted me to sign the book for you last night? I won’t sign it for you tonight, either.”

READ ON for more on Jeff Tweedy’s recent Boulder show…

One of the acts that most impressed me on Jam Cruise 9 was Chicago-based rockgrass unit Cornmeal. This group mixes the best elements of bluegrass with a hearty dose of rock and roots music. Check out this clip of the quintet performing Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place) by the Talking Heads in the […]

With the runaway success of the film Once, it’s really no surprise that it would eventually be adapted for the Great White Way. The stage version of the 2006 flick, which will hit Broadway sometime this fall, will be helmed by Irish playwright Enda Walsh and Scottish director John Tiffany, and features music and lyrics by the […]

Trey Anastasio announced today a two-week tour opening Friday, February 18th at the newly re-opened State Theater in Portland, ME and closing 15 days later on Saturday, March 5th at Oakland’s Fox Theater. The band lineup is identical to the band that toured last February and most recently played at the Hangout Festival in May […]

White Apple Tree, self proclaimed as “the lovechild of determination and boredom,” is the brainchild of founder Ryan Marshall Lawhon. Originally destined for the NBA, Lawhon quickly switched gears when he was asked to play bass for his local youth group.

The Greenhornes fourth album is cleverly and aptly titled as they return to the retro-garage-psychedelic-pop proceedings that they perfected at the beginning of the millennium.  The jangle and aggression have been turned down to focus hardcore on keyboards, simple song structures and trippy blends of sound; all of which are evident on the eastern tempo change mayhem of “Cave Drawings” and the classic soul ringing “Better Off Without It”.

For the first time in nearly a year, there are not any scheduled God Street Wine performances on the calendar. Alas, Lo and Aaron continue to book gigs as an acoustic duo. Next up for the GSW guitarists is an opening set at Brooklyn Bowl on January 19th supporting former God Street Wine multi-instrumentalist Jason Crosby and Friends. Also on the agenda for Faber and Maxwell is a show with American Babies, Crosby and James Maddock on January 29th at Mexicali Live in Teaneck, NJ. Tickets are currently available for both shows.

[Photo by Michael Weiss (Nice Shirt, Tomo!)]

If you missed my reviews of God Street Wine’s guest-laden performances on Jam Cruise 9, be sure to check out A Letter to 16-Year-Old ScottyB about the Pool Deck show and Day Four, Pt. 1, which includes my thoughts on the theater set. Plenty of videos have emerged on YouTube from each of the sets and we can look forward to watching the pro-shot footage filmed by the iClips crew in the future.

Here’s some of the best clips we’ve come across…

God Street Wine w/ Anders Osborne – Goodnight Gretchen

READ ON for more GSW videos from Jam Cruise 9…