Happy Monday, dudes. I went to see Tapes ‘n Tapes with White Denim on Friday night at the Metro, so I’ll have my thoughts from the show up some time today. It was awesome.
In anticipation, make sure you catch up on the past week at LMB and holler at us in the comments if you want to chat. There’s good stuff coming up this week that I’ll be seeing — Yeasayer and Man Man, Rogue Wave at Schubas, The Mars Volta at the Aragon — so I plan to spend a bit of time on the blog and hope to share photos and thoughts as I go. Plus, I’m gearing up for my cross-country move, or Justinpalooza as I’ve been calling it in my head, and I plan on catching Marco Benevento in San Francisco on 5/6. He’s got some other dates booked, too.
- Lollapalooza 2008 | Full Lineup Announced
So Perry Ferrel must not have liked all those little Lollapalooza lineup rumors and leaks from Jim DeRo. He apparently gave the industry reporter a new label: “Pepe Le Pew.” But whatever little drama happened between these two is… - Radiohead Announce Full 2008 Tour Dates
We’ve had a couple piecemeal announcements on this over the past couple months, but I’m happy to see that Radiohead has finally put the finishing touches on their 2008 tour dates (at least, for now). Read on for the full… - Print Tease | The Dirtbombs – Rob Jones
It didn’t take me long to pick out our first Print Tease on its regularly scheduled day. Any fans of the White Stripes or The Raconteurs are sure to be familiar with the artwork of Rob Jones. His fingerprints… - Dirty Projectors & No Kids | Subterranean, Chicago, 4/3/08
Dirty Projectors When a band can leave all of its pretentiousness aside and play a really humble show, it pulls down a wall between the crowd and the band. When two bands do it in the same night, you… - Live Music and Charity
For many of the touring bands that we cover here at Live Music Blog, the fan base is more of a community of people rather than a collection of individuals simply having an interest in common. It was extremely evident… - The Union Forever | A Skin, A Night
Back in April of 2006, the director of La Blogoteque’s Take Away Shows, Vincent Moon, announced that he was working on a documentary about The National, recording what would become 2007’s year-end list-topping album, Boxer. Well, now there is a… - Widespread Panic | Live in NYC April 4-5, 2008
This past weekend, Widespread Panic rolled into northern Manhattan — Washington Heights to be exact — for two shows at the United Palace. Panic weekend in NYC is always one of the highlights of the concert calendar, and I had… - Disco Biscuits Get Jammy Nomination, Release Nominated Show
photo by headylife The Disco Biscuits recently got a Jammy Award nomination for their all-instrumental performance as “Tractorbeam” at Lancaster, PA’s Chameleon Club on 6/26/07. As a result, they decided to release a free soundboard recording of the show… - Coachella 2008 Lineup | Now With Prince
We’ve had the fleshed-out Coachella lineup for a while now, but the festival has now announced an intriguing late-hour addition: Prince! Interesting, especially since we’re only weeks away from the event. You think they might have been feeling left… - The 7th Jammy Awards | 2008 Lineup Announced
After a one-year hiatus, The Jammys are back this year for their seventh iteration, and they’ve announced their lineup of musical performers. Warren Haynes and Grace Potter will co-host the awards show, slated for May 7 at the WaMu Theatre… - Phish Friday | Island Tour Encore
Just in case you missed last week’s Island Tour round-up and CD giveaway, we thought we’d bring it back for an encore. Last week, we decided that the ten-year anniversary of the Island Tour deserved something special, so we pieced…
Finally, our friend Andy Gadiel put a good post up about the music industry and the fans in response to this post by Ethan Kaplan. Read them.
