HT Interview: The Story of Drummer/Percussionist Todd Isler
We chat with Mike Gordon / TriBeCaStan / International Orange drummer Todd Isler
We chat with Mike Gordon / TriBeCaStan / International Orange drummer Todd Isler
Wilco’s free iPad book covers 2011’s Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago.
The Bonnaroo Webcast schedule is out and features a bevy of HT faves.
Sights, sounds and news from Perpetual Groove’s annual Amberland Festival.
Ogya earns the distinction of this year’s Bonnaroo Mr. Irrelevant.
Rex visits a Dave Matthews Band show in Cincinnati and comes away impressed.
Following a few more solo dates and a couple big festivals, Slash will take his band to Europe and Canada, this time hitting our North American neighbor more thoroughly than last time, and also a few more exotic countries are on the agenda. “Slash has never played India or Beirut so it’s pretty exciting,” said Kerns about the band’s upcoming plans. In the fall, they plan on making another run through the states and from what some fans have told me, they are letting the Hard Rock in Biloxi know that they want Slash back again ASAP.
It’s wonderful to have a new album from Joe Walsh. He’s a true musical innovator and that by itself makes him worth hearing. His newest project has some great moments. At its best it succeeds in the same way Walsh’s work has always succeeded: sounding like nobody but himself. After all, it’s about personality.
To proclaim that Lettuce avoids the usual pitfalls of contemporary funk is a left-handed compliment for sure, but it does say more than a little about the power and cohesion of Fly. In the diversity of material and arrangement, not to mention the savvy musicianship and production by which the band parlay their skills, this album is the sound of a group full of the confidence that comes with validation of their chosen style.
Bob Mould will release Silver Age, his first album of all-new studio material since 2009’s Life and Times, on September 4, 2012 on Merge Records. The new record features Bob’s