2013

Video: Grateful Dead @ Bickershaw Festival 1972

Scott Bernstein March 26, 2013 3 Comments

Watch footage of the Grateful Dead’s lone festival appearance of Europe ’72

Tour Dates: Devendra Banhart Heads Out

Jeffrey Greenblatt March 26, 2013 No Comments

Devendra Banhart, Mumford and Sons, Billy Idol and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros are just a few of the bands who announced tours this week

Puscifer: Donkey Punch The Night EP

Andrew Bruss March 26, 2013 No Comments

Puscifer’s Donkey Punch The Night offers a few unique tunes and a cover worth listening to once, but as a whole, the EP is the most lacking studio product Maynard James Keenan has put out in recent memory.

Electric Hot Tuna: Jormas 70th Birthday Celebration

Doug Collette March 26, 2013 No Comments

A constant stream of guest musicians, planned or spontaneous, usually doesn't lend itself to generating any discernible momentum during a concert as each successive unit invariably begins to gather individual steam with the entrance of a new player. At least on this DVD, Jorma's 70th Birthday Celebration avoids that drawback largely because the solidity of the core band has continuity in line with its repertoire.

Billy Bragg: Tooth and Nail

Patrick Flanary March 26, 2013 No Comments

Billy Bragg calls this latest set the follow-up to Mermaid Avenue he never made, and he’s right: a single listen confirms Tooth & Nail tops anything he’s recorded since those 1997 sessions with Wilco, which drew from Woody Guthrie’s poetry archive and yielded 47 songs and a trio of exceptional albums. The difference this time lies in the words, which belong to Bragg and not Woody, though his spirit turns up in a cover of “I Ain’t Got No Home” from Tooth & Nail, interpreted in the way only Bragg has mastered.