Grace Potter and the Nocturnals – This Is Somewhere
subtlety and concision you don't often find with noodle-dancers
UPDATE ON BAND: Strong speculation here, I’m pretty sure we’ve seen this configuration before in a Spring Training show.
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals hit the stage at 6:30PM in Dana Point, California for the Doheny Blues Festival. Well, some newly minted version of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Maybe someone will get some pictures online and we’ll look at the forsenic evidence to see who’s up there on stage.
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here comes a regular : john doe
Could you encompass my 80’s music experience any more neatly? Doubt it. Here Come A Regular. I was having a conversation with a guitar player I know about early 80’s rock. I spoke about X and The Replacements and that musical connection of a live show and, well, here you go.
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garotas suecas - "codinome dinamite"
via Carrie Brownstein “The band is called Garotas Suecas, and I urge you to remember the name. Within two songs, I went from sitting at a table nodding my head to the front row — only about eight Brooklynites were willing to dance — at which point I became that person standing in front of the lead singer basically losing my mind. I am 34 years old. It has literally been a decade since I went up to a stage, closed my eyes, danced like a fool and never wanted the moment to end. All I kept thinking was that I wished everyone I knew could witness this show.”
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alex chilton is gone
Ann Powers at the LA Times blog
I have a tattered souvenir from a Big Star store in Memphis, picked up on a pilgrimage to the South that I made when I was barely 21, when I set forth to find some mineral traces of the blues and early rock heritage I’d only read about in books. What I found on that journey was Alex Chilton. I’d already come to love Big Star’s catalog, introduced to me via the mix tapes my friends and I made for each other as we built our own twisted history of Americana from what the band X once called “the unheard music.” Alex Chilton was a wandering, heretical patriarch of our new religion. Bands like the Replacements and R.E.M. found him inspirational. (Members of one such group, the Posies, would later play with a reformed Big Star.) College radio DJs turned Big Star’s catchy but unkempt songs into the hits they should have been the first time around. The band had been active in the 1970s, but they belonged to us, the kids fighting off the shadow of the Baby Boomers who’d been too dumb to realize how great it was. More...local natives : airplanes
You can stream the entire album at the band’s homepage.
the bangles : hero takes a fall
First chick band that I thought was great. Listen to those harmonies and that lead guitar sound. Before they “sold out” (which they themselves admit) they had a great thing going. In 1985 I hung out pre and post show with them in a bar in Virginia Beach – still a night to remember. Susanna is still doing it with Matthew Sweet – Rain, Different Drum, Cinnamon Girl, You’re So Vain, Maggie May – check out “Under The Covers”.
zooey for the win
“She & Him” video premier of “In The Sun” – Zooey hula hoops! Stick a fork in me.
lissie : little lovin'
Lissie is one of my favorite new voices.
the unofficial sxsw torrent
5.5 Gigabytes!?! of music from bands performing at SXSW here. Also available are past year torrents. Fire up your client!cat power : remember me
This cover of an Otis Redding cover tears me up everytime.
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I also hope we get some some audio with a sneak preview of the new material. I have been told that Animal is still with the band. Not sure if he’s playing bass or not.
I did get a sneak preview of some of the new merch
I’m not sure Animal is going to be with the band. The last few weeks in LA have been rough on him in a “too much of a good time” way.
Drunk Muppet
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HEY NOW ~ Do not go trashing my good friend Animal. I LIVE to see Animal bop his head and kick his feet to the tune of Mattimal’s bass.
Can’t wait til I see that again live an in person – with YOU Michael – at Clearwater.
Ahem – Bass drum – still waiting to see what Cat we will have on Bass
Ha-Ha! Nice play on words there, chica. Yes, let’s keep our eyes peeled to see if the quartet has grown. Hmmm………
Did you say 5 Steph?
I say this on my bent knee, you’re cool!
BTW- Can only assume that Steph will be making the trip down south for this one. Does Van make a showing?
I can’t. Road race tomorrow at the crack. NOT HAPPY! NOT HAPPY! Dana Pt. is gorgeous. Well, I’m gonna go take five. I’ve ben meaning to take a load off, ya know.
A dookie-Cat tweeted re: tonight about an hour ago :]
Nice!
Hehe, cat dookie. Hehe.
“Shut-up Beavis!”
I have a silly little saying that i use often – Its all about the poo!
So THAT’S what Dana Point looks like…it was overcast and a coolish 70 degrees…