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Written by Mike Greenhaus
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Tuesday, 13 March 2007 |
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Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
February 26, 2007
New York’s annual Tibet House Benefit started with a conversation between avant-garde composer Phillip Glass and seminal punk-poet Patti Smith and, for the past two decades, has remained an engaging discussion, if not always an invigorating performance. An all-star benefit known for its mix of art-rock elegance and festival-like eclecticism, Tibet House’s annual summit has blossomed into an Indian summer for concertgoers who are equally drawn by the event’s unique collaborations and its pro-Tibet agenda.
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Written by Richard B. Simon
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
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Great American Music
Hall
San
Francisco
March 1, 2007
Perhaps it is the inevitable consequence of living in a surreal time, but
psychedelic music is bubbling up from the sub-earth, and this year’s NoisePop
festival, San Francisco’s annual indie rock showcase – long the refuge of punk,
power pop, and psychobilly acts – made room for some psychedelic revival.
Among NoisePop’s centerpiece gigs was the return of the lesser-known
psychedelic warrior Roky Erickson (it’s pronounced “Rocky”) to San Francisco after 25
years. Erickson fronted the Texas-based 13th Floor Elevators in the early 1960s.
The pioneers of Texas-style psychedelia, their 1966 album Psychedelic Sounds Of the 13th Floor
Elevators was the first LP to adopt the term. The Elevators’ visit that year to San Francisco’s Fillmore and Avalon is often credited with
infusing the local psychedelic music scene, the domain of folk pickers like
Jorma Kaukonen and Jerry Garcia, to adopt some Texas teeth. You can hear the
raw blues energy of the 13th Floor Elevators’ “You’re Gonna Miss Me” echoed in
Big Brother’s 1968 Cheap Thrills – and throughout fellow
Texan Janis Joplin’s career, for that
matter.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 March 2007 )
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Written by Richard B. Simon
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
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Great American Music
Hall
San
Francisco, CA
March
3, 2007
When I first heard Pink Floyd, when I was very, very young, I had no conception
that that music was coming from a bunch of guys with guitars, drums, keyboards
and synthesizers. It never crossed my mind that Floyd was a rock band—it was
something else, an entity. Some mysterious musical thing pumping out
mind-blowing weirdness that defied understanding or
classification.
Brightblack Morning Light is like that.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 15 March 2007 )
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Written by Robin Sacher
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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 |
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Murat Egyptian Room, Indianapolis, IN
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Not rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor the NFL Scouting Combine a few blocks away could keep Guster fans from filling the Murat Egyptian room, making it Indy’s first-ever sold-out Guster show. Lead vocalist/guitarist Ryan Miller lauded this accomplishment by informing the crowd that they had “made the Egyptian room [their] bitch.”
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Written by Robin Sacher
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Thursday, 22 February 2007 |
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Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
February 3, 2007
Despite the somewhat erratic performance, Dead fans were once again grateful to witness history repeat itself as Dark Star Orchestra performed its rendition of GD’s December 16, 1992 performance in Oakland, CA. Despite the bitter cold night that forced many Columbus residents to shield themselves in the comfort of their own homes, bundled-up DSO fans anxiously awaited their chance to enter the Newport Music Hall. Though many donned their outerwear for the duration of the show, one could not help but admire the tenacity of the camisole-sporting girls who flailed their arms from the moment that DSO opened with “Feel Like a Stranger.”
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 February 2007 )
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