My Morning Jacket | photo by WHITperson
This week’s NYC concert calendar features another diverse mix of shows, including a six-night run by the National, My Morning Jacket at MSG, American Babies at Mercury Lounge, and two nights of Atlas Sound, among many other interesting shows. READ MORE
Good news for My Morning Jacket fans just dropped in my inbox. While the band is coming off a triumphant headlining set on Saturday night at ACL Fest, they’re looking ahead to a December full of awesomeness with the announcement that they’ll be playing dates with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Delta Spirit and Band of Horses, with the latter band getting the honor of gracing the stage with MMJ at their return to Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, December 14th. READ MORE
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Austin City Limits has four scheduled tapings around the dates of the Austin City Limits Music Festival:
Monsters of Folk: Wednesday, October 6th
Sonic Youth: Thursday, October 7th
Band of Horses: Saturday, October 9th
The National: Monday, October 11thThese tapings will be held in the Austin City Limits studio (as usual), and any announcements regarding ticket availability and giveaways for the public will be posted on the ACL blog approximately one week before each taping. The sets will air as part of ACL’s 36th season on PBS, premiering this fall. Exact airdates are TBD – we’ll post details as we get them sorted out. We have a few more tapings in the works, so stay tuned for word on those as well…
Nice lineup there. I wonder who else they have planned.
Photo © Pearl Jam Official
Pearl Jam today announced a late Spring tour with dates in U.S. cities throughout the East and Midwest. The tour kicks off on May 3rd in Kansas City — after the band’s previously-announced slot at the New Orleans Jazz Festival on May 1st — and ends with two shows at NYC’s Madison Square Garden on May 20-21.
Band of Horses nabbed the opening slot for all of the May shows with the exception of May 20th, when The Black Keys will open.
As we reported previously, Pearl Jam will tour throughout Europe in June and July. The band will also perform on Saturday Night Live this Saturday.
Pearl Jam 2010 Spring Tour Dates:
5.03 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
5.04 – St. Louis, MO – Scottrade Center
5.06 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
5.07 – Noblesville, IN – Verizon Wireless Music Center
5.09 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena
5.10 – Buffalo, NY – HSBC Arena
5.13 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
5.15 – Hartford, CT – XL Center
5.17 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
5.18 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
5.20 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden w/ The Black Keys
5.21 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Get tickets from ticketmaster.com.
photo by kk+
Band of Horses are returning to the stage in 2010 with a busy touring schedule and a new album called Infinite Arms, due out on May 18 on Fat Possum/Brown Records. They’ve just released the cover art, too. Check it out:
Trey Anastasio has a small interview in Time Out: New York about his Sept. 12 show coming up with the New York Philharmonic, in which lucky fans will get to see orchestral representations of many Phish and Trey Anastasio Band songs that we all know and love by now. I recently heard his orchestral version of “First Tube” from the Baltimore show in May and it literally sent chills down my spine, so I consider that to be a hot ticket for a Saturday night in NYC.
Not long after the interviewer poses the question of “what album will you playing at Festival 8 for the Halloween set,” and Trey answers with a typical “it’s an album I really love” answer, we get this as the answer:
Can you tell me which album you’ll be covering in full at Festival 8?
The only clue I can give you is that it’s an album I truly love. That’s kind of a boring clue. My wife gives me a hard time all the time because I like everything. Saying it’s an album that I like doesn’t really narrow it down.Do you listen to a lot of pop music?
I really liked MGMT when that record came out. I like Band of Horses, you know, [Singing] “I could sleep, I could sleeeeeep.” That song really got inside me for a while. I was listening to Panda Bear. I would be cooking in the kitchen and listening to “Comfy in Nautica.
Would he really be that daft to suggest MGMT when the rumors were already swirling that it’s an album that could see the light of day? The Lillywhite connection is totally there. But I would literally die a happy man if I heard the band try to recreate something completely inventive like the Panda Bear Person Pitchalbum. In fact, I’d probably ask my neighbor to just end my life right then and there; it would be impossible for a musical moment to have more meaning to me than at that moment. It would be like seeing Jesus. It’s easily the record I’ve listened to most over the last three years of my life, and I often find myself continually convinced that it’s one of the best albums ever created.
So maybe he’s not suggesting it, per se, especially considering the question comes after the pop music thing is referenced, but I like the dream of it all to keep me going until Halloween weekend down in Indio.
Day three of Outside Lands is about to begin, and I need to hightail-it down to Golden Gate Park so I can catch some of the set by The Morning Benders. I’m having a blast at the festival so far and I’d rather get down there to enjoy the music, so just assume that I’m going to try and catch a little of everything today. With the major conflict being the Ween / M.I.A. / Band of Horses sets around sunset, I’ll be a bit torn on what I want to watch the most of.
Expect some photos and some videos tomorrow and hope everyone else is having a good weekend! Look for me on the webcast, too.
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