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Experimental jam band Lotus included three post-rock covers into their first set at Schuba's, Chicago, IL - 2010/02/22: Seneca (Tortoise), A Three-Legged Workhorse (his Will Destroy You) and Obscene Strategies (Trans Am).

HCTF has soundboard matrix recordings of two of them as well the Lotus original Destroyer.

MP3: Lotus - A Three-Legged Workhorse
MP3: Lotus - Seneca
MP3: Lotus - Destroyer

Lotus will be playing all the major Summer Festivals in the USA, alternated by theater and club gigs:

• 02/26 Water Street Music Hall (w/ Filthy Funk), Rochester, New York
• 02/27 Opera House (w/ Chameleon Project), Toronto, Ontario
• 03/26 Ultra Music Festival at Bicentennial Park, Miami, Florida
• 04/15 The Aggie Theatre (w/ Beats Antique), Ft Collins, Colorado
• 04/16 Boulder Theater, Boulder, Colorado
• 04/17 Boulder Theater, Boulder, Colorado
• 04/20 George’s Majestic w/ Woodhands, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• 04/21 House of Blues - Cambridge Room (w/ Woodhands), Dallas, Texas
• 04/22 Wired Live - formerly The Meridian (w/ Woodhands), Houston, Texas
• 04/23 Emo’s (w/ Woodhands), Austin, Texas
• 04/24 Tipitina’s (w/ Woodhands), New Orleans, Louisiana
• 04/27 Lyric Theatre Oxford, Oxford, Mississippi
• 04/28 Workplay Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama
• 04/29 New Earth Music Hall, Athens, Georgia
• 04/30 The Valarium, Knoxville, Tennessee
• 05/01 Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, North Carolina
• 05/02 Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia
• 06/04 Wakarusa at Mulberry Mountain, Ozark, Arkansas
• 06/05 Starscape Festival - Ft. Armistead Park, Baltimore, Maryland
• 06/10 Bonnaroo, Manchester, Tennessee
• 07/01 Nateva Festival - Oxford Fairgrounds, Oxford, Maine
• 07/08 All Good Festival - Marvin’s Mountaintop, Masontown, West

» lotusvibes.com

Amanda Palmer (of The Dresden Dolls) and former busker Jason Webley invented the fictional duo Evelyn Evelyn, supposedly conjoined twin sisters sharing a passion for show tunes and Americana. They want us to believe that Eva and Lynn were born on September 11, 1985, on a small farm in Western Kansas, their mother dying within minutes after giving birth. The twins end up in a freak show before being saved, in a way, by music.

In truth it is a musical sideshow cabaret act that sounds vintage due to the prominent role of the piano and the call-and-response vocals. They poke fun at the hipsters and critics (A Campaign of Shock and Awe) who take their cues from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork. All jokes and mystifying aside the self-titled full length is a grab bag of old time good time music (Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?), running commentary about the fictional protagonists (Tragic Events Part I-III) and feeling lonely on the web (My Space - with backing vocals supplied by "Weird Al" Yankovic, Andrew W.K., and Amanda's fiancé, comic artist Neil Gaiman). Ending the album with a cover of the Joy Division classic Love Will Tear Us Apart using a ukulele, the musical weapon of choice of the twins, is a sly musical joke. Recommended if you like Weill and Brecht, or their modern day counter parts such as Vagabond Opera.

Evelyn Evelyn is released on Eleven Records & 8ft. records Available on CD and as a double 10" vinyl set. Release date: March 30, 2010.

1. Evelyn Evelyn
2. A Campaign of Shock and Awe
3. The Tragic Events of September Part I
4. Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?
5. Chicken Man
6. Tragic Events Part II
7. Sandy Fishnets
8. Elephant Elephant
9. You Only Want Me 'Cause You Want My Sister
10. Tragic Events Part III
11. My Space
12. Love Will Tear Us Apart

MP3: Evelyn Evelyn - Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?

• 04/12 Boston, MA – Club Oberon
• 04/12 Boston, MA - Club Oberon
• 04/17 Glasgow, UK - Òran Mór
• 04/19 Dublin, Ireland - The Academy
• 04/22 London, UK - Koko
• 04/23 London, UK - Bush Hall
• 04/24 London, UK - Bush Hall
• 04/25 London, UK - Bush Hall
• 04/27 Paris, France - L’Européen
• 04/28 Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Melkweg
• 04/29 Hamburg, Germany - Kampnagel
• 05/01 Berline, Germany - Babylon
• 05/03 Cologne, Germany - Gloria
• 05/04 Antwerp, Belgium - Arenbergschouwburg

» myspace.com/evelynevelyn
» twitter.com/Evelynevelyn

Listen to a John Cale interview on the BBC World Service discussing the performance of Paris 1919 in London at the Southbank Centre - March 5.

» BBC World Service

(Thanks: Fraser Allen)

Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio will do the honors for the induction of Genesis into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York:

Trey Anastasio will induct Genesis into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month, according to the Associated Press.
(...) The 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is set for March 15 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The ceremony will air live on Fuse TV. Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was one of the final albums “left alive” for Phish to cover at Festival 8, and the band’s 2004 release Undermind was mixed in Genesis co-founder Peter Gabriel’s studio.

It is highly unlikely that Peter Gabriel will attend. And will Phil Collins try to play he drums after an operation to repair dislocated vertebrae in his neck has left him unable to hold his drumsticks?

(Thru jambands.com)