Good news for Pink Floyd fans. The band is readying a box set collecting their entire studio output. The set is going to be limited to 10,000 copies, and US fans will have to buy it as an import. Suggest retail price: $250. Ah, the regurgitation of the band’s catalog yet again will certainly send a few cash registers ringing, I’m sure.
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Having had the good fortune to speak to The Cult’s lead singer, Ian Astbury, earlier this afternoon (I’d originally been scheduled to talk with guitarist Billy Duffy, but, what, like talking to Astbury instead is complaint-worthy?), I thought I’d favor ESDM’s readers with a video from the album he declares to be his favorite of all the band’s works. As is so often the case, it turned out to be one of their least successful, but one should always be true to oneself. I mean, the label won’t buy into it, but, still, you’ll feel better in the long run.
Dave Matthews Band fans are still in full force, especially among college age kids. But recently the US Army beat out more than 100 colleges to win the World’s Largest Pep Rally contest, bringing DMB in for a pair of shows for the Army cadets next month.
The second annual Rock To Roll charity event spearheaded by SideOneDummy Records is set for December 11 at the Avalon Theatre in Hollywood. Headlining the event will be Flogging Molly and Bouncing Souls. Rock To Roll benefits Wheels For Humanity, which provides increased self-sufficiency and mobility to people with disabilities throughout the world.
After a four-year hiatus, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are back with their Hometown Throwdown again, which will be held in Boston at The Middle East from December 26 to December 30 (five shows). Unannounced special guests will also be on hand, and the band has said that you never know who is going to show up.
San Diego band My American Heart spent this past summer on the Vans Warped Tour and hit the road again last night for its Pure Volume/Rise From The Ashes club tour in support of their latest album, Hiding Inside The Horrible Weather. Here are the confirmed Continue reading »
Picture the Lightning Seeds if they covered a Buzzcocks record. Can U Dig it?
Most of the time, the Man About MySpace is at your service to find great new bands for the sampling. Today’s blog, however, offers a tip of the cap to a phenomenal fan site, Neville Tracks.
See, few families in America have put out solid music output for as many decades as the Nevilles, starting with keyboardist Art in the 1950s when New Orleans R&B was a national phenomenon. One could argue for Clan Cole (Nat & Natalie) or the Jacksons or (most legimiately) the Nevilles’ New Orleanian colleagues the Marsalises (patron Ellis teaches at Tulane and still records, and sons Wynton, Branford, Delfeayo and Jason have all released good and sometimes great recordings for the better part of 30 years), but the Nevilles pop up everywhere, from the pop to the soul to the rock to the world music charts.
And there’s not just the brothers Art, Aaron, Cyril and Charles. There’s Aaron’s son Ivan, a veteran who played with Keith Richards and the Stones, a member of the current Neville Brothers band, and leader of the edgy funk band Dumpstaphunk. There’s Charmaine, Charles’ daughter, whose jazzy world-beat club act is a party wherever it alights.
If you enjoy the Bros., try dipping into the next generation.
But wait, there’s more: Art’s group The Meters added a great Big Easy vibe to straight up funk and whose early-’70s records set the blueprint for the Neville Brothers sound as well as a thousand jam-band acolytes. The Meters’ grooves, today, still sound fresh and creative. Can’t say that about a lot of the dinosaurs from funk’s heyday, enjoyable as they are to spin.
Neville Tracks does its best to track the family’s in-print recordings as well as tour dates. Not an easy job after Katrina forced scattered the family throughout several states. But they persist, and so do the superfans who power this MySpace.
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