Sunday, April 29. 2007
Peaches catches some air at Coachella 2007
photo by Gary Miller - Staff Photographer |
We have been speaking with our photographer Gary Miller who is among the masses in Coachella and he continues to feed us a few pictures from the scene. He reports that it took 3 hours to get out of the parking lot on Friday night, but that he is having a lot of fun. He was able to shoot sets by Bjork, Peaches and many others.
On Saturday he hooked up with Roky and Sumner Ericson and was able to shoot Roky's set. Roky said to tell everyone at home in Austin and at club kingsnake "Hi!".
Gary plans to shoot pictures of the Rage Against the Machine set today along with a whole slew of other great bands. Watch for him to start posting pictures, and writing about his Coachella experience, once he returns and recovers a bit. Also watch for an article on Coachella from Glen Polanco from our snake site, kingsnake.com
Roky Ericson performs at Coachella 2007
photo by Gary Miller - Staff Photographer
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photo by Gary Miller - Staff Photographer
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Friday, April 27. 2007
Bjork performs at Coachella 2007
photo by Gary Miller - Staff Photographer |
We have staff at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, CA, but while we're waiting for their reviews and photos, you can watch live performances on streaming video here.
Webcast lineup for April 27 (all times Pacific):
3:00 PM Brother Ali
3:55 PM Noisettes
4:35 PM Tokyo Police Club
5:35 PM Tilly and the Wall
6:25 PM Of Montreal
7:15 PM Rufus Wainwright
8:10 PM Arctic Monkeys
9:05 PM Stephen Marley
9:55 PM Sonic Youth
10:45 PM Bjork
Saturday, April 21. 2007
 Hmmm, one more iTunes song of the week - meaning a free giveaway - that's pretty good. Their track record is getting better, I think this is the third cut I've liked so far this year.
The Guggenheim Grotto is a Dublin, Ireland folk band. "Philosophia" isn't available on their MySpace page, but you can listen to, and download, four other songs there. That's a lot of free goodness, if you're into slightly edgy folk music. They appear somewhat resistant to the comparison, but there really is a Simon and Garfunkel thing going on here, but fresh. I know they cite a heavy Leonard Cohen influence, but I didn't hear that in any of the cuts I listened to. Cohen, who I revere, is quite a bit rougher and lyrically more obscure than they are.
And of course, Cohen by his own admission can't sing for shit, and these guys vocalize like angels.
Thursday, April 19. 2007
Roky Erickson and the Explosives at Threadgills
photo by jeff barringer - staff photographer |
As you read this Slayer is just finishing up a little mini-tour down under with a show in Brisbane, followed by a show in Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday. Then back to the states to rest up for a European tour that kicks off in March. Now that the doctor has finally cleared me to travel again after SXSW, I might take a trip out to see Kerry during his down time to interview him, and check out his neat snake collection.
Speaking of friends on the road Chris, Ollie and Paul over in the Zico Chain, having survived their trip to America, are kicking off a month-long U.K. tour starting on Saturday. Another friend on the road is Roky Erickson, who just got done performing a psychedelic showcase at the Bowery in New York - to good reviews from none other than Rolling Stone. Roky's next gig will be at Coachella next week. Also at Coachella next week - Moondog! Heading out on his first OFFICIAL club kingsnake photo assignment, Gary will be shooting pics of Roky, Rage, the Pumpkins and everyone else he can get in front of. Glenn Polanco from our reptile site will be doing the write up for this year's Coachella. My only advice to the guys - stay away from the brown fish tacos!
Les Claypool is firing up his Fancy Band again this summer to promote the launch of a new DVD. The tour starts in May and hits a couple of festivals as well as a cutting a wide swath across North America. Les will be playing Milwaukee and Austin on this tour, so we should be able to give you some great coverage, and possibly an interview.
I will be hitting the bricks myself next week, hopefully covering George Thorogood at Stubb's on Thursday, and with a little luck getting a Burden Brothers interview on Friday. Lots of great shows coming up. Watch for more updates soon.
Finally, the music world mourns the loss of possibly the most famous ukulele player of all time, the Lawrence Welk of Luana Kai, Mr. Don Ho. After a career spanning over 40 years entertaining visitors and servicemen in the islands, Ho has given away his last lei. Don passed away from heart failure on Saturday at age 76.
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Tuesday, April 17. 2007
 iTunes sends me little love notes throughout the week, and today I idly clicked on "What Light," the only available cut from Wilco's forthcoming album Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch, due out May 15).
I thought about buying it and then I saw a review saying something to the effect of great song, but hey, save a buck, Wilco has it as a free mp3 for download on their website.
So I went and they did so I did.
Your turn.
Tuesday, April 10. 2007
Salon features a free music download every day - even if you don't subscribe to Salon, you can get a free day pass - and "Golden State," a cut from ex-X John Doe's forthcoming album is up today.
Says David Marchese at Salon:
As a founding member of the legendary Los Angeles band X, John Doe was one of the first punk rockers to fully embrace the rebellious spirit of country and folk music. A quarter-century on, Doe's music is a little more controlled than the punk bursts of yore, but as this track from his upcoming CD, "A Year in the Wilderness," shows, he's still mighty rambunctious. Spurred on by some seriously Stones-y guitars, "The Golden State" finds Doe rocking out with all the conviction and authority of the rebel music pioneers he cares so deeply for, thanks in no small part to Kathleen Edwards, whose spirited vocals make this track sound like a skid row reworking of a classic June and Johnny Cash number.
GET IT.
Friday, April 6. 2007
 KISS’ third and shortest-lived guitarist, Mark St. John, passed away on April 5 from a brain hemorrhage. Replacing Vinnie Vincent in the band on their album Animalize, St. John was forced to retire from guitar playing due to Reiter’s Syndrome, which is a form of arthritis that causes swelling in the hands and arms. Bruce Kulick replaced him in KISS. He did improve for a period of time, and was in a band called White Tiger with ex-Black Sabbath singer David Donato. He also teamed up with Peter Criss in the Mark St. John Project, which resulted in a limited release demo. He also released an instrumental CD in 2001.
After leaving the recording end of the music business, he returned to his pre-KISS life of guitar instruction in the Southern California area.
St. John was 51 years old.
Wednesday, April 4. 2007
Of all the things Keith Richards has ingested in his life, it turns out his father is NOT on that extensive and long list. We held back on republishing claims from NME that Keith had snorted his father's ashes until the furor had calmed down, thinking that the claim's proximity to April Fool's Day was a bit too "fishy." It appears that we were right not to jump on this particular bandwagon, though just about every mainstream press outlet appears to have been sucked into this apparent joke.
“It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fool’s joke,� said Bernard Doherty of LD Communications, which represents the Rolling Stones.
Tuesday, April 3. 2007
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Music fans will now be able to download songs from iTunes and play them on any digital music player - not just the iPod -- after Apple Inc. and EMI announced a new deal Monday.
The new deal also means that consumers will be able to share the songs with their friends, without restrictions.
In a press conference in London, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and record label EMI said that the record label will sell tracks that are free of digital rights management technology, or DRM, the software that prevents songs downloaded from iTunes to be widely shared.
Full story here.
And in other news, also from the SF Chronicle:
European Union regulators are investigating Apple Inc.'s iTunes online music store for possible violation of competition rules, a British newspaper reported Monday.
More here.
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