Category: Links
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SXSW: Bishop Allen @ Schuba’s Day
Alright, many server issues aside I can get back to my SXSW coverage. After heading out from seeing The Teeth we walked across the street to the Schuba’s 11th Annual SXSW Roundup. I still can’t figure out what a Chicago venue is doing throwing parties in Austin, but all the power to them. I only…
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Fountains of Wayne
For those of you that didn’t realize, the “Stacy’s Mom” creators are actually an extremely talented and catchy band. The band has a new release titled Traffic and Weather coming out on April 3rd, and they’ve got a sampler of the single “Someone To Love” to listen to. I’m really liking it, you can check…
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News – Wilco, Coldplay, Phish, Merle Haggard, The Decemberists
Wilco album, Sky Blue Sky, due May 15 (link) Fountains of Wayne to release new album, and play Bonnaroo 2007 (link) Chris Martin of Coldplay to guest on first single from upcoming Kanye West album (link) Ray Price, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson are teaming up for a release slated for March. Additionally Kris Kristofferson…
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Public Property Confirmed @ Summer Camp 2007
Public Property has announced on their newsletter that they will be returning to Chillicothe, IL, for Summer Camp 2007: Public Property won the battle and will play at Wakarusa in June. Also, we just found out that we will return to Summer Camp in May. As the summer tour comes together, we will continue posting…
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First Trey Anastasio / 70 Volt Parade Jam?
This isn’t exactly a ground-breaking find or anything, as the title may suggest, but I just noticed a long-ago-downloaded track from Trey Anastasio and 70 Volt Parade labeled as “Hendrix Jam, First 70 Volt Parade Jam.” I don’t know how accurate that is, but this jam rocks my socks off: The mp3 is labeled as…
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Probably Should Have Seen This Coming…
Rock legends sue over online concert streams (via CNet): Wolfgang’s Vault offers thousands of recordings of rare audio and video music performances collected over 30 years by Bill Graham, a famous concert promoter who died in 1991. On Monday, major rock names including Grateful Dead Productions, Carlos Santana and members of Led Zeppelin and The…
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Burning Oak’s Best of 2006
If you really want to know what I listened to this year, you’d be better off checking out my Last.FM. But as far as this year’s newbies go, here’s my picks. For the smaller artists you may not know, I’ve included online links to purchase their tunes. For the rest, go support a local independent…
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Australian Idol: Acoustic “Superfreak”
Found through a post on False45th.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znpsJw1wZYU This Bobbly Flynn guy has a great voice, and they’re right, it’s a great composition of the tune. I just couldn’t stop noticing how he looks like the evil spawn of John Kerry and Sideshow Bob: PLUS EQUALS: Eeery isn’t it? Anyways go watch that video.
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Trey Touring
I have no clue how the jams have been since I haven’t downloaded the shows yet, but… http://www.phantasytour.com/trey/setlists.cgi Get the Torrent from bt.etree.org. Those recent Trey setlists – 10/18 in Chicago in particular – look incredible: 10/18/06 Vic Theatre Chicago, IL October 18, 2006 Set One: 01 – Drifting 02 – Tuesday 03 – Dark…
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RIP Steve Irwin
So Steve Irwin, known to most as the Crocodile Hunter, finally met his match today off the coast of Australia. Irwin was fatally stung by a stingray after swimming too close. From a Yahoo! News article: “Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series…