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PHOTOS / WORDS: Marco Benevento Trio @ The Independent, SF 12/4/11

Marco Benevento did his best to keep a San Francisco audience perfectly satisfied last night as he brought his trio into town (this time with Reed Mathis on bass and Andy Borger on drums), but it was clear from the energy in the room that everyone had spent themselves out on a crazy Saturday night. Typical San Francisco behavior, actually… partying comes in cycles. And Marco stayed animated and definitely got people rocking after a relatively tame-ish opener in Fred Torphy (from Big Light). READ MORE

New DVD: Marco Benevento and Friends – Live in NYC, The Sullivan Hall Residency

by whitperson on Oct 27, 09

in News,Videos

Back in early 2008, Marco Benevento set-up a Thursday night residency at Sullivan Hall that featured a series of killer combos and collaborations including: Andrew Barr, Billy Martin, Bobby Previte, Brad Barr, DJ Olive, G. Calvin Weston, Reed Mathis, Joe Russo, John Ellis, Kaki King, Marc Friedman, Skerik, Stanton Moore, and Steven Bernstein.

Shine A Light Productions captured it all on film and just recently completed a DVD of the events entitled “Marco Benevento (& Friends): Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency.” Here’s a little video teaser they put together for the new release:

Marco Benevento & Friends – Live in NYC : The Sullivan Hall Residency from Shine A Light Productions on Vimeo.

The DVD comes out on Nov. 10, but for anyone that pre-orders directly from The Royal Potato Family, you’ll receive a link to download five additional unreleased videos for your ipod, phone, or desktop, featuring performances from The Sullivan Hall residency.

Photos: Marco Benevento Trio @ State Theater, Falls Church, VA 9/24/09

by Justin Ward on Sep 30, 09

in Photo Galleries

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Photos © jtnt

Sights and Sounds: Marco Benevento Trio in Syracuse, 5/7/09

by Justin Ward on May 11, 09

in Download This,Photo Galleries

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Our friend Josh Kuckens went to see the Marco Benevento Trio (with Reed Mathis on bass and Andrew Barr on drums) at The Westcott Theatre in Syracuse, NY on Thursday night, and he ended up getting some really incredible photos of the band in action. And thanks to taper AndyB and the Internet Archive, there’s a nice quality recording of the concert now in circulation.

I got a chance to see this lineup perform in Oakland during February and it was easily one of the top three concerts I’ve seen during 2009 thus far. Go see this genius if you have the chance; you won’t be disappointed.

Weekly Roundup

by Justin Ward on Oct 27, 08

in Link Roundup,Links

Man we were light on posting last week. I’ve been totally out of loop since moving into a new apartment, but now that I’m settled in and mostly unpacked I’ll have some more time to devote to this here website. Sorry for the lack of updates from my side. I always apologize, I know — and that really doesn’t do much, I know — but just understand that I have really been trying hard to keep up as the site is still something I very much love to do and I love that people still come hang out with us online.

Here’s a bunch of other stuff that was going on while we weren’t posting too many articles.

Marco Benevento is being joined by Reed Mathis and Jon Fishman (!) for four dates in the Northeast in early November. That, my friends, is insane. Someone remind me to download those shows. [Hidden Track]
Ryan posted the latest Live Music Podcast, an Arcade Fire set from Vegoose 2005. [The Live Music Podcast]
Built to Spill covered “Paper Planes” live in Italy and it sounds really amazing. Anyone know where to find a full version? [Stereogum]
LL Cool J just played House of Blues in Chicago and liveDaily was there to take photos. I wonder if it was any good. [liveDaily]
Ticketmaster just bought a talent agency. I thought that was the only thing they did not have power over already, the talent side of the equation. [liveDaily]