June 2010

06.07.2010

Tour Dates: Panda Bear Confirms New Single, New Dates (NY, SF)

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I’m so effing excited to see that Panda Bear is announcing more dates around the already announced Hopscotch Music Festival and Musicfest NW appearances. He’ll be playing at the Fox Theater in Oakland on September 6th, which is a show I’ll be lining up for in a few weeks in anticipation. Yes, the show is [...]

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06.07.2010

Tour Dates: STS9 to Release Axe The Cables

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We’re constantly in the business of fluffing everything that STS9 has been up to lately, and we’re uber pumped about the release of their first “Axe the Cables” show as an official release. In December of 2009, STS9 sat down in Denver, Colorado in one of America’s most pristine modern opera houses to create “Axe [...]

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06.07.2010

Bonnaroo 2010: YouTube Webcast, NPR Streams

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Not going to Bonnaroo this year? Don’t fret. YouTube will be broadcasting the live festival webcast at youtube.com/bonnaroo, and we’ll post the schedule when get it so you know what you need to witness live as it happens. Don’t forget that NPR Music is going to be broadcasting a bunch from the festival as well.

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06.07.2010

Now Playing: Phish “From the Archives” Pre-FM Source @ Bonnaroo 2009

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YEMBlog dropped an excellent and previously unreleased source today of the Phish “From the Archives” broadcast that Kevin Shapiro put together at Bonnaroo last year; I suggest you download it promptly. Read more at Hidden Track…

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06.07.2010

Review: Local Natives @ Bottom of the Hill, SF 6/3/10

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Speaking of Local Natives, I was lucky enough to score a press pass to the second show that the band had planned when they rolled through San Francisco last week, and I was pretty much guaranteed to have an amazing time given how much I love their debut album, Gorilla Manor. If you haven’t picked [...]

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06.07.2010

Photos: Local Natives @ Rickshaw Stop, SF 6/2/10

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My friend Victoria got to see the Local Natives show at Rickshaw Stop last week, which was the first of a two-night, sold-out run here in San Francisco by the band. They’re killing it hard at the moment and we expect huge things out of this band in the future, but in the meantime we’ll [...]

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06.07.2010

Tour Dates: Surprise Me Mr. Davis Announce West Coast Dates

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I can’t wait for High Sierra time to roll around so I can see The Slip, Marco Benevento and Nathan Moore all cobble themselves together in a band that you’ve already heard of known as Surprise Me Mr. Davis. They’re focusing on the West Coast ahead of and behind the festival, so I’ll have a chance to see them more than a few times that week.

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06.07.2010

zzyzx on the “Improv” Expectations for Phish 2010

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Phish returns to the road this Friday night, and we’re going to be running heavy on the coverage up through and into the rest of the tour. It’s going to be a great summer. To start, you’ve probably already seen this if you’re a PT cruiser but I had to link it up to start [...]

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06.07.2010

Google Cloud Print: Never Print a Concert Ticket at Home Again?

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It’s Internet Week in New York City and the launches, announcements, and press surrounding the heavy hitters on the web will be occurring ad nauseam this week. One of the first to get my attention is the news and unveiling of Google Cloud Print with Live Nation joining the press release as one of the [...]

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06.05.2010

Tour Dates: The New Deal Release LIVE: TORONTO 7.16.2009

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Band to play All Good, Forecastle and Camp Bisco, Bear Creek,

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06.05.2010

Summer Camp Review from Muzzle of Bees

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Review: Summer Camp Festival [Muzzle of Bees] When I was looking at the forecast for Chillicothe, IL leading into this last weekend it was predicting “abundant sunshine,” which at the time sounded fantastic however a more accurate description would have been “abundant, never relenting sunshine with no hope for a single cloud, high temps just [...]

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06.04.2010

Download: Bonnaroo Music Festival iPhone App

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Going to Bonnaroo this year? Make sure you download the official iPhone app (with the Android app coming soon). The Bonnaroo app is your one-stop-shop for all things Bonnaroo 2010. Use this app to find out when your favorite acts are playing, create your personal schedule for the weekend, and discover new acts before you [...]

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06.04.2010

News Fail: Trip Tents Planned for Phish @ Telluride

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How fitting that is it that one week away from Phish’s summer tour and in the midst of crazy festival reports we also get news that hit the HuffPo homepage today. A local news report from Telluride, CO mentioned that the local law enforcement is setting up a “Trip Tent” area where folks attending the [...]

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06.04.2010

Nateva Music Festival Single-Day Tickets on Sale

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If you were on the fence about attending Nateva Festival up in Maine over Fourth of July weekend, they just announced that they’ll allow some easy one-day options that would allow you to show up, see your day of choice, camp (with no extra charge) and head home the next day. Beginning today, the festival [...]

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06.04.2010

NPR Music to Live Webcast from Bonnaroo 2010: Flaming Lips, Dave Matthews Band, Kings of Leon and more

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NPR Music strikes wonderfully again; they just announced that they’ll be broadcasting over 40 sets from this year’s Bonnaroo Music Festival beginning next Thursday. NPR Music, together with three partner public radio stations, sets up camp by the four main stages at this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, presenting three days [...]

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06.04.2010

Mountain Jam 2010: Watch Now via iClips.net

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Looks like some folks were added to the schedule early on the Mountain Jam webcast from iClips.net — you can go and watch the sets now as opposed to the 1pm PDT start-time that we originally posted. Doh! Grace Potter & the Nocturnals are on in five…

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06.04.2010

Photos: Rebirth Brass Band @ Space, Evanston, IL 5/12/10

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Rebirth Brass Band recently rolled through Chicago and played some new club out in Evanston, IL. I had never heard of Space but the room looks tight and well worth seeing a show at. Chris Monaghan shot the band while they were rockin’ the suburbs and he sent this gallery our way.

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06.04.2010

Tour Dates: Umphrey’s McGee Tour Hard in 2010

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Umphrey’s McGee is at Wakarusa this weekend, and based on the sets they were dropping while at Summer Camp, I’d say these guys are a must-see in 2010. There was a newness to their playing that I hadn’t heard in a while.

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