Friday, September 19, 2008

East Village Opera Company: Olde School

East Village Opera Company: Olde School

Every once in a while you find your self listening to an album that sucks from start to finish. Olde School is a drab effort by the East Village Opera Company. Yes, you get "rock" treatments of opera favorites by Wagner, Bach, Mozart, Puccini and such.

You would have thought this has been dealt with in the seventies, but no. Somebody at Decca Records has been asleep and allowed this clunker to be released.

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Patti Smith: Australia, Rock 'n' Rimbaud VII, w/ The Black Crowes

Patti Smith

Patti Smith plays Australia. A few American dates are next:

  • 10/11 Melbourne, Australia, Hamer Hall
  • 10/12 Melbourne, Australia, Hamer Hall
  • 10/13 Melbourne, Australia, The Playhouse
    (w/ Philip Glass: Dedication to Allen Ginsberg)
  • 10/18 Los Angeles, CA, Orpheum Theatre
  • 10/20 San Francisco, CA The Warfield, Rock 'n' Rimbaud VII
    (the 154th anniversary of Arthur Rimbaud's birth.)
  • 10/30 New York City, NY, Hammerstein Ballroom (supporting the Black Crowes)
  • 10/31 New York City, NY, Hammerstein Ballroom (supporting the Black Crowes)
  • 11/01 New York City, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art

MP3: Patti Smith - Helpless
(live at the The Hiro Ballroom, NYC, NY, USA - 2007/04/18)

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Tracy Shedd: Cigarettes & Smoke Machines

Tracy Shedd
photo: Skid Severson

Tracy Shedd from Tucson, Arizona, is best described as an indie version of Suzanne Vega. She has a gift for melody, with the occasional hint at punk and UK noise. Cigarettes & Smoke Machines follows the path of Liz Phair, Heather Nova and Carol van Dijk (Bettie Serveert). Jubliant guitars in one song, just a few notes in the next, she tells her stories like she is sitting on the couch late at night, spilling the beans about her relationships.

Tracy Shedd: Cigarettes & Smoke Machines

Cigarettes & Smoke Machines is released on Teenbeat. Release date: September 23.

Tracks:
  1. Never Too Late
  2. Whatever It Takes
  3. Hardest Part Of Good-Bye
  4. Won Past Ten
  5. Plastic World
  6. Not Giving Up
  7. Remember The Time We Set The Highway On Fire?
  8. Go On
  9. Paris
  10. Valentine
  11. So Sick
  12. Home
Live dates:
  • 09/26 Tuscon, AZ @ Hotel Congress Record Release Party
  • 10/04 Jacksonville, FL @ Eclipse
  • 10/15 Tucson, AZ @ The Apple Store at La Encantada

MP3: Tracy Shedd - Whatever It Takes
MP3: Tracy Shedd - Go On

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Medeski Martin & Wood: new album, tour dates

Medeski Martin & Wood

The new Medeski Martin & Wood album Radiolarians I drops September 30. It's the first part of a triology. John Medski explains the concept of coming up with new ideas, playing them live almost exclusively, and then record a new album: “It’s really about going on tour with completely different music and trying to break out of the routine of playing the hits”. The NY trio are currently on tour in South America before going up North.

Live dates:
  • 09/19 Canecao, Rio de Janeiro
  • 09/20 SESC Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo
  • 09/21 SESC Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo
  • 09/23 Teatro Gran Rex, Buenos Aires
  • 09/28 Bearsville Theatre, Bearsville, NY
  • 11/12 Moore Theatre Seattle, WA
  • 11/13 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
  • 11/14 Aladdin Theatre, Portland, OR
  • 11/15 McDonald Theatre, Eugene, OR
  • 11/16 Van Duzer Theatre, Arcata, CA
  • 11/18 McNears Mystic Theatre Petaluma, CA
  • 11/19 Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA
  • 11/20 Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
  • 11/21 El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
  • 11/22 John Ascuaga’s Nugget (Celebrity Showroom), Sparks, NV

MP3: Medeski Martin & Wood - Free Go Lily

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