The Twilight Singersare pleased to announce their US tour in support of their upcoming new album Dynamite Steps. The 23-city tour will launch in Oxford, Mississippi on May 4th and
2012 marks The Residents’ 40th Anniversary. With more than 60 albums to their credit – about half of those comprised of new studio material, and having pioneered in a plethora
Baseball and rock music make for great debate, so why not combine the two? Such has been the ethos of The Baseball Project; a whimsical collaboration between Steve Wynn, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, and Linda Pitmon.
Showroom of Compassion, Cake's newest album, is no exception to this recipe. After a nearly seven year break (Has it really been that long?), McCrea and company have returned with another great—not mind-blowing—but great album. Which is totally fine—in today's "Make A Grand Statement" age, it's nice to know that Cake are still the great little band we've always loved, even if they aren't blowing anyone's minds. This time around, the band did decide to record with 100% solar energy, which is undeniably impressive, but outside of that press release-clogging tidbit, pretty much nothing has changed.
Radiohead are releasing their new album ‘The King Of Limbs’ on Saturday (February 19). The band announced the news on their official website, Radiohead.com, this morning (February 14). It is
In last night’s Grammys, The Black Keys and Arcade Fire were among many of the big winners, along with many other surprises that included Esperanza Spalding knocking Justin Bieber out
Florence + The Machine's success in the United States seems to have no intention of slowing down. After performing at last night's 2011 Grammy Awards as well as the Oscars
Mike Gordon was last night’s musical guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The Phish bassist and his solo band played a “radio-friendly” version of the Moss track Horizon Line…
After a morning that saw an unusually – even for sold-out events – small fraction of fans score tickets to the group’s final show at Madison Square Garden on April 2nd, LCD Soundsystem have added four shows on March 28 – 31 at the nearby Terminal 5 to try to satiate the ridiculous demand. We raised many of the concerns raised by our readers in the comments of our post on this morning’s LCD @ MSG onsale to a Ticketmaster PR representative and were given a blanket “no comment.”
[Photo by Jeremy Gordon]
LCD Soundsystem mastermind James Murphy was as confused and upset by this morning’s events as we were. He took to the band’s twitter feed to promise that tell fans that he was “looking for clarity from ticketmaster” and would “pass on anything I find.” Murphy finally settled on adding the additional shows in hopes of lowering demand for the grand finale. My new hero then penned one of the most honest, heartfelt and at times hilarious letter in the history of bands communicating with their fans…
fuck you, scalpers. terminal 5 shows added.
holy shit
this here is just to say that we were more than taken aback and surprised about the speed of ticket sales for the april 2nd msg gig, as well as the effectiveness of scalper pieces of fucking shit at getting their hands on said tickets before fans could, and it’s knocked us on our asses.
no—we didn’t have a smart paperless ticketing system in place, and no—we didn’t have the pre-sale worked out very well, but this is simply because we’ve never sold anything out so quickly in our lives, and certainly never sold out anything as big as msg. i personally thought i was being bold in suggesting to our manager that we might sell it out “in 10 days”. that was my bold claim. everyone laughed at me. it’s us and liquid liquid. that’s it. we had meetings and meetings about the “other band” we needed to “fill the place”, as we were definitely considered to be nowhere near big enough (most of these bands were, like, way bigger than us, by the way
READ ON for more of James Murphy’s letter…
In this week’s audio and video recap, we lead off with a section from Big Sam’s Funky Nation that taper Z-Man pulled in Cambridge, MA. Z-Man is one of the tapers with the quickest turnaround, and he recently has moved to Massachusetts, so expect to see more uploads from that area. Also, we’ve got a rarely played cover from Gov’t Mule that Warren likes busting out in Caribbean climates it seems, a recording from a concert by Keller Williams showcasing his children’s songs, Umphrey’s McGee laying down a fantastic jam on an old classic and a crisp recording from Yo La Tengo.
If you don’t want to stay on the site for an hour streaming the individual tracks, 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 AHappyHourHero for this week’s photo]
Big Sam’s Funky Nation – I Came To Party > Big Sam Funky Nation > Gimme That Funky Horn
Date & Venue: 2011-02-03 – Middle East – Cambridge, MA
Taper & Show Download: Z-Man
Fresh off wowing fans on Jam Cruise, Big Sam’s Funky Nation delivers this 19+ minute segment to start us off this week. Big Sam’s Funky Nation [tour dates] plays tonight at Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar in Houston, TX.
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bigsamsauce.mp3]Video from Saturday’s For the One Month to Mardi Gras party in NYC:
READ ON for tracks from Mule, Keller, Umphrey’s and Yo La Tengo…
