Best Coast at LPR (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Best Coast are "Beyond thrilled to announce that the incredibly talented Jon Brion will be producing the next Best Coast album. Recording begins in a few weeks in LA. More news on the way."

Upcoming public/regular shows for Best Coast include two LA shows, one of which is on New Year's Eve with Wanda Jackson, and a trip to Australia in January for the Big Day Out Festival.

Upcoming weird/private shows for Best Coast include two in NYC. The band will play a private Ray Ban party this week with Johnny Marr & The Healers and Mona, and you can catch Bethany DJing on Friday, October 14th at the Rose Center in the American Museum of Natural History. Tickets are on sale.

Jon Brion recently played his fourth and final show at Le Poisson Rouge on 10/9.

All tour dates and some videos below....

Continue reading "Jon Brion producing new Best Coast (who DJ the American Museum of Natural History Friday)"

Speaking of shows the Shins are playing...

"DeLuna Fest and Five Flags Tourism Group are excited to announce the performance schedule for this year's music festival taking place on the gorgeous sugar-white sands of Pensacola Beach, FL, on October 14th, 15th, and 16th. DeLuna Fest's five stages and waterfront hotels along Pensacola Beach will play host to over 80 bands..... Go to http://lineup.delunafest.com/schedule to see the full schedule for this year's outstanding line up for DeLuna Fest 2011 which includes Linkin Park on their only US Fall date, The Shins, Weezer, Cake, Jane's Addiction, Cut Copy, Big Boi, Matt & Kim, Girl Talk, Wanda Jackson, Bettye LaVette, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Dirty Dozen Brass Band and many, many more.

Tickets are on sale now for only $189.95 for all three days, all stages and in/out privileges."

photos by Jim Brueckner

Emmylou Harris

Day two (7/31) of Newport Folk Festival featured performances by The Cave Singers, Wanda Jackson, Justin Townes Earle, Middle Brother, Elvis Costello, M. Ward, Emmylou Harris and others. If you missed the fest, you can listen to archives of the sets at NPR.

Like they've done in the past, Emmylou Harris and Elvis Costello performed together on one of Elvis's songs. She performed guest vocals with him and The Imposters on "Scarlet Tide."

Mountain Man also played day two of the fest. Pictures of their set are HERE. Pictures from the first day are HERE. The rest from day two, below...

Continue reading "Newport Folk Fest 2011 - belated Day 2 pics & audio (Emmylou Harris, Middle Brother, M Ward, Elvis Costello & more)"

David Wax Museum at B.O.M.B. Fest in May (more by Eric M. Townsend)

"David Wax is a rabbi in New Jersey recently accused of murder, but that's not the David Wax who fronts the David Wax Museum, a Latin folk band! This is all a terrible coincidence. David Wax and the other members play a raucous, Mexican-tinged folk music that also pays homage to indie rock (but without any ironic detachment)."
[Express Night Out]

Wanda Jackson, who also plays Newport, plays a free show in NYC tonight (7/27) too. Hers is at Central Park Summerstage with Imeida May.

The Head and the Heart also play Newport and have more shows coming up including 3 headlining shows in NYC, and one at the Dave Matthews Band Caravan which hits Governors Island for three days (8/26-28). They play Governors Island that Saturday, as do David Wax Museum (don't hold it against them).,

All David Wax tour dates, a video of them performing at NPR's Tiny Desk, and a new live video too, below...

Continue reading "David Wax Museum plays Madison Square Park today before heading to Newport w/ Wanda Jackson & many more (dates)"

photos by Dana (Distortion) Yavin & Graeme Flegenheimer

Primus

Arcade Fire

Two New York men who got arrested here Friday never made it to Bonnaroo. That's because law officers allegedly found they were carrying over a pound of cocaine, 1,000 ecstasy pills, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.

Alberto R. Almonte, 40, and Joseph Cruz, 29, both of the Bronx, N.Y., are charged with possession of drugs for sale and possession of drug paraphernalia. Almonte is also charged with speeding.

According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, it was around 2 p.m. Friday when Trooper Matilda Mahaney clocked a 2006 Chevrolet Impala doing 83 in a 55 mile-per-hour zone on Highway 111 in Putnam County.

The trooper stopped the car "and discovered that the two occupants were enroute to Bonnaroo in Manchester," says a news release from the THP. [Herald Citizen]

Continue reading "Bonnaroo 2011 -- Day 2 in pics (Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, NOFX, Grace Potter, Lil Wayne, Primus & more)"

The 10th Anniversary ACL Festival line-up is on the books. Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley and Cee Lo top the bill of the over 130 bands. Bright Eyes, Social Distortion, Empire of the Sun, Santigold, Pretty Lights, TV On The Radio, Skrillex, Big Boi and Randy Newman are also on tap to rock September 16-18.

Continue reading "Austin City Limits 2011 festival lineup is here, tickets on sale"

Holly Golightly & The Broke-Offs spend tonight (5/4) at the M Room in Philadelphia, and will descend upon NYC tomorrow for Thursday and Friday night shows. Tickets are still available for both their appearance at Mercury Lounge on May 5th and Knitting Factory on May 6th. Daniel Wayne will support at Mercury while Patrolled By Radar and Stately Ghosts will support at Knitting Factory.

Holly Golightly & The Broke-Offs have the day off on May 9th, the day that their new LP No Help Coming hits the racks. The LP, due via Transdreamer, features nine new tracks and covers of Bill Anderson's "The Lord Knows We're Drinking," Mr. Undertaker's "Here Lies My Love," and Wendell Austin's "L.S.D. Made a Wreck of Me". In addition, Holly Golightly will welcome a re-issue of Desparate Little Town, her collaborative LP with Dan Melchior due on Damaged Goods, also on May 9th.

During Holly Golightly's current trek, after NY, she'll do a string of dates with Wanda Jackson who will also be through NYC soon as part of her own tour. Wanda plays a free show with Imelda May at Central Park Summerstage on July 27.

All HG tour dates and some streaming audio is below.

Continue reading "Holly Golightly & the Broke-Offs on tour, releasing stuff"

Wanda Jackson at Bowery Ballroom (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)


The reigning first lady of rockabilly, Wanda Jackson, kicks off a summer of touring on Friday (4/29) in Tucson, AZ. Soon after, on Sunday, she makes an appearance at Stagecoach in Indio, CA. Much more down the road, Wanda will join Imelda May for a FREE NYC show at at Summerstage's Mainstage in Central Park on July 27th. Check out her full tour schedule below.

Continue reading "Wanda Jackson tour dates, free Summerstage show included"

"SummerStage, a program of City Parks Foundation, presents performances of outstanding artistic quality, free of charge, to serve the diverse communities of New York City. The artists represent a breadth of genres and cultures and perform in an outdoor setting accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds. SummerStage strives to develop audiences' deepening appreciation for contemporary, traditional, and emerging artists as well as the communities in which these artists originate."

The ENTIRE 2011 SUMMERSTAGE SCHEDULE is now posted at Summerstage's site.

Above picture, taken at the St. Vincent show in 2010, by Chris La Putt.

"An exciting mix of folk music's founding voices and modern favorites highlights the 52nd edition of the Newport Folk Festival® when it returns to Newport's Fort Adams State Park July 30-31, it was announced today by the Newport Festivals Foundation, the recently-formed 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization which produces the event.

Tickets go on sale worldwide on Thursday, March 31, at 10:00 am at www.newportfolkfest.net.

Continue reading "Newport Folk Festival 2011 lineup announced, tickets too"

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

"The set was a kind of live greatest hits, with Jackson tearing through countless signature tunes like "Mean Mean Man" and "Funnel Of Love." A few selections from The Party Ain't Over included "Shakin' All Over" and "You Know I'm No Good," which was impressive to hear rearranged for a four-piece band without a horn section. As she mentioned in regards to her new album, Wanda's performance was a showcase for all the different points of her career. Starting in country, moving to rock, then back to country, then gospel; Wanda has tackled them all and brought that variety to her show. Her backing group, The Lustre Kings, gave Jackson plenty of room to dominate the spotlight. This show belonged to Wanda, but she was plenty willing to share the fun." [Ugly Rumors]

Continue reading "Wanda Jackson & the Lustre Kings @ Bowery Ballroom (pics)"

Bonnaroo (June 9-12 in Manchester Tennessee) has announced the 2011 lineup (slightly early), and like the rumored Lollapalooza lineup, Eminem is among the headliners. Bonnaroo also has Grammy winners Arcade Fire and the Black Keys, in addition to Lil Wayne, Mumford & Sons, the Strokes, The Decemberists, Florence & the Machine, Girl Talk, Beirut (haven't seen them in a while), and many more. Full list below...

Continue reading "Bonnaroo 2011 lineup is here"

photos by Dana (Distortion) Yavin

"On Tuesday, Third Man and Nonesuch Records will release "The Party Ain't Over," Ms. Jackson's first studio album in eight years and the first produced by a paragon of contemporary rock: Jack White. The collaboration, with Mr. White playing guitar, is largely retro, a collection of covers recorded live with a 12-piece band. But everyone involved hopes it will introduce Ms. Jackson to a new audience, affording her a level of attention that's closer to her more famous contemporaries like Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, all of whom she performed with. "She's influential to every modern female singer, whether they know about her or not," Mr. White said. "She broke down those walls in the beginning, when it was the hardest to do."" [NY Times]

Since then, Jack and Wanda went on to play two shows at the El Rey in LA...

"He led an 11-piece band of youngish talents, including drummer Joey Waronker, bassist Olivia Jean and pedal steel player Rich Gilbert, through rollicking versions of Jackson's old hits and new tunes. The septuagenarian singer held forth center stage, relishing her comeback with a charming mix of feisty come-on and self-confessed senior moments.

A true raconteur, Jackson amused the crowd with tales of Presley and White, the charismatic, genius sex symbols who book-end her career. "He's a velvet-covered brick," she said of White. "He's going to get his way, but he does it so sweetly." Before playing the classic lament "Busted," she pointed out that she'd seen Elvis play in Vegas, then fluttered a piece of paper: "If the King of Rock can have notes, so can the Queen."" [LA Times]

Wanda, possibly without Jack and the Third Man band, hits the road again in February. Tickets are still on sale for her show at Bowery Ballroom.

More pictures & some videos from MHOW are below...

Continue reading "Wanda Jackson album out today, plays Conan tonight, played MHOW w/ Jack White on Friday (pics & video)"

Tickets are still available for Wanda Jackson's February 24th show at Bowery Ballroom, though I bet they wouldn't be if Jack White was playing the show like he will be on Friday night at Music Hall of Williamsburg, and like he did last night on Letterman. Video of the TV appearance, below...

Continue reading "Wanda Jackson & Jack White played Letterman (video)"

Wanda Jackson, who will be flanked by the Third Man House Band featuring Jack White, will play sold out shows in Brooklyn and LA next week. If you didn't get your ticket for Ms Jackson, then you're in luck. "The Queen of Rock" will return to NYC one month later to play Bowery Ballroom on February 24, but note: the Third Man House Band is not billed as her band on the the Manhattan show. Tickets go on sale at noon.

We also have a pair of tickets to giveaway to the sold out Brooklyn show that Jack White is playing. Details below.

Wanda Jackson also has a pair of TV appearances lined up in the coming weeks; look for her on David Letterman on January 20th and Conan on January 25th. Jack White and the Third Man House Band will be playing at both of those.

Wanda is prepping to release her new Jack-White-produced-LP The Party Ain't Over via Third Man/Nonesuch Records on January 25th. The LP features Mr. White as well as his wife (Karen Elson), in addition to bandmates Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather/Raconteurs, also The Greenhornes) & Patrick Keeler (Raconteurs also The Greeenhornes), and other greats like Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket). The LP features eleven covers from the past century, and you can check out the tracklisting below.

The Greenhornes are going on tour soon too. They play The Bell House on April 8th (tickets) and Maxwell's on April 9th (tickets).

The above picture is taken from a video where "label head Jack White, takes an on-camera minute to explain some of its latest creations. From the The Greeting Card Gatefold™ limited edition release of upcoming Wanda Jackson LP "The Party Aint Over" to the The Third Man Monkey Band™ - only at the store front in Nashville, TN. This fantastically old-time machine plays clips of exclusive, unreleased music from Third Man Records." That video, Wanda's full tour schedule and her tracklisting is below...

Continue reading "Wanda Jackson adds more dates including Bowery (on sale) ++ win tickets to the sold out Jack White show"

Wanda Jackson and the Third Man House Band (featuring Jack White) will play two shows in January. In addition to the previously mentioned 1/21 show at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn (on sale at noon), they'll appear at the El Rey Theatre in LA on 1/23 (on sale at 10am PST).

"Today we're making available for Pre-sale the fantastic, Jack White produced, Wanda Jackson LP "The Party Ain't Over".

This record will ship in time to be received on the release date of January 25th. Housed in a gatefold sleeve and pressed on 180grm vinyl this is already a very special release by a real legend of rock and roll and country music. But to make things just a little more special we're offering a free screen print from Nashville legends, Hatch Show Print with the first 1000 Pre-orders we receive. This will be a different poster then the one being offered with the Nonesuch CD. Lastly, there will be 100 fuchsia colored (!!) vinyl LPs inserted into random Pre-orders. See? We told you the party ain't over!" - Third Man Records

A video of Wanda performing at the 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions below...

Continue reading "Jack White performing w/ Wanda Jackson in Brooklyn (he also produced her new record - pre-order it now) "

"Clyde and I will be playing this early show [at Knitting Factory] in Brooklyn [on Friday, October 8th] before Wanda Jackson and Lustre Kings play a 9:30pm show. You do have to buy separate tickets for our show and for Wanda Jackson, but what a night! Woowee! Doors are at 6:30 and we start at 7 and it is all ages but this is not specifically a kids' show. Be forewarned- F*Bombs will drop- if you don't like your kids to hear "profanities" (or songs about jerking off and creamed jeans and hot queer rooftop escapades) leave your kids at home.

"But Kimya! That is the night of our 20 year class reunion! How could you be in New York and make plans the same night?!" You ask.

OH SHIT THE REUNION?! Oops. Wait, I wasn't even planning on going. I have no desire to hang out at a football game or a bar all night but maybe we could meet up Saturday morning at a playground and say hi. I'd love to meet your kids- just maybe not at my show (or a football game or a bar).

Okay fuckers, seriously, this show is going to be GREAT!!!! You love Your Heart Breaks, even if you don't know it yet.

And I might even be making sharpie shirts for the first time since I developed an aversion to sharpie smell when I was pregnant.

Anything else you need to know? Start flexing your triceps. I want some solid hugging. Solid. Solid as The Rock." [Kimya Dawson]

Jeffrey Lewis on the other hand (who she plays in the Bundles with) has a bunch of shows coming up (all with The Vaselines)

O'Death photos by Kevin H.

O'Death @ the 2010 Newport Folk Fest

"The only way O'Death could be a better name for a Gothic folk-punk band would be if the band only performed on St. Patrick's Day. As it is, the New York group plays grippingly intense Americana, in the process bringing to mind the white-knuckle hellrides of 16 Horsepower. Here, O'Death plays songs from its latest album, Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin, at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I."
[stream their Newport Folk Fest set @ NPR]

Opening the Rock Shop show are The Goddamn Rattlesnake and Deer Tick associate Jonny Corndawg WHO IS ALSO playing Union Pool tonight with Lucero associates Glossary (who are on a short Northeast tour).

Jonny Corndawg also plays Knitting Factory (again) on October 8th with.... Wanda Jackson! It will be Wanda'a 2nd show at the new-ish Brooklyn venue. The queen of rock also played there in February. The Lustre Kings also play the October show, and tickets are on sale.

More pics of O'Death @ Newport, with some Corndawg videos and all dates below...

Continue reading "O'Death is back, Glossary are here, Jonny Corndawg opens for both (tonight) & for WANDA JACKSON (dates) "

photos by Lori Baily

"We love you, Wanda!" a young woman shouted plaintively from the back of the packed room at [February 11th]'s Wanda Jackson show at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, N.Y. The 72 year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer smiled, a bit surprised and moved at the same time. In a flash, the moment was gone as she and the Lustre Kings kicked into high gear with 'Funnel of Love,' a song she recorded in 2003 with the Cramps. The mostly young 20 and 30-something crowd roared like it was 1959.

A lot of music history has passed under the bridge since Jackson first started wowing audiences back in the '50s. Rock 'n' roll has gone from teen party music to art house respectability and back again. It's gone from recording on analog tape machines the size of a small car to digital hard drives that fit in your hand, and from 45s to cassingles to iTunes. The irony wasn't lost on Jackson, who took the time to search out one of her new 7" vinyl singles -- recently released on Jack White's Third Man Records -- from a front-row fan and hold it up for all to see in a moment of well-earned pride and humble amazement. [Spinner]

Continue reading "Wanda Jackson played Knitting Factory (pics)"

Wanda Jackson @ the 2009 Ponderosa Stomp (more by Jacob Blickenstaff)

The legendary Wanda Jackson will be rolling into town and starting a riot on stage at the Knitting Factory (Brooklyn) on Thursday Feb. 11th! 2009 was a huge year for the Rock N Roll icon as she was finally inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, had a street in her home state of Oklahoma named after her, and performed for sold old crowds all over the world! The year came to a close with Wanda receiving a slew of international publicity with rumors that Jack White would be working with her on some new music. So, 2010 is already shaping up to be as interesting for Wanda and her fans as Hurricane Wanda blows into Brooklyn next month!

Continue reading "Wanda Jackson playing Brooklyn, DC & Vegas (dates)"

The Dead Weather @ Home Sweet Home in July (more by Ryan Muir)

The Dead Weather will be performing at Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight (11/17) with an opening set by Ecstatic Peace-signed Australians Violent Soho. To go with that, some other Jack White news...

Jack White will be working with "Queen of Rockabilly" Wanda Jackson. The pairing sounds similar to what White did with Loretta Lynn for her 2004, Grammy-winning record Van Lear Rose, but Jackson says, "They had a super album, but he didn't have her do anything different, you know. She just did her little Loretta Lynn songs. But he told me he's gonna stretch me some, so we'll see." A 2009 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame nominee, Wanda recently performed at the Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans.

One album White will not be helping with is the new record from Slash. On the nature of that, Slash said, "I wanted to get Jack White to sing on something, but he didn't want to sing. He said 'I'll play drums, I'll play guitar, but I don't wanna sing.'" Slash did manage to get "Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Grohl, Flea and three of former Guns N' Roses bandmates, Izzy Stradlin, Steven Adler and Duff McKagan" though.

Another project White has had a hand in putting out is composer John Boswell's remix of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series called "A Glorious Dawn." The song puts a beat under Sagan's auto-tuned narration and features a guest spot from Stephen Hawking. The track, on YouTube since September (below), is out now through White's Third Man Records.

The Dead Weather also just put out a record of their own, an unannounced EP called Live from Third Man West, which features five songs and four videos from their performance at a promotional pop-up store in Los Angeles in August (similar to what they did in New York in July). You can get it through iTunes.

The Dead Weather play Wednesday too (November 18th) at the mtvU Woodie Awards at Roseland Ballroom, and travel to New Zealand, Australia and Japan in March, 2010.

Tour dates and "A Glorious Dawn" are below...

Continue reading "Dead Weather in town w/ new EP ++ Jack White works w/ Wanda Jackson, but not Slash -- releases Carl Sagan"

photos by Jacob Blickenstaff

Ira Kaplan, The A-Bones + Flamin' Groovies

Among the resurrected bluesmen, rockabilly cats, garage rockers and soul shouters at the eighth annual Ponderosa Stomp were various "Littles," including Little Willie Littlefield, Little Joe Washington, Lil' Buck Sinegal -- not to mention Long John Hunter and Lazy Lester. Though each of these acts that held court at the festival (held April 28 and 29 at the House of Blues in New Orleans), and several others -- including a master's class given by newly inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Wanda Jackson -- demonstrated the breadth and width of American music, one undisputed highlight was the Wednesday reunion of the two prime forces in the Flamin' Groovies, who played a set together for the first time since 1971.

Groovies frontman Roy Loney and guitarist Cyril Jordan, who co-founded the Bay Area rock band in 1965, tore through selections from the three critically heralded LPs released before Loney's departure, with backing by Brooklyn combo the A-Bones (which featured Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan on keyboards and guitar, and, appropriately, former Flamin' Groovies Fan Club president Miriam Linna behind the drum kit). As Loney explains, "Cyril and I rehearsed in San Francisco and the A-Bones rehearsed in New York" -- yet this bicoastal convergence showed no signs of disconnect, jelling as if they were a long-estabished unit. [Spinner]

Continue reading "the 2009 Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans - Day 2 in pics (the A-Bones / Ira Kaplan / Flamin' Groovies reunion included)"

Iggy Pop & the Stooges @ Virgin Fest (more by Bao Nguyen)

The nominations for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum were announced today. The nine nominees are: Jeff Beck, Chic, Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Metallica, Run-D.M.C., the Stooges, War, and Bobby Womack. Ballots will be sent to more than 500 voters, who will select artists to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 24th Annual Induction Ceremony on April 4 at historic Public Hall in Cleveland. For the first time, tickets to the ceremony will be made available to the public.
To be eligible for nomination into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an act must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. This year's nominees had to release their first single no later than 1983.