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Mike Montrey Band Releases Live Studio Album "Weaving The Basket"
A stifling, infectious infirmity is running rampant under pop culture's slate gray clouds. A society—and modern music industry—that pretends to nurture the creative spirit actually forces an ideal: that to produce products and sell the results is the only acceptable form of creative exchange. For its upcoming double album, Mike Montrey Band (The MMB) reach back ...
Halloween 2010, Atlantic City, NJ: Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
by C. Michael Bailey
Phish Halloween 2010, Atlantic City, NJ: Little Feat—Waiting For Columbus Self Produced 2010 Phish's “Musical Costumes" fully hit their stride with 2009's Halloween cover of the Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street (Rolling Stones, 1972). That show was the first Halloween “Musical Costume" show since 1998's cover of The Velvet ...
Phish: 10.31.09 Festival 8: Indio, California
by C. Michael Bailey
In 1994, Phish inaugurated the practice of covering a famous classic rock album as the second of three sets making up its Halloween concerts. The band termed these concerts its “musical costumes." The first classic recording it chose to honor was The Beatles' White Album (Apple, 1968). Since that time, Phish has honored, in 1995, The ...
Becca Stevens Band: Weightless
by C. Michael Bailey
There is an artistic point where Jacqui Sutton (Billie & Dolly (Toy Blue Typewriter Productions, 2010)), Gretchen Parlato (The Lost and Found (ObliqSound, 2011)) and Norah Jones (Feels Like Home (Blue Note Records, 2004)) intersect, giving rise to Becca Stevens, whose creative arc gains traction in a direction different from, but informed by, those singers. By ...
Phish: Alpine Valley 2010
by Doug Collette
PhishAlpine Valley 2010Jemp2010 During the online pre-order period for Alpine Valley 2010, a full-length, remastered compilation of selected performances from the quartet's previous appearances at the scenic Wisconsin venue was available. Hearing that disc, however, only reaffirms what the two DVDs and two CDs in this box-set suggest ...
Phish: Coral Sky
by Doug Collette
PhishCoral SkyJemp2010 What's most striking at the outset of Phish's Coral Sky DVD is how much the band's presentation here, in November 1996, is so remarkably similar to the sound and vision of the Vermont-based jamband since its reunion in 2009. From the sight of drummer Jon ...
The Majestic “Return” of King Sunny Ade & His African Beats
by Chris May
King Sunny AdeBaba Mo TundeIndigeDisc2010 A leading exponent of Nigerian juju music since the late 1970s, and in 2010 still the most sought after live artist for expatriate Nigerians in Europe and north America, vocalist and guitarist King Sunny Ade once rivalled Afrobeat's Fela Kuti and Zairean rumba's ...
Variations on a Theme: Perspectives on Fan Relationships
by Brian Camelio
Something I've learned since starting ArtistShare is that the new “music business" is not so much a business but a platform for creating bonds between the artist and the fan. From that bond, fans will show their appreciation for the music in various ways which may include a purchase of some kind but also may not. ...
The Return of the King: King Sunny Ade Releases First Studio Album in Ten Years
The Return of the King: The Traffic-Stopping, Hip-Shaking Wisdom of King Sunny Ade is Back on Baba Mo Tunde, His First Studio Album in a Decade King Sunny Ade is global groove royalty whose six-hour sets and butt-shaking beats are notorious from his native Nigeria to Nashville and Nagasaki. And now the master is back with ...
Phish Live Summer 2010: Back to Back at SPAC
by Doug Collette
PhishSaratoga Performing Arts CenterSaratoga Springs, New YorkJune 19 & June 20, 2010 Early in their second set on June 19th in Saratoge, Phish played “Free," one of a number vintage tunes offered that night interspersed with the occasional newer tune such as “Joy." But the ringing guitar refrain combined with ...
