Alex Bleeker interviewed Fleetwood Mac, playing w/ Quilt & Weyes Blood playing Brooklyn in Feb
Quilt at Mercury Lounge in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Brooklyn venue Glasslands will a feel a little more like late ’60s San Francisco on February 17, when they host Real Estate side project Alex Bleeker & The Freaks (who are way more psych/blues than Alex’s other gig), the Summer of Love vibes of Boston’s Quilt, and the drone folk of Weyes Blood. Tickets for what should be an all around great show are on sale now.
In related news, Alex Bleeker just interviewed Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham for Relix. One of the things they spoke about was Fleetwood Mac’s influence on Alex and the surrounding indie culture:
AB: I have my own opinion on this, but have you noticed a younger audience showing up at your shows or showing an appreciation for not only Fleetwood Mac records but your solo work? Have you noticed any increase in that [demographic] in the past couple of years?
LB: Well, you know, I guess you can qualify anything I say by saying, “The longer you’re around, [the] younger people start to look.” But yes, I’d say that it’s probably true. Even if you were to take the solo work out of the equation and just talk about the body of work that Fleetwood Mac has. Sometimes it takes sowing those seeds and letting things take root and seeing what is going to make sense to people down the line. What’s going [on] in an album like Rumours makes sense to any number of generations on a mainstream level, but then you’ve got something like Tusk which is going to make sense to people that have a more indie sensibility. That’s been very gratifying because that’s what that album is all about.
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AB: Well I don’t know if [ Relix ] told you anything about me, but I’m not a journalist or writer. I’m 26, I play in a rock band and I can confidently tell you that Fleetwood Mac and of course your solo work has had a tremendous influence and is particularly popular with musicians right now in a more countercultural community.
LB: You know, that’s one of the lessons you start to learn. And again, why being in Fleetwood Mac is so helpful and so meaningful is because I can go out there and undermine the brand, if you will.
Read more at Relix and catch Fleetwood Mac on tour soon.
Some song streams and lists of other upcoming dates for all three artists, below…
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Alex Bleeker and the Freaks – “Spring Jam”
Quilt – Quilt
Weyes Blood – “Romneydale”
Alex Bleeker and the Freaks — 2013 Tour Dates
Feb 17 Glasslands Gallery Brooklyn, NY w/ Quilt, Weyes Blood
Mar 7-9 Savannah Stopover Savannah, GA
3/17 SPILLOVER 2013 Sandbar Cantina Dallas, TX
Quilt — 2013 Tour Dates
Feb 16 The Fire Philadelphia, PA
Feb 17 Glasslands Gallery Brooklyn, NY w/ Alex Bleeker, Weyes Blood
Mar 03 The Middle East Upstairs Cambridge, MA w/ Jacco Gardner
