Rachel Hamilton and Allison Vasallo share some vegan food.
Showing posts with label Musical ensemble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Musical ensemble. Show all posts
Monday, October 11, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Local music scene.
While roaming the shadows on Kirkwood the other night my ears picked up on a sound that drew me out from the back alleys of B-town into the streetlights and towards the sidewalk stage in front of Soma's. It was the sounds being made by a fresh young band from Nashville, TN that call themselves the Young Republic. The dancing guy in the video is a local homeless man who lost all of his toes on both feet to frost bite while living on the streets during the cold winters here in B-town. None the less, neither a lack of appendages nor a lack of a home can keep him from dancing a jig to the folksy sounds of these kids from Nashville.
The Young Republic is a Nashville quintet, schooled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and signed in Europe to End Of The Road Records. Since 2004, these highly skilled musicians have been praised by the likes of Mojo Magazine, The BBC and The Guardian for their extraordinary take on American Music. Classical training blends into a love of jazz, blues and folk and is all packaged in one hell of a rock n' roll band. Their new album Balletesque explores all the aforementioned territory and at points goes beyond to something unique to the group itself. Nashville players with conservatory training and a rock n' roll heart, The Young Republic is a band not to be missed.
Visit their website at theyoungrepublic.net to download free tracks of their music and to find out more about the band and tour dates!
Monday, September 6, 2010
Music News.
Music new's for today...
Some of today's headlines are...
'Burning Man' Festival's Big Finish
Associated Press • Sep. 06, 2010. 02:29 AM EST
More than 50-thousand people gathered in the desert in northern Nevada for the climax of the annual "Burning Man."
Associated Press • Sep. 06, 2010. 02:29 AM EST
More than 50-thousand people gathered in the desert in northern Nevada for the climax of the annual "Burning Man."
U2 Meet With Turkish PM
Associated Press • Sep. 06, 2010. 11:50 AM EST
Irish band U2 met with the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a visit to the Bosphorous Bridge.
Associated Press • Sep. 06, 2010. 11:50 AM EST
Irish band U2 met with the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a visit to the Bosphorous Bridge.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
One Web Day - NYC 2008
"OneWebDay - a global annual event that celebrates,and draws attention to threats to, the internet - is held every September 22. In 2008 this was a Monday - a breezy pleasant day as we gathered in NYC's Washington Sq.Park, The many illustrious speakers had to compete with occasional rumbles from nearby workers reconstructing the fountain. The OneWebDay theme this year was 'Democracy and Participation'."
"He's hunched over the monitors on the sticky black-smeared floors of Siberia, holding his video camera, as vocals and guitars scream out. He lurks in the shadows at the Knitting Factory, hastily gathering footage of the Ex. He's behind you at the Siren Festival during the Liars' set, with his lens looming over your shoulder, jumping from left to right between the masses of heads and shoulders. And there he is—that elderly white guy with the knotted and gray Rastafarian dreadlocks, the same ratty green T-shirt and worn pants, and bare feet at Northsix, comfortable and patient with a huge smile on his face as Deerhoof play their gloriously disjointed art-rock and roll."
"The man with the cam is Joly MacFie, a 52-year-old English expatriate whose website, punkcast.com, is the well from which NYC TV's New York Noise, a new weekly program on basic cable available in all five boroughs, draws its riches. The show focuses predominantly on New York bands, and on November 1 the program will air exclusive video footage of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ("Yeah! New York" and "Kiss Kiss"), Ari-Up and the New Crew ("Don't Say Nothing"), and Oneida ("Privilege"), among others.
MacFie's been posting bands on his website since 1997, and shooting them himself since 2000. His ubiquitous presence has turned him into a fixture of the indie scene: He's at practically every show worth the admission price, and his catalog proves it. Punkcast.com boasts hours of digital video footage of local, national, and international touring acts. The site's impressive show roster either stirs up fond reminiscences or utter regret: the Seconds, UK Subs, Japanther, Agnostic Front, X27, the Hissyfits, Touchdown, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Khan and Kid Congo, and Kimya Dawson are among many featured artists. He has filmed everywhere from the hippest lofts, spaces, and cafés in Williamsburg (Right Bank, Publick House) to rock clubs—including some (Coney Island High, the Wetlands, Brownies) long gone.
A cynical person might judge MacFie a scheming parasite who lives off other people's work, or figure he's simply a hermit with too much time on his hands, hoarding video footage to swap with wire-rimmed college twerps and hipster merch junkies. He's neither. He doesn't collect the videos he makes, and he sells them back to bands at a mere $2. (He offers them on his website for $4, and his cost of labor is $1 per video CD.) The truth is he's a catalyst, a one-man street team. Not to mention just as much of a punk rocker as his video subjects, shirking copyright infringement issues in a time when the recording industry sues 12-year-old girls for using Kazaa. Yet despite this age of digital-piracy crackdowns, MacFie has no worries, and insists that not a single band has copyright issues with him."
""It's incredible what you can do with a good digital camera," MacFie excitedly begins, departing from his usually soft-spoken and quiet English demeanor. "You can take something that would have been mundane and forgotten and turn it into something powerful.""
Local Music Mix.
A play list of live performances of some great bands jamming around B-town!
Some of these performances are real old school classics at well known local venues such as the "Art Hospital" and "Landlocked Music" to name just a couple, while others were recorded at some really hot fresh venues such as "Rachael's Cafe". Enjoy!
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