dc:title="Rollins Band, X, Riverboat Gamblers, the Bronx, Priestess Lifetime | 2006 Tour Dates" dc:description="HENRY ROLLINS (cred) Starland Ballroom is the closest Rollins Band and X get to NYC on their 2006 summer tour. The Riverboat Gamblers, who I just saw at CBGB, are playing with them too. The Riverboat Gamblers are also touring.
.." 7.
16.06 - Detroit, MI > Magic Stick
7/14/06 House of RocknRoll El Paso, TX Only Crime, Los Dryheavers
7/20/06 The Conservatory Okalahoma City, OK Only Crime, Los Dryheavers
7/22/06 Hi Dive Denver, CO Only Crime, Los Dryheavers
8/11/06 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
8/13/06 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
8/19/06 Boston, MA @ Avalon
9/14 Verizon Wireless Theater/ Houston, TX (on sale 6/23)
9/15 Nokia Live/Grand Prairie, TX (on sale 6/23)
9/16 Austin City Limits Festival/Austin, TX (on sale now)
9/19 The Tabernacle/Atlanta, GA (on sale 6/10)
9/20 Hard Rock Live/Orlando, FL (on sale 6/9)
9/22 The Norva/Norfolk, VA (on sale 6/9)
9/26 Roseland Ballroom/New York, NY (on sale 6/22)
9/28 Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel/Providence, RI (on sale 6/9)
9/29 Orpheum Theatre/Boston, MA (on sale 6/16)
9/30 Metropolis/Montreal, Quebec (on sale 6/10)
World Financial Center, New York City
Matmos with So Percussion, Alarm Will Sound plays Aphex Twin, Sigur Ros' recording and touring counterparts, Amiina, Glenn Kotche with David Cossin, And MUCH MORE. All details below.
...
New York, NY - May 2, 2006 - This year the ceaseless innovators Bang on a Can boldly embark on a FREE music marathon, The Bang on a Can Marathon, in downtown New York City at the World Financial Center on Sunday, June 4th. Together, with its partners the River to River Festival and the World Financial Center Arts Events, Bang on a Can has scheduled a 10+ hour eclectic super-mix of mind boggling genre-defying music by pioneering artists from around the globe.
For nearly 20 years, The Bang on a Can Marathon has promoted an optimistic vision of the world of music.
Presenting a wide range of styles, genres and musical attitudes, The Bang on a Can Marathon demonstrates how many musical options are available right now, how many compelling and contradictory voices there are, how much innovation is happening, how much is possible. Nearly 1,000 pieces, more than 500 performers and about 200 composers later, the Bang on a Can Marathon remains the premiere concert of its kind, drawing thousands of concert-goers and tens of thousands of radio listeners to each event.
• The electronic wizadry of Matmos with New York's explosive drumming ensemble, So Percussion
• The amplified Alarm Will Sound orchestra playing their mind-blowing live arrangements of music by Aphex Twin, as well as minimalist master John Adams
• Collaborations combining Indonesian Gamelan music with a full-blown orchestra, and the famed British soundtrack composer Michael Nyman with Bang on a Can All-Stars
• Anthony Braxton premieres his parade piece for 100 tubas.
• And much more, including Maya Beiser, Don Bryon, Dewa Ketut Alit, Annie Gosfield, Michael Gordon, Michael Harrison, David Lang, Paul Lansky, William Parker, Sentieri Selvaggi, Tactus, Todd Reynolds, and Julia Wolfe!
The Bang on a Can Marathon is co-produced by the River to River Festival (R) and the World Financial Center Arts Events. The River to River Festival presented by American Express, proudly returns for its 5th season of more than 500 arts and cultural events in Lower Manhattan.
For more information visit. www.RiverToRiverNYC.
com. World Financial Center Arts Events is sponsored by American Express, Merrill Lynch, Brookfield Properties, and Battery Park City Authority. Visit www.
worldfinancialcenter.com for a complete schedule of events and a list of shops and restaurants. Additional lead support comes from The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation through its MPO Initiative.
For more information, visit:
dc:title="Fall not playing Lyceum, but Cairo Gang add more shows" dc:description="The Fall show at Brooklyn Lyceum is not happening. The Cairo Gang added some NYC dates though..
. CAIRO GANG in NYC June 4 - Cake Shop June 5 - CB apos;s 313 Gallery..
." dc:title="¡Forward, Russia! sign to MUTE Records" dc:description="FORWARD RUSSIA!
@ THEIR FIRST U.S. SHOW IN AUSTIN (more) More mismatched than Damien Jurado playing between We are Scientists and CYHSY at Sasquatch!
, was Jose Gonzalez and Forward Fussia! playing back-to-back in the FADER Tent at this year apos;s SXSW..
.." More mismatched than Damien Jurado playing between We are Scientists and CYHSY , was Jose Gonzalez and Forward Fussia!
playing -to- in the FADER Tent at this year's SXSW. Was it fate that brought the future label mates together? MUTE Records, home of Goldfrapp, Jose Gonzalez, and The Knife, were happy to announce today that is their newest signing (yeah, I left off the "¡" before "Forward!
". Rumor says the band might drop it to avoid further confusion too).
"The band's new album 'Give Me a Wall', will be available in the US this September.
"
Saturday, June 17 Los Angeles Troubadour
dc:title="White Whale (Matt Suggs) on Merge | MP3s, Tour Dates" dc:description="Tripwire must have my computer bugged (wired?). I spent a significant amount of time last night researching Matt Suggs apos; new Merge-signed band White Whale in preparation for a post today.
I even started writing it until I noticed one of...
" dc:title="Gnarls Barkley Crazy covers by Nelly Furtado Ray Lamontagne, more Cee-Lo Dangerdoom | MP3s" dc:description=" First Ray Lamontagne, now Nelly Furtado, covered Gnarls Barkley apos;s hit Crazy . Get Ray apos;s version here and Nelly apos;s version here. AND Ray Lamontagne is playing with Guster in Prospect Park this summer.
Tickets are on sale. AND Gnarls Barkley apos;Crazy apos;..
." AND Ray Lamontagne is playing with Guster in Prospect Park this summer. .
Additionally, the band has confirmed they will be performing at this years MTV Movie Awards on July 8th, hosted by Jessica Alba.
I walked in just as Austin's were taking the CBGB stage for the first time. It was 10:45 pm (May 31, 2006), and I know it was their first time at CB's because the singer excitedly told us how he made this NYC show happen - despite doctors' warnings that he shouldn't tour with a newly broken arm AND despite one band member calling out sick (they had a substitute drummer I think).
They knew it was his only chance to play CBGB before it closed forever, and he said it was everything he dreamed it would be ("Thank you NYC!")
Arm securely in cast, the singer proceeded to thrash around, and jump and climb on anything he could find. That included the pipes, the top of the crowd, and the stage-right raised platform that was being used as a seat by very enthusiastic members of (in their street clothes).
Posturing? Maybe. Fun?
Definitely. Short? Maybe, but I guess a 40 minute set is normal.
Short Encore? Definitely (they came back out and told the crowd to go nuts and then proceeded to play a song that was about ten seconds long - not as short as some S.O.
D. songs, but short).
dc:title="Sasquatch!
2006 | Sunday review in words pics" dc:description="The following review of Day 3 (May 28, 2006) of the 2006 Sasquatch! Festival in George, Washington is brought to you by Jerry Yeti exclusively for BrooklynVegan.com A VIEW FROM SASQUATCH!
There apos;s nothing that makes us feel more like a...
" The following review of Day 3 (May 28, 2006) of in George, Washington is exclusively for BrooklynVegan.com
"There's nothing that makes us feel more like a sissy," Ben Gibbard admitted Sunday night, "than playing after Queens of the Stone Age." Indeed.
While we missed the first half of that classic clash of genre, we could only imagine what the organizers were thinking. It wasn't the first odd segue of the day, but for the most part everything else flowed like the Columbia River. Naturally, the Arctic Monkeys should always open for the Decemberists.
Still moist from [read that however you wish], Sunday began with , giving us a good reason to chug some Bloody Marys and haul over to the stages early. The ground around the Wookie stage was doomed to be a muddy mess, but squishy socks get dismissed in the presence of the charismatic Lidell. Having missed , I had assumed he's a typical DJ, spinning beats and turning knobs to produce electronic music.
Little did I realize that each of those sonic elements -the blips, scratches, and bass beats- are all produced with his mouth, all mixed in with some skat and soulful melodies. The percussive result got us stomping in the mud like a bunch of yeti.
We swung by the Main Stage to check in on Pretty Girls Make Graves playing to an appreciative hometown crowd.
Their keyboard player was painfully cute, and possibly the second hottest all weekend [Number One? see Damien Jurado's cellist]. At the same time Chad VanGaalen started off his performance weak but resurrected it fittingly with "Clinically Dead.
"
Nada Surf on the other hand kicked things off strong with "Popular" the only song I knew for sure they sang. Teenage girls were in strong force and we felt certain we'd be rolling our eyes as they swooned around us. [One girl even had them circled on her schedule with a heart].
Instead of dippy teen-rock, Matthew Caws lead us through an array of disarmingly well-crafted pop songs. Caws choreographed the crowd to sway back and forth for "On the Inside," [Ah-hah! Another one I know!
] which would have been hokey, if it wasn't such a damn good song. Always looking hip was bassist Daniel Lorca continually smoking his cigarette in complete ignorance –or perhaps defiance- of the festival's sponsor "Tobacco Smokes You."
In the interim, the teens packed it in as snuggly as a cartoon of Marlboros for the next act.
Such eager energetic acne-ed youth could only mean one thing: Arctic Monkeys. The A'Monks appeared, played through a few disastrously good songs, the crowd responded by going apeshit all around us. Alex Turner informed the cord this was their first outdoor gig ever and thanked us *twice* for making it a good one.
That's the biggest complement you'll ever get out of him. Crowd surfing was rampant, with as many as five being hoisted up at one time.
With perfect timing, a few rain drops fell during the finale of "A Certain Romance," and we retreated to the back to watch Colin Meloy lead the Decemberists through a delightful show.
Average par if you know the Decemberists, but for those who didn't they were a highlight. No surprise there. It was nice to finally hear "July, July!
" and sing along with a bunch of ecstatically drunk North Westerners who knew every single lyric. I had to phonetically fake a few, due to my limited vocabulary, but I don't think anyone caught on.
We Are Scientists started their set while Meloy was finishing up, and the magic of the Gorge made it one of their best yet; just one of numerous defining performances all weekend.
W.A.S.
brought their catchy rock that we have yet to tire of, and some ad-lib banter that was tired before it was spoken, only getting dumber and dumber and dumber. They crack themselves up though, and as long as they are having a blast, it's not to yourself.
Matisyahu seemed to be on everyone's shortlist the Top Five acts to see all weekend.
I don't love Matis, but I love that . From the view from above, he was working the crowd like none all weekend, only comparable to the way Kanye West worked us last year. When a rainbow appeared, he gave us some puzzling theology about Noah and the Ark of the Covenant: something about giving God a second chance when he screws up.
And all this time I thought that was *his* job. Oh well. He got the audience grooving to his message and that's all that counts.
Back at the Wookie, Damien Jurado played after We Are Scientists and before Clap Your Hands, a spot originally meant for those Arctic Monkeys. Jurado called it a Rock-Damien Sandwich. "We're kind of mellow if you hadn't noticed," he quipped after a particularly somber number.
"A Rock-Damien sandwich? That's some good bread." the cute cellist remarked.
While they might not have been the ideal band to play an outdoor festival, it was a welcome change of pace. We were entranced in the slow soft melodies. "Lottery" and "Ohio" were both excellent, as well as closing number, a superb [new?
] one with the cellist singing into a small megaphone.
With the audience now tranquilized, the calm didn't last long as . From the first notes onward, Alec Ousnworth was in control in spectacular fashion.
Instead of duplicating their recordings on the stage, they play around with the arrangements -adding intros, extending outros- so that while we've all outplayed the songs, they still sound fresh. Furthermore, Ounsworth couldn't hold still; anyone who said he lack presence needs to take another look. The crowd up front sang danced like there was tomorrow, realizing that –oh shit- there was no tomorrow.
We've heard from many that the sound further back for CYHSY was abysmal, so perspectives may vary. From where I stood, it was the most fun show of the weekend. With that, Sasquatch was as complete as it could be.
We moseyed over to the main stage to hang out on the hill for Death Cab, certain they would be worth missing based on past shows, only to realize too late that they too were playing one of their best shows we've yet to experience. Ben Gibbard never looked more at ease than on stage Sunday night in front of 20,000 fans. Maybe it was the Northwest hometown crowd; whatever it was, they didn't play like sissies.
, giving us a fitting send-off with live puppeteers mimicking move-for-move the band's actions, complete with synchronized strumming. When two bears came out to rap and wrestle [don't even ask], two teddy bears mirrored the fight on the puppet stage. The band played percussion around a dinner table, but it was hard to tell exactly what was going on; the cameras were continually trained on the puppets playing percussion on their own faux dinner table, with obviously much less accuracy.
For the encore, the opening bars of "Loser" got the entire Gorge in a frenzy, followed by the realization that it sounded too perfect, too much like the album. It was. The puppet lip-synced along but Beck never joined in.
Shortly thereafter Beck apologized for covering a song already performed that weekend and then played the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize."
After some confusion after a awkward pause following the encore, hinting at a second one, the festival was complete..
. until next year. Maybe we'll have the open for .
Oh please oh please oh please.
headlined the Wookie Stage at the 2006 Sasquatch! Music Festival on Sunday May 28, 2006.
77 Drum, "a staggering 77-drum kit installation by ", will run from July 07, 2006 — August 15, 2006 @ (18 Wooster St, NYC).
"For this exhibition, opening 7/7, the four band members will be filling 18 Wooster Street with 77 drum kits, which they will be using both as artwork, architecture, and principally for activation. Rivers of cymbals and mountains of drums flank the centerpiece of the show: a circular platform on which the band Boredoms will play and unprecedented two free live shows (July 7 8).
Filling out the exhibition will be contributions by Hisham Bharoocha, Tomo Gokita, Naohiro Ukawa, and Seigo Fukuda.
Eye, Yoshimi, ATR, and Yojiro make up the band Boredoms in its current incarnation. Eye is a cult-legend musician and artist living and working in Tokyo who has shown visual art in the past.
For many years, the public’s only contact with his visual art output was the amazing drawings and collages he made for his band Boredoms album covers and liner notes. A few books and zines made it over here from Japan, but it was not until his 2004 show at the now-defunct Transplant Gallery that he was featured in a fine art setting in his own right."
BROOKLYNVEGAN BLOG RADIO | THE PLAYLIST - MAY 20, 2006
I was pretty nervous about being on the air for the first time, but overall I'm happy how the first episode of sounded.
To get things started, I ran through the first five months of my blog: August to December 2004. I may continue the format next week by highlighting the first half of 2005. At that rate, I'll be playing brand new music by the 4th or 5th week (and then forever).
Hope you liked it if you listened. Here's the playlist w/ blogified commentary.
are on BrooklynVegan.
com. Now they're the first band I ever played on the radio.
During the first month of August 2004, I also posted pictures of and .
I didn't start talking about Lifetime until , but they're connected to None More Black via None More Black's singer Jason who sang for Kid Dynamite who shared members with Lifetime. Plus, Lifetime and None More Black go good together.
sound nothing like Lifetime, but I was pretty obsessed with them and Joanna Newsom in 2004.
So I played the Decemberists followed by Joanna Newsom followed by the Decemberists covering Joanna Newsom followed by Final Fantasy covering Joanna Newsom (which ).
Actually a live version of the Decemberists covering Joanna Newsom was . The Decemberists later recorded it for that came out during the summer of '05.
8) Final Fantasy covering Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear - 2:45 ( )
In December 2004 "Freak Folk" to categorize the scene comprised of Joanna, Devendra Banhart, Antony The Johnsons, and their of friends...
.
Then I thanked people for listening and reminded them to tune in next week (June 6) for episode two, and to tune in tomorrow (Wednesday) for Gorilla Vs. Bear, and every Monday for Product Shop NYC.
I didn't mention the next bit on the show, but while I'm reminiscing about 2004, I might as well mention some holiday shows that ended the year on a high note...
dc:title="Sasquatch! 2006 | Saturday review in words pics" dc:description="The following review of Day 2 (May 27, 2006) of the 2006 Sasquatch! Festival in George, Washington is brought to you by Jerry Yeti exclusively for BrooklynVegan.
com ELVIS PERKINS @ SASQUATCH! 2006 There apos;s nothing worse, we thought; nothing worse than..
." The following review of Day 2 (May 27, 2006) of in George, Washington is exclusively for BrooklynVegan.com
There's nothing worse, we thought; nothing worse than the unforgiving shadelessness in the 95 degree heat in the middle of Central Washington.
Nothing, that is, until this past weekend for the annual Sasquatch! Festival, which has tripled in size in an effort to pounce on all other festivals in the nation..
. all at once. [I'm looking at you, Chicago.
] With such expansion, the variety of musical acts has grown, and along with it the variety of acts of God. For Matisyahu we were given a rainbow; for a scorching sun. ?
Welts from relentless hail and eternal damnation.
I exaggerate a little. Some say the hail was the size of dice.
Others say golfballs. In a week or two, it'll be softballs; and according mythic hail stories, they don't come any larger than that.
Seconds after entering the gate on Saturday we heard the familar voice of New York regular singing "Without Love" to a small group at the Yeti stage.
Unlike his local shows, here he was playing without his backing band (pshhh, "airfare") and while the band is fantastic, Perkins is just as complete flying solo. As much as -and the the idea of a stage called the Yeti Stage- we stayed for only a handful. He gave a shoutout though, which my sister thought was cool.
had already begun by the time we joined the main stage and were jamming to "Warm Trombone" followed by an extended version of the title track off their latest album "How We Operate." As always with Gomez, they seemed ecstatic to be playing, as if every performace will be their last. Tom Gray [in flannel] was especailly smiley.
That's why we love them.
Over at the Wookie stage was playing at the same time and already wrecking havock on our schedule. We arrived late, but midway through "Maybe You Can Owe Me" it was clear that AiH could bring a party, even one at 1:00 in the afternoon.
They went straight into "Do the Whirlwind" as we started to dance and soaking up the sun. And with the that Sasquatch reached it's first euphoric moment.
The second came only moments later as "Baby C'mon" to those of us wise enough to skip Sufjan.
A late addition to the festival, Malkmus played a whole string of tunes off the forgottenly excellent 2005 Face the Truth before going back to some of his older material -I didn't recognize any Pavement however. It's a shame Malkmus didn't tour more last year to remind yet again all how awesome he is. We forget bands who don't tour.
Or tour too much. Either way, he went head to head against that Sufjan guy and the crowd was thinner than it should have been.
With Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips watching in the wings, from there and all we can say is, Wow.
Of all the bands on Sub Pop that sound alike [Shins, Rogue Wave, Fruit Bats] this latest addition is far, far more engaging. People in Seattle are damn proud of this band and now we can see why. Ben Bridwell sports a pedal steel guitar and some badass tattoos.
To fill out their emerging setlist, they included a new song called "No one's Gonna Love You" and an Hall Oats cover "You Make My Dreams." Bridwell was a remarkably gracious performer. When he thanked the audience for coming, someone shouted "Thanks for the album.
" He replied "Hey, thanks for the attitude."
If that's not enough politeness for you, try the .
We left the Constantines to catch .
Or so we thought. After only a few songs, the hail began to fall and what at first seemed like 'a really cool experience' quickly became cold, wet, and annoying. Some took cover beneath strangers' tarps hoping it pass sooner than later.
Others found more firm coverage. I just got soaked.
Thirty minutes later, the weather let up and Neko never finished her set.
The Wookie and Yeti stages closed down for the day leaving , Matt Costa, Tim Seely, and Common Market without a show. , Common Market popped their CD into their van and began to freestyle for the crowds as they made their way out to their cars for dry clothes.
Once the sky cleared, the Tragically Hip played to a crowd soaked to the bone.
Most of those excited by this point were Canadians who were equally as interested in the hockey score. The Shins played after them and -I hate to admit it because I love them- they were once again rather forgetable. James Mercer is still an unparalleled songwriter, but as live entertainers they fall a little short from where they need to be.
Then again, those who I spoke with loved them just the same.
In a switch of line-up due to the inclimate weather, played next, thus irking many hoping to see the Flaming Lips before calling it a night. We were a little bothered, but wanted to see most of Harper anyway.
, was supposed to be a rare and intimate evening but turned out to be rather tedious one. This time, Harper was back to form in the grandiose outdoors. He played a two-hour double set show, beginning the second set with three solo and ending the evening on an -ahem- high note: "Burn One Down" and "Steal My Kisses.
"
For those who had the stamina after the two hours of Harper, the staging for the Flaming Lips was ridiculously long. "This can't be worth it" I thought around 12:45 AM, already seven and a half hours standing at the main stage. The second the Lips started, it was.
Totally worth it. The aliens to the left, the santas to the right. Coyne riding the crowd in his giant gerbil ball.
The camera microphone. The smoke gun. The green balls everywhere [the size of hail!
]. It actually looked like for a second. And despite the theroretically depleting crowd, the main pit was as packed as it was all day, making for one hell of an insane dance party during the guitar solo in "Bohemian Rhapsody.
"
"Yoshimii" was awesome. Everything was awesome. My clothes were drying.
I was tired but my adrenaline was still high. It as with regret that I left the Flaming Lips early, but it was 1:30 and you can't sleep in at a campsite. When you neighbors wake up, you wake up.
That night I dreamt the Lips played till dawn...
I was going to hold off on a post about Brazil's until tickets went on sale for the two shows she's playing at Joe's Pub in September, but Gorilla vs. Bear went ahead and about her, so I'll just add the info about the shows and link to more MP3s.
THE SHOWS: She's playing two shows at Joe's Pub on September 22, 2006 - .
AND THE MP3S AND STUFF: Both are offering the track she did with Devendra Banhart. Seu Jorge and French MC/beatboxer Spleen also appear on her new album (The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves). Spleen is playing with Devendra's friends CocoRosie .
The Cibelle press release says Cibelle brings to mind CocoRosie and Bjork (not sure I agree though). Three .
dc:title="Band of Horses @ Sasquatch!
2006 | pics" dc:description=" Jerry apos;s full 2006 Sasquatch! Festival review will be up soon, but when I can tell you now that he thought Band of Horses were great. They apos;re playing three NYC shows in June.
...
" dc:title="Arctic Monkeys apos; new bassist @ Sasquatch! 2006 | pic" dc:description="ARCTIC MONKEYS @ SASQUATCH! | MAY 28, 2006 That apos;s Nick O apos;Malley, Arctic Monkeys new touring bassist, playing his 2nd North American show with Arctic Monkeys @ the 2006 Sasquatch!
Festival this weekend. Photo by Jerry Yeti for BrooklynVegan Previously CYHSY apos;s..
." dc:title="CYHSY apos;s drummer in GNR sweatshirt @ Sasquatch! 2006 | pic" dc:description="CYHSY @ SASQUATCH!
| MAY 28, 2006 That apos;s Sean Greenhalgh from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah wearing a classic Guns N apos; Roses sweatshirt at this weekend apos;s Sasquatch! Festival. He apos;s clearly getting in character for his last two shows ever as.
.." dc:title="Neko Case, before during the hail @ Sasquatch!
2006 | pics" dc:description=" About three songs into her set, Neko Case gave up on it. Hail the size of dice had the crowd shouting in excitement and alarmed pain. [Seattlest] NEKO CASE PLAYING THE SASQUATCH!
FESTIVAL | MAY 27, 2006 LOOKS KIND OF...
" dc:title="ELE_K* (Elizabeth from Land of Talk) | Listen, Buy" dc:description="Before there was Land of Talk, Elizabeth Powell released music under the name ELE_K*. You can listen to two songs at New Music Canada and buy the album at Fusion 3..
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