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Groupees teaming up with Celldweller (72 hour sale for Alabama Tornado Relief)
Groupees, an “innovative new flash sale platform featuring digital media content from exciting independent artists,” announced yesterday that it will be launching its next promotion featuring Detroit’s electronic rock mastermind Celldweller…
Known worldwide for pioneering new sounds and methods for creating his tracks, Klayton (Celldweller) continues to generate music that resonates and relates to both fans and the entertainment industry worldwide.
The Celldweller 4-EP Bundle Groupee is slated to start Wednesday, May 4th at 9:00 am PST at http://bit.ly/celldwellr.
20% of all proceeds from the sale go directly to Red Cross to support US/Alabama Tornado Relief.
The campaign will run for 72 hours and is priced using Pay What You Want which allows fans to name their price with a minimum of $3 (products retail five times that). The Bundle packages together 4 EP’s, one of which has 4 never before released tracks:
- Wish Upon A Blackstar Chapter 03 of 05 is the latest installment of the Celldweller sophomore album, featuring the tracks “The Lucky One” & “Tainted”
- Cellout EP 01 featuring re-imagined versions of Celldweller songs as heard in the Celldweller live show. This EP debuted in iTunes as the #1 Electronic Album in 5 Countries, including the US as well as top #10 Electronic album in 12 countries.
- Soundtrack For The Voices In My Head Vol. 02 (Chapter 01) featuring instrumental tracks used in Film/Tv/Video Games
- Exclusive EP will feature a brand new, unreleased track from Soundtrack For The Voices In My Head Vol. 02 (Chapter 02), 3 unreleased Remixes as well as a rare/limited release of Klayton’s remix of the track “Shapeshifter.”
The Celldweller 4-EP Bundle also includes a special bonus collection if the promotion’s goal of $10,000 raised is met:
All participants will receive an unreleased ‘Beta Cessions’ B-Side Demo along with the unreleased Remix of the track “The Lucky One”. At the close of the campaign, the #1 top donor will receive an additional bonus Unreleased Demo that will be exclusively theirs until we officially release the track at a later date.
Who is Groupees? Groupees, from Portland, Oregon, is a social media technology company. Their parent company, YAWMA, also operates a digital store and app for discovery and sharing of indie music and games through Facebook.
From Wednesday, May 4th, through Saturday, May 7th (9am PST/noon EST), dig in at:
~Dan – np: Steven Wilson – Insurgentes 
REVIEW: Mankind & Kari Spohn @ Wandering Goat (Eugene, OR – 4/29/11)
On Friday, Eugene photographer Kari Spohn and Eugene “post-something” band Mankind hit the Wandering Goat with two very different artistic openings. Kari’s black & white photography was throughout the coffee shop… her opening starting at 5:30pm. I dig her work – very “beauty in the everyday” and nice use of lines in concrete and steel in my opinion.
Delightful bites of caprise bread slices and sounds from the espresso machine’s froth fuzz soon gave way to the post-rock / post-metal bombast from Mankind at 6pm…
photo by Wes Hurd
Mankind is a great find for post-rock fans in Eugene. They played a fairly tight set of some fantastical heavy instrumental music that sucks you in. Mankind is James Madson on bass, Joe Harvey & John Hurd on guitars and Courtney Stubbert on drums. For fans of Explosions in the Sky, think a touch heavier. “Explosions in the Isis” perhaps. Definitely recommended for fans of Explosions, Isis, Mogwai, et cetera. And I’m glad Mankind are in Eugene. I look forward to seeing them play a show where they can stretch their legs – the Goat’s stage is a bit small!
And don’t worry… the sonic takeover of the art opening wasn’t intended as a clash. It was a compliment to the photography (Kari and Mankind are kindreds).
Over at Bandcamp, you can download (for free) the first batch of demos from Mankind. You won’t be disappointed:
http://mankind.bandcamp.com/The Appropriate Linkage:
- Mankind’s Site
- Mankind’s Social Media Links (see below)
- Kari Spohn’s Flickr / Twitter
- Wandering Goat’s Site / Facebook / Twitter
Next show for me… possibly Tin Hat at the Mission Theater (Portland) on 5/19 or Blackfield at Aladdin (Portland) on 6/1. Or, I assume some other stuff will pop-up in May…
Breaking news as I was writing this review up… Barack Obama announced that a special force killed Osama bin Laden! Mission Accomplished (for real this time)! I’m not celebrating the death, but rather the justice.
The Book of Knots – Garden of Fainting Stars
Update 6/3: this album is now up for pre-order.
Update 6/27: original packaging concept for the album by Aaron Lazar of Tzgani Design.
Just tooling around Ipecac today… and what? New album from The Book of Knots? The official PR follows…
The Book Of Knots has had the pleasure of collaborating with some of the worlds most talented musicians, including Tom Waits, Mike Patton, David Thomas, Blixa Bargeld, Jon Langford, and Carla Bozulich.
Founding members Matthias Bossi (Skeleton Key, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum), Joel Hamilton (producer/engineer for BlakRoc, Pretty Lights), Carla Kihlstedt (Tin Hat Trio, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) and Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, Frank Black, Bob Mould) forge a sound both epic and intimate, empowering and devastating. 
Cinematic, symphonic landscapes give way to crumbling acoustic chamber ballads. Broken guitars and beautifully warped orchestras describe the ungraceful demise of boats, blast furnaces and bloated industries. Accounts of the failed adventures of tragic would-be heroes are given voice in the band’s two previous critically-acclaimed releases.
Their newest album serves as the final chapter in the bands “By Sea, By Land, By Air” trilogy. GARDEN OF FAINTING STARS, slated for release by Ipecac Recordings on June 14th, 2011, gives dissonant sendoffs to the doomed travelers and early astronauts that plied the skies in a quest for the final frontier: Space.
The imagined utopias that await them at the other end of their fantastical journeys inevitably give way to the grim realization which mankind has faced again and again: at every hopeful turn, commonplace realities await us. A vast and empty universe, stretching far beyond infinity, capable of containing the countless imaginary creatures, civilizations, and otherwise terrestrial impossibilities that inhabit our dreams, dies in the fluorescent lighting of the laundry soap aisle at WalMart.
The Book Of Knots once again cast a wormless, rusty hook into the lifeless seas of the music industry, expecting to reap only sorrow.
~Dan – np: Tides from Nebula – Earthshine
The Arcade Fire – The Wilderness Downtown
OK, I’m late to the dance on this one… it’s old…
The Arcade Fire’s latest 2010 video is an interactive interpretation of their song “We Used To Wait“… you put in where you grew up, and it brings in your old neighborhood into the video mix. Behold, “The Wilderness Downtown“…
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
Creepy technology using Google Maps API, HTML5, and scripts… read more about the tech here.
~Dan – np: Garage A Trois – Emphasizer
Shara Worden on Prefuse73’s new album
I should change the name of this blog to something to do with Shara Worden (aka My Brightest Diamond). 
She took some time off to have a baby, but now it seems like she’s popping up all over the indie-rock landscape.
This time, she lends her golden voice to the Prefuse 73 track “The Only Hand To Hold” from their just released album, The Only She Chapters. The song is available now as a FREE mp3 download over on their website.
The album (mp3/wav/flac/CD/LP) is available to purchase at BLEEP.
~Dan – np: Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
Death Metal vocalist warming up in the studio
’nuff said…
~Dan – np: Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
Incubus “Adolescents” video
Incubus’ new one isn’t “thinking outside the envelope” or “pushing the box,” as it were… but it’s a good song… check the video for “Adolescents” here:
The vibe to “Adolescent” is (to me) similar to Morning View. I’m digging the slowed down video part (3:30-ish).
The new album – If Not Now, When? – comes out July 12th. You can pre-order it now.
~Dan – np: Garage A Trois – Outre Mer
New Music April…
Sorry for not having much new to post as of late. I did recently get the following CDs… all of them great in their own right, and all of them worth checking out! Click on the album covers for mp3 sound samples.
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
melodic hard power rock
Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
moving post-rock, brilliant packaging
Shara Worden & Co – Letters to Distant Cities
short & sweet indie rock, spoken word
~Dan – np: Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Murat Eyuboglu & Shara Worden – Letters to Distant Cities
New Amsterdam Records welcomes singer-songwriters Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond) and Clare Muldaur Manchon (of Clare & the Reasons), along with indie-classical multi-instrumentalist/composer Rob Moose (of yMusic), collaborators in the enchanted and melancholy Letters to Distant Cities, a multi-media project curated and produced by photographer and videographer Murat Eyuboglu, exploring urban solitude through the poetry of Turkish-American poet, Mustafa Ziyalan.
Letters to Distant Cities, released Tuesday, March 29, is a spoken-word album bookended by two original songs: My Brightest Diamond’s “The Sea” and Clare & the Reasons’ “Invisible.” The Sea opens the album and cracks the door to a mythical realm, into which Shara Worden enters and embodies the female persona of Ziyalan’s poetry, speaking the texts of 24 poetic snapshots, connected by Rob Moose’s incidental reflections and interventions for violin. After the poetry, Invisible closes the album, drifting wistfully to its bittersweet conclusion.
- The Sea
(composed & performed by: Shara Worden) - Sugar Cube in the Rain
(#2-18 performed by: Rob Moose, Shara Worden) - The Most Unknown Fruit
- The Starfish, The Sleeper
- Gone
- Letters to Distant Cities
- Midsummer’s Winter
- Dimming Eyes
- The Red Balloon
- Close Your Eyes
- The Cloud-Likeness
- Ripples
- Ghostly Flowers
- Truant Colts
- In the City’s Caverns
- Bliss
- Her Poems
- In the Land of Sleep
- Invisible
(composed & performed by: Clare & the Reasons)
Go to New Amsterdam’s album page for sound samples! Also, check out the arty/mournful-turned-magical video for “The Sea” featuring My Brightest Diamond / Shara Worden:
Says fellow poet Murat Nemet-Nejat:
In Ziyalan’s work one can see the impulse of the Turkish language in the 20th Century to represent a social reality beyond national borders. It points to the prophetic nature of Turkish poetry becoming a medium for a global sensibility — the psychic dislocations globalism creates in consciousness.
In addition to the CD, the album package includes a set of 24 pristine keepsake cards, comprising a photographic illustration for each of Zilayan’s poems collected on the recording. The images were captured by project visionary Murat Eyuboglu with model Jamie Ansley. Designer Adam Frint brings musical, poetic, and photographic elements together, creating a physical connection to the album’s sense of memorabilia.
I just ordered it from Amazon… you can also order it directly from New Amsterdam Records. If a CD isn’t your thing, New Amsterdam has the full mp3 album for only $6 (a couple bucks cheaper than Amazon’s price – and directly from the source).
~Dan – np: Porcupine Tree – Metanoia
Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa – 2011 Summer Tour
Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa is hitting the road again this summer/fall… here are the date (so far). More to be added, I’m sure.
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VENUE
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7/28/11 –
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Woodstock, NY
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Bearsville Theater
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Fri
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7/29/11 –
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Bridgeport, CT
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Kline Memorial
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Sat
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7/30/11 –
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Albany, NY
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The Egg
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Sun
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7/31/11 –
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State College, PA
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State Theatre
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Mon
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8/1/11 –
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8/2/11 –
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Verona, NY
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Turning Stone
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8/3/11 –
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Burlington, VT
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Higher Ground
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Thu
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8/4/11 –
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Portland, ME
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State Theater
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Fri
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8/5/11 –
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Quebec City, QC
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Inter Nation Art
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Sat
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8/6/11 –
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Northampton, MA
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Calvin Theater
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Sun
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8/7/11 –
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Pittsburg, PA
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Stage AE
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Mon
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8/8/11 –
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Buffalo, NY
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UAB Center For The Arts
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8/10/11 –
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Philadelphia, PA
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Mann Center
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Thu
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8/11/11 –
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Boston, MA
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The Pavilion
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Fri
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8/12/11 –
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New York City, NY
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Beacon Theatre
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Sat
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8/13/11 –
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New York City, NY
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Beacon Theatre
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Sun
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8/14/11 –
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Balltimore, MD
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Merriweather Post
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8/16/11 –
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Columbus, OH
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Lifestyles Pavilion
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8/17/11 –
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Cleveland, OH
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Nautica Pavilion
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Thu
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8/18/11 –
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Cincinnatti, OH
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PNC Pavilion
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Fri
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8/19/11 –
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Detroit, MI
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Meadowbrook
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Sat
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8/20/11 –
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Chicago, IL
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Chicago Theatre
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Sun
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8/21/11 –
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Indianapolis, IN
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The Murat
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Milwaukee, WI
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8/24/11 –
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Minneapolis, MN
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Orpheum
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St. Louis, MO
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Fox Theatre
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8/26/11 –
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Kansas City, MO
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Midland Theater
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8/27/11 –
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Denver, CO
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Paramount Theater
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8/28/11 –
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Red Butte Gardens
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9/8/11 –
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Atlanta, GA
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Fox Theater
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9/9/11 –
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Orlando, FL
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House Of Blues
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9/10/11 –
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Boca Raton, FL
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Mizner Park Amph
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Sun
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9/11/11 –
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Clearwater, FL
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Ruth Eckard Hall
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9/13/11 –
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Austin, TX
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ACL Live @ Moody
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9/14/11 –
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Dallas, TX
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Verizon Theatre
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Thu
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9/15/11 –
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Houston, TX
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Verizon Wireless Theater
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Fri
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9/16/11 –
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Telluride, CO
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Blues & Brews Fest
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Sat
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9/17/11 –
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Mesa, AZ
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Mesa Arts Center
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9/19/11 –
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San Diego, CA
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Hunphrey’s
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9/20/11 –
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Los Angeles, CA
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Greek Theatre
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Wed
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9/21/11 –
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Davis, CA
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Mondavi Center
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9/22/11 –
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San Francisco, CA
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Warfield
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Fri
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9/23/11 –
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Eugene, OR
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Hult – Silva Concert Hall *changed*
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Sat
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9/24/11 –
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Seattle, WA
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Paramount Theater
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Gaps may or may not be filled in later… I suppose Dweezil and Co need breaks, too. I plan on hitting Portland, OR, if there’s no Eugene date. Update 5/16: the Portland/Newmark date was just changed to Eugene/Hult (per Pollstar).
~Dan – np: Porcupine Tree – Signify
Radiohead – The Butcher / Supercollider (leaked)
Radiohead’s UK Record Store Day release of “The Butcher / Supercollider” got leaked… find the (vinyl rip) Soundcloud streams here. If you’re crafty, you know how to download the mp3s. The vinyl comes out in the U.S. in June. I shall buy it then…
Update 4/18: If you pre-ordered the “Newspaper edition” of The King of Limbs from Radiohead, check your “Order Tracking” link on the kingoflimbs webpage. Your high-quality, legal download of the songs is available (mp3 or WAV, depending on what format you originally ordered).
~Dan – np: Radiohead – The King of Limbs
File Sharing Policy: There are no free mp3 download or FLAC torrents for any albums on this blog (nor will there ever be). On occasion, there are links for songs for free download (legally provided by the artist). If you like music, support the artists. Buy it!!
‘Speak With Ghosts’ by Anakronic Electro Orkestra (now out on CD)
One of the late releases digitally in 2010… the fantastic Anakronic Electro Orkestra now has their full-length Speak With Ghosts out on CD. It comes with three extra connecting snippets (“ghosts”) and is going to make it on my Best of CDs in 2011. Sure, it made it on the list in 2010, but it’s sooooo good, I’ll break / make my own rules. :)
Do you like jazzy rock-fusion klezmer (great for fans of Beats Antique & Balkan Beat Box)? Of course, you do! Find out more about Anakronic Electro Orkestra with the links below…
- Check out AEO’s webpage.
- Friend AEO on Facebook.
- Follow AEO on Twitter.
- Buy the CD from their Facebook Store.
(Free shipping from France >>> Worldwide) - Buy the digital album from Amazon or iTunes (US).
Read what I wrote last December below… or just take my word for it, and buy this album. You won’t regret it! Per the band, it’s also destined for a vinyl release later in 2011.
REVIEW: Ani DiFranco @ McDonald Theatre (Eugene, OR – 4/12/11)
FYI… PHOTOS of the SHOW at the BOTTOM
Ani DiFranco comes through Eugene on just about every West Coast tour – which is always a delight. The crowd seemed a tad sparse… perhaps due to the lack of new Ani material out there recently. She’s prolific, but hasn’t put out an album since 2008’s Red Letter Year. She hasn’t even put out any new official live bootlegs since 2009. With that lack of apparent new music on the shelves (CD World or iTunes), one might think she’s taking a break. Well, as you’ll see from the setlist below, no break has occurred with her songwriting proliferation…
Super busy week; so I apologize in advance… I didn’t catch the opener Animal Prufrock this time. I saw her back in 2008 with Judy Grahn & Ani D. I enjoyed Animal’s raucous energy, but again… twas an uber-busy week, and I couldn’t make it to the McD for the early opener start time (Animal @ 7:30, Ani D @ 8:30!).
I got into the venue about 30 seconds before Ani and band hit the stage. Whew, perfect timing! Her band this time was the same as her prior Eugene gig… Andy Barger on drums, Mike Dillon on percussion, and Todd Sickafoose on contrabass. Fantastically gelled band… I love watching these guys play. In fact, I’ll be seeing Mike Dillon play again next week in Eugene. At the end of the Ani tour, he’s hitting the road with Skerik and the rest of the guys with Garage A Trois.
Tons of new stuff was played…
Setlist: around 90 minutes pre-encore
- Anticipate
- Angry Any More
- Unworry (newish – she played it at Eugene 2009)
- Paradigm
- Promiscuity (new)
- Gloating (new)
- W.O.W. (new)
- J (new)
- I Know This Bar
- See See “Still in Love with You” (new)
- The Atom
- Everest
- If You’re Not (new)
- Untouchable Face
- Which Side Are You On?
- Encore: Overlap
- Angel from Montgomery
Due to a hectic week, I had to bail right before the encore. Based on other reports from this tour, she also played a few older tunes and maybe the newer tune “Mariachi.” Anyone with a good memory or notes throw a little help on what she played after “Which Side…” for an encore?
As far as the new stuff, I dug it… especially “Gloating,” “Jay,” and “W.O.W.” I will say one of the best things of the night was the main line to “If You’re Not”…
If you’re not getting happier as you get older, you’re fucking up.
A lot of new stuff to digest… I usually need some more time for the new material to kick around my brain. Perhaps with this glut of new material, she’s heading into the studio soon for studio album #18(!). Anyone catch her Crystal Ballroom show in Portland? Any major difference in setlist?
more photos below
The Appropriate Linkage:
- Ani DiFranco’s Site
- Ani DiFranco’s Social Media Links (see below)
- My Other Ani-Related Reviews~
- McDonald Theatre (Eugene – Oct 2009)
- McDonald Theatre (Eugene – Apr 2008)
- McDonald Theatre’s Site / Facebook / Twitter
Next show for me… Skerik, Mike Dillon, Marc Benevento and Stanton Moore are Garage A Trois @ Sam Bond’s 4/21.
~Dan – np: Todd Sickafoose – Tiny Resistors
ANI DIFRANCO PHOTOS
all pictures (cc) 2011 Daniel Temmesfeld,
you may use freely under a creative commons attribution
(click for larger)
Ani DiFranco in Eugene (4/12)
Photos and review of Ani DiFranco’s show at the McDonald Theatre in Eugene coming soon(ish)!
Check back Wednesday evening or Thursday morning for the report from Eugene!
Her Portland show is Wednesday… check it!
~Dan
dredg – Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy
Coming off the amazing The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion album in 2009, a few weeks from now dredg will put out their follow-up entitled Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy:
| 1. | Another Tribe |
| 2. | Upon Returning |
| 3. | The Tent |
| 4. | Somebody is Laughing |
| 5. | Down Without A Fight |
| 6. | The Ornament |
| 7. | The Thought Of Losing You |
| 8. | Kalathat |
| 9. | Sun Goes Down |
| 10. | Where I’ll End Up |
| 11. | Before It Began |
Here’s an mp3 from the album, courtesy of Alternative Press magazine:
More news on pre-ordering the album (digital/CD/LP) will be posted once it’s out there…
~Dan – np: dredg – Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy
REVIEW: Madeleine Peyroux @ the Shedd (Eugene, OR – 4/5/11)
FYI… PHOTOS of the SHOW at the BOTTOM
Madeleine Peyroux has a new album coming out called Standin’ On the Rooftop. The album, coming out June 7th on Decca, features Marc Ribot on guitar/banjo along with Me’shell Ndegeocello on bass. No word on tracklist for the full-length, but she just released a preview EP called The Things I’ve Seen Today, which features the title track co-written by violinist Jenny Scheinman and a delightful cover of The Beatles’ “Martha, My Dear” (click picture to the right for samples).
This show in Eugene was her second time through in as many years. I don’t recall if the band members were the same as last time, but regardless, they were all fantastic musicians. While Ribot/Ndegeocello/Scheinman were not in the live band, all four band members created a vibe conducive to taking in Madeleine’s golden vocal chords.
They played a fairly jazzy set, and Madeleine’s lush vocals bounced around in more of a jazzy singer-songwriter feel than I remembered her from before. As you’ll be able to see from the setlist below, she played a lot of the new material from the forthcoming album – much of it I was unable to unidentify. If you have any assistance on the setlist, let me know in the comments.
Setlist: over 90 minutes
- unknown
- The Things I’ve Seen Today
- Martha, My Dear [The Beatles]
- “Muddy Mississippi”
- You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go [Bob Dylan]
- “seen my reflection underneath the moon”
- “here we are… I’m only human”
- Don’t Wait Too Long
- Don’t Pick a Fight With a Poet
- “Meet me in Rio”
- “involuntary pass/past(?)”
- Dance Me to the End of Love [Leonard Cohen]
- unknown love song
- Instead [with band introductions & solos]
- Encore: J’Ai Deux Amours
- “I hear music” [with band solos]
Fantastic show. Madeleine was fairly chatty and in a great mood. The Eugene crowd was fairly subdued, except for a particular “amateur comedian” named George who interacted a bit with Madeleine – which at one point said she should have him open for her. :)
Be on the lookout for her new album in June. She’s hitting a few more West Coast & Canada dates (as well as a NYC date) between now and the end of June. Check out more tour dates below.
more photos below
The Appropriate Linkage:
- Madeleine Peyroux’s Site
- Madeleine Peyroux’s Social Media Links (see below)
- My Other Related Reviews~
- The Shedd (Eugene – March 2009)
- The Shedd’s Site / Facebook / Twitter
Next show for me… quite possibly Ani DiFranco at McDonald Theatre in Eugene (4/12).
~Dan – np: Platypus – When Pus Comes to Shove
MADELEINE PEYROUX PHOTOS
all pictures (cc) 2011 Daniel Temmesfeld,
you may use freely under a creative commons attribution
(click for larger)
Madeleine Peyroux Spring/Summer 2011 Tour Dates:
3/31-4/02 – Seattle, WA @ Jazz Alley
4/03 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
4/05 – Eugene, OR @ Shedd Institute for Arts
4/06 – Santa Rosa, CA @ Wells Fargo Center
4/08 – San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts
4/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ Luckman Theater
4/11 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Lobero Theatre
4/13 – Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater
6/17-19 – New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
6/22 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
6/24 – Victoria, British Columbia, Canada @ Royal Theatre (Victoria
International Jazzfest)
6/25 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada @ Centre for the Performing Arts
(Vancouver International Jazz Festival))
6/26 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada @ Winspear Centre for Music (Edmonton Int’l
Jazz Festival)
6/28 – Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada @ Theatre Granada
6/29 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada @ Theatre Maisonneuve (Fest Int’l De Jazz De
Montreal)
6/30 – Quebec, Canada @ Raoul-Jobin Hall (Palais Montcalm)
Toad the Wet Sprocket – ‘All You Want’ (2011)
Toad the Wet Sprocket broke up in 1998. In its ashes, Glen Phillips‘ solo career and Lapdog was born. Glen has put out a number of solo albums and side-projects, Lapdog put out two great albums, and “Toad” has since gotten back together on occasion to tour. Well, due to being signed to a major label, they never really owned those recordings that they made back in the day. Enter… All You Want…
ALL YOU WANT is us reclaiming our past for ourselves. While making this album, we got to look under the hood at the parts we’d written so long ago, pull apart some of the magic of the originals, and in some cases, update arrangements, tempos or attitudes that we thought we could improve upon with the benefit of a little hindsight.
The process of recording this music again brought us closer together as a band, and closer to the songs that we’ve lived with for so long. These songs still mean a lot to us, and we hope our fans enjoy listening to them as much as we enjoyed making them.
-Dean, Glen, Randy, and Todd
The album will be available for sale exclusively at the band’s website and shows prior to a formal release date later this spring via both physical and digital retail outlets.
Download a FREE MP3 of “Brother” NOW at www.toadthewetsprocket.com
~Dan – np: Placebo – Meds
Nellie McKay on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts
Nellie McKay stopped by for a NPR Tiny Desk Concert with Bob Boilen / All Songs Considered…
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/04/135019502/nellie-mckay-tiny-desk-concert
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~Dan – np: Placebo – Sleeping With Ghosts
Incubus – Adolescents
So what was this all about on EnjoyIncubus.com?
The next Incubus album is done (see post), and they posted the first song from it on Soundcloud… “Adolescents.” Click the image above to hear the streaming track.
Update 4/6… the album art from Brandon Boyd’s FB page…
Update 4/15… Album Title, Tracklist, Release Date
If Not Now, When? is the name of the album, and it will come out on July 12th, 2011.
Tracklisting:
1. If Not Now, When?
2. Promises, Promises
3. Friends And Lovers
4. Thieves
5. Isadore
6. The Original
7. Defiance
8. In The Company Of Wolves
9. Switchblade
10. Adolescents
11. Tomorrow’s Food
~Dan – np: Madeleine Peyroux – Bare Bones
Gary Cherone – HURTSMILE 2011 Tour
One of the tragically timed bands in existence… Extreme. They were too good to be lumped in with the “hairband” era, yet with their power ballads as their primary radio coverage – that’s what they got labeled. Then grunge came along and washed well-produced, melodic art-rock out to sea…
I was lucky enough to catch their Saudades de Rock tour in Cincinnati a few years ago (with King’s X, too!). Extreme’s power duo of Gary Cherone (vocals for Extreme & one-time Van Halen) and Nuno Bettencourt (guitars) are one of my favorite duos to watch – period. They work sooo well together. Well, Nuno is now a hired gun on tour (currently Rihanna); so Gary is heading out on the road with his side-band: Hurtsmile. It also has Gary’s brother Markus on guitars (who I saw in 1995 with the band FLESH with Nuno’s brother Paulo on vocals… incestuous Boston music scene – for sure!).
I shant be lucky enough to catch this tour… but if you’re in one of these spots in the U.S. or Japan, check it out. Gary is an impressive performer. 
Their self-titled debut album came out in February (see link to the right for sound samples).
Hurtsmile 2011 Tour
- May 13 – the Cube Club – Newark, DE
- May 14 – M3 Rock Festival – Columbia, MD
- June 3 – Club Red – Phoenix, AZ
- June 4 – Casino Del Sol – Tuscon, AZ
- June 24th – The Bottom Line / NAGOYA
- June 25th – Red Box / KURASIKI
- June 26th – Caravan Sary / KOCHI
- June 27th – Bigcat / OSAKA
- June 29th – Live House enn 2nd / SENDAI
- June 30th – OEast / TOKYO
- July 1st – Live Space C-moon FUKUSHIMA
- July 2nd – STB139 / TOKYO
- July 21 – B.B. Kings – New York, NY
- July 22 – Showcase Live – Foxboro, MA
http://www.hurtsmile.com/
~Dan – np: Placebo – Sleeping With Ghosts
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-Frank Zappa
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