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This week Josh & Trent dive into music from The Lemonheads.
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This week Josh & Trent dive into music from The Lemonheads.
Riot Fest is coming up fast, and with it comes the announcement of the festival’s official aftershows. Featuring sets from Sum 41, Hot Mulligan, Anthony Green, and so many more, fans will want to finish their festival day long after the final headliner. Before the festival starts on September 20, festival-goers can enjoy music two days prior. The late-night shows kick off on Wednesday, September 18, with two concerts featuring appearances from Sum 41 with Drug Church and Many Eyes, and St. Vincent. Thursday night includes headliners from New Found Glory and The Chisel with support from Sincere Engineer and… Read more »
With the economy headed for recession and a Clinton running for the White House, it feels like the ’90s all over again. A spate of recent musical happenings in the indie world is supplying an appropriate soundtrack: The Lemonheads just reissued their 1992 album “It’s a Shame About Ray” and played the entire album at New York’s Bowery Ballroom; the Breeders released a new record April 8; and Liz Phair just announced she’ll issue a deluxe edition of her provocative 1993 disc “Exile in Guyville.” As more ’90s acts return and sign to indie labels, a particular set of challenges… Read more »
What do you do if you’ve been touring the world for the past decade and, at 25, you’re having what amounts to your first midlife crisis? If you are coming off a very public breakup with your longtime movie-star girlfriend? If you are headline news at home, but just another face in the crowd in your adopted hometown of New York? If you’re Ben Lee, you write an album of existential pop songs and call it Awake Is the New Sleep (February 22) and enjoy how you’ve turned heartbreak and the search for life’s big answers into the strongest album… Read more »
At an age when most rockers are just trying to get their careers started, singer/songwriter Ben Kweller is already working on his second musical life. The subject of a sprawling profile in the New Yorker magazine at age 16 when he led the grunge trio Radish, Kweller has been woodshedding for the past several years, developing a new sound and vision. “Radish was basically my high school punk band with my two best friends,… only we got to put out a record on a major label,” Kweller said. Now 20 and recording under his own name for the Dave Matthews-founded… Read more »
So you’re too young to be sweatin’ to the oldies with Richard Simmons. And with musical tastes that lean closer to the Buzzcocks than Britney, you’ll feel a bit dorky getting your body started with the Pink-inspired Bally Total Fitness Center cardio-workout. The beach season is creeping up faster than you can say “Gabba Gabba Hey,” so what’s a self-respecting rocker who wants to get toned to good tunes gonna do? If said rocker can get their flabby butt to Boston or New York, they can shed their spare tire to the sounds of the Sex Pistols, the Stranglers and… Read more »
