
Ziggy Marley – Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, MN 7.3.12
Ziggy Marley performing at the Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, MN 7.3.12.
Ziggy Marley performing at the Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, MN 7.3.12.
“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.
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.
Our pal McL chimes in with a list of his top six albums of the first six months of 2012.
Watch three hours worth of (mostly) pro-shot footage from a Dylan and the Dead concert that took place 25 years ago today.
We talk to “new” Little Feat drummer Gabe Ford about the band’s new album and more.
We’ve compiled this week’s Tour Dates announcements in one handy post.
The next Rolling Stones “official bootleg” features a show from the band’s first trip to Japan.
The Phish Companion 3 will be available in the Spring of 2013.
Coldplay performing at the Verizon Center, Washington DC 7.8.12.