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Vampire Weekend’s Free 40 Minute Studio Session on KCRW

Posted on 03/19/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Even before their ‘big time’ appearance on Saturday Night Live earlier this month, Vampire Weekend was one of the biggest new bands of 2008, if not the biggest new band of the year, at least as far as the ‘buzz factor’ goes.

Weeks leading up to the February release of their debut self-titled album on Beggar’s Banquet, VW had captured the attention of bloggers, music critics and ‘indie’ fans, mostly due to their performances last year in concert, at music festivals and their Feb. 1st U.S. network debut on the David Letterman Show.

Vampire Weekend – Boston
Vampire Weekend – Walcott
Vampire Weekend – A-Punk

(Watch and listen to Vampire Weekend play a 40-minute session clicking the video further down the page)

Many fans were disappointed by VW’s performance on SNL (the string section wasn’t synced with the band). Even the full-length clips of Vampire Weekend performing on SNL have been removed from YouTube; however, they have reappeared on Stereogum.

But, really, you can forget about the SNL show. Without question, it is the band’s 40-minute studio session on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic this past Valentine’s Day that shows Vampire Weekend at their best. Not only that, but everyone watch it. This is one of the best things about the Internet.

Die-hard fans all around the world who have been unable to see Vampire Weekend in concert should really enjoy this session. It may be the closest many come to see the band in concert, and in some cases, even better.

During the 40-minute studio performance, Vampire Weekend’s band members play almost every song from their debut album. The video and audio quality, and camera work, are superb (unlike most videos on YouTube) – no screaming, background noise or shakiness. See the set list below and some lyrics.

The first set of VW’s KCRW February 14, 2008 studio session features, in order played, Mansun Roof, Oxford Comma, A-Punk, Cape Cod Kawassa Kawassa and Boston. Following the first set, there is a brief and wonderfully conducted interview with the band.

During the second set the guys play Bryn, Campus, I Stand Corrected, The Kids Don’t Stand and M79.

View more Vampire Weekend lyrics at their official website.

Lollapalooza’s 2008 Line-up Rumors, Fakes and Speculation

Posted on 03/17/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

(Above: This is a fake that has been circulating the Internets for the past month; it is not the official Lollapalooza lineup poster for 2008 – notice the poor Photoshop work on the “8” – somebody couldn’t find the correct font match.)

Festival organizers for Lollapalooza have yet to officially announce one artist for the August 1-3 annual rock fest in Chicago’s Grant Park.

But that hasn’t stopped the rumors, speculation, “wish lists” and flat out fabrications for Lollapalooza’s 2008 lineup.

Just this past week, the amps were turned up on the rumor machine with magazines like Paste and Rolling Stone newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and the The Grand Rapids Press announcing that artists and bands like Rage Against the Machine, Wilco, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are ‘rumored’ to be headliners for Lolla 08.

The Lollapalooza message boards have been lit up for weeks containing topic threads and replies for “Wanna Make a Band Suggestion?” and various other messages of “hopefuls” that are updated almost hourly with eager fans pumping out some enticing, but again totally wishful, line up schedules.

Here are a couple of tracks from the ‘best-bet’ rumored artists set to perform at Lolla 2008:

In the meantime, flashback to approximately 18 months ago: Wilco playing “Heavy Metal Drummer” at Lolla 06. Enjoy. If you are waiting for the lineup to be announced before buying your tickets, please use the comments section below to say so and why. (I’m curious.)

Grand Ole Party Touring With Rogue Wave Throughout US in April

Posted on 03/17/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Riding on the sails of their ‘critically acclaimed’ debut album Humanimals, San Diego’s indie trio Grand Ole Party has announced a slew of concert dates with indie rockers Rogue Wave and punk old-timers New York Dolls (do they get MediCare?) for the month of April with a final show in San Francisco on May 3rd.

Question: Is this band really good enough to tour with the likes of Vampire Weekend, Rilo Kiley and Rogue Wave? (I don’t think so, but you be the judge.) Plus, the name; that’s the best they could come up with? GOP? Maybe they’ll get a spot at a McCain rally.

Grand Ole Party: “Nasty Habits” [mp3] from Humanimals

Grand Ole Party’s April/May Concert Schedule

April
2 Denver, CO – Hi-Dive
3 Omaha, NE – Slowdown Jr
4 Lawrence, KS – Replay Lounge
5 Nashville, TN – The Rutledge
6 Birmingham, AL – Bottletree
7 Mt. Pleasant, SC – Village Tavern
11 Boston, MA – Paradise #
12 New York, NY – Fillmore at Irving Plaza #
15 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church #
16 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club #
18 Chicago, IL – Schubas #
19 Chicago, IL – Schubas #
20 St. Louis, MO – Gargoyle Club #
22 Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre #
24 Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room #
27 Indio, CA – Coachella

May
3 San Francisco, CO – The Fillmore #

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Mark Kozelek and Sun Kil Moon’s New Album, Book and Tour

Posted on 03/12/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Pained and yet hauntingly beautiful, Mark Kozelek‘s music as a solo artist and with Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon has gained him great respect in the music community, especially among indie folk rock fans.

Kozelek’s record label, Caldo Verde Records, announced this week the pre-order sales for both Sun Kil Moon’s new album April and the re-issue of Kozelek’s 2002 book Nights of Passed Over, a compendium of his lyrics and other writings through the years.

The limited edition (only 2,500 copies) re-issue of the hard-cover book will come along with a 12 song CD titled Nights LP, featuring live and rare versions of Kozelek’s music from 1996 through 2007. The limited edition will be available for pre-order on March 17 on Caldo Verde Records website only.

The first 2,800 copies of April are autographed and numbered by Mark Kozekel and available for pre-order ($15.99) beginning March 12, 2008.

The release of April will mark the first original recording from Mark Kozelek since Tiny Cities (an album of Modest Mouse covers) in 2005 and Sun Kil Moon’s 2003 debut classic Ghosts of the Great Highway, which was recently re-issued.

During the past decade, Kozelek’s sombre acoustic sound, tender vocals and guilt-ridden and troubled lyrics propelled the otherwise shy and Kozelek in to the emerging indie rock ‘blogosphere’ where fans gobbled up his music and bloggers hailed the arrival of yet another brilliant songwriter. He has been compared to artists like Nick Drake and Elliot Smith.

Mark Kozelek’s Music and Videos:

MP3 – “Ocean Breathes Salty” – Mark Kozelek/Sun Kil Moon
Stream – “Heron Blue” and “Drop” from Sun Kil Moon’s upcoming release April.

The songs for April were recorded between March and August 2007 in San Francisco and Seattle. Contributors include other well-known artists like vocalists Bonnie Prince Billy, Eric Pollard and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab and Postal Service), plus drummer Anthony Koutsos (Red House Painters), bassist Geoff Stanfield (Black Lab), violist Michi Aceret and percussionist David Revelli.

April contains 11 songs that play for 74 minutes. On March 16, 2008, the album will be available as a digital download on the record label’s site for $7.99 with album art included.

The following video is an interview with Mark Kozelek in which he performs “Bubble”.

– Check the concert tours for Sun Kil Moon and Mark Kozelek
– Sun Kil Moon’s MySpace page
– Sun Kil Moon’s official website from their label Caldo Verde

Paste magazine’s review of April:

“Kozelek’s work has proven over the years that it reveals itself slowly,” O’Connor writes about April. “What grabs you at first is the simple, gorgeous hook, which turns out to be a gateway drug to the deeper mysteries that power his music.”

Jonathan Cohen, Billboard

“From 10-minute, three-guitar jams to heartbreaking acoustic ballads, April shines with the most evocative music of Kozelek ‘s career.”

2008 PLUG Awards Go To Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Iron & Wine and Justice

Posted on 03/09/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

The above promo video for the 2008 Plug Awards held at Terminal 5 in New York City on Friday night was produced by Dell Lounge, a website that broadcast the award ceremonies live.

While there is no official Dell Lounge video of the ceremonies out yet, you can view a segment of the live cast via a hypercam streaming recorder, along with a clip of St. Vincent performing at the awards show, below.

The winners of the 2008 PLUG Awards include the best indie rock album of the year Strawberry Jam by Animal Collective and the overall album of the year Neon Bible by Arcade Fire.

Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
Animal Collective – Fireworks

Justice was named the best new artist, and the male and female artist of the year awards went to Andrew Bird and Annie Clark of St. Vincent, respectively.

Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
Andrew Bird – Heretics
St. Vincent – These Days (J. Brown)

Here are some of the other winners and nominees in various categories of the 2008 Plug Awards.

Americana Album of the Year – Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
Metal Album of the Year – The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
Hip-Hop Album of the Year – Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
Punk Album of the Year – Gogol Bordello – Super Taranta!
Electronic/Dance Album of the Year – Justice – †
DJ Album of the Year – Hot Chip – DJ-Kicks
Avant Album of the Year – Liars – Liars

Listen to 30-second clips of all the nominees for all the categories.

The following YouTube clip features Annie Clarke and St. Vincent, plus Dizzee Rascal and Jose Gonzalez

Other 2008 nominees for Best Indie Rock Album of the Year:

Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (Merge)
Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin (Sub Pop)
Battles – Mirrored (Warp)
Deerhunter – Cryptograms (Kranky)
Les Savy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends (Frenchkiss)
Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
Okkervil River – The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover (Jagjaguar)
The National – Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
The New Pornographers – Challengers (Matador)

Not included but should have been: Arctic Monkeys’ Favourite Worst Nightmare, Editors’ An End Has A Start, etc.

Winner and nominees for the Best Album (overall) of the 2008:

Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (Merge)
WinnerBand Of Horses – Cease To Begin (Sub Pop)
Battles – Mirrored (Warp)
Beirut – The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing)
El-P – I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (Definitive Jux)
Justice – † (Downtown / Vice / Ed Banger)
Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
Panda Bear – Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
Radiohead – In Rainbows (self-released)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
The National – Boxer (Beggars Banquet)

Best New Artist of the Year winner and nominees:

Bat For Lashes
Battles
Dan Deacon
Deerhunter
Justice -Winner
Los Campesinos!
No Age
Sea Wolf
St. Vincent
Vampire Weekend
White Rabbits
Yeasayer

Music website winner and nominees for 2008:

Allmusic
Cokemachine Glow
The Daily Swarm
Daytrotter
Elbo.ws
The Hype Machine
MySpace
NME.com
Paper Thin Walls
Pitchfork Media
Prefix
Stylus

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Chicago Tribune’s Wishy-Washy Report of ‘Headliners’ for Lollapalooza 2008 Lineup Feeds Rumor Mill

Posted on 03/08/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are reported to be two of the “headliners” at Lollapalooza 2008, according to a wishy-washy report published by The Chicago Tribune last night.

The Tribune article seems to play in to the non-stop rumor game – not a good thing for a journalism organization.

The headline of the article itself implies Radiohead will headline Lollapalooza, the opening paragraph of the story states they are “expected” to perform at Lolla and the following paragraph states Radiohead has been “confirmed” and in the same paragraph the Tribune’s catch word of the day – “expected” – appears again.

That’s not just lousy journalism, but the hype comes suspiciously close to the implication that the Tribune is trying to pump some life into a local festival that some readers of this blog have ‘written off’ for 2008. Lollapalooza was canceled in 2004 after weak ticket sales, but came back strong in 2005 with some 65,000 tickets sold.

All I Need – Radiohead from In Rainbows

Isobel – Bjork (2007 Lollapalooza headline artist)

Listen to past Lollapalooza performances from archive.org

Furthermore, aside from the fact (despite the Tribune’s rumor-mill reporting) that not one artist or group has been officially confirmed to perform at this year’s Lollapalooza Festival, the Tribune makes no mention of the usually costly tickets (ranging from $65 a day up to $195 for a three-day pass in 2007, a 30% increase from the previous year’s price of $150).

Lollapalooza 2008 is set to take place in Chicago’s Grant Park August 1-3. Early bird tickets go on sale March 25th. Apparently, the early bird tickets that went on sale this week were gone in a matter of hours with many potential ticket buyers complaining about the reliability of the online early bird purchasing process.

According to the Tribune (and obviously you’ll have to take this with a grain of salt), Lollapalooza festival organizers will release the entire lineup sometime in the ‘next few weeks.’

Let’s just hope that the long wait will be worth it in the end, although it would be nice if they held the event in any other month but August (got to sell those drinks to make the vendor unions happy).

If last year’s lineup at Lollapalooza is any indication of the lineup for 2008, then it’s safe to say there’s going to be a lot more lolla than looza.

Here is an article about last year’s Lollapalooza, including videos of the performers.

If you didn’t hear about last year’s controversy regarding AT&T’s censoring of Pearl Jam, check out the link to read about it.

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Ray Davies of The Kinks, Zach Condon, DCFC, The Cure and Angels and Airwaves Coming to SF

Posted on 03/07/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Following a successful Noise Pop Festival in which dozens and dozens of indie musicians and groups descended on San Francisco, there are still many great shows coming up in the next few weeks, including Ray Davies (pictured above) of The Kinks, Death Cab For Cutie, Beirut, Linkin Park, The Cure, Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance and The Bravery.

San Francisco’s iconic radio station Live 105 F.M. has updated its concert calendar to include the latest, upcoming concerts (this is just a snapshot of many shows coming up in the SF Bay Area; stay tuned for more concert announcements):

3/8 – Serj Tankian @ The Warfield

3/10 – Popscene presents SxSF w/ Persephone’s Bees & more @ Rickshaw Stop

3/10 – Angels & Airwaves @ The Warfield

3/10 – Linkin Park w/ Coheed & Cambria @ The Arco Arena, Sacramento

3/13 – The Bravery @ The Fillmore

3/28 – Ray Davies @ The Warfield – The legendary singer/songwriter of the best rock band ever, The Kinks, returns to San Francisco with a new solo album – Working Man’s Cafe – that Rolling Stone magazine called a “masterpiece”.

MP3: Vietnam Cowboys – Ray Davies from Working Man’s Cafe

4/3-4 – My Chemical Romance @ The Warfield

4/8 – Jimmy Eat World & Paramore @ San Jose State Events Center

4/10-11 – The Honda Civic Tour w/ Panic At The Disco, Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound, Phantom Planet @ The Warfield

4/12 – Taste Of Chaos w/ Avenged Sevenfold & more @ San Jose State Events Center

4/23 – Ben Gibbard and Death Cab For Cutie @ Fillmore

5/27-8 – Zach Condon (photo, right) and Beirut @ The Grand Ballroom At the Regency Center

MP3: Beirut – Postcards From Italy

5/28 – The Cure @ The HP Pavilion (video below)

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Angels and Airways Help Keep ‘OC-Style’ Pop Rock Alive

Posted on 03/07/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

They are not necessarily ‘indie’ (whatever that is), because they are signed with Universal, but Angels and Airwaves are starting to get plenty of blog buzz.

The Adventure – Angels and Airwaves

Clearly, they are talented and make some catchy songs, but A&A may be a bit too polished by the record exces for their own good.

For example, this A&A video clip and the song could be straight outta OC.

Still, I have to admit I sometimes like the “OC style” – the corporate polished pop rock from heavily promoted artists and groups ‘owned’ by one of the Big Four.

While “OC style” branded pop rock is cool sometimes, my heart and soul are always with the indie bands, signed and unsigned, that keep amazing me each time I spin a new virtually unknown track or play catch-up and groove on songs that hit the Net six or more months ago.

It’s hard to keep up with all the great music out there nowadays, but I’m doing my best. :-

Angel and Airwaves 2008 Concert Tour Listings:

Mar 7 2008
8:00P
Roseland Theatre
Portland, Oregon

Mar 8 2008
5:00P
Silver Platters
Seattle, Washington

Mar 8 2008
8:00P
SOLD OUT: ShowBox
Seattle, Washington

Mar 10 2008
8:00P
Warfield
San Francisco, California

Mar 12 2008
5:00P
Virgin Megastore-The Block at Orange- In Store Signing
Orange, California

Mar 12 2008
8:00P
SOLD OUT: House of Blues
Anaheim, California

Mar 13 2008
8:00P
Soma
San Diego, California

Mar 14 2008
8:00P
SOLD OUT: House of Blues
Anaheim, California

Mar 15 2008
8:00P
Wiltern
Los Angeles, California

Apr 2 2008
8:00P
Duo Music Exchange
Tokyo

Apr 3 2008
8:00P
Club Quattro
Nagoya

Apr 4 2008
8:00P
Zepp
Osaka

Apr 6 2008
8:00P
Makuhari Messe
Tokyo

Apr 10 2008
8:00P
Academy
Manchester

Apr 11 2008
8:00P
Academy
Glasgow

Apr 12 2008
8:00P
Academy
Birmingham

Apr 14 2008
8:00P
Guildhall
Southampton

Apr 15 2008
8:00P
Academy
Bristol

Apr 16 2008
8:00P
SOLD OUT: Astoria
London

Apr 17 2008
8:00P
2nd SHOW ADDED: ASTORIA
London

Apr 19 2008
8:00P
Polsslag Festival
Hasselt

Apr 20 2008
8:00P
Melkweg
Amsterdam

Apr 21 2008
8:00P
Bataclan
Paris

MySpace – Angels and Airwaves

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Bonnaroo Organizers Pre-Ticket Sales Rhymes Both Annoy and Entertain

Posted on 03/05/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Promoters for major music festivals realize that beating the others to the punch as far as announcing lineup and ticket sale dates could mean the difference in tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Many fest heads need to plan early which festivals they want to go to, so the sooner a lineup is announced, the better the odds (if the lineup is good) are in favor of that festival – like Coachella, partly because it’s so early, usually April.

Therefore, fest promoters rush to get the lineup out with the hopes that many people will plan to go to their festival rather than a competing festival. Unless you are geographically close to many festivals – say if you live in the northeast or mid-Atlantic – or happen to have a lot of time and money, many festival lovers have to pick and choose. So, getting out a killer lineup means the difference between a profitable fest and a very profitable festival.

In what was a bizarre, and quite frankly annoying effort to some (entertaining to some less) people, Bonnaroo organizers teased fans with a list of riddles and rhythms about the Bonnaroo 2008 lineup.

Listen to past Bonnaroo Festival performances live from archive.org.

From the thread about this on Inforoo:

Clues on Radio Roo.
« Thread Started on Feb 1, 2008, 2:14pm »

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I posted this on another thread but I think it deserves its own. The DJ just came on and said

Clue #1 “For all you lineup lookers….here is a clue: There is more than one Manchester.”

Manchester Orchestra
Man Man
Oasis
Verve

Clue #2 20 minutes later she said ” Memphis isnt Albany”
Changed to “Memphis ain’t Illbany”

“There is more than one Memphis. This is not a clue just an observation.”

BB King
Beastie Boys

Clue #3 “Clouds taste this way”

Metallica
Beastie Boys

Clue #4 “Some Herrings are red, Jimmy”

Widespread Panic
Led Zep
Metallica

Clue #5 “Hard Substance, Soft Substance”

Iron and Wine
Mars Volta
Carbon Silicon

Clue #6 “Janis Joplin’s preserves will be served”

Pearl Jam

Clue #7 “Rumors are just rumors, but twist them sideways, grow your humor hair and they become a more yen reality. No, this is not about Fleetwood Mac”

Dread Zep
Whigs

Clue #8 “it’s not sour, what is sowed in the earth”

Plant and Krauss
Sigur Ros

“Three certain birds, add one”

Counting Crows
Black Crowes maybe with Page
All the Crows including Old Crow
Andrew Bird
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
The Band plus Dylan (use to be the Hawks)

Clue #9 “look to the center of Europe to get the sound, but the band comes form all around.”

Beirut
Gogol Bordelo
JUI
Daft Punk
Russian Circles

Clue 10 Here is another clue for you message board people. Open up the church and you will see the steeple. Some of your guesses have been way off but correct for the wrong clues. Now I must cough.

Ani DiFranco
REM lyric from Bad Day

Clue 11 (Feb 4th Monday at 12:20)
“Message board chatter? Yes it does matter. We hear your song requests. So Listen High Listen Low Don’t Look Too Hard This Is New Radio Bonnaroo”

1:30 Low of the Hour Daft Punk
2:00 High Hour Ween
2:30 Drive By Truckers
Nadasurf

Clue 12 Charlies imaginary band will not be playing and what he wrote on his hand the last few things he was not saying.

Oasis not Playing ?
Paul McCartney

Clue 13 The Walrus ain’t Paul
Sean Lennon
Ringo

Clue 14 alternative language clue
Sufjan Stevens

Clue 15 What rhymes with orange

Nothing
NADASURF

Clue 16 Arizona in Manchester

Tom Petty
Cheryl Crowe
Alicia Keys
Counting Crows
Ludacris

Clue 17

What is in the dessert isn’t.

Oasis
Any of the super bowl bands

Clue 18 “The Chairman of the board, after the Birthday Party”

Cake
Nick Cave

« Last Edit: Feb 5, 2008, 2:00pm by zoey

The following is the first list of rhymes (without guesses) that was posted on the Bonnaroo official message boards (and started the flack):

1. “There is more than one Manchester”

2. “Memphis isn’t Albany”

3. “Clouds taste this way”

4. “Some Herrings are red, Jimmy”

5. “Hard Substance, Soft Substance”

6. “Janis Joplin’s reserves will be preserved”

7. “Rumors are just rumors, but twist them sideways, grow your humor hair and they become a more yen reality. No, this is not about Fleetwood Mac”

8. “It’s not sour, what is sowed in the earth”

9. “Three certain birds, add one”

10. “Look to the center of Europe to get the sound, but the band comes form all around.”

11. “Here is another clue for you message board people. Open up the church and you will see the steeple. Some of your guesses have been way off but correct for the wrong clues. Now I must cough.”

Bonnaroo Tries To Make Lineup Announcement Seem More Exciting Through The Power Of Slightly Infuriating Riddles

Tip to Bonnaroo promoters: Check out some marketing 101 tips for next year and do the shrooms at the festival, not while your planning and promoting it. : p

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Watch STS9, Gov’t Mule, REM, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill and Others at Langerado Festival

Posted on 03/05/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Indie music fans in south Florida are already arriving in south Florida for this weekend’s Langerado Festival.

The 2008 Langerado Festival has a hot lineup for a relatively little-known music fest (compared to Lollapalooza, Coachella and Bonnaroo). During the next few days, IRC will highlight some of the headlining aritsts for Langerado 2008, including links and embeds of videos from the 08 festival performances as soon as they are available.

Today’s featured Langerado artist is Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9). While they haven’t released a new album in nearly three years (Artifact, 2005), the band has toured so much in recent years that fresh material doesn’t seem to matter.

STS9, the dub-happy jam band from Georgia that has had a loyal following for a decade now, but only really broke through with Artifact (and relentless concerts and fest appearances) will take the stage on Friday, March 7, 2008 from 1 am to 4am (I double-checked it and that’s what the schedule says).

The website iClips.net will stream the STS9 set and many other sets from all four days of the festival according to its website. So, you can bet there will be updates about that as more information and times come in. If you can’t make it to Langerado, you might be able to get a lot closer with the continued advances in Internet technology!

In the meantime, here’s a YouTube clip of STS9 performing “Aimlessly” at Langerado 2007:

Here’s a popular video of STS9’s David Phipps using the DIY 8×16 monome controller of “Be Nice”. (monome.org).

MP3 – Sound Tribe Sector 9 – Be Nice

For anyone who was, or was not, at Red Rocks 2007 in Colorado, here’s a great video performance that represents the band at its best performing a six-minute jam session.

The band also played at ACL Fest 2007 (in searing heat and dripping humidity) – here’s a short, but excellent quality video of the band jamming at ACL 07 (not sure what the tune is though; some of STS9 music is improvised or spin-offs of songs in their catalog – which is surprisingly small).

Stay tuned to IRC for artist profiles, YouTube video performances from Langerado 2008, MP3s, blog reviews, photo galleries and more.

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Bamboozle Festival 2008 Lineups, Tickets and the U.S. Roadshow

Posted on 02/28/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

In the chatter and noise about Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lolla and other major festivals, it’s easy for the ‘other fests’ of 2008 to get lost in the crowd.

Hopefully not taking their name too seriously, promoters of the Bamboozle Festival, both east and west, have finalized the lineups, dates and ticket sales information for each festival.

Jimmy Eat World, Panic at the Disco, Alesana, MXPX, Motion City Soundtrack, Phantom Planet, Bret Michaels, Academy Is…, Red Jumpsuit Apparatuas and nearly two dozen other indie artists and groups playing during the two-day Bamboozle Festival in East Rutherford, New Jersey, May 3-4, 2008.

Here’s the lineup, ticket details and videos from Bamboozle East Festival 2007. (Bamboozle West post coming soon)

MP3s from Bamboozle East Performers:

Jimmy Eat World – Praise a Chorus (mp3)

Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me (mp3)

Phantom Planet – The Happy Ending (mp3)

Here’s Phantom Planet’s music video for “California”:

Bamboozle has a Roadshow tour traveling around the continental United States as well, but the lineup is no where close to the festivals.

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Still No Lineup for Lollapalooza 2008; Wait Game and Rumors Might Kill Ticket Sales

Posted on 02/26/200812/18/2019 by Max Hammer

For months now, festival and music lovers, bloggers, musicians and the mainstream media have speculated, floated rumors, predicted and even made false ‘confirmations’ about 2008’s Lollapalooza’s lineup. Rumored artists include Black Lips, Bloc Party and MGMT.

Bottom line: There has not been one artist or group confirmed for the Chicago-based festival in 2008 by Lollapalooza organizers.

Apparently, part of the reason for the delay is to keep ‘the buzz’ going to help sell tickets (when they go on sale) and to try to drown out all the chatter surrounding many other music festivals this year, two of which are new festivals for 2008: Rothbury (more on that later) and Coachella East (aka APW).

Radiohead will headline two of the three nights of Coachella East, so that should be amazing. The fest is being held Aug. 8-10, 2008 at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey.

It is very possible that Lolla organizers’ delay in announcing a lineup could ultimately kill ticket sales, so if the delay is to keep fest goers in suspense to sell more tickets, that strategy may just end up doing the opposite.

Closer Look at Lolla

In 2004, the Lollapalooza music festival tour was canceled due to low ticket sales. Since then, the fest has stopped touring and landed in Chicago for an annual festival.

While Lollapalooza 2007 was considered a come-back of sorts, organizers of the event must be nervous about ticket sales for 2008. What they seem to fail to realize is that the sooner they announce the lineup and ticket sales, music lovers around the country – and world – can start making their plans to go.

On the other hand, and this is not hypothesizing, waiting much longer than the end of February to announce the lineup – or even a headliner tease – means that many people will either make plans to go to another music festival (some already have), or just forget it altogether (others have already done this).

Nevertheless, the rumors and speculation continue (when the lineup is announced, it will be published here first).

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