Best Coast kicks off a lengthy world tour this week at SXSW.
Ben Harper, STS9 and Railroad Earth top the lineup for the 2012 edition of High Sierra.
Morello and Harper perform a protest song off the Rage guitarist’s latest album on the Tonight Show.
In a recent issue of Rolling Stone, the venerable music magazine did something that caught me a bit by surprise, as they dedicated their lead album review to The Bright
We keep our eyes peeled for new tour dates announcements each week and compile them on Tuesdays for this handy column… After their performance at halftime of Super Bowl XLIV
Since the beginning of the aughts Ben Harper has released albums with The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Relentless7 and Fistful Of Mercy as well as his longtime band The Innocent Criminals.
With the runaway success of the film Once, it’s really no surprise that it would eventually be adapted for the Great White Way. The stage version of the 2006 flick,
Seated on stools at either side of the stage with third member Arthur positioned in the middle, they were three equals; more like friends jamming together at a local bar; with not Harper or Dhani being the focus of the evening. If anything Arthur played perhaps the larger role, handling a good deal of the vocals and banging occasionally on drums when not playing his guitar.
More akin to Crosby Stills and Nash then the recent Monsters of Folk, Fistful Of Mercy play with light and airy textures minus CSN’s political bent. Songs about love dominate as do violins and ultra repetitive choruses that allow the trio to mesh harmonically but never say anything lasting.