As we look forward to festival season, one of the pleasant surprises will surely be the return of the complete original lineup of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. The band
The jam scene’s first reality show/talk show, Jeff Waful + 1, debuted last night when an introduction and the first part of a four-part episode went live on Relix.com. Jeff
Noted for their reggae twists on classic albums like Dark Side of the Moon and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Easy Star All-Stars have released their first LP of original material, First Light. The 14-track effort not only marks a departure from their themed cover albums, but it also treads loosely into some soul territory.
Direct is exactly what you get when listening to Obits’ second studio release Moody, Standard and Poor. There’s no questioning the foursome’s lean edged gritty basement party-with a flickering light type of sound, except possibly the title of the album.
With their new release, I Am Very Far, Okkervil River has made a musical slow-burner. Unlike some of their previous work, there is no immediate song that blasts out and catches the ear
In its final tour date announcement for the summer and fall of 2011, Phish unveiled plans to bring its summer outing to a close with three consecutive nights at Dick’s
Escape to New York, www.escape2ny.com, an art, music and interactive performance party from the creator of the Secret Garden Party UK, is pleased to confirm their Friday and Saturday line-ups:
Dawes has confirmed 17 dates supporting Alison Krauss & Union Station. Beginning July 27 in Danbury, CT, the dates run through August 27, and include stops at New York’s Beacon
If you’re like us you wore out your copies of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall and other Pink Floyd albums in high school. On September 26 there will finally be a reason to pick up new copies of Floyd’s 14 original studio LPs as a feature-loaded set of remasters will come out that day on CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, an array of digital formats, viral marketing and iPhone Apps.
The new remasters come in four different varieties – Discovery, Experience, Immersion and Vinyl. The Discovery series are for newcomers to the music of Pink Floyd as they will feature all 14 albums “painstakingly digitally remastered” by The Wall co-producer James Guthrie in “newly crafted packaging and booklets created by the band’s long-time artwork collaborator Storm Thorgerson.” You can buy all 14 albums together in the Discovery Box Set or individually.
Unreleased material starts flying in the Experience series which features the remastered versions of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall, each with a bonus disc of additional material and expanded liner notes. The Dark Side set includes a previously unreleased recording of the album performed at Wembley Stadium in 1974, Wish You Were Here features outtakes and live material from that era, while The Wall’s bonus material is still to be determined.
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I was watching Allen Toussaint’s recording of Austin City Limits and before playing Get Out My Life Woman, Toussaint says,
“This song coming up is a song that I wrote for brother Lee Dorsey many years ago but it was really made popular by another great person, but it’s my most covered song of all songs I’ve written – I’m not sure why…..because ten minutes after I wrote it, I was quite confused.”
And I…I just don’t know what cover he is referring to. It’s been covered by so many major artists, as you’re about to see. I normally like to cap Cover Wars at ten renditions but somehow we ended up with 12 this time around, and that was excluding some legendary takes from the likes of Joe Williams and Jimi Hendrix.
The Contestants:
Artist: Ant Trip Ceremony
Album: 24 Hours
The Skinny: Chances are, if you aren’t familiar with a lot of random psychedelic bands from the 1960’s, you may not have heard of Ant Trip Ceremony, a band formed at Oberlin College with just this one album. In addition to the originals on their 1968 release are this cover and one of Hey Joe.
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