Cut Copy @ Pitchfork Music Festival 2011
NYC’s live music scene continues to bang on through the heat & humidity with an interesting mix of shows this week. We’ve got some well-known, genre-crossing singer-songwriters like Bon Iver and Bob Dylan…you may have heard of him. If you’re more into dreamy synth-based rock that harkens back to 80s, there’s Cut Copy at Prospect Park or Small Black’s more intimate (and FREE) gig at Mercury Lounge. For something a little jammy, Zach Deputy’s doing his loop pedal thing at Southpaw and we’ve got two nights of instrumental Zeppelin madness with Bustle in Your Hedgerow at Brooklyn Bowl. On the indie, proggy, experimental side, there’s Woods w/ Ducktails at the Bowery as well as the bigger indie rock darlings like Sonic Youth and Kurt Vile at the Williamsburg Waterfront. But the sleeper show of the week (technically, next week) is a band called Music for Money who’s kicking off four nights in NYC with a show at the Charleston in Brooklyn. If you dig the eclectic, experimental styles of Tortoise or Battles, you’ll want to check them out.
Interesting shows from this week’s NYC concert calendar: READ MORE
The Budos Band
Bumbershoot 2010, Day One….
First stop for the day was the KEXP in-studio session with The Budos Band, playing a number of tracks from their new Budos Band III album. The band is self-described as Afro-soul, and pretty much every song the band plays makes you feel like you’re Indiana Jones running from the enormous rolling boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Seriously. If that’s not enough to get you to take a listen then nothing else I say could do the trick. Thanks to KEXP’s website, you can hear the entire session at http://kexp.org/streamarchive/streamarchive.asp. Enter “Saturday, September 4th” for the date, and “2:29 PM” for the time, and you can stream the entire 30-minute performance in a number of formats.
Next we headed over to catch Wheedle’s Groove, a collection of Seattle funk and soul musicians from the 60′s and 70′s who got together in 2004. They were welcomed onto the stage by Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, who proclaimed September 4th, 2010 as “Wheedle’s Groove Day” in the city of Seattle. They had about 20+ different musicians on the stage over the course of their set and played songs from a huge range of Seattle artists, and even threw in a soulful cover of “Hey Jude” for a crowd singalong. READ MORE
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Who doesn’t love Labor Day Weekend? One last three-day weekend to close out the summer months and music to see across the country: the inaugural North Coast Music Festival in Chicago, Jazz Aspen Snowmass in Aspen, FYF Fest in Los Angeles, plenty of East Coast stuff that I’m not even aware of, and last but not least, Bumbershoot Festival here in Seattle (which I’ll be covering all weekend here at LMB). If you’re in the Seattle area the forecast is 70° and not a cloud in the sky for most of the weekend, and last-minute day passes are about $50 and cheaper if you opt for the non-mainstage ticket option. Regardless, here’s 10 bands acts I’ll be checking out this weekend and be sure to stop here at in the next few days for some photo coverage of the festival. Also, I’ll be tweeting occasionally at @burning_oak so follow along there if you’re interested in following along… READ MORE
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Bob Dylan played
The Warfield in
San Francisco last night and brought fans in under one of the more innovative ways to stop scalpers and ticket brokers from getting the leg up on deserving fans — they made tickets for sale on a cash-only, line forms at the door basis. Pretty impressive.
Pollstar has the story… READ MORE
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The lineup for
Bumbershoot 2010 in
Seattle was just announced, too. They’ve tapped
Bob Dylan,
Mary J. Blige,
Weezer,
Hole and more for this year’s festival set for Labor Day weekend, which is marking the 40th year that the event has been taking place. Our buddy
Kane will likely be there covering the event for us, and he already pinged me and said he’s looking forward to the event.
Read on for the full lineup… READ MORE
Like New Year’s Eve, Halloween is another holiday that a lot of bands choose to celebrate in style. There’s just something about mixing the live concert experience with all the fun and choas of Halloween that really brings out the freaks. While most bands typically play into the Halloween vibe in some way, touring bands often approach Halloween as an opportunity to really create a unique live music event. Just as we did with our New Year’s Eve concert round-up, we’ve compiled a list of Halloween concerts that will be going on this weekend (see below for the long list).
We have also noticed a few bands that are taking a similar approach to Halloween as Phish by doing some sort of “musical costume” and either covering another band’s music or playing a full show of thematic covers. Here are a few of the more interesting “musical costumes” we’ve seen announced this year:
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The second incarnation of Rothbury Festival is back on the Fourth of July weekend with a lineup that will satisfy any jamband fan living in these great independent states, and I’m just now getting around to posting the lineup for everyone to see (not that you haven’t already seen this elsewhere). I’m already booked for High Sierra or I would be hitting this festival myself, but lucky for us the fine folks behind Rothbury Festival are sponsoring the site for the month leading up to the festival. And we get to celebrate that by giving away a pair of tickets for all 4-days of the festival. READ MORE
