Umphrey's McGee @ Catskill Chill 2011
This week in NYC live music, we’ve got some interesting shows for the NY Guitar Festival, a two-night stand by Umphrey’s McGee, the 12th annual Freaks Ball kicks off this weekend with two shows at Brooklyn Bowl, and lots of standout indie rockers hit the stage. Here are the highlights as I see ‘em… READ MORE
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Sorry for the absence of this here column last week; I got hit with an acute case of tonsillitis which definitely killed my Monday pretty badly. Felt like I was swallowing razorblades….but the good news is that it got me to the doctor to get some killer horse-pills to clear my junk up, so I ended up catching a few good live shows last week when all was said and done. More on that to come, but for now let’s dive into the cool music coming through San Francisco this week that you all should be paying attention to. READ MORE
Check out my quick video preview of some of the artists that you can see today for FREE down in Golden Gate Park as part of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Why am I not there and publishing this now, you ask?! There may have been a flask involved in yesterday’s preceedings…
Here’s my quick thoughts from day one and read on for a bunch of videos from the amazing talent on the lineup from day two… >>>
The lineup for next year’s Suwannee Springfest was just announced featuring Yonder Mountain String Band, Peter Rowan & Tony Rice, Justin Townes Earl and Emmitt-Nershi Band all topping the list of artists announced so far. The festival returns to Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL for the weekend of March 22-25, 2012 and three-day passes are now on sale for $125. Read on for the lineup… >>>
the dodos | photo by whitperson
This is another one of those week’s of live music in NYC that requires some serious skills with scheduling and logistics. There are a ton of great shows and there’s just not enough time, energy, and cash flow to take them all in. Since I’m still out of pocket, and there’s so much to choose from, I’m foregoing my normal highlight reel and just going with the entire list. Call me a slacker if you will, but given all these options, I think I’m mainly just indecisive…
iClips.net will be broadcasting their highlights from this year’s All Good Music Festival starting tomorrow at 2pm CST with The Werks.
For the fifth year in a row, iClips.net will be on site at All Good to document a handful of the many guaranteed unforgettable performances in their entirety, in addition to backstage b-roll and interviews, festival features, and more. Then, the weekend following the festival, iClips.net will broadcast a highlights from the festival that have been hand-picked by the iClips and All Good Festival teams. The broadcast will begin the afternoon of Friday, July 22 and will continue on Saturday and Sunday. Go ahead, tune in to iClips.net to experience the All Good Festival you missed, or to re-live the previous weekend of epic music, camping, bonfires and more.
Read on for the full schedule. >>>
Photo by WHITperson
As spring’s finally starting to heat up, I can already see the concert calendar swelling in size. This week is a great example with lots of killer shows in NYC to check out.
MONDAY, APRIL 25
Smith Westerns w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ The Bowery Ballroom
Tame Impala w/ Yuck @ Webster Hall
TUESDAY, APRIL 26
Greensky Bluegrass, Spirit Family Reunion @ Brooklyn Bowl (Brooklyn)
The New Mastersounds at Chico’s House of Jazz (Asbury Park, NJ)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
Battles w/ Tanlines (DJ set) @ Le Poisson Rouge
Low w/ Milagres @ The Bowery Ballroom
THURSDAY, APRIL 28
Charlie Hunter Duo w/ Bobby Previte @ Jazz Standard
(1st show of 4-night run)
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
American Babies @ Mercury Lounge
Greyboy Allstars @ Brooklyn Bowl
Holy Ghost! w/ The Hundred in the Hands @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The Juan Maclean @ Cameo Gallery (Brooklyn)
Surfer Blood, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, True Widow @ The Bowery Ballroom
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
Greyboy Allstars @ Brooklyn Bowl
of Montreal, Painted Palms @ Webster Hall
Shpongle, Random Rab, Hallucinogen @ Best Buy Theater
SUNDAY, MAY 1
Charlie Hunter Duo w/ Eric Kalb at Jazz Standard
My final hit-list is still TBD, but I’m pretty certain I’ll at least be at that American Babies show at Mercury Lounge on Friday, potentially followed by a dance party at Cameo with the Juan Maclean. Any one else going to be there? If not, what’s your top show for the week?
Sidenote about the ticket links and listings:
I’m going to start testing out different concert listings for these posts to see which is the easiest for my purposes. This week, I put Songkick to the test.
I love what Ian and co. have done with the place (especially for the way they’ve helped to archive past shows). But for my purposes, I ran into a couple issues with some missing shows. For those, I filled in the gaps with a few artist and venue links, but it’s definitely a time-suck for a long list. Also, I’d really love to be able to simply post an embed or a list of links for all the shows I’m “attending” or “maybe attending” for a given time period. Hey, Songkick, build that. Kthxbai.
In the future, I’ll be putting a few other sites to the test (like Jambase.com, Superglued, SonicLiving, etc…) to mix things up a bit.
After getting canceled in 2010, it looks like the Rothbury Festival is making a comeback in 2011…but with a new name: the Electric Forest Festival.
We’ve been hearing some occasional rumors about a return for Rothbury in 2011, but this new temporary site posted today is the most official notice we’ve seen, other than some off-the-cuff comments from Bill Nershi of String Cheese Incident. SCI appears to be a key player in putting this one together, so we expect them to have the headlining slots. Other than that, we’re hearing that Greensky Bluegrass let this date temporarily slip onto their tour listings, so it’s possible the lineup will take on a more bluegrass-oriented slant.
Either way, it’s great to see this festival making a comeback in 2011.
So, besides String Cheese Incident, who else do you want to see headlining the new Rothbury?
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