John Butler Trio

LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar

by whitperson on Jul 26, 11

This week’s NYC-area concert calendar is bumpin’! The Allmans Brothers are back at the Beacon, Elvis Costello’s at the Count Basie Theatre, They Might Be Giants play the Williamsburg Waterfront, we’ve got two shows by reunited 90s alt-rock titans (Bush and STP), and this oddball lineup of Weezer, The Flaming Lips and Yeasayer are all at Jones Beach.

But, as usual, it’s the smaller club shows — and, in this case, the boat cruises — that interest me most. For something a bit more rock-based and singer-songwriter-y, check out The Barr Brothers and/or American Babies at the intimate Rockwood Music Hall. Or, get a little edgier with Sonny & The Sunsets et al over at the Glasslands Gallery in Williamsburg. But if you can only choose one, I highly recommend the Budos Band on the Rocks Off Concert Cruise for some groove-laden horn funk by the dudes laying down instrumentals for the majority of Daptone Records releases. Can’t be beat.

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Bonnaroo 2010 Lineup Additions: Ween, Galactic, Umphrey’s McGee, John Butler Trio, The Gossip

by whitperson on Mar 4, 10

in Festivals,News

Bonnaroo just announced a number of additions to its 2010 lineup, including: Ween, Galactic, Umphrey’s McGee, John Butler Trio, and The Gossip.

Wakarusa Initial 2010 Lineup Released

by whitperson on Jan 14, 10

in Festivals

The Wakarusa Festival has released its initial 2010 lineup (via Facebook). This year’s event takes place June 3-6 at Mulberry Mountain in Oxark, AR. While other larger festivals continue to add larger, more mainstream acts, Wakarusa appears to be staying true to its jammier roots.

Wakarusa Initial 2010 Lineup:

STS9, The Disco Biscuits, Slightly Stoopid, John Butler Trio, Blue Travelers, Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa, Bassnectar (late night set), Railroad Earth (2 sets), The Machine performs Pink Floyd (late night set), JJ Grey & MOFRO (2 sets), Lotus (late night set), Rebelution, ALO, Tea Leaf Green (2 sets including a late night), Boombox (2 sets including a late night), Black Joe Lewis (2 sets), Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk (2 sets), EOTO, James Zabiela (late night set), Split Lip Rayfield (2 sets), Hayes Carll, Sub Swara, Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band (2 sets), Trampled by Turtles (2 sets), Wookiefoot (late night set), Mishka, Big Gigantic, Truth & Salvage Co., Fort Knox Five (2 sets), Mountain Sprout (2 sets), Band of Heathens, Last Waltz Ensemble (2 sets), Cash’d Out, Earl Greyhound (2 sets), Bluetech (sunrise set), Uglysuit (2 sets), Passafire (2 sets), Simplified, Hoots & Hellmouth (2 sets), Resident Anti-Hero, and many, many more to be announced!

“Early Bird” Full Event Passes, VIP Passes, RV Packages and Camping Passes are on sale now at Wakarusa.com.

Podcast #062 | Keep On Votin’ in the Free World (Part 1)

by Staff on Oct 2, 08

in Podcasts

Editor’s note: in my haste in switching over the site to WordPress I forgot to make sure our podcast feed was rigged up correctly. I’m working on fixing it, but in the meantime you can come and stream the podcast on the site using the built in music player on the site. We’ve got a special guest podcast for our return to form (yet again) and we’re seriously would not want to miss a chance to spread a good message and some good tunes with a podcast following up the Vice Presidential debate. The title of the podcast says it all. Take it away, Ryan…

Hello Live Music Blog.com listeners and readers, this is Ryan Pedersen, Editor of livemusicpodcast.net and your guest host for Podcast #062. Justin and I have collaborated to bring you a special podcast to raise awareness of an issue that is very important to us. Voter registration deadlines are fastly approaching in many states with some as early as October 4th. Even if you are not planning on voting we still strongly encourage you to register anyway, especially if you make the decision to vote when it’s too late.

The fact is that you really have nothing to lose by registering and the process is very quick and requires little effort. A great place to start is by going to non-partisan websites RocktheVote.com or HeadCount.org to begin the registration process or to check the voter registration deadlines in your state.

To help drive home the importance of voting I will be playing a compilation of politically charged audience recordings that were downloaded via archive.org and bt.etree.org. All of the artists that will be featured have open taping policies so we encourage you to download the rest of the concerts using the links provided. A big thanks go out to these bands for their open policies and the tapers, which without their efforts this show would not be possible. Please enjoy the music and if you haven’t already done so get registered to vote today!!