Caught a fast, fun set by Teenage Bottlerocket last night at Chasers' in Scottsdale. Pics below. The band played great - tight, tuneful, fun. I sang along to "In the Basement" - great tune that. Like The Ramones, the band goes slam bang right into the next song, without stopping a beat. We were all pogoing at one point. Stayed a bit for The Lawrence Arms, but left a few songs in. I was too piss...
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See that poster at left? Well, it still holds good for Thursday night rock frolic with Teenage Bottlerocket and Lawrence Arms in greater PHX/Scottsdale. Except the show won't be at The Sets, cause The Sets closed down a few months ago when I first promoed this show. Wikipedia says: "In June 2009 The Lawrence Arms recorded a new studio EP. Titled Buttsweat and Tears, it will be released on Octo...
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See that poster at left? Well, it still holds good for Thursday night rock frolic with Teenage Bottlerocket and Lawrence Arms in greater PHX/Scottsdale. Except the show won't be at The Sets, cause The Sets closed down a few months ago when I first promoed this show. Anyway, I love Teenage Bottlerocket and plan to be rockin' this show at Chasers in Scottsdale. Rock. Look how the band rocked a t...
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Yeah, I know I went a little overboard on last Thursday's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shows at the Garden in NYC. But c'mon, how often do you get all those musical giants together in one room? In one weekend? Listening to each other kick out music you've heard constantly over the last 20-30 years?Well, here's some more from Friday night's show. You can read all the fun backstage scuttlefun here ...
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I was sick for a few days - sorry for the lack of blog action. Just getting back Into the Groove. (Oh, did I just refer to a classic Madonna number???). Well that's OK, cause it sorta fits below.I love The Office (even though I think it jumped the shark about two seasons ago). And yet I still watch it fairly religiously on Hulu. And isn't Jim Halpert just a dead ringer for Kid Sampson? (Ok, th...
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And to cap off a rock and roll week, full of graybeards and old stars, young punks and ruffians, Waved Rumor brings you some classic hard cutting punk rock from Eddie & The Hot Rods from a live TV slot in 1978 on The Old Grey Whistle Test, on which they CRANK out "Beginning of the End" - TURN IT UP!Eddie & the Hot Rods on Wikipedia.
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The 25th anniversary concerts of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Madison Square Garden Thursday night and tonight are offering up a load of fun and fantastic musical pairings. Still going strong musical graybeards like David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, as well as Sting, Stevie Wonder, Simon and Garfunkel, John Fogerty and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and others rocked t...
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My NYC pal (and musical powerhouse) Greg Hoy and his band Twice as Bright has unleashed a Halloween cover songs CD present for all of us pretenders and those who'd like to be.Twice As Bright & 30 Peakpresents 'It's Fun To Pretend!' (click to stream or download)Halloween 200930 Peak release oo3Track Listing:01 Wishing Well (Terence Trent D'Arby)02 Norwegian Wood (The Beatles)03 Shine On You Craz...
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I got tipped off to a fine rock show scheduled for this Friday night at Modified (PHX) featuring songstress Sara Lov and DIY indie folker cool guy Alex Church (aka Sea Wolf), who's promoting his new CD 'White Water White Bloom'.All Music Guide writes: "Much like Iron & Wine and similar indie outfits, Sea Wolf is the project name of a sole singer/songwriter who drafts in other musicians as the o...
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I missed this story in the Wrap last week about the U2 Claw tour, but maybe you didn't. If so, then mister, you're a better man that I.Author of the piece Steve Pond writes: "When U2 takes the stage of the Rose Bowl on Sunday night, the Irish band will have performed 42 shows on its "360°" tour. They will have played in front of almost 3 million fans, broken dozens of attendance records and gro..
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File under goofy upcoming CD covers.
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This version of GBV's "The Brides Have Hit Glass" has a different Pollard vocal and seems a different mix from the Isolation Drills LP. Any GBV fanboys reading here know if this version has ever been released? Is this an EP B-sode mix?
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How many rock shows have you been to lately where folks are more involved with their device in hand than with the band onstage playing? Plenty, I'm sure, and we're all collectively guilty at one time or another of doing so. Has it all gone too far? Can a rock band play its songs onstage without cell phones being held up in their face to snap real-time updates w/Twitpic photo attached? I was rem...
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It's all CMJ in NYC this week, and here's a load of videos below to help tell the musical story.
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The video for Weezer's single '(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To'. The gentlemen look spiffy in Weezerville.
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I'm all about great rock photography - so 'Who Shot Rock and Roll' should be a great exhibition and book. Tonight's a special preview reception featuring original members of Blondie. NPR also writes about the book as well, with a selection of photos."Who Shot Rock & Roll is the first major museum exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative an...
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LOTS of music action these days:- U2 plays tonight with the Black-Eyed Peas at University of Phoenix stadium. Rock. - Much-vaunted Christian pop kid Adam Young (aka Owl City) plays a sold-out show Scottsdale's Martini Ranch this coming weekend. His single 'Fireflies' is #1 on iTunes - his LP Ocean Eyes is huge - hear his dreamy pop at his MySpace page - see all his other sold out shows. Jesus i...
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has unleashed to the world a 10 DVD set of all its awards shows, acceptance speeches and performances and extra interviews and god knows what else.Time-Life writes: "Some highlights include:* Bruce Springsteen and Bono share a microphone on U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."* The original 3 members of Cream take the stage for the first time in 25 y...
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San Diego riff-dance rockers Syndicate are bringing their highly charged up rockin' post-punk sounds to the Rogue Bar in Scottsdale tonight and to the Yucca Tap Room in Tempe Saturday night. The band keeps the songs moving forward with blasting drums, great band vocals and burning guitars. I like it - I hear echoes of other post-punk-slash-chord bands in their sound, but that's cool. A couple o...
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Veteran rock band U2 rolls into the University of Phoenix Stadium next Tuesday night with its ginormous "360 Degrees of Claw Happiness" tour. For all the local peeps getting excited about it (but no tailgating, OK?) and for those of us who won't be attending, Waved Rumor presents a swell live version of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' from the big New Jersey Giants' Stadium show a few weeks ago. A nice ...
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