rothbury

Justin’s currently on his way to High Sierra for the weekend festivities in Northern Cali, so he’s left me in charge of the reigns here at LMB. Uh oh! That means it’s time for a never-ending stream of workout mixes and long essays on the concert industry.

Kidding aside, hopefully Justin won’t be completely off the grid, so he can send us some periodic updates and tweets from High Sierra throughout the weekend. In the meantime, I’m digging this webcast schedule that iClips just posted for the Rothbury Festival. It’s looking pretty solid, with some good viewing options across the board (check out the full schedule after the jump).

If you’re like me and you can’t make it to either Rothbury or High Sierra this weekend, then make sure to check out the iClips webcast, and while you’re waiting in between sets, you should read our recent interview with iClips.net’s founder, Nate Parienti, about the site’s growth and evolution.

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Marco Benevento Trio @ Merkin Hall, NYC 5/14/09

Our friend Josh Kuckens went to see the Marco Benevento Trio and The Bad Plus at Merkin Hall in NYC in the middle of May. Both of us got busy so the photos couldn’t get posted right away, but we’ve finally got the good ones up. Read on for the pics. [read more...]

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phish-festival-update

On a whim I decided to check if Phish.com had any new reveals in the quest to get the to the final location state of the Phish Halloween Festival that I wrote about earlier today, and they’ve now updated the map to make it clear that the festival will not be held in Ohio or Nebraska Kansas. “Phew,” the phans think — am I right?!?!

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© Luke Nestler

© Luke Nestler

The Flaming Lips are going out on tour this summer starting at the Pitchfork Music Festival’s Write the Night awesomeness. They’re releasing their first double album ever called, Embryonic, which will be featuring members of MGMT and Karen O. from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Not bad.

Read on for the dates.

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High Sierra Roll Call?!?

June 30, 2009

In between posting tons of stuff before I worry about bathing or feeding myself, I thought I’d get a post going to get some excitement ready for High Sierra Music Festival this weekend. I’ll be there with a camera and a few bottles of sunblock, so I hope to have some updates from the [...]

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Sights and Sounds: Wilco @ Greek Theatre, Berkeley 6/27/09

June 30, 2009
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Wilco just rolled through California and Saturday night brought them to the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. This was my first time at the storied venue and I was fortunate enough to score a photo pass from their PR company, so I brought my SLR and shot the show from the pit.

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iClips Announces The Couch Tour

June 30, 2009
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In case you missed our recent interview with the CEO from iClips, we’ve learned that the company is taking the lead in trying to get quality live concert webcasts to the masses. And even though AT&T Music just did the webcast from Bonnaroo, it looks like they’re not going to be the preferred webcast [...]

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Video: Grizzly Bear – “Cheerleader” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

June 30, 2009
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This video was too cool in too many ways to list, so it gets its own post today.

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The New Phish Album, Plus a Halloween Festival?!? AYFKM?

June 30, 2009
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Some of you may have noticed that there are some stories that don’t always get the immediate news treatment here on the site, which I’m working to rectify a bit by building a bit more of a news aggregator on the site that will collect the best and brightest stories that you guys need to [...]

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Photos from Glastonbury 2009

June 29, 2009

Happy Monday, dudes. I just caught this amazing photo gallery on one of my favorite non-music blogs, The Big Picture, and I thought it was a good way to start out the week. The Glastonbury Festival just wrapped up yesterday and there’s a fantastic set of photos over at that said blog. [...]

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Live Music 3.0: Interview with Nate Parienti of iClips.net

June 27, 2009
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iClips.net has been webcasting and streaming live events for several years now, but it seems like the site has begun to really pick up steam in the last few years, particularly with its heavy focus on the music festival scene in the U.S. As the live music streaming space continues to grow and evolve, we thought it [...]

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R.I.P. Michael Jackson, 1958-2009

June 26, 2009

Right before my band and I got loaded up for a gig in Berkeley, we got the sad news that Michael Jackson had died at UCLA Medical Center in California after being rushed there following cardiac arrest. We got through the gig without any major mention of the event, and the second I got [...]

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Wilco to Webcast Berkeley Show on Saturday

June 25, 2009

My tickets just came through for the Wilco show this Saturday at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, which is killer because I thought I was going to have to watch it from home.
From Wilco HQ:
We’re webcasting this Saturday night’s show live from the sold-out Greek Theatre in Berkeley. It’ll be available in Quicktime on http://wilcoworld.net [...]

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Stream the New Bjork Live Album on NPR

June 24, 2009
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Bjork recorded a live album back in 2007 titled Voltaic following up on the release of her album, Volta, and NPR is offering up a stream of the album a week before it’s released.
Bjork, the 13-time Grammy nominee from Iceland, released her sixth album, Volta, in 2007. Before embarking on what would become a two-year-long [...]

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Mountain Jam 2009: Silly Rabbit, Fests are for Kids

June 24, 2009

After many festivals together, this year’s Mountain Jam was going to be different. This year my wife and I would have a six-month old child with us, our son Harry. As I discussed in an earlier post, we had no idea what to expect.

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Tour Dates: Sunny Day Real Estate Announce 2009 Reunion

June 23, 2009
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For all the emo fans in the room, big news today going around that Sunny Day Real Estate has announced a reunion tour and reissues of the first releases from their catalog. I kind of came up into this scene with my high school friends, but this was around the time that the tides [...]

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