Archive for October, 2009
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
I just spoke to Justin who’s on the scene at Festival 8. He was able to grab a playbill for tonight and it appears to confirm that Phish will cover the Rolling Stones’ classic album Exile on Main Street as their Halloween Musical Costume! The set will also feature Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings to round out the set with horns and a more appropriate vocalist. That sounds awesome!
But that’s not all. The playbill also includes a silly ad for David Bowie and UB40 playing NYE in Miami, which seems to confirm the rumor that Phish will play their New Year’s Eve run in Miami at American Airlines Arena! More updates to follow as the news streams in.
(editor’s note: I say “appears to confirm” above because, after following this band for so many years, I never put anything past them in terms of the silly tricks and games they’re willing to play just to mess with their fans. You just have to take it all with a grain of salt, sit back, smile and wait for it all to actually unfold.)
Read on for images of the playbill from Festival 8…
Phishbill:
Exile on Main Street Playbill:
Bowie-UB40 Ad:
Fishman “Time Turns Elastic” Sweatpants ad:
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
I need a downloadable, free site or program to download music from where I won’t get a ton of viruses and other problems.
Preferably something that have LOTS of songs. I had limewire but it made my comp ridiculously laggy and I get the blue screen of death every time I plugged in my I-pod. Its fixed now, but I need a new way to download music. Any ideas?
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
I recently purchased my first electric guitar, and I was wondering if it can play rock music like AC/DC or Bon Jovi with just an amp, or do I need to buy an effects pedal to get those sounds?
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
I need to make a paper about Pop Music in Holland during the year 1970. All i can get is the Top 40 List and artists biography. Does anybody who experience first hand the music scene in the Netherlands in the year 1970 can give me an insight? The longer your explanation and description, the better.
Well appreciated.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Regular readers of this blog know that our own Brandon Stosuy is a passionate metal fan. And in recent months we’ve seen an enthusiastic response to our occasional coverage of the genre. So starting today, in the form of this as-yet-untitled, flexibly scheduled column, Stereogum will be devoting space to the best new metal music, with Brandon as our guide. Happy Halloween…
A few years ago I thought it would be fun to put my metal writing in one spot, so I asked Pitchfork if they’d let me do a column. At that time I was a regular contributor to the site, but was getting tired of straight-up record reviews (which often seemed to be more about the writer than the band being discussed), so I decided to make the column a place for long-form interviews capped with short, basic introductions that situated the subjects in some kind of context. I didn’t always stick to the plan at first (one time Peter Sotos, Mark Solotroff, and Kevin Drumm did capsule reviews for me in a bar in Chicago), but eventually the pattern emerged. The idea was that if I was covering a band, I clearly liked them, so no need to sell you on it. I also wanted to approach things honestly and to avoid some of the tongue-in-cheek or over-the-top hyperbole that can come with metal writing. I’d tried to drive that home in a piece I wrote for Slate about metal and hipsters in 2005: It was basically a joke on hipsters and a paeon to music I grew up loving in rural Southern, NJ, where all of my sister’s boyfriends had bad teenage mustaches and Metallica shirts. The personal connection to the music is important to me: For instance, as uncool as it may seem, the column’s name was clearly inspired by the Slayer album, but it was also a nod to a name my friend Alex proposed for his dog before he opted for the less flashy Nero. Anyhow, I launched Show No Mercy in June 2006 via an interview with Nachtmystium’s Blake Judd…
Continue reading Haunting The Chapel: Introducing Stereogum’s New Metal Column…
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Catch performances by Stevie Wonder, Simon & Garfunkel, and Springsteen & Fogerty at YouTube. It’s only a matter of time before Sting, James Taylor, Jeff Beck, Metallica, U2, and the epic grand finale jams show up, too.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
I am looking for legal music downloading programs and I heard Limewire was one but it’s illegal, that’s what my friends tell me. Are there any legal ones?
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
While searching for a clip of Weezer’s stop by Letterman last night, I came across a vid of their first ever stop by Dave’s place. They played “Say It Ain’t So” and I sighed. Whatever you think of the band all these years later, this much is undeniable: they are still making music. And doing television appearances. Last night they did If You’re Wondering If I Want You To (I Want You To),” a (the?) strong point on Raditude, and tonight they’re back at the Ed Sullivan Theatre for another serving. It’s a strong performance, the Late Show band bolstering Rivers’ stage-walking with some nice brass arrangements, so put the Weezy bit out of your mind and enjoy:
Continue reading Weezer Visit Letterman, Yo Gabba Gabba!…
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