When I walked into the Fox Theatre last Tuesday night through the crowd of longhaired, indignant teenagers, would-be revolutionaries and otherwise strongly opinionated young people, the building fairly stank of angst and attitude. The cause: Rose Hill Drive was celebrating the release of their second studio album, “Moon is the New Earth,” and it attracted… Continue reading Rose Hill Drive Hosts CD Release Party at the Fox Theater
Grateful Web’s Aaron Dietrich was in attendance at Friday night’s Ratdog/Gov’t Mule show in Eugene, Oregon. Here are some pictures from the show. Aaron also was at Saturday night’s Seattle show, so check back soon for those pictures. Once again, we cannot thank Dennis McNally enough for his wonderful hospitality. Enjoy, The Grateful Web
On June 10, a new pop album dropped on the US music scene. It is the culmination of four years of writing, travel, and soul searching by 24-year-old Alex Deep. It’s a sophisticated offering for a young musician born into an Italian family in Venezuela. The concept album is a reaction to Deep’s struggle to… Continue reading Merlinmoon: A New Concept
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
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)
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
If there is a better party band than Ozomatli out there, then I would love to hear them. I wasn’t invited to the party at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas on May 30th, so I had to crash it. I openly admit to not paying for a big name concert in about 5… Continue reading An Ozomatli Show is Worth Paying For
Culture, like nature, evolves. Old ideas are made better, and become new ideas. Splits are made between schools of thought, and each side develops into something distinct from the other, even though both are the recognizable progeny of the previous generations. The growth of music over the last hundred years is perhaps one of the… Continue reading The New Deal, Products of Evolution
