The Kills Extend U.S. Dates
The Kills have planned one more 2011 U.S. run with new dates scheduled for early September. The upcoming U.S. leg begins Aug. 5 with a gig at New York’s
The Kills have planned one more 2011 U.S. run with new dates scheduled for early September. The upcoming U.S. leg begins Aug. 5 with a gig at New York’s
Incubus is offering fans that preorder the band’s new album first dibs on tickets to their newly announced U.S. tour. The alternative rock group’s seventh studio album, If Not Now,
Jackson Browne continues his solo acoustic tour with a fresh routing beginning in Michigan in September. Playing only guitar and piano, Browne has been doing the solo bit since February,
Los Angeles based trio, Foster The People, will celebrate the release of Torches with a top 10 chart debut this week. With a sold-out summer tour underway, the band are proud
It is now 2011 and lo and behold Cheap Trick are still around, still selling out venues, while playing on massive tours with the likes of Def Leppard and Poison. In fact, the gentleman sitting next to me could barely contain himself when they ripped into “Surrender”. The Blotz wasn’t kidding when he said the music would take you back to a time and a place when youth was taken for granted.
Dawes were mighty impressive opening up for Brett Dennen at Higher Ground, so much so that the headliner must’ve been more than a little intimidated at the prospect of following them on stage.
The 11-piece band that is the Tedeschi Trucks Band yielded an end product that combines both Derek and Susan’s individual styles yet opens the listener an unrestraint that could only be captured in this type of environment.
Phish Tour is in full swing and that means two things: the Phish From the Road Twitter feed (@Phish_FTR) is cranking out official updates and the YEMBlog (@YEMBlog) guest tweeters make it the feed to follow for live insight during the shows. The @Phish_FTR feed started out strong tweeting beyond the live setlist and venturing into behind-the-scenes tweets that included shots of the band backstage and on the tour bus. While we hope there are more tweets like those to come, @YEMBlog guest tweeter Justin Bolognino (@jbolognino) gave followers plenty of views from the fans’ perspective at the Saturday Bethel Woods show, via vibrant pictures and instant animated .gifs.
Here’s a look at what Phish was up to when not on stage in Bethel Woods
READ ON for more tweeted visuals from Phish and Justin.
Perpetual Groove threw their annual Amberland festival this past weekend in the band’s home state of Georgia. Our friend Chris Cartelli was in attendance and when he wasn’t sitting in with PGroove’s Brock Butler during Butler’s Brockfast set he was snapping photos of the event.
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Hangout Festival @ Gulf Shores, AL – May 22
The third and final day of the 2nd Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, AL was perhaps the hottest of the festival. There was hot and then there was scorching hot where moving across the beach was a task. For the better half of three days I trucked around barefoot, burying my feet and squishing sand between my toes. However Sunday was so hot, walking barefoot in the sand felt similar to walking on a bed of hot coals.
[All photos by Allison Taich]
I left “home” early to take a dip in the ocean with plans to hit Hangout in time to celebrate my favorite one-man-band Keller Williams. Unfortunately Keller was billed at the same time as Old Crow Medicine Show, but I made the decision to stick with Keller. The Sunday sun was ruthless, making Keller the best wake and bake of Hangout. I am confident in saying that his set was responsible for the worst sun burn I endured all weekend.
Heat aside Keller buoyantly bounced around stage creating live loops linked to a free flow of words. His set took shape with interpretations of the Grateful Dead’s Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain, melted into his signature Freakshow, which Keller noted “bass by the Grateful Dead words by Ani DiFranco.” He then blazed through the ultimate “Crazy” medley, combining songs of past and present emulating a “crazy” theme, sampling everyone from Patsy Cline to Gnarls Barkley.
READ ON for more on the final day of Hangout…