– ABC Triple J- Tame Impala – Dec. 14, 2012 – As much as I find perplexing when a band, with all the signs and indications of becoming a household name doesn’t make it, it’s as exciting and vindicating when a band that you find does. I remember first hearing
– Alt-J at Route du Rock – Aug. 10, 2012 – Starting off the week with Alt-J, performing live at the Route du Rock Festival 2012 and recorded for posterity by Oui-FM in Paris. In case you don’t already know, Alt-J formed in 2007 in Leeds. Their lineup includes Joe
As one of those people who hates saying “oh, you should have been there”, I have to say, if you have just discovered Genesis, and more importantly, Genesis during the Peter Gabriel period, you truly missed some of the best live performances to be given by a band in the
– Chairlift at The Dour Festival – Dour, Belgium – July 17, 2012 – Brooklyn based Chairlift have been making huge inroads with the genre of Electronic/Experimental. Having gotten started in Colorado and relocating to Brooklyn, Chairlift have established themselves as one of the cornerstone Electronica outfits on the scene
– Sugarcubes – John Peel BBC Session – Dec. 9, 1987 – BBC Radio 1 – Together for a comparatively short period of time, The Sugarcubes managed to, not only put Iceland on the map as a potential hotbed of musical activity, but also turned everyone on to Bjork, the
Can were one of those bands no one thought would be as influential in 1974 as they became. They had taken the cause of Progressive Rock and ratcheted it up a few notches and introduced Electronic music in a way that hadn’t been full explored by Rock bands previously. They
Dutch psych-meister Jacco Gardner tonight, in a concert recorded during the 2013 London Calling Festival, held at The Paradiso in Amsterdam and faithfully recorded by VPRO in Hilversum. A little bio sampler via Tim Sendra at AllMusic: Dutch-born psychedelic explorer Jacco Gardner began his career sounding like he had been
– Izia – SFR Studio Concert – March 19, 2012 – Over to Paris this week for a concert by the deceptively dramatic and dynamic Izia and her band, recorded live at SFR Studios in Paris on March 19, 2012. Izia is the daughter of late 70’s Pop Icon Jacques
– Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention – Live at Rockpile, Toronto – February 23, 1969 – As long as we’re visiting the 60s this weekend (for entirely different reasons), I though I would dig into the vaults and drag this one out, since I have always been a
PFM In Concert from Osaka – November 25, 1975 – PFM were one of those bands who came to epitomize the true eclectic nature of the 70s. The changes that began in the mid 1960s matured and took off by the early 70s and Rock was no longer about just
