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Cover Alert: Scarecrow Collection – Don’t Let Me Down

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Last month we reported on the new lineup for former Blips act Scarecrow Collection. The new version of the band has played a number of shows in May and we’ve been impressed with what we’ve heard. Back on Tuesday night SC performed at Van Gogh’s Ear Cafe in Union, New Jersey and delivered a Beatles cover we enjoyed.

The Beatles issued Don’t Let Me Down on Let It Be in 1970. It’s since been covered by many bands, including Scarecrow Collection who offered their version of the tune on Tuesday. Take a look…

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Full Show Friday: Black Crowes w/ Marc Ford – London ’96

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[Originally Published: April 12, 2013]

Arguably, the best Black Crowes lineup of all-time was the one that held together for most of the ’90s in which drummer Steve Gorman, keyboardist Eddie Harsch, bassist Johnny Colt and guitarist Marc Ford augmented the Brothers Robinson. Ford’s tone and Harsch’s versatility fit Chris and Rich’s music so well while no one has held down the drummer’s seat in The Black Crowes like Steve Gorman.

For this week’s Full Show Friday, we take a look at a classic Black Crowes performance from November 19th, 1996 at the Astoria Theater in London featuring that incredible lineup we mentioned earlier. This show contains a beautiful acoustic section and hard-hitting electric segments. Among the highlights are a blistering take on Wiser Time, Chris stopping the show during Gone to berate a fan who threw a beer at him, a gorgeous acoustic version of Torn and Frayed and a let-it-all-hang-out Remedy closer.

Set: Nebakanezer, Downtown Money Waster -> Share The Ride -> Gone*, Feathers,  Black Moon Jam -> Black Moon Creeping, Wiser Time -> Ballad In Urgency, Girl From The North Country, Under A Mountain, Thorn In My Pride

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Jealous Again (acoustic), Thunderstorm 6:54 PM (acoustic), Torn And Frayed (acoustic), Good Friday (acoustic), She Talks To Angels (acoustic), Blackberry, Mr Spaceman, Remedy

* – A beer from the crowd hit Chris during Gone causing a slight interruption

[Setlist via CrowesBase]

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Picture Show: Equifunk Presents – The M&Ms

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This past Thursday night saw the debut of The M&Ms, a new supergroup featuring guitarist Papa Mali (7 Walkers), bassist Rob Mercurio (Galactic), drummer Stanton Moore (Galactic) and keyboardist John Medeski (MMW) at (le) poisson rouge in New York City. The concert was put together by Equifunk organizers, who will bring The M&Ms to Equifunk 2013 this August.

[All Photos by Dino Perrucci]

Photographer Dino Perrucci was on hand for Thursday’s show and has filed these stunning shots…

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Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Hootie & The Old Crowfish

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While modern country music is easily one of the most popular, if not the most popular genre of music going today, it’s not something that we give much press to around these parts. So you’ll have to forgive us if we’re a little late to the party on finding out the fact that Darius Rucker has been burning up the country music charts with his cover of Old Crow Medicine Show’s signature tune Wagon Wheel. Rucker, who came to fame with as the front man for Hootie & The Blowfish, has been making country music records since 2008 – and is arguably having one of the best second acts of a career that we can remember in quite some time.

Rucker has been fully embraced by country fans since the release of his debut Learn To Live, which spawned three number one singles on its way to being certified platinum for sales of over a million copies. A year later he was named Best New Artist of the Year by the Country Music Association, which also marked the first time an African-American had won the award since it was introduced in 1981.

Rucker got the inspiration to cover the Old Crow via Bob Dylan song, when he heard the faculty band at his daughter’s school playing it. The tune, which he turned into a 1950′s country-influenced song, appears on his recently released record True Believers and features assistance from the folks in Lady Antebellum. Rucker has sold 1.2 million copies of his take since the beginning of April – making it the most successful song of his young country music career. Let’s check out the video…

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Stormy Mondays: Live Percy Hill – 2000

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Back in the late ’90s and early ’00s, New Hampshire’s own Percy Hill was a band to reckoned with. Their album Color in Bloom is still seen as the untouched gold standard for a jamband album, capturing amazing songwriting and lyrics, fantastic production and instrumentation, and the ineffable energy and sparkle that makes the very best stand out and stand up to the test of time. But PH’s live show was even better, simply by virtue of taking what was best on the album and adding more and more. More tight breaks through complex songs, more open, group mind improvisation. More thrilling keys from Nate Wilson, more loping bass-lines from John Lecesse, more stunning guitar work from Joe Farrell, and more creative, compelling drumming from Aaron Katz.

This week’s Ghosts of Jambands Past episode features a sample of PH at the height of its improv powers. From January 15th, 2000 at Union College, my favorite single show, we start with the opening Earth Slow, which is really just a named version of the Geminatrix jam that was played for a series of shows around this time, a deeply grooved, trancy instrumental that took a variety of forms in different setting. It’s pretty mesmerizing right from the start – fans of ’98 Phish jams, be prepared for a treat.

The bulk of the music, though, comes from the second set, with a suite of Rush Hour Traffic > the instrumental Casa de Vino > Light Up or Leave Me Alone > Rush Hour Traffic. Here you get a great sample of everything the band did best, from the killer songwriting and free but focused improv of Rush Hour to the bright, slick shimmy of Casa, to the driving tour de force that is Light Up – this is my all-time favorite version of the song from any band. This one bears big speakers and repeated listens. As always, enjoy!

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Picture Show: Hangout Music Fest 2013 – Trey Anastasio, Stevie Wonder, Kings Of Leon, Bassnectar, Umphrey’s McGee

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From May 17 – 20, event founder Shaul Zislin and his team brought a wide range of rock acts to the sandy beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama for the fourth annual Hangout Music Fest. With a lineup featuring Umphrey’s McGee, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Stevie Wonder, Bassnectar, the Trey Anastasio Band and Kings of Leon, the 2013 installment of the Hangout Music Fest sold out.

[All Photos by Dave Vann]

Photographer Dave Vann was on hand for all four days of Hangout ’13 and has shared over 100 stunning photos from the event with us. Take a look at this gallery which features all of the aforementioned bands as well as Future Rock, Conspirator, Railroad Earth, Galactic, The Black Crowes, Galactic, The Roots and Gov’t Mule and many other acts. Plus, there’s plenty of shots showing off the scene at what’s become one of the country’s top music festivals.

Here’s the full gallery of Dave Vann’s shots from the Hangout Music Fest…

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Video: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Green Onions

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HT faves Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers just completed a five-show residency at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, where they busted out tons of deep cuts and long-lost covers. Included among the covers was a take on the Booker T. and the MG’s classic Green Onions.

As I mentioned in my review, Green Onions gave keyboardist Benmont Tench a chance to shine and he didn’t disappoint. Here’s an exceptional video of the cover shot by LazyLightning55…

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Review and Photos: Boston Calling Music Festival

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Boston Calling @ City Hall Plaza – May 25 and 26

Words: Andrew Bruss (Day One) and Benjamin Tan (Day Two)
Photos: Andrew Bruss

Day One – May 25 – by Andrew Bruss

Everything about the first day of the Boston Calling Music Festival was Boston Strong. Not a lot of audiences will stand in front of an outdoor stage for 10 hours straight in rainy 40-degree weather but this crowd did. Mayor Thomas Menino took the stage to give the event his blessing and while there is nothing unusual about a mayor this, doing so on crutches with a broken leg at the ripe young age of 70 was both a symbol of strength and a flooding endorsement of the event. And while the show was all about the music, by the time Fun. took the stage, the Boston Bruins had effectively eliminated the New York Rangers from the Stanley Cup Playoffs just a stones throw up the road at the TD Garden and this helped hype up a 19,000 strong crowd that didn’t need a lot of nudging in that regard.

[All Photos by Andrew Bruss]

With two stages set up in City Hall Plaza, the event hosted a single performer at a time while the other stage allowed the next artist to set up and sound check. The first act of the day to really blow people away were the Brooklyn based drum/keys duo, Matt & Kim. Before they even took the stage, the crowd dove head first into an epic sing-along of Weezer’s Beverly Hills courtesy of a well-programmed PA broadcast. Matt & Kim greeted a cold and amped up audience that had to have been the first to go crowd surfing in City Hall Plaza. While the duo’s minimalistic, hard hitting drums and multilayered digital accompaniments are the trademark that found them on the bill, what everyone will remember from this performance was the energy directed towards the stage from the crowd and vice versa. The Brooklynites commented that the two of them are actually native New Englanders and in their many travels, had concluded that only in New England will a band find a crowd so happy to be in front of a stage in the near-freezing rain.

Following Matt & Kim’s main stage performance, Portugal. The Man kicked off a 45 minute set on the smaller City Hall Stage that will take time to fully process and evaluate. My instincts is to call them a psychedelic leaning Umphrey’s-esque jam act with a heavy, brooding Black Sabbath underbelly, but their genre-defying sound is so resistant to being labeled, a room full of music journalists could spend a long weekend camped around a pair of speakers trying to decide how best to describe them in print.

[Thomas Menino]

While Portugal. The Man was dropping jaws on the smaller of the two stages, James Mercer and his current incarnation of The Shins were getting ready to deliver one of the most anticipated sets of the day on the main stage. The Shins may have been the biggest band on the bill, even more established than the evening’s headliner, but by the end of their set it was clear they just weren’t the right band at the right time. People were cold and tired, so high-energy acts feeding off the dedication of ticketholders is what kept the audience on their feet thus far. Mercer and Co. deliver a mellow brand of rock tunes that sound great over a joint amongst friends in a dorm room, but it wasn’t what the audience needed to stay engaged. Plenty of people were seen taking advantage of the event’s re-entry policy and caught some of the hockey game between The Shins set and Fun.’s show-closing performance.

After dark, Fun. hit the stage to what they called the largest audience of their career, and played until curfew. Radio hits like We Are Young and Carry On received predictable sing-alongs and a sloppy, impromptu cover of Paul Simon’s Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard was sure to have won over many of the parents in the audience who withstood the day’s cold weather and unfamiliar performances with something they could connect to.

Before The Shins took the stage, Mayor “Mumbles” Menino came out to tell the crowd he had his doubts about the festival when it first came to his attention. The City of Boston, after all, is very good at saying no to things, which is a large part of the reason this is the first event of its kind to take place within the city limits. But he expressed confidence in the kids in the greater Boston-area to keep their cool and make a good opportunity into a really great thing. His confidence was rewarded as the relatively young audience played nice and had a blast.

Day Two – May 26 – by Benjamin Tan

Boston Calling’s audience quite literally weathered a storm on the first day, and entered the festival’s second day with equal enthusiasm and sunny skies. Boston natives Caspian dared to kick things off with a mostly instrumental set, but impressed the gathered fans with a multi-layered, four guitar blast. Youth Lagoon’s Trevor Powers garnered a following with carnival-like keyboards and piercing vocals, backed with precision by guitar, bass, and drums.

The audience started to grow seemingly exponentially, and Dirty Projectors wowed the crowd with unconventional but powerful three-part female vocals throughout its set. Despite touting two Les Paul guitars, the band played them somewhat sparsely, instead singing over the minimal bass and drums. Dirty Projectors has two great lead singers in the wailing Amber Coffman and the Bowie-like vocals of Dave Longstreth. Ra Ra Riot delivered some appropriately rapid and hectic songs, reminiscent of New Wave with some quirky but perfectly utilized strings alongside the warm synthesizer. The tempo slowed for Shadowcasting, but the song had a different kind of intensity and beauty, with heavy, busy and melodic bass from Mathieu Santos and great singing from Wes Miles.

In a testament to The Walkmen’s years of stellar live shows, The National’s Matt Berninger told a crowd of hundreds, “The Walkmen in many ways kicked our ass and made us a better band.” Earlier in the day The Walkmen rocked the main stage with its bluesy grooves played on vintage instruments – a powerful combination of muddy guitars and drums and soaring keyboards that front-man Hamilton Leithauser nonetheless towers over with every precisely-sung high note.

After The Walkmen’s raucous set began the more quiet, quirky, and truly unique showmanship of Andrew Bird. He performed his first song, Hole In The Ocean Floor, without his band – singing and whistling while surrounded by loops of himself strumming and bowing his violin. The band came out for A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left, with Bird’s electric guitar and Martin Dosh’s busy drumming adding additional layers to the four-man ensemble’s sound.

The festival not only hosted major-venue veterans, shining equal spotlights on up-and-coming acts touring their debut albums. But these newer bands held their own alongside established acts like The National, Andrew Bird and The Walkmen, proving to be just as worthy of Boston Calling’s enormous audience.

Of Monsters and Men played an upbeat, energetic set anchored by the huge hits Little Talks and Mountain Sound, with a trumpet and accordion bringing grand fanfare to the songs. The band also sold the crowd on lesser known album cuts that are just as melodic, driving and endearing. Between the main stage’s two final bands, Young The Giant worked the smaller stage with a mighty presence. Front man Sameer Gadhia has a great voice and amazing control of it, and stands alongside The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser as one of the mightiest rock singers onstage.

By the time The National took the stage, more people crowded around the main stage than ever before on Sunday. The band’s triumphant headlining performance came at the perfect time: days after the release of their latest album Trouble Will Find Me, and right as the documentary Mistaken For Strangers is on its own festival circuit. The band still performed with its distinct combination of Joy Division influence and hectic but virtuosic drumming, with a trumpet and trombone adding mellow flourishes to the band’s sad but beautiful melodies. But the circumstances of the event amplified the National’s music to a greater scale.

Songs like Bloodbuzz Ohio, Mr. November and the brilliantly polyrhythmic Fake Empire became the crowd-surfing, sing-a-long finales to an epic inaugural festival that came right when Boston needed it most. The crowd, along with the band’s role in organizing the festival, rewarded the National with something the previous acts were unable to deliver: an encore set.

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Page McConnell And The Meter Men To Make Burlington Debut

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Ever since last October Phish keyboardist Page McConnell has played a number of gigs with The Meter Men, but the quartet has never ventured to the city that birthed McConnell’s career – Burlington, Vermont. That will change on September 6th, when McConnell, Leo Nocentelli, Zigaboo Modeliste and George Porter Jr. perform at Higher Ground.

Tickets for McConnell and The Meter Men’s Burlington debut go on sale Friday at 11 AM ET. Later that weekend, on Sept. 8th, the quartet will headline this year’s Catskill Chill festival.

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse To Headline Greenbelt Harvest Picnic

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Legendary rocker Neil Young has never hid his love for his home country of Canada and his home province of Ontario. In fact, a track on Young’s latest album with Crazy Horse, Psychedelic Pill, is titled Born In Ontario in which he sings “I was born in Ontario” over and over. On Saturday, August 31, Young and his band will get to perform in Ontario when they headline the Greenbelt Harvest Picnic.

In addition to Neil Young and Crazy Horse, acts set to play Greenbelt Harvest Picnic include Emmylou Harris, Daniel Lanois,  Whitehorse, Rocco DeLuca and Trixie Whitley. More Picnic acts are expected to be announced soon. The Greenbelt Harvest Picnic takes place at Christie Lake Conservation Area in rural Dundas, Ontario.

Tickets for the event go on sale today at 1PM ET via Young’s ticketing site.

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Trey Anastasio To Appear On PBS NewsHour

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Each weeknight since 1975, PBS has aired an evening news program called NewsHour. One week ago today, as Trey Anastasio was in the middle of rehearsals for his performance with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Phish front man sat for an interview that will air soon on PBS NewsHour.

[Photo by @Mike_Melia]

Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown conducted the interview. Prior to the interview, the NewsHour solicited questions for Trey from Phish fans via Facebook. Keep your eyes on HT and producer Mike Melia’s Twitter feed as he’ll keep us posted on when the feature will air.

Alright @ fans. @ sat down w/ @ today for an upcoming piece @. Stay tuned. http://t.co/BpSOaO4Z7n
@mike_melia
Mike Melia
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God Street Wine To Make Brooklyn Bowl Debut

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We were already excited about the return of God Street Wine on August 3rd at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York; but now we’ve got two more GSW gigs to look forward to as Relix has just announced that God Street Wine will play two shows at the website’s publisher Pete Shapiro’s Brooklyn Bowl venue on August 1 and 2.

[Photo by Jeremy Gordon]

Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 31, at 12PM ET. We’re hoping God Street Wine covers Brooklyn by Steely Dan at one of the gigs as three members of the band did back in 2011…

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Technology Tuesday: Streaming TV with Aereo

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You may have heard of the shitstorm that Aereo has stirred up with the big networks and cable providers. Established media never likes technological changes or advances and has a difficult time wrapping their feeble minds around the march of progress. A slew of lawsuits to shut the service down has brought much attention to that company. By now, you may have heard that Aereo is a streaming solution that allows you to watch network TV on a variety of devices – even when you are away from home. You may have also heard that Aereo is your own personal DVR in the cloud.

If you have been curious what Aereo is all about or never heard of it before, this week’s Technology Tuesday is for you. We’ll tell you what makes this service unique, what some of the limitations are and most importantly, help you figure out if it makes sense for you. As more and more people are “cutting the cord” and ditching cable TV, Aereo comes at a perfect time. As a complement to Netflix, Hulu, Roku and other similar services and devices that people utilize to get content, Aereo is definitely worth considering.

What exactly is Aereo? A service that allows you to stream broadcast TV to your computer, tablet or smartphone. Additionally, it allows you to record programs and stores them in the cloud negating the need for your own hard drives or constantly connected devices. Like any DVR, you can pause, rewind and replay live TV without having had the program recorded in advance. Aereo is able to do this by providing each one of their subscribers a miniature antenna (about the size of a dime) that is located in their data center. So when I record or watch a program – it is being streamed to me from “my” antenna. This is how they are able to operate within the letter of the law. There’s nothing to install, nothing to download and nothing that you need except for a browser and an account which starts at $8/month.

Who can subscribe and what channels are available? Currently the service is only available in the New York metropolitan area as well as in limited beta in the Boston metropolitan area. A slew of other cities in major markets are expected to roll out shortly and include Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, Houston and about 20 others. You can view everything you can get “over the air” in your market which always includes the major networks of ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, PBS and Fox.  There’s a bunch of other lesser known networks that include Ion, ThisTV, World, Create, HSN and a handful of others. A full list of available channels is available on the Aereo website. More are expected to be added as well.

Interface and Supported Devices Aereo is only accessed via the web. You can access the web app with most popular browsers including Chrome, Firefox and Opera. On the mobile side, Aereo is also accessed via your browser and not an app. Unfortunately, the only mobile devices currently supported are iPhones and iPads. If you use a mobile browser that allows you to change your “user agent” like Dolphin Browser on Android, you can always access the site that way by spoofing an iPhone. You can watch Aereo on your TV through a Roku channel as well as Apple TV via airplay. You are allowed five authorized devices at a time which allows for use on laptop, desktop, tablet, smartphone and Roku or Apple TV without having to de-authorize one.

The interface itself is beautifully designed and slick, modern, clean and intuitive. It is very reminiscent of Android’s “Holo” design scheme with highlighted underlines, plenty of whitespace and pleasing fonts. Tabs along the top are easy to navigate and display “featured shows”, past recordings, program guide (which has a week’s worth of information), settings, search utility and some social elements.

Once you start watching a show, the previously mostly white page dims to black to highlight the player.You can watch full-screen or browse the guide concurrently. It is a terrific design and has lots of nice touches. For example, when watching a program and clicking the “recordings” tab, your program will pop into a small “picture-in-picture” type display allowing to continue watching and listening.

[Aereo Interface]

DVR In addition to streaming live TV, Aereo also functions as a fully featured DVR. You can pause, rewind and fast-forward live programs. You can also select programs to record as “one time only”, all new episodes (no repeats), or all instances of a program. The recordings are kept on Aereo’s servers and can be played back anytime. The basic membership ($8/mo) allows you 20 hours of recording space while $4 more allows 60 hours. Just like TiVO, you can view your upcoming recordings and set priority levels for each show in case there is overlap. Likewise, when setting up a recording you can schedule additional minutes in the beginning or end (particularly helpful for live sports or other such events).

Does it work? Quality? Not only does it work- it works phenomenally well. Assuming half-decent bandwidth- the video quality is extraordinarily high. There’s nothing resembling video quality of yesteryear coming over rabbit ears. The picture is high-def (up to 720p), crisp and vibrant with audio quality to match. The video loads extremely quickly when selecting either a live show or a recorded one even with the little bit of buffer built in to help with stability. There are three video quality settings that you can chose from or simply leave on “auto-detect”. Just like on the laptop or desktop, the video quality remains high as does the experience on an iPad or iPhone.

[Aereo Recorded Programs]

Drawbacks and Limitations As previously mentioned, there are currently no apps and Aereo is not officially supported on anything other than Apple devices. While you can pin the web shortcut to your homescreen and have it act sort of like an app, it is still a web interface which some people do not prefer verse a full blown app. Also, as previously mentioned this is only available in New York and Boston at the moment. Speaking of markets: you also need to watch Aereo within your designated metropolitan area. In other words, I can watch my local news or sports program while I am at my office but not if I am on vacation in Hawaii. The “Boston” market consists of Eastern MA through Worcester county as well as all of Southern New Hampshire and some of Vermont. New York’s market area is also huge but again, limits you to playback within the confines of that predefined area.

Bottom Line Aereo works amazingly well offering a great design, high quality streaming video and fantastic DVR functionality. It is a very reasonably priced solution at $8/month for those wanting to watch live network TV (and a handful of other stations) and don’t have the need for cable networks. Even with digital antennas, some areas just have a difficult time receiving all the network channels so this might be an option. Likewise, for those who are just light TV users and want the ability to easily watch such things as breaking news stories, Aereo may make sense. Even for those with a full cable package at home, Aereo could be useful for people who would like the ability to watch TV away from home. I’ve really enjoyed using Aereo over the past week and have been impressed with it overall. However, since I already have a Slingbox and TiVO that allows for streaming and watching recorded programs when away from home, I will likely not subscribe once my 30-day trial is up. However, I do love the speed with which I can start streaming (much quicker and more responsive than Slingbox) and the fact that it doesn’t interrupt anyone’s viewing at home like Slingbox does.

Aereo will make sense for many people and like TiVO before it, has the ability to really disrupt the TV industry. It will be interesting to see how this service continues to develop and if it will encounter any future legal roadblocks. If you are in a market that Aereo serves- might as well check out a Free 30-day period to see if this might work for you. If you are not in a currently served market, keep your eye out- Aereo might be there soon!

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(Paging reader “Tallboycan”….did you read last week’s column about Google Music…may want to check it out!)

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Weekly RecommNeds: Kurt Vile / Junip

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Your mind is not your own…

Kurt Vile:  Walkin’ on a Pretty Daze

Pretty daze indeed. I think I’ve listened to this album about a zillion times in the last month. The formula is so simple and yet I can’t come close to describing what it is about Vile’s easy-going, sun-dazed, hypnotic music that’s been treating me like a bag of potato chips that I just can’t put down. These songs don’t necessarily jam but somehow they stretch to 8 or 9 minutes without even trying, sonic bliss the whole way through.  Perhaps I overuse the word “perfect” but this album is definitely worthy of that tag. Hopefully you’ve already been enjoying this one for a while like I have, but if not…

Spotify: Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze
MOG: Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze
Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00BZXM3VA
Rhapsody: Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze

Junip: Junip

Junip is another band whose music is a deceptively simple formula that seems to unfold into a hypnotic, addictive sound. Hailing from Sweden, their music has a unique hum to it, like it was born from the coherent vibrations of a single acoustic guitar string. Around these vibrations rhythms and sparse vocals layer to create something quite unlike anything else out there. If you’ve been listening to these guys for the last couple of years, you know; if not… I bet you can’t eat just one.

Spotify: Junip – Junip
MOG: https://mog.com/m#album/81780973
Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00C3N9J7C
Rhapsody: Junip – Junip

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Elvis Costello & The Roots Album Due In September

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One of the albums we’re most excited about that’s set for a fall release is a collaborative effort from the unlikely pairing of Elvis Costello and The Roots. Both Questlove and Costello have been talking about how great the album came out for the past few months and we’ll finally get to hear the end result when Wise Up Ghost hits stores on September 17.

[Photo by Tamara Weber]

Not only will Wise Up Ghost feature contributions from Elvis and the entire Roots Crew, but La Marisoul, lead singer of the Los Angeles group, La Santa Cecilia appears on the track Cinco Minutos Con Vos. Elvis describes the record as “the shortest distance between here and there” and containing “both rhythm and what is read” in a press release. Meanwhile, Questo states, “It’s a moody, brooding affair, cathartic rhythms and dissonant lullabies. I went stark and dark on the music, Elvis went HAM on some ole Ezra Pound shit.” Bring it on gentlemen! We’ll be on the look out for the first single.

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Cover Alert: Yonder Mountain String Band w/ Roosevelt Collier – Dear Prudence (The Beatles)

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At this past weekend’s Summer Camp Music Festival, jamgrass favorites Yonder Mountain String Band brought out special guest Roosevelt Collier to help them out on a cover of The Beatles’ White Album classic Dear Prudence. There’s one impressive solo after another as YMSB banjoist Dave Johnston takes a turn before ceding to mandolinist Jeff Austin who gives way to an impressive solo by guitarist Adam Aijala. Finally, Roosevelt burns up his lap steel guitar with an energetic frenzy. Take a look…

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Umphrey’s Offers Pro-Shot Video Of Big Gigantic Bright Lights

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While the big story from Umphrey’s McGee’s Friday night set at the Summer Camp Music Festival was that they busted out their cover of moe.’s Rebubula for the first time in 14 years, let’s not forget that Dominic Lalli of Big Gigantic guested on an over-the-top version of Bright Lights, Big City.

Lalli helped direct the jam into a dark and intense jam space that rated high on the danceability scale. Just a few days after the sit-in took place, UM has posted pro-shot video on YouTube…

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Trey Anastasio @ DelFest – Photos, Audio and Video

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This past Friday night Trey Anastasio and his solo band ventured to the Allegany County Fairgrounds in Cumberland, Maryland to play two sets at DelFest. TAB hasn’t welcomed many guests over the years, so the band’s appearance at DelFest was quite unusual in that Del McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, Rob McCoury and Jason Carter sat in with them for two songs towards the start of the second set while the two younger McCourys and Carter also guested on the two-song encore.

[All Photos by Matthew Hebert]

Anastasio has a long history with DelFest host Del McCoury, whom the Phish front man counts as an influence. As Trey explained at the festival, he was introduced to Del’s music from Aquarium Rescue Unit mandolinist Matt Mundy during a tour Phish did with ARU in the early ’90s. Phish started covering Del’s Beauty Of My Dreams in 1997 and then brought the Del McCoury Band to their Camp Oswego festival in 1999. Not only did the Del McCoury Band perform on one of the side stages at Camp Oswego, they also sat in for four songs with Phish during the first set of the July 18, 1999 show at the Oswego County Airport. Del and his boys also guested with Phish at the June 22, 2000 show in Antioch, Tennessee. Even TAB has a history with the Del McCoury Band as the bluegrass legend’s band sat in on three songs at Trey’s February 25, 2010 show.

At DelFest, Del McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, Rob McCoury and Jason Carter emerged after the Gotta Jibboo second set opener for takes on I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome and Beauty Of My Dreams. The encore of Black Dog and Heavy Things featured Ronnie, Rob and Jason. We’ve compiled audio of all the sit-ins thanks to Rob Clarke’s audience recording and have come across a few videos from TAB @ DelFest. Also, we’ll share a batch of photos from the TAB set at DelFest courtesy of Matthew Hebert.

Audio…

Video…

[I'm Blue I'm Lonesome]

[Beauty Of My Dreams]

Setlist…

Set One: Cayman Review, Mozambique, Dark and Down, Drifting, Magilla, Pigtail, Spin, O-o-h Child, Last Tube, Wherever You Find It, Push On Til The Day

Set Two: Gotta Jibboo, I’m Blue I’m Lonesome*^, Beauty Of My Dreams*^, Valentine, Money Love and Change, Clint Eastwood, Sand, The Devil Went Down To Georgia, Let Me Lie, First Tube

Encore: Heavy Things^, Black Dog^

* with Del McCoury
^ with Ronnie McCoury, Rob McCoury and Jason Carter

Photos…

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Fan Offers Testicle To Bruce Springsteen For Song Request

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are currently in the middle of a European Tour that brought them to AWD Arena in Hannover, Germany last night for The Boss’s first-ever show in that city. As he’s done at most shows this tour, Springsteen entered the crowd to collect song requests written on signs held by fans. Thanks to the signs, The Boss and his longtime band have been busting out deep cut originals and covers at an impressive rate on The Wrecking Ball Tour.

At yesterday’s show, Bruce came back to the stage with a sign containing quite an unusual request/offer. Springsteen showed off a sign that said, “I’d give my right testicle to hear Drift Away.” Springsteen responded that he would play the Dobie Gray cover as long as he didn’t have to see the man’s left OR right testicle. He then warned that the band had only played the song a few times (four performances in total since 1984), and didn’t really know Drift Away but that he did want the man to go home with both testicles, so he’d give it a shot.

Video of the hilarious interaction, the version of Drift Away that followed as well as footage of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s first take on Human Touch track Roll Of The Dice since 2005 – both from last night and both played by request – has surfaced. Let’s check it out…

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H.O.R.D.E. To Be Brought Back This Fall

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Last summer marked the 20th anniversary of the first H.O.R.D.E. festival in which Phish, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Widespread Panic, The Spin Doctors and Blues Traveler teamed up to play a bunch of East Coast sheds and arenas. While the occasion passed without the return of the fest, Blues Traveler front man John Popper has been saying a re-worked H.O.R.D.E. is in the works.

Today, an article on Radio.com (as found by Jambands.com) has news about the return of H.O.R.D.E. Apparently Robert Randolph is bringing the event back along with Blues Traveler, Trombone Shorty, John Fogerty and Gary Clark Jr. this fall for 6-7 dates. Randolph goes on to tell Radio.com that a larger version of the traveling festival will take place “in the summer or spring of 2014.”

We were hoping the original bands would all take part in the return of H.O.R.D.E., but we understand that was far fetched. We look forward to seeing what shape H.O.R.D.E. takes later this year.

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