WEEKEND ROUNDUP: LEONARD COHEN & LEON RUSSELL PASS, BOB DYLAN RELEASES MINI-DOCUMENTARY
The week in music was bookended by the deaths of two uniquely talented and somewhat underrated artists, with Leonard Cohen, 82, passing on Monday, and Leon Russell, 74, leaving us on Sunday. Plenty of...
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WEEK 4: BUFFALO, SYRACUSE & A WELCOMING MANHATTAN VENUE AS ‘VAN TOUR’ WRAPS
Tuesday-Back to work After spending most of Monday in bed recovering from the weekend, I woke up at my mom's house on Tuesday in Berwick PA pretty early (8am). After having a quick breakfast, I hit...
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TAYLOR HAWKINS SOLO ALBUM OUT NEXT WEEK; STREAM ‘RANGE ROVER BITCH’
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins' first solo release, "KOTA," will be available Nov. 11. According to a press release: Whatever KOTA means, the six-song mini-LP takes off like Queen on a skateb...
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WEEK 3: DAYTROTTER, CHICAGO, PLAYING WITHOUT A PICK & A WEDDING
Monday and Tuesday: errands and Mid-west bound Nothing too terribly exciting to kick the week off. We all reconvened on Monday to relocate to Denver for the day until we departed to Columbia, MO on...
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THE MENZINGERS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, ‘AFTER THE PARTY,’ DEBUT ‘BAD CATHOLICS’
The Menzingers have announced the Feb. 3 release of their fifth full-length album, "After The Party." The album, produced by Will Yip (Title Fight, Tigers Jaw, Balance and Composure) is the Philadelph...
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WEEKEND ROUNDUP: IGGY POP RELEASES LIVE ALBUM, NEIL YOUNG PLOTS ‘PEACE TRAIL,’ PHIL COLLINS TEAMS WITH THE ROOTS
Iggy Pop's performance on "Austin City Limits," featuring a band including Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal) aired Saturday night on PBS stations, one day after the release o...
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JIM JAMES STREAMS NEW ALBUM ON NPR; TOUR INCLUDES NYC, PHILLY STOPS
My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James' new solo album, "Eternally Even," is streaming in its entirety via NPR's "First Listen Series." The album will be released Nov. 4, and James will kick off a U.S. ...
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WEEK 2: ST. LOUIS, FT. COLLINS & BOULDER, COLORADO
Monday and Tuesday: (one more) rehearsal and travel day Once we returned from Ithaca, we reconvened at Tom's house to squeeze in one more rehearsal before we hit the road to St Louis on Tuesday. Pu...
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WEEK 1: LUNA LIGHT FESTIVAL AND THE HAUNT IN ITHACA
On the days leading up to this tour (or any run of shows for that matter), my days are pretty much spent the exact same way: gathering my things in the most frantic ADD-esque fashion possible. We trav...
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WEEKEND ROUNDUP: ROGER WATERS ANNOUNCES TOUR, MIKE WATT LIVE ALBUM FROM ’95, KATHLEEN HANNA CHATS WITH MEREDITH GRAVES
Billing himself as "the creative genius of Pink Floyd" (he's not wrong), Rogers Waters has announced the "Us +Them" North American tour, which will launch May 26 in Kansas City, Mo., and wrap up Oct. ...
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