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News: Performance / Tour

Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform at Sellersville (PA) Theater

July 15, 2012

Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr. - along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco - is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Friday, August 3, 2012. Their latest release (and Alligator Records debut) is the Grammy Award-winning CD, Lay Your Burden Down. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Camden, NJ

July 13, 2012

"Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics...propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances." — The New York Times Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr. - along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco - is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana ...

News: Recording

Daren Burns Releases First Solo Album "Fear Is Not The Natural State Of Civilized People” On Urban Nerds Records, Features Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.

July 10, 2012

Bassist, composer and educator Daren Burns (John “Drumbo” French of Captain Beefheart) has released Fear is not the Natural State of Civilized People, on Urban Nerds Records, a label Burns founded in 2009. Burns’ first solo album of original instrumental material, this intense and expressive 4-part suite realizes a creative path that began in 2006. The ...

Article: Live Review

Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra at the Norfolk And Norwich Festival 2012

by Bruce Lindsay
June 13, 2012

Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A OrchestraTheatre Royal Norfolk And Norwich FestivalNorwich, UKMay 26, 2012It only took a quick glance at the stage to confirm that this was to be no ordinary jazz gig: Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra doesn't do ordinary. Dammers, leader and keyboard player of '70s ska band The Specials, ...

News: Recording

Rare TV Performances By Capt. Beefheart And His Magic Band "The Lost Broadcasts" To Be Released On DVD

June 8, 2012

London, UK: Don Van Vliet, (1941-2010) better known to his legions of fans as Captain Beefheart was one of the most enigmatic figures in rock music. Unashamedly an artist, rather than a pop star, he forged his own idiosyncratic furrow through popular culture, producing some of the most innovative and uncompromising music ever committed to recording ...

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Article: Album Review

Sylvain Rifflet: Alphabet

Read "Alphabet" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 2, 2012

There is no suitable title for French composer/reed player Sylvain Rifflet's uartet other than Alphabet, a name that begins to describe the rich contemporary language of this unique quartet. Rifflet mixes influences, from Tom Waits' use of junk percussive instruments and Captain Beefheart's anarchistic sound collages to the sound designs of film composer Cliff Martinez (known ...

Article: Live From New York

Live From The Allen Room: Thurston Moore, tUnE-yArDs, John Mayall & John Hammond

by Martin Longley
March 10, 2012

Thurston Moore The Allen Room February 2, 2012 It's impossible to escape the aura of respectable tradition that surrounds Lincoln Center's annual American Songbook series. The very concept evokes an established Broadway-and-beyond form that lies at the heart of U.S. popular music. The majority of the artists presented in ...

News: Performance / Tour

Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in New Hope March 1

February 6, 2012

Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr.—along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco—is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform at The New Hope Winery in New Hope on Thursday, March 1, 2012. Their latest release (and Alligator Records debut) is the Grammy Award-winning CD, Lay Your Burden Down. This is ...

News: Recording

Zappa Family Trust to Release Beefheart's Bat Chain Puller

January 28, 2012

RELEASE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW; SHIPPING PLANNED FOR WEEK OF FEBRUARY 13 The Zappa Family Trust is for the first time ever making the legendary Captain Beefheart album Bat Chain Puller available in its original format. Recording for the album began in 1976 and was completed but was never released on Frank Zappa's label that Beefheart ...

News: Performance / Tour

Grammy Award Winning Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Wilmington

January 25, 2012

Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr.—along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco—is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform at World Cafe Live at The Queen in Wilmington on Monday, February 27, 2012. Their latest release (and Alligator Records debut) is the Grammy Award-winning CD, Lay Your Burden Down. This ...