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So on my last day in London, I headed down to Finsbury Park for the Rise Festival, I mean hell it was free. We arrived Justin time to catch The Aliens. The Aliens are John Maclean, Robin Jones and Gordon Anderson, who once went by the name of The Beta Band. Their brand of Psychedelic electo fused rock was very interesting and the young audience up font was really getting into it. Next up was The Dub...
Music Reviews: Two performers with distinctly different musical styles and personalities demonstrated two wildly different paths toward getting a Hollywood Bowl audience to eat out of their hands.
You know who freaking rocks? Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings . At least they did at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night, a venue that might seem daunting for their brand of reclaimed 60s soul and funk. Audience participation is their stock and trade and in the giant bowl at a great distance, it initially seemed this would be a difficult evening. But in no time, the incandescent Jones and the tight-as-anything...
The words 'free bar' are ones I rarely turn down, so the prospect of seeing Reggae Legend™ Jimmy Cliff at free festival Rise was more than enough incentive. The anti racism message, while played down by organisers on the instructions...
As the terms and bylaws that differentiate television and film continue to erode, the basic structural differences between the album and the mix tape have all but vanished with the tide. The last few years have seen critical attention turn away from records with broad thematic arcs and toward the simpler idea of a collection of unrelated songs. One needs only to look at the exhaustive output of Lil'...
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are playing the Hollywood Bowl this Sunday (along with Feist) and I wrote a feature in this week's LA Weekly about the Dap-Kings specifically (no disrespect to Sharon but I had written about her before, everyone writes about her, surprisingly few people write about the Dap-Kings, ergo...). Tickets are still available, beginning at $10. Sure, those are nosebleeders but...
In a salute to women who rock, the KCRW World Festival at the Hollywood Bowl continues on Sunday. Opening for Feist is Brooklyn-based soul sensation Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, and Vancouver’s global-pop group Pacifika. The world has seen her video for "1234" millions of times. It's appearance on the iPhone commercial brought her even more attention. Now after wining four Grammys, Leslie Feist brings...
The past few years have seen a resurgence of soul and R&B. We’ve seen bands good (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Tones), bad (the Pipettes) and even confused (Amy Winehouse). We’ve even had the reemergence of a couple of legends – Al Green & Solomon Burke – to remind us how it’s done right. Just [...]
[from Virtual Festivals] Jimmy Cliff cut off at Rise Festival 14 July 2008 Jimmy Cliff was left performing in silence as his headline set ran over the curfew at this year’s Rise Festival. The reggae star was in the middle of performing a rootsy-version of ‘Rivers Of Babylon’ when the sound was cut at around 8.35pm. The band continued [...]
New Orleans’ Voodoo Festival, set to hit the Big Easy October 24-26, has revealed its full performer line-up. In addition to the headliners R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots, Death Cab for Cutie, Panic at the Disco, Erykah Badu and N’Awlins prodigal son Lil Waynein will play in the more mainstream Le Ritual [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Big Sea Creatures: one track [mp3] other Big Sea Creatures music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Birdmonster: "Born to Be Your Man" [mp3] from From the Mountain To the Sea (out September 2nd) other...
Blame it on an ever-lasting romance with the concept of the hover board,* but since childhood, I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of being out of one’s time. Hoverboards or horse shoes were fine by me, just not the present. Hell, during one one parched spell between the fall of 2003 and the spring [...]
