Kenneth Pattengale will be performing tonight at the Hotel Café | Picture via Kenneth Pattengale's Our Pick: Butch Walker, Kenneth Pattengale, Dave Schulz, Lynhurst @ The Hotel Café Tonight English electronic act Simian Mobile Disco will be headlining the Mayan Theatre in Downtown. Athens-based folk troubadours the Vic Chesnutt Band are poised to take on the Echoplex with none other...
S everal years ago , Guy Picciotto, best known as the guitarist of Fugazi, attended a Vic Chesnutt show at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It was part of a free concert series held in the venue's main hallway. "You've got l...
Tomorrow night I will hopefully be spending some quality time with Liz. Okay, spending time at a table in the back, casually tapping my foot while enjoying what I can only assume will be a frosty brew.
Benevento/Russo Duo : Another instrumental take here, this one they dedicate to The Slip’s Brad Barr. Speaking of which, you can find another great rendition of this song on the LMA that in addition to The Duo, features Andrew Barr & Marc Friedman from The Slip. Source: 7-4-2003 Brothers Past : Most of the covers are pretty to-the-point this week, thankfully we have Brothers Past to extend...
Bowerbirds play a tiny desk concert at NPR Music. The Guardian profiles comics legend Osamu Tezuka and his creation, Astro Boy. Tezuka's comics look outward to the world, too: his influences are decisively international. Individual frames, as McCarthy points out,...
Metro Weekly profiles singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer. ''I like mixing up music and lyrics in ways that are confusing to compel the listener,'' the pop musician says. ''That's another thing I really like about this art form. You can make as...
Vic Chesnutt is a study in contradictions. The most recent example of that in Chesnutt’s professional life is what to do with two new albums recorded a month apart: Skitter on Take-off, a solo album produced by the great Jonathan Richman, and the decidedly different-feeling At the Cut, his second album with Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra. (He previously paired with them in 2007 for North Star...
Vic Chesnutt is a pretty remarkable musician. His distinctive voice and folk guitar styling is par none, and he is often accompanied by the most notable of artists no matter what the genre. Chesnutt recently released just such an album called At The Cut which featured Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) and members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. While that record may have garnered him a bit of press, he slipped...
Upcoming is a concert I am making sure I am at - the Vic Chesnutt / Liz Durrett performance at the Marquee Room on November 23rd (locals, please note change in venue with Timbre Productions).
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Builder & the Butchers: "Vampire Lake" [mp3] from Loch Lomond/The Builders & the Butchers Split 12″ other Builder & the Butchers posts at Largehearted Boy Heather Greene: "Moon Hangs Fire" [mp3] from Sweet...
[ December 1, 2009; 7:30 pm to 11:55 pm. ] Vic Chesnutt Band || Listen featuring Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Silver Mt. Zion As on 2007's North Star Deserter, Chesnutt is here joined by members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra, as well as Fugazi's Guy Picciotto. Together they build a sound that walks [...]
Hat tip to T. Ballard Lesseman and Brooklyn Brewery, without whom I would not have known these exciting things about the amazingly prolific poet Vic Chesnutt because I have been under a rock sleeping for the past year: THE VIC CHESNUTT RECORD AND WHY ME AND TOMMY WANTED TO DO IT JONATHAN: "My drummer Tommy Larkins and I were driving in the van across the United States as we do two or three times...
Vic Chesnutt: The singer's alternately harrowing and rueful songs will be fleshed out on this tour by an all-star band, including members of Fugazi (Guy Picciotto) and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thursday at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Av., $18;...
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