July 2012

Video: The Making of Woody at 100

Jeffrey Greenblatt July 13, 2012 No Comments

Watch a featurette on the making of a new Woody Guthrie box set.

Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

Scott Bernstein July 13, 2012 No Comments

Live specials from Rush, Sublime with Rome and Foo Fighters plus more music on TV this weekend.

Ziggy Marley – Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, MN 7.3.12

July 13, 2012 No Comments

Ziggy Marley performing at the Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, MN 7.3.12.

ZZ Top/3 Doors Down: Baton Rouge River Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 06/22/12

Leslie Michele Derrough July 13, 2012 No Comments

“Can ZZ Top play some blues for you?” Billy Gibbons is standing tall, center stage, a sly sideways grin creasing his bearded face. Headlining the Gang Of Outlaws tour with 3 Doors Down and Gretchen Wilson, ZZ Top has been feeling a little frisky with some old songs that sound as fresh in 2012 as they did in the raising hell 70’s and choreographed 80’s. With no egos attached, the band from Texas have long played boogie, gravel-throated, guitar driven rock and this stop along the month-long jaunt through the states was no different.

Waylon Speed – Goin’ For The Gold

Doug Collette July 13, 2012 No Comments

The alternative country movement occurred over ten years ago but don’t tell that to Burlington Vermont’s Waylon Speed. Not that they want to fit comfortably in any niche: they are as apt to cite Fugazi as an influence as the Grateful Dead. And the quartet really doesn’t sound like either of them. But the description on Twitter struggles mightily and fails to capture the essence of the band too: filthy rotten underground outlaw dirt rock.