Back from Austin and overflowing with ACL goodness to share. Lots of thoughts and pix to share, but might take me a while to collate my mind, so your patience is appreciated.
It was totally sick-ass, though. Best musical weekend I've had in a while.
Enjoy!
Click here for upcoming shows
Monday:
Rush @ Madison Square Garden
*FREE Hold Steady, Old 97's, Illinois @ World Trade Center
Yohimbe Brothers @ Blue Note (early/late)
Thomas Dolby @ BB King's
Robben Ford Band @ Cutting Room
Tuesday:
*Jenny Scheinman @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
FREE M Ward et al @ World Trade Center
The Dream Concert (Stevie Wonder, Santana et al) @ Radio City Music Hall
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Robben Ford Band @ Cutting Room
Donny McCaslin Group @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Counting Crows @ Town Hall
Sonny Rollins @ Carnegie Hall
Jaik Miller Band @ LUV 24/7
George Clinton & P-Funk @ BB King's
Black Lips @ Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday:
Leo Kottke @ The Concert Hall
Kings of Leon @ Radio City Music Hall
Kelly Jo and the PREverts @ Fat Baby
*The Sea and Cake @ Warsaw (Brooklyn)
KT Turnstall @ Fillmore
Corn Mo @ Parkside Lounge
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
FREE Nick Lowe, Holmes Bros, Ollabelle @ World Trade Center
King Wilkie @ Joe's Pub
Secret Machines @ The Annex
Adam Deitch Project @ Club Midway (midnight)
Thursday:
Dave Dougals/Jeremy Pelt @ Jazz Standard
*The Most Serene Republic @ Mercury Lounge
Apples In Stereo @ Maxwell's (Hoboken)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Jimmy Buffett @ Madison Square Garden
Roy Ayers @ SOB's
Kermit Driscoll @ The Stone (early)
Friday:
Metric @ Webster Hall
*Budos Band @ Southpaw (Brooklyn)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Chemical Brothers @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Super Diamond/Tragedy @ Fillmore
Most Serene Republic @ Union Hall (Brooklyn)
Frank Smith @ Maxwell's (Hoboken)
Gruff Rhys @ Hiro Ballroom
George Clinton & P-Funk @ Starland Ballroom (Sayreville, NJ)
Saturday:
Karl Denson Trio @ Highline Ballroom
Blonde Redhead @ Starland Ballroom (Sayreville, NJ)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Rilo Kiley @ Webster Hall
Rothenberg/Courvoisier @ The Stone (early)
Bjorkestra, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey @ Blender Theater
*Frank Smith @ Mercury Lounge
Gruff Rhys, All Smiles @ Union Hall (brooklyn)
Junior Brown @ Joe's Pub (midnight)
Super Diamond/Tragedy @ Fillmore
The Moonlighters @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
Most Serene Republic @ Maxwell's (hobboken)
Sunday:
Rilo Kiley @ Webster Hall
*Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Michael McDonald @ North Fork Theater (Westbury, LI)
Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes (brooklyn)
Rilo Kiley @ Webster Hall
*Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Michael McDonald @ North Fork Theater (Westbury, LI)
Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes (brooklyn)
Click here for upcoming shows
Countdown is on to ACLFest and minimix brings the excitement with some live preview tracks from just a wee sliver of the music that'll be going on down in BBQland. That is, this is the "who needs the White Stripes?" mix. This hits a pretty good cross-section, but don't hit the whole nut even close.
Download the mix and see below for some full on shows from additional ACL acts to download.
As these are wide ranging live recordings, I make no promises about the consistency of the sound quality across the mix... all worth a listen, though!
Enjoy!
Download the mix
01 23 -- Blonde Redhead: Barcelona 1 June 2007
02 1103 -- Sound Tribe Sector 9: Bonnaroo That Tent 15 June 2007
03 Scythian Empire -- Andrew Bird: Portland, OR 4 May 2007
04 Coconut Skins -- Damien Rice: KCRW 10 Nov 06
05 Time To Get Away -- LCD Soundsystem: KCRW 13 June 2007
06 Head Home -- Midlake: Tuebingen 26 Jul 07
See also:
Bjork 5May07
Arcade Fire 17Feb07
Rose Hill Drive 28Apr07: part1 part 2
Wilco: 26Jun07:
Previously in minimix:
Comes Alive Vol. 4
Comes Alive Vol 3
Comes Alive Vol. 2
Weekend in Preview (7/4/07)
Week In Preview (4/16/07)
Weekend Sampler (1/18/07)
Everything is pointing toward Austin this week (see previous trip), so we'll have plenty to review next week... but haven't seen much music lately, so we're skipping that this time around and bumping everything up a day. Here are some links to take you there.
That's Pedro Martinez taking his first warm-up pitches before his return home start this past Sunday. It was a beautiful afternoon and I hadn't been to Shea all season, so despite the strong fall-is-coming allure of a day on the couch with football, football, football, I made my way to Flushing via the LIRR and took in the broom game. Decision: correct.
N.b. After tonight's victory vs. the Braves, the Metropolitans are 9-1 since Pedro rejoined the team.
October beckons.
In other Mets news, the rumor is AAA affiliate moves to Syracuse next season. What a wonderful thing that would be.
Here are the shows of the next TWO weeks, as I'm not sure I'll be able to get to it before next Monday. I'll try to repost next week.
Enjoy!
Click here for upcoming shows
Monday:
*Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn)
The Frames @ Webster Hall
Krampus @ Barbes (brooklyn) (early)
Tuesday:
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ Blender Theater
*Oliver Future @ Mercury Lounge
Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Project/Object @ The Monkey
Jaik Miller Band @ LUV 24/7
Mocean Worker @ Nublu
Wednesday:
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
*Scott Holcomb @ Fat Baby
Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Macy Gray/The Brand New Heavies @ Webster Hall
Secret Machines @ The Annex
Mario Pavone w/ S. Bernstein, C. Burnham et al @ Barbes (Brooklyn)
Adam Deitch Project @ Club Midway (midnight)
Thursday:
Marah @ Union Hall (Brooklyn)
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
50 Cent @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Raz Mesinai @ The Stone (late)
*Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Tesla @ Nokia Theater
Dragons of Zynth @ The Annex
Friday:
Musiq Soulchild & Soulive @ Nokia Theater
Interpol (Cat Power opens) @ Madison Square Garden
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
*Do Make Say Think @ Concert Hall
Marissa Nadler, Castanets et al @ Highline Ballroom
Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Patti Smith @ Beacon Theater
Marah @ Joe's Pub
Shelley Burgon @ Issue Project Space
Crescent Moon @ Mexicali Blues (teaneck, NJ)
Chuck Berry @ BB King's (early)
Adam Levy (CD release) @ Banjo Jim's
Teddy Thompson @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday:
The Fab Faux @ Beacon Theater
Girl Talk, Dan Deacon @ Webster Hall
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
Ben Harper & Innocent Criminals @ Radio City Music Hall
Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Jon Cleary & Absolute Monster Gentlemen @ Lion's Den
Musiq Soulchild & Soulive @ Nokia Theater
John Zorn Improv night @ The Stone (early/late) (benefit)
*Sam Champion @ Mercury Lounge
Mamie Minch @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
Surprise Me Mr. Davis @ Union Hall (Brooklyn)
Mandy Moore @ Fillmore
Lynyrd Skynyrd @ PNC Bank Arts Center (Holmdel, NJ)
Sunday:
*Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
FREE Jessica Lurie @ Tompkins Square Park
Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Apples in Stereo @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn)
Monday (9/17):
Rush @ Madison Square Garden
*FREE Hold Steady, Old 97's, Illinois @ World Trade Center
Yohimbe Brothers @ Blue Note (early/late)
Thomas Dolby @ BB King's
Robben Ford Band @ Cutting Room
Tuesday (9/18):
*Jenny Scheinman @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
FREE M Ward et al @ World Trade Center
The Dream Concert (Stevie Wonder, Santana et al) @ Radio City Music Hall
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Robben Ford Band @ Cutting Room
Donny McCaslin Group @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Counting Crows @ Town Hall
Sonny Rollins @ Carnegie Hall
Jaik Miller Band @ LUV 24/7
George Clinton & P-Funk @ BB King's
Black Lips @ Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday (9/19):
Leo Kottke @ The Concert Hall
Kings of Leon @ Radio City Music Hall
Kelly Jo and the PREverts @ Fat Baby
*The Sea and Cake @ Warsaw (Brooklyn)
KT Turnstall @ Fillmore
Corn Mo @ Parkside Lounge
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
FREE Nick Lowe, Holmes Bros, Ollabelle @ World Trade Center
King Wilkie @ Joe's Pub
Secret Machines @ The Annex
Adam Deitch Project @ Club Midway (midnight)
Thursday (9/20):
Dave Dougals/Jeremy Pelt @ Jazz Standard
*The Most Serene Republic @ Mercury Lounge
Apples In Stereo @ Maxwell's (Hoboken)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Jimmy Buffett @ Madison Square Garden
Roy Ayers @ SOB's
Kermit Driscoll @ The Stone (early)
Friday (9/21):
Metric @ Webster Hall
*Budos Band @ Southpaw (Brooklyn)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Chemical Brothers @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Super Diamond/Tragedy @ Fillmore
Most Serene Republic @ Union Hall (Brooklyn)
Frank Smith @ Maxwell's (Hoboken)
Gruff Rhys @ Hiro Ballroom
George Clinton & P-Funk @ Starland Ballroom (Sayreville, NJ)
Saturday (9/22):
Karl Denson Trio @ Highline Ballroom
Blonde Redhead @ Starland Ballroom (Sayreville, NJ)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Rilo Kiley @ Webster Hall
Rothenberg/Courvoisier @ The Stone (early)
Bjorkestra, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey @ Blender Theater
*Frank Smith @ Mercury Lounge
Gruff Rhys, All Smiles @ Union Hall (brooklyn)
Junior Brown @ Joe's Pub (midnight)
Super Diamond/Tragedy @ Fillmore
The Moonlighters @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
Most Serene Republic @ Maxwell's (hobboken)
Here are the shows of the next TWO weeks, as I'm not sure I'll be able
to get to it before next Monday. I'll try to repost next week.
Enjoy!
Monday:
*Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn)
The Frames @ Webster Hall
Krampus @ Barbes (brooklyn) (early)
Tuesday:
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ Blender Theater
*Oliver Future @ Mercury Lounge
Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Project/Object @ The Monkey
Jaik Miller Band @ LUV 24/7
Mocean Worker @ Nublu
Wednesday:
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
*Scott Holcomb @ Fat Baby
Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Macy Gray/The Brand New Heavies @ Webster Hall
Secret Machines @ The Annex
Mario Pavone w/ S. Bernstein, C. Burnham et al @ Barbes (Brooklyn)
Adam Deitch Project @ Club Midway (midnight)
Thursday:
Marah @ Union Hall (Brooklyn)
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
50 Cent @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Raz Mesinai @ The Stone (late)
*Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Tesla @ Nokia Theater
Dragons of Zynth @ The Annex
Friday:
Musiq Soulchild & Soulive @ Nokia Theater
Interpol (Cat Power opens) @ Madison Square Garden
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
*Do Make Say Think @ Concert Hall
Marissa Nadler, Castanets et al @ Highline Ballroom
Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Patti Smith @ Beacon Theater
Marah @ Joe's Pub
Shelley Burgon @ Issue Project Space
Crescent Moon @ Mexicali Blues (teaneck, NJ)
Chuck Berry @ BB King's (early)
Adam Levy (CD release) @ Banjo Jim's
Teddy Thompson @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday:
The Fab Faux @ Beacon Theater
Girl Talk, Dan Deacon @ Webster Hall
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
Ben Harper & Innocent Criminals @ Radio City Music Hall
Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Jon Cleary & Absolute Monster Gentlemen @ Lion's Den
Musiq Soulchild & Soulive @ Nokia Theater
John Zorn Improv night @ The Stone (early/late) (benefit)
*Sam Champion @ Mercury Lounge
Mamie Minch @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
Surprise Me Mr. Davis @ Union Hall (Brooklyn)
Mandy Moore @ Fillmore
Lynyrd Skynyrd @ PNC Bank Arts Center (Holmdel, NJ)
Sunday:
*Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
FREE Jessica Lurie @ Tompkins Square Park
Ron Carter/Christian McBride @ Blue Note (early/late)
Apples in Stereo @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn)
Monday (9/17):
Rush @ Madison Square Garden
*FREE Hold Steady, Old 97's, Illinois @ World Trade Center
Yohimbe Brothers @ Blue Note (early/late)
Thomas Dolby @ BB King's
Robben Ford Band @ Cutting Room
Tuesday (9/18):
*Jenny Scheinman @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
FREE M Ward et al @ World Trade Center
The Dream Concert (Stevie Wonder, Santana et al) @ Radio City Music Hall
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Robben Ford Band @ Cutting Room
Donny McCaslin Group @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Counting Crows @ Town Hall
Sonny Rollins @ Carnegie Hall
Jaik Miller Band @ LUV 24/7
George Clinton & P-Funk @ BB King's
Black Lips @ Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday (9/19):
Leo Kottke @ The Concert Hall
Kings of Leon @ Radio City Music Hall
Kelly Jo and the PREverts @ Fat Baby
*The Sea and Cake @ Warsaw (Brooklyn)
KT Turnstall @ Fillmore
Corn Mo @ Parkside Lounge
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
FREE Nick Lowe, Holmes Bros, Ollabelle @ World Trade Center
King Wilkie @ Joe's Pub
Secret Machines @ The Annex
Adam Deitch Project @ Club Midway (midnight)
Thursday (9/20):
Dave Dougals/Jeremy Pelt @ Jazz Standard
*The Most Serene Republic @ Mercury Lounge
Apples In Stereo @ Maxwell's (Hoboken)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Jimmy Buffett @ Madison Square Garden
Roy Ayers @ SOB's
Kermit Driscoll @ The Stone (early)
Friday (9/21):
Metric @ Webster Hall
*Budos Band @ Southpaw (Brooklyn)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Chemical Brothers @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Super Diamond/Tragedy @ Fillmore
Most Serene Republic @ Union Hall (Brooklyn)
Frank Smith @ Maxwell's (Hoboken)
Gruff Rhys @ Hiro Ballroom
George Clinton & P-Funk @ Starland Ballroom (Sayreville, NJ)
Saturday (9/22):
Karl Denson Trio @ Highline Ballroom
Blonde Redhead @ Starland Ballroom (Sayreville, NJ)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Rilo Kiley @ Webster Hall
Rothenberg/Courvoisier @ The Stone (early)
Bjorkestra, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey @ Blender Theater
*Frank Smith @ Mercury Lounge
Gruff Rhys, All Smiles @ Union Hall (brooklyn)
Junior Brown @ Joe's Pub (midnight)
Super Diamond/Tragedy @ Fillmore
The Moonlighters @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
Most Serene Republic @ Maxwell's (hobboken)
Sunday (9/23):
Rilo Kiley @ Webster Hall
*Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Michael McDonald @ North Fork Theater (Westbury, LI)
Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes (brooklyn)
Rilo Kiley @ Webster Hall
*Kurt Rosenwinkel Group @ Village Vangaurd (early/late)
Michael McDonald @ North Fork Theater (Westbury, LI)
Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes (brooklyn)
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The first daughter of minimix started kindergarten this week, so in her honor I bring you a mostly kid-unfriendly dreamy set of chill music. Class dismissed.
Download the mix
01 Teach Your Children -- Fareed Haque: Deja Vu (1997)
02 Playground -- Viktor Krauss: Far From Enough (2004)
03 Recess -- Charlie Hunter: Duo (1999)
04 A Schoolboy's Charm -- The American Analog Set: The Golden Band (1999)
05 Highschool Lover -- Air: The Virgin Suicides (2000)
06 Teach Me -- Benzos: Branches (2007)
Previously in minimix:
LJ Special
Apologies for the serious slacking here... been a busy summer endgame, but I'm back. Here's a buncha mostly music-related crap to catch up with:
Excuse me, but does your shirt say "Time to Fuck?"
So, like, what, best band ever? That's the hyperbole I gotta wrap around these guys, I can't think of any other way to put it. I think if they were playing anything else, it would still smell just as sweet, but the "aw fuck it, let's just play Zeppelin" aspect brings Bustle to the next level. Throw it all on a boat and call it a birthday party for one of those one-and-only's and you've got yourself a Thursday evening.
I guess it's a cover band, or maybe you'd call it a tribute band... but only in the way that Van Gogh was "paying tribute" to the night sky, just total artistic reinterpretation. "Ramble On" and "Song Remains the Same" are the rolling landscapes and Bustle In Your Hedgerow paints 'em on the canvas.
For whatever reason the crowd was incredibly sparse Thursday night; plenty of room to huddle around the band... and at the same time plenty of nooks and crannies on the Temptress cruise ship to remain completely out of sight the entire evening (said more than once upon exiting the vessel "you were on the boat!?" The stage at the end of the ballroom sits under the overhang of a balcony. The effect is like the room is the kitchen and the band is in the oven: dough rising and bubbling over with yeasty goodness and filling the surround space with incredibly inviting aromas. And if you get up nice and close, you can feel the heat directly, convection from a four-piece faux-rock band: drums, bass, guitar, keyboards... as good as you can imagine.
What makes Bustle so damn special -- beyond the ripping tunes -- is the crazy cross-chemistry that already exists. These guys play with each other in all sorts of permuations a lot. Joe Russo and Marco Benevento, of course, form the Duo, but Scott Metzger and Joe have an almost-as-tight ESP thing going in a totally different direction; Scott & Dreiwitz seem to have perfected the guitar/bass yin/yang thing as well as anyone and so on and so forth. So, when the band needed to bring it to the "let's rock this mutha" level, it was a little more than an audiosonic nod and they were there. It's a supergroup, for sure, but it's a band, too... a darn good one.
The specific details of Thursday night grow hazy with something called the Tequila Demise and lots and lots of headbanging>whiskey. There was a good half hour at the onset where I sat in awe of Joe Russo. Whenever the last time I saw Joe was, it's been too long and even so, every time anew, it's like I need to reteach my brain how to react to such, shall we say, awesomeness. Yes, Russo is awesome, in that he fills me with utter and total awe. This, mind you, is after gigging earlier in the evening in Buffalo w/ Marco and then high-tailing it back down to town to hitch a boat. It's like the frickin' Erie Canal, the Duo rocking from Albany to Buffalo.
The cool thing is that they don't really jam the stuff out ad naseum, there's very little jamming at all. It's twisted and it's instrumental and, yeah, Metzger and/or Benevento will take things out when it's warranted. But mostly, it's just in your face, resting more on Joe and Dave and the nastiness of the music itself. Case-in-point was the otherworldly take on "Ramble On," which was just 4 dudes meshing musically, interlocking like there was no other choice, jigsaw pieces forming the bigger picture.
So, the show stretched out, two sets of Zeppelin like you've never heard it, and then the governor was removed and there was no speed limit whatsoever. Liquor-fueled insanity set in, with the birthday boy and Bustle In Your Hedgerow inspirado Rocks Off Jake taking over the stage. Yes, it was time to fuck, apparently. Whole Lotta Love and some other weirdness ensued with cocks-a-rattling and a whole bunch of party time unsupervised.
And then somehow I made it off the boat and onto a train and into work the next morning...
Enjoy!
Click here for upcoming shows
Labor Day:
*Dinosaur Jr. (Dr Dog opens) @ Webster Hall
Tuesday (9/4):
*Fred Hersch/Ethan Iverson duo @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Patti Smith @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn)
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
Donny Osmond @ BB King's
A Big Yes... and a small no @ The Annex
Gina Leishman w/ G. Cohen, M. Munisteri, C. Burnham @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
Francisco Mela w/ J. Moran et al @ Blue Note (early/late)
Mark Feldman/Matt Maneri @ The Stone (late)
Daniel Johnston @ Spiegeltent
Jaik Miller Band @ LUV 24/7
Wednesday (9/5):
Arctic Monkeys @ Summerstage
Against Me! @ Music Hall (Brooklyn)
Peter Bjorn & John @ Maxwell's (Hoboken)
*Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
The Other Planets @ Tap Bar
Plasticines @ Mercury Lounge
Perry Farrell's Satellite Party w/ MINK @ Fillmore
Fred Hersch/Brad Mehldau duo @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Jim Black @ The Stone (early)
Francisco Mela w/ J. Moran et al @ Blue Note (early/late)
Adam Deitch Project @ Club Midway (midnight)
SeePeopleS @ Kenny's Castaways
Thursday (9/6):
Gov't Mule, Grace Potter, Earl Greyhound @ Summerstage
Peter Bjorn & John (The Clientele opens) @ Roseland Ballroom
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
The Bridge @ Tap Bar
Fred Hersch/Kenny Barron duo @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Dave Binney & Friends @ 55 Bar (late)
Larry Coryell @ Iridium (early/late)
Matt Moran @ The Stone (late)
Joey Baron/Robyn Schulkowsky @ Roulette
Fashion Rocks @ Radio City Music Hall
Al DiMeola @ Blue Note (early/late)
*Tea Leaf Green, Amfibian @ Blender Theater
Tesla @ Starland Ballroom (Sayreville, NJ)
Friday (9/7):
Tragedy et al @ Bowery Ballroom
Dr John @ BB King's (early/late)
*Damien Rice @ WaMu Theater
Al DiMeola @ Blue Note (early/late)
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
Afroskull @ Parkside Lounge
Dave Binney & Friends @ 55 Bar (late)
Petra Haden & The Sell Outs @ Joe's Pub (early)
Fred Hersch/Jason Moran duo @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Brooklyn Country Music Festival @ Southpaw (brooklyn)
Larry Coryell @ Iridium (early/late)
Joey Baron/Robyn Schulkowsky @ Roulette
The Radiators @ The Cutting Room (late)
Karsh Kale @ Joe's Pub (midnight)
FREE Jessica Lurie @ Columbus Park
Saturday (9/8):
*Midlake @ Webster Hall
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
Modest Mouse @ McCarren Park Pool (Brooklyn)
Oliver Future @ Piano's
Heaven & Hell @ Jones Beach (Wantagh, LI)
Brooklyn Country Music Festival @ Southpaw (brooklyn)
Au Revoir Simone, Oh No! Oh My! @ Mercury Lounge
Tea Leaf Green @ Blender Theater
Joey Baron/Robyn Schulkowsky @ Roulette
Vampire Weekend @ Music Hall (Brooklyn)
Larry Coryell @ Iridium (early/late)
Stephane Wrembel @ Joe's Pub (early)
Tony Bennett @ Radio City Music Hall
Al DiMeola @ Blue Note (early/late)
Dave Binney & Friends @ 55 Bar (late)
Dr John @ BB King's (early/late)
The Radiators @ The Cutting Room (late)
Sunday (9/9):
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
*Farm Aid @ Randall's Island
Larry Coryell @ Iridium (early/late)
FREE New Orleans Klezmer All Stars et al @ Riverside Park
Al DiMeola @ Blue Note (early/late)
Tony Bennett @ Radio City Music Hall
Earth, Wind & Fire (Taylor Hicks opens) @ Jones Beach (Wantagh, LI)
Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes (Brooklyn)
Dave Binney & Friends @ 55 Bar (late)
Click here for upcoming shows
Here's some crunchy stuff for a long weekend. New music in the rootsy realm, more or less -- perfect for the hard working All-Americans amongst us looking for something up-to-date... old masters, up-and-comers and some in between.
Enjoy!
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01 Sunken Treasure -- Wilco: 26 June 2007
02 Pretty Girl From San Diego -- The Avett Brothers: Emotinalism
03 Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. -- Ryan Adams: Easy Tiger
04 Living In The Moment -- Jorma Kaukonen: Stars in My Crown
05 Planes And A Girl -- Frank Smith: Heavy Handed Peave & Love
06 Farewell Blues -- Tony Trischka: Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular
Previously in minimix:
Schoolin' Banjos
Feellin' Steely
Sorry for dropping the lame on you this week. Here's a little catch-up, taking us through next week... I'll probably repost again on Monday. Lots of new dates, but I'm sure I'm still missing plenty, so feel free to shoot me a heads up to fill in the blanks.
Enjoy!
Click here for upcoming shows
Thursday:
Kid Koala @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard the Temptress
**Bustle In Your Hedgerow @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard the Temptress (late)
Mark Olson @ Bowery Ballroom
Don Byron et al @ Blue Note (early/late)
Charlie Burnham Trio @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
Jaik Miller Band et al @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard the Half Moon
Jack & Jim Show @ The Stone (early/late)
Friday:
Dumpstaphunk @ BB King's (late)
Clutch @ Bowery Ballroom
Don Byron et al @ Blue Note (early/late)
*The Budos Band (CD release) @ Lucky Cat (Brooklyn)
Peter Bernstein Quartet (w/ B. Mehldau) @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Ryan Montbleau Band @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard the Half Moon
Stephen Marley @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Jack & Jim Show @ The Stone (early/late)
Dayna Kurtz @ Barbes (brooklyn)
FREE Battles, Deerhunter @ South St. Seaport
Jessica Lurie @ Riverside Park
Brooklyn Qawwali Party @ Mo Pitkin's
Saturday:
*Peter Bernstein Quartet (w/ B. Mehldau) @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Don Byron et al @ Blue Note (early/late)
FREE Jessica Lurie @ Washington Sq. Park
Van Davis @ Mo Pitkin's
Sunday:
*Don Byron et al @ Blue Note (early/late)
Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes (Brooklyn)
Jack & Jim Show @ The Stone (early/late)
Peter Bernstein Trio plays Monk @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Labor Day:
*Dinosaur Jr. (Dr Dog opens) @ Webster Hall
Tuesday (9/4):
*Fred Hersch/Ethan Iverson duo @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Patti Smith @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn)
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
Donny Osmond @ BB King's
A Big Yes... and a small no @ The Annex
Gina Leishman w/ G. Cohen, M. Munisteri, C. Burnham @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
Francisco Mela w/ J. Moran et al @ Blue Note (early/late)
Mark Feldman/Matt Maneri @ The Stone (late)
Daniel Johnston @ Spiegeltent
Jaik Miller Band @ LUV 24/7
Wednesday (9/5):
Arctic Monkeys @ Summerstage
Against Me! @ Music Hall (Brooklyn)
Peter Bjorn & John @ Maxwell's (Hoboken)
*Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
The Other Planets @ Tap Bar
Plasticines @ Mercury Lounge
Perry Farrell's Satellite Party w/ MINK @ Fillmore
Fred Hersch/Brad Mehldau duo @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Jim Black @ The Stone (early)
Francisco Mela w/ J. Moran et al @ Blue Note (early/late)
Adam Deitch Project @ Club Midway (midnight)
SeePeopleS @ Kenny's Castaways
Thursday (9/6):
Gov't Mule, Grace Potter, Earl Greyhound @ Summerstage
Peter Bjorn & John (The Clientele opens) @ Roseland Ballroom
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
The Bridge @ Tap Bar
Fred Hersch/Kenny Barron duo @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Dave Binney & Friends @ 55 Bar (late)
Larry Coryell @ Iridium (early/late)
Matt Moran @ The Stone (late)
Joey Baron/Robyn Schulkowsky @ Roulette
Fashion Rocks @ Radio City Music Hall
Al DiMeola @ Blue Note (early/late)
*Tea Leaf Green, Amfibian @ Blender Theater
Tesla @ Starland Ballroom (Sayreville, NJ)
Friday (9/7):
Dr John @ BB King's (early/late)
*Damien Rice @ WaMu Theater
Al DiMeola @ Blue Note (early/late)
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
Afroskull @ Parkside Lounge
Dave Binney & Friends @ 55 Bar (late)
Petra Haden & The Sell Outs @ Joe's Pub (early)
Fred Hersch/Jason Moran duo @ Jazz Standard (early/late)
Brooklyn Country Music Festival @ Southpaw (brooklyn)
Larry Coryell @ Iridium (early/late)
Joey Baron/Robyn Schulkowsky @ Roulette
The Radiators @ The Cutting Room (late)
Karsh Kale @ Joe's Pub (midnight)
FREE Jessica Lurie @ Columbus Park
Saturday (9/8):
*Midlake @ Webster Hall
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
Modest Mouse @ McCarren Park Pool (Brooklyn)
Oliver Future @ Piano's
Heaven & Hell @ Jones Beach (Wantagh, LI)
Brooklyn Country Music Festival @ Southpaw (brooklyn)
Au Revoir Simone, Oh No! Oh My! @ Mercury Lounge
Tea Leaf Green @ Blender Theater
Joey Baron/Robyn Schulkowsky @ Roulette
Vampire Weekend @ Music Hall (Brooklyn)
Larry Coryell @ Iridium (early/late)
Stephane Wrembel @ Joe's Pub (early)
Tony Bennett @ Radio City Music Hall
Al DiMeola @ Blue Note (early/late)
Dave Binney & Friends @ 55 Bar (late)
Dr John @ BB King's (early/late)
The Radiators @ The Cutting Room (late)
Meowskers @ Joe's Pub (midnight)
Sunday (9/9):
Motian/Lovano/Frisell @ Village Vanguard (early/late)
*Farm Aid @ Randall's Island
Larry Coryell @ Iridium (early/late)
FREE New Orleans Klezmer All Stars et al @ Riverside Park
Al DiMeola @ Blue Note (early/late)
Tony Bennett @ Radio City Music Hall
Earth, Wind & Fire (Taylor Hicks opens) @ Jones Beach (Wantagh, LI)
Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes (Brooklyn)
Dave Binney & Friends @ 55 Bar (late)
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By my count we're down to the last week of summer, so here's a little one-a-day to take you through Labor Day.
Download the mix
01 Sunday Noises -- Califone: [Roots & Crowns]
02 Monday -- Wilco: Irving Plaza 11 April 1999
03 Tuesday, Oct. 24th -- Clem Snide: Soft Spot
04 Wednesday Night -- Dubtribe Sound System: Bryant Street
05 Thursday -- Morphine: Lehigh 26 April 1998
06 Friday Night -- Girl Talk: Night Ripper
07 One More Saturday Night -- Grateful Dead: Steppin' Out With The Grateful Dead
08 Out On the Weekend -- Neil Young: London 27 February 1971
A link a dink a bottle of ink, the cork fell off and these stink... just a small handful for ya...
of my favorites of the year thus far: The Uri Caine Ensemble plays Mozart. The title is pretty self-explanatory, but the surprises inside are well worth a look. Basically, Uri -- piano master and Fender Rhodes genius -- has taken a bunch of Mozart tunes and put them through the ringer so to speak. It's not a total reinvention, but rather an appreciation... a Wolfgang Amadeus tribute album, so to speak. Some numbers are played straight, but with a band -- excuse me, ensemble -- consisting of both strings and electric guitars, not to mention drums and DJ Olive, things tend to get a bit weird, wild and fun. Jazz, klezmer, etc. all get thrown in the mix almost all to perfect effect. Totally listenable, somewhere between Jason Bourne and Clancy Wiggum on the "kick ass" scale... I can't recommend this one highly enough. Ned-O-Matic: 8.0.
caught at the Cayuga County Fairgrounds in Weedsport, NY 15 years ago today (8/15/1992). This was one of the first steps of a stretch of seeing the Allmans at least once a year for a decade or so. The venue was one of those perfect summer spots, basically a small dirt track with a stage situated at one end. When I was growing up, the classic rock FM station would always percolate come June with "You know it's summer when they're rocking at Weedsport" which was enough to get and rockaholic teenagers panties in a knot. The Allmans were made for spots like this and, fresh off their HORDE appearance, the Spin Doctors opened the show. I'll never forget Chris Barron singing Pocketful of Kryptonite and pulling a wadded up ball of masking tape out of his pocked which had been magic-marked in green... I guess to look like kryptonite? I should have known that band was not long for this world at that point. The Allmans were bitchin' as they usually were, the quintessential summertime band, and I was getting my Southern Rock on with some of the best people I knew and know. The setlist is here. My best memory of that night was when they came out for the encore. My buddy was rather enamored with Gregg Allman's baddassness and so when they came out he was yelling (and I was helping) "Gregg" and then he looked over at us (we were close enough to the front) and kind of gave a nod of acknowledgment which we thought was pretty cool at the time. Anyhoo, they busted into Dreams and got into that deep, hypnotic jam that was just supersweet all around. Just as the jam was hitting it's peak, a beach ball flew out of the crowd toward Gregg's organ and knocked over a cup of beer from the top all over his organ. Having recently befriended the man, we were rather ticked off about that, but Allman calmly wiped it off just in time to sing the verse "got to pull myself together..." which absolutely killed us -- just the kind of coincidence that made the show for both of us dorked-out 18 year olds. That and the fact that they followed it up with one of those monster 25 minute Whipping Posts. If I had a recording, I'd share, but they're all the same ain't that... except for the memories.
[Previously in Nedstalgia: Phish shows 1 & 2, #3 #77 & 78); Mule; Widespread Panic; The Duo; Robert Randolph HORDE 92 (i.e. Phish #4, WSP #1)]
Get torrents of Gorge shows here and here (the 8/14 show will probably be available very soon if it isn't already)
Or get MP3's (of the entire Summer 97 tour) here.
(Gorge 97 pic stoled from Phish.com)
Welcome back to another Phistalgia act... when we last left off, we were in the depths of one hot-ass Texas summer. We flipped the calendar page to August in the Vancouver area and then headed down to the Gorge for the two gigs there. Frankly, while I remember both shows (nos. 78 & 79) being worth the schlep, I don't have too many distinct memories of the time spent out there in George. That's a rarity for me -- I really have a story for every show -- which must mean it was lackluster in some way. I do have some good memories of distinct moments-- I remember my first Vultures and being pretty overwhelmed with a tune
I'm not sure I ever heard again; I remember the Harry Hood encore, when Trey asked for the lights to be turned out, and the band just got blissfully gooey in the darkness; I remember a Down With Disease>Tweezer set opener that was so good, the band couldn't get it up again the rest of the set, unfortunately blueballing us all theway to the Reprise; being front row with the somewhat-annoying LeftCoasters for the first time... I don't think the band played poorly during that Clifford Ball>Island Tour stretch, so it was all degrees of sweetness. It was just something about the Gorge -- both times I've been there -- like it seems like the whole experience should be more special than it ends up being. Like this was the corporate version of "kick ass venue" drawn up in a sanded-down vision of how to turn an amazing spot into a concert venue. The venue is a sight to see, for sure, but it's no Red Rocks -- beautiful, yes, but frankly, without the magic....
No, I deliberately waited until today to recount my August 1997 reminiscing, to the 10th anniversary of #80. By the time you've seen eighty Phish shows, you've fallen into an expect-the-unexpected game plan with each new trip. Yes, it's a voyage to the unknown, anything truly is possible, but eventually, these guys have zigged and zagged in every direction and dimension they can possibly access, right? And just when you let your guard down, in a run-of-the-mill shed outside a pretty darn good amusement park, the rules change once again and the going gets weird.
It was 8/14/1997 at Darien Lake a little slide-step outside Buffalo. I'd been there in 1993 for what stands still as one of my all-time favorites. The band came a long way in those 4 years and as I've said, they were hitting their peak. The venue had changed a bit in those years as well, coming a ways from a small kind of afterthought tacked onto a amusement park I'd been going to since I could string together the words "merry," "go" and "round." In 1997, it was a major piece of the Darien Lake puzzle, with some obvious money and effort being put into it being an honest-to-goodness concert venue to compete with the SPACs and FLACs of the world. But the parking lot was still pretty much a big patch of grass and when we arrived on that typical Western New York summer's day, the epicenter of that lot was occupied by the Furthur bus. And with that bus came a little buzz -- easy to ignore for someone who was just dropping in on a show mid-tour, like a guy auditing a class with the tourheads in full get-up-to-the-Great-Went mode.
For me, it was just good times to be back at a Phish show, less than two weeks removed from my summer "vacation." I picked up my brother on the way and there were a few familiar faces scattered through the audience as the band took the stage. When they opened with "Yamar" you could just feel it -- it percolated from front-to-back. When they followed that up with "Funky Bitch" I felt my muscles twinge: they knew it was going to be a long night of dancing my ass off. "Fluffhead" third song into the night was a "holy shit" moment. The playing was free spirited and maybe not the tightest through that opening trio, but man, that's a statement opening for a show. The Fluffhead really closed out incredibly strong though, Trey just going free form nuts in the way that gets out your mental pencil and paper to make a "best ever" note for future reference... the paper's a bit faded, but I can't still make it out. Of course, it's hard to sustain that kind of setlist for too long -- they had to save some artillery shells for the Maine hit -- so the set cooled off a bit. The latter part being highlighted by a welcome appearance from Dame Tela and one of those typically frenzied Antelopes.
The setbreak definitely had a good energy to it. "What about that opening, eh?" The Phish crowd is easy to please as a whole, but for once I agreed, that was some bombastic shit. Little did we know...
The second set started kind of oddly, Chalkdust, Love Me (for Elvis), Sparkle. Like they were filling time a bit before some rendezvous later in the day. Trey was chatty from the get-go, calling out Elvis and then, going into Sparkle, claiming that Elvis loved that song. Then all of the sudden, Harry Hood is being shoved down your throat. This is about the part of your Thursday night when odd turns to outright weird, which will soon make way for batshit craziness dripping from the ceiling. First of all, the sky opened up -- not with rain, but with a fireworks/laser light show display elsewhere in the park. It was one of those quintessential Phish moments, the kind of synchronicity that makes even the stone cold soberest audience member question whether the guys were plucking the strings of the universe themselves. Of course, how could the band resist taking advantage of the light show at hand. Fireworks in the sky, fireworks on stage -- this was the band on their way to the Everest of the jam empire and all four guys were just clicking in next-level fashion.
As the Hood jam elevated with each exploding rocket, a short and sweet climax, something in the night shifted. The band regrouped a bit awkwardly, falling back to earth like the ashen bits of a firework floating haphazardly but softly back to the ground. Trey and Mike locked into a neat little melodic bit that just went and went and went, building to something, but what? Where does a show like this go? Over, around, under and upside down, the roller coaster went faster and then slower and then somehow, utterly unexpectedly, bang bang bang it segued into Col. Forbin's Ascent. If there's a twilight zone, we had entered it.... if you were to sum up this Phish show with three letters, might I suggest WTF... but wait, it gets better.
The Forbin's narrative is always kind of a trip out there, but nothing prepared anyone in the audience for what came next. Trey's building up the story as usual, I mean nothing out of the ordinary yet, right? And then Col. Forbin can't find Icculus, but instead he introduces Ken "Uncle Sam, Bozo Easy" Kesey -- he of the bus in the parking lot, Acid Test, Cuckoo's Nest fame -- who hijacks the show as only a grade-A prankster can. Kesey, in full regalia, takes over and starts his own narration, a free-form bizarre-a-thon about Bozos and somesuch with characters from the Wizard of Oz somehow appearing during the story. To call it "trippy" would be missing the point. I wish I had visuals of my reactions during the course of this, this, this... I don't what you call it. The range of feelings, from laughing and entertained to "what the FUCK is going on?" to finally just wanting it all to just end already... they were all there in spades. Yes, it was a lot of things, spurring a lot of looking at the dude next to you with a shrug of amazement, but the thing it was the most was long. The gist of the story is that they're looking for the "BOZOS" (What the fuckity fuck?) and by the end of the story, we learn that bozos are some even weirder motherfuckers with big heads floating around the audience. The fact that there is no footage of this on YouTube should shame that enterprise back to the days of the Commodore 64. Come on people!!
Thankfully, the band did not cede total control to Kesey (just about 97% of it), they filled in the undercurrent of the story with a pretty good soundtrack, superheady "Somewhere over the Rainbow" teases when appropriate, etc. All the characters from the Wizard of Oz (or Biz Boz as The Boy calls it) made an appearance, but for some reason instead of the Lion, Cowardly it was flipping Frankenstein that came out. 10 years later and I can't figure this one out, like the shit wasn't bizarro world enough for us. Of course, this got the band licking on Frankenstein (the song) as well. Finally, shortly after we finally found those confounded bozos, they kind of sunk into a groove -- it was almost impossible for Phish, circa 8/97 to go more than 15 minutes without getting thoroughly funky for a healthy stretch -- and Kesey finally re-entered the atmosphere of planet Earth. It was funny, after what seemed like forever (it's a full 15 minutes, if you're wondering) in Oz or wherever he was, he still made his way to mentioning the "mockingbird" as I'm sure Trey instructed him to at some point previous to the set.
Of course, we were through the looking glass at this point. They were really locked in to something ultrafunky, a subconscious groove that they couldn't avoid... they had the funk jones at this point and there was nothing they could do to shake it off. So Trey announced "We're supposed to start Mockingbird now, but the funk is too deep... we can't stop!!!" (but not before getting in a "see what happens when you take too much acid, 30 years later?" as Kesey and his cohorts quasi-boogied off stage) Holy shit, did that set the crowd on fire. Classic Anastasio. Instead they just let themselves get sucked in by the quicksand and slowly grooved their way into Camel Walk (my first). Don't let the Kesey go to the brain now.
It seems almost anticlimactic that they would encore such a brainbender of an evening with a truly 92-esque Bouncing/Rocky Top, but honestly it's so pedestrian that even that is weird. IN those days it was always hard to leave a Phish show without a wide grin of satisfaction on your face, but this is one that you really had to see to believe. Twas a good time to be on the bus, even if we couldn't go the big weekend looming northward.
Until next time...
The dog days... let me know what I'm missing.
Enjoy!
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Monday:
Justin Timberlake @ Giants Stadium (E. Rutherford, NJ)
*Badly Drawn Boy @ Spiegeltent
Tokyo Police Club @ Bowery Ballroom
Nublu Orchestra @ Nublu
Tuesday:
Badly Drawn Boy @ Spiegeltent
Nickel Creek w/ Fiona Apple @ Summerstage
Kenny Loggins @ Bergen PAC (Englewood, NJ)
*Jenny Scheinman @ Barbes (Brooklyn) (early)
Def Leppard et al @ Jones Beach (Wantagh, LI)
Jaik Miller Band @ LUV 24/7
Wednesday:
Disco Biscuits/Umphrey's McGee @ McCarren Pool (Brooklyn)
*Sonny Landreth @ Rockin' the River Cruise
Justin Timberlake @ Madison Square Garden
Mary Holvorson Trio @ Barbes (Brooklyn)
Def Leppard @ PNC Bank Arts Center (Holmdel, NJ)
Kelly Jo & The Preverts @ Fat Baby
Afroskull @ Ace of Clubs
The Wailers @ Highline Ballroom
Kaki King @ Spiegeltent
Forro In The Dark @ Nublu
Thursday:
Son Volt @ Rockin' the River Cruise
Lismore et al @ Maxwell's (Hoboken)
Jason Crosby Band @ Ace of Clubs
The Head Set et al @ Mercury Lounge
*Al & The Transamericans @ Lion's Den
Fencing: Chadbourne/Ribot/Baker @ The Stone (early/late)
Blue Oyster Cult, Foghat @ Bergen PAC (Englewood, NJ)
Jessica Lurie Trio @ Rockwood Music Hall (6pm)
Justin Timberlake @ Madison Square Garden
101crustaceans @ Issue Project Room (Brooklyn)
Dickey Betts & Great Southern @ North Fork Theater (Westbury, LI)
David Gans @ Mexicali Blues (Teaneck, NJ)
Friday:
*FREE The National @ South St. Seaport
Dirty Dozen Brass Band @ Maxwell's (Hoboken) (late/midnight)
Medeski, Martin & Wood @ Ridgefield Playhouse (Ridgefield, CT)
John Vanderslice et al @ Living Room
Alice In Chains, Velvet Revolver @ PNCBank Arts Center (Holmdel, NJ)
John Hiatt, Shawn Colvin @ Count Basie Theater (Red Bank, NJ)
Spiraling et al @ Mercury Lounge
Eugene Chabourne @ The Stone (early/late)
FREE John Vanderslice @ Sound Fix Records (Brooklyn)
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Made out of Babies @ Highline Ballroom
Saturday:
The New Mellow Edward @ Barbes (Brooklyn)
*FREE Toubab Krewe, Si*Se @ Governor's Island
Thought, Mocean Worker @ Rose (brooklyn)
Office, The Capitol Years et al @ Mercury Lounge
Alice In Chains, Velvet Revolver @ Jones Beach (Wantagh, LI)
Taylor Hicks @ St. George Theater (Staten Island)
Bishop Allen, Page France, Mobius Band @ Bowery Ballroom
Improv night: Zorn, Chadbourne et al @ The Stone (early/late) (benefit)
FREE Okkervil River @ Sound Fix Records (Brooklyn)
Sunday:
*Wolf Parade @ Warsaw (Brooklyn)
Nickel Creek w/ Fiona Apple @ North Fork Theater (Westbury, LI)
FREE Page France @ Sound Fix Records (Brooklyn)
Rufus Wainwright, The Magic Numbers, A Fine Frenzy @ Summerstage
Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes (Brooklyn)
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