Welcome back everyone! Good news, I've been waist deep in new & live music lately. Bad news, that does not leave much time to write. Here's a rundown of the best I've come across lately.
LAST CONCERT(s): G. Love & Special Sauce headlined Artscape last weekend in Baltimore. It was a great time, as I got to catch up with some friends, and the Philadelphia trio+1 put on a great show. They played selections from throughout the G. Love & Special Sauce catalog, including the underappreciated Coast To Coast Motel
'Sweet Sugar Momma'. The covers they selected were outstanding. Early on they played '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' fresh from the G. Love release Fixin to Die. An excellent 'Folsom Prison Blues' book-ended a superb end of concert selection with 'Just A Friend' originally by Baltimore favorite Biz Markie. The phenomenal selections in the middle were the fan favorites 'Cold Beverage' and 'Baby's Got Sauce'.
Last Night, The Wife & I got a babysitter for our anniversary. We checked out a local bar, and hit the jackpot with the evening's live music. Hymn for Her , played a great set @ Dawson's Pub. After stumbling onto the band doing research on house concerts in Philly, I saw some great reviews and was hooked. I needed to see this band, especially since they were going to be in my neighborhood on our night out! The biggest treat was their cover of Morphine's 'Thursday' from Cure for Pain!
“Created using broom handle cigar box banjo, dobro, bass drum, hi-hat and harmonica, the music of Lucy & Wayne and The Amairican Stream by US duo Hymn For Her, proves categorically that you don’t need a megabuck budget to create some high-end kick-ass boogie. Recorded in the classic sixteen-foot 1961 Bambi Airstream trailer (caravan) that they call home, it’s an impossible-to-categorise and unforgettable sonic wall of banjo-thrash-country-rock-acid-blues of the sort that you could imagine Jack White having on his iPod“.
- December 2010 issue of UK’s R2 (Rock ‘n’ Reel) magazine (thanks psalmsalon.com )
NEXT CONCERT(s): I got my calendar mixed up in last week's review. Check out the preview of XPoNential Music Festival live from Camden, NJ July 22 - 24, 2011 at Wiggins Park on the Waterfront! Ted Leo Tonight & Hayes Carll tomorrow!
Newport Folk Festival is next weekend. In the works are some run downs of some lineup decisions. As it is with most festivals, you have to make some tough decisions on who to see. I try to provide some insight, into the decisions I'm facing in the next week.
FREE MUSIC: Checkout Spin's Nirvana'Nevermind' Tribute album. You need to "like" their Facebook page, but it is well worth it for this refreshing look at an incredibly pivotal album. My personal favorite is Butch Walker & the Black Widows take on 'In Bloom'. I'm totally lost on Jessica Lea Mayfield's 'Lounge Act. Where's the melancholy? Where'd her sound go?
NEW ALBUMS: I received a copy of Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three's Middle of Everwhere. I've been listening to it daily and I'm nearly ready for a review. However, I just picked up Head & The Heart, Freelance Whales, Wye Oak, Fleet Foxes, Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, Those Dancing Days, & Matthew and the Atlas; so I'm on new music overload. I can say that Pokey's new release is the most complete release I've heard this year since Iron & Wine's Kiss Each Other Clean
Does anyone have any new discoveries to share? To make this blog less one sided, in the comment section feel free to ask about a band you are just getting into, or tell me about a band you love. I'll try to provide some R.I.Y.L. (recommended if you like) responses.
LAST CONCERT(s): G. Love & Special Sauce headlined Artscape last weekend in Baltimore. It was a great time, as I got to catch up with some friends, and the Philadelphia trio+1 put on a great show. They played selections from throughout the G. Love & Special Sauce catalog, including the underappreciated Coast To Coast Motel 'Sweet Sugar Momma'. The covers they selected were outstanding. Early on they played '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' fresh from the G. Love release Fixin to Die. An excellent 'Folsom Prison Blues' book-ended a superb end of concert selection with 'Just A Friend' originally by Baltimore favorite Biz Markie. The phenomenal selections in the middle were the fan favorites 'Cold Beverage' and 'Baby's Got Sauce'.
Last Night, The Wife & I got a babysitter for our anniversary. We checked out a local bar, and hit the jackpot with the evening's live music. Hymn for Her , played a great set @ Dawson's Pub. After stumbling onto the band doing research on house concerts in Philly, I saw some great reviews and was hooked. I needed to see this band, especially since they were going to be in my neighborhood on our night out! The biggest treat was their cover of Morphine's 'Thursday' from Cure for Pain! “Created using broom handle cigar box banjo, dobro, bass drum, hi-hat and harmonica, the music of Lucy & Wayne and The Amairican Stream by US duo Hymn For Her, proves categorically that you don’t need a megabuck budget to create some high-end kick-ass boogie. Recorded in the classic sixteen-foot 1961 Bambi Airstream trailer (caravan) that they call home, it’s an impossible-to-categorise and unforgettable sonic wall of banjo-thrash-country-rock-acid-blues of the sort that you could imagine Jack White having on his iPod“.
- December 2010 issue of UK’s R2 (Rock ‘n’ Reel) magazine (thanks psalmsalon.com )
NEXT CONCERT(s): I got my calendar mixed up in last week's review. Check out the preview of XPoNential Music Festival live from Camden, NJ July 22 - 24, 2011 at Wiggins Park on the Waterfront! Ted Leo Tonight & Hayes Carll tomorrow!
Newport Folk Festival is next weekend. In the works are some run downs of some lineup decisions. As it is with most festivals, you have to make some tough decisions on who to see. I try to provide some insight, into the decisions I'm facing in the next week.
FREE MUSIC: Checkout Spin's Nirvana'Nevermind' Tribute album. You need to "like" their Facebook page, but it is well worth it for this refreshing look at an incredibly pivotal album. My personal favorite is Butch Walker & the Black Widows take on 'In Bloom'. I'm totally lost on Jessica Lea Mayfield's 'Lounge Act. Where's the melancholy? Where'd her sound go?
NEW ALBUMS: I received a copy of Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three's Middle of Everwhere. I've been listening to it daily and I'm nearly ready for a review. However, I just picked up Head & The Heart, Freelance Whales, Wye Oak, Fleet Foxes, Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, Those Dancing Days, & Matthew and the Atlas; so I'm on new music overload. I can say that Pokey's new release is the most complete release I've heard this year since Iron & Wine's Kiss Each Other Clean
Does anyone have any new discoveries to share? To make this blog less one sided, in the comment section feel free to ask about a band you are just getting into, or tell me about a band you love. I'll try to provide some R.I.Y.L. (recommended if you like) responses.
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