Every town has its bar band that packs in the crowds on Saturday nights, but few towns have a draw like Minneapolis’ group, The Feelin Band, and what they can produce, wrapped up in a good time. A four-piece band, made up of a regional music veterans, has a sound that is as varied as… Continue reading Nicholas Mrozinski Wants You to Get the Feelin
Every time I write about these boys, I somehow slip into my hill country roots and all sorts of mountainisms start coming out of my mouth. I guess it’s because I get caught up in the theater of the band and the fact that they don’t take anything seriously—except their music. You can’t believe a… Continue reading North Dakota's Legionnaires: Get the Fever
Despite two evenings devastated by severe thunderstorms and even hail, the 2008 Wakarusa Festival held at Clinton Lake, Kansas powered through it all and still provided its attendees a great weekend of music, camping, and all around good times. Things started off on Thursday already gloomy. As concert goers began to arrive they were greeted… Continue reading A Wet and Windy Wakarusa 2008
For classical composer Lee Johnson, tackling the work of the Grateful Dead was like discovering the musical foundations of a new foreign country. Johnson is known for his concert pieces, choral works, short operas and musicals, planetarium soundtracks, and solo/ensemble pieces that cross into jazz and big band music. Some of these disparate elements also… Continue reading Behind the Dead Symphony: A Look at Lee Johnson's Great Opus
Today’s review is a show readily available for download at the Live Music Archive, 7/29/88, at the Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey California. This was the first of a three show run at Laguna Seca, and in my opinion the best of the three. I chose this show mainly because of the extremely high quality… Continue reading Joby Goob's Retro Reviews (7/29/1988, Laguna Seca)
Composer and philanthropist Peter Buffett and international star Akon announced today the beginning of their musical collaboration and the launch of a new social action and resource website, IsThereSomethingICanDo.com. Akon added vocals and remixed Buffett’s song “Anything,” from his 2007 album ‘Staring At The Sun.’ Starting today, the track is available for free download at… Continue reading Peter Buffett & Akon Announce Musical Collaboration
Sure, the bands may be old and the music not quite up to date by the standards of today’s young teens and adults, but Chicago and The Doobie Brothers showed that even in the millennium they can still draw in a crowd. Wednesday nights show at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater didn’t quite sell out, though the… Continue reading Chicago and The Doobies Still Smokin It Up
After proving a highlight at Coachella this year, internationally acclaimed Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello performs today at Bonnaroo on Saturday, June 14 at 4:00 PM on the Which Stage. Come see why Q Magazine calls Eugene Hutz, “a great performer of our times,” with what the New York Press is calling “a band that everyone… Continue reading Gogol Bordello Gears Up For Bonnaroo
