Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival: the schedule

Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival

The schedule for the first edition of Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival at the Congress Theater has been announced. On November 22 you have "2 Stages, a Balcony, 18 Acts, and Costumed Marching Band “Environmental Encroachment” parading throughout the venue at impromptu times."

MAIN STAGE
  • 12:30-1:15pm - Donnie Biggins
  • 1:15-1:30 - Tangleweed
  • 1:30-2:15 - Dollar Store
  • 2:15-2:45 - Tangleweed/Second City’s “Cell Camp”(sketch comedy)
  • 2:45-3:30 - Billy Childers
  • 3:30-4:00 - Tangleweed/Second City’s “Cell Camp”
  • 4:00-4:45 - Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials
  • 4:45-5:15 - Tangleweed/Second City’s “Cell Camp”
  • 5:15-6:15 - Majors Junction
  • 6:15-6:45 - Tangleweed/Second City’s “Cell Camp”
  • 6:45-7:45 - Ha Ha Tonka
  • 7:45-8:15 - The Giving Tree Band
  • 8:15-9:45 - David Grisman Quintet
  • 9:45-10:15 - The Giving Tree Band
  • 10:15-the very end (don’t ask why we have to say it that way) - The Avett Brothers
Jambase.com's 312 PAVILION STAGE
  1. Noon-12:45 - Blue Room Hero
  2. 1:00-1:45 - Cobalt & the Hired Guns
  3. 2:00-2:45 - Lindsey O’Brien Band & Friends
  4. 3:00-3:45 - Mike Mangione
  5. 4:00-4:45 - Jessica Lee
  6. 5:00-5:45 - How Far to Austin
  7. 6:00-6:45 - Blue Mother Tupelo
  8. 7:00-7:45 - Blackdog

Part of the proceeds will be donated to savingtinyhearts.org.

» cbgbfestival.com

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The Volunteers: Spectrophilia

The Volunteers: Spectrophilia

The Volunteers from Brooklyn are still stuck in puberty. Their new album Spectrophilia (sex with spirits or reflections, but you already knew that) is all about teenage hang-ups and trying to shock the adults. The music has a nice dirty glamrock groove, though.

O, and guys, if you are so desperate wanting to shock people, call your song by it's full name. It's Fuck My Ghost.

Spectrophilia is a self-released album.

Tracks:
  1. Rock and Roll (Will Kill You)
  2. Hoogabooga
  3. Get on the Bomb
  4. Monsta
  5. Vampire Joe
  6. Namedropper
  7. Stubborn Woman
  8. Feel it
  9. Danger Everywhere you turn!
  10. FckMyGhst
  11. So deep for So cheap
  12. Recyclin' Bin
  13. Rock to Rock
  14. Cold World

MP3: The Voluneers - FckMyGhst

» thevolunteersrock.com
» myspace.com/thevolunteers

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Peasant: USA tour dates

Peasant

Singer-songwriter Damien DeRose, who adopts the name Peasant when he is making music, will be on tour in the Northeast of the USA starting next week. Tons of studio sessions along the way.

  • 11/24 Tinton Falls, NJ @ JamNow session
  • 11/27 Baltimore, MD @ tbd
  • 11/29 Washington, DC @ Velvet Lounge
  • 12/01 Pitman, NJ @ Bus Stop Music
  • 12/02 New York, NY @ Public Assembly
  • 12/03 Philadelphia, PA @ Connie's Ric Rac
  • 12/05 Bronxville, NY @ Sarah Lawrence College
  • 12/06 Bridgeport, CT @ Acoustic Cafe
  • 12/07 New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
  • 12/08 Hartford, CT @ tbd
  • 12/09 Torrington, CT @ Metropolis Records
  • 12/10 Providence, RI @ tbd
  • 12/11 Boston, MA @ TT The Bears
  • 12/12 Doylestown, PA @ House party
  • 12/17 New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall
  • 12/19 Cincinnati, OH @ WOXY session
  • 12/20 Cincinnati, OH @ The Crow's Nest
  • 12/21 Pendleton, IN @ LaundroMatinee session

MP3: Peasant - The Wind

» iampeasant.com
» myspace.com/peasant

HCTF review of On the Ground.

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