I imagine Patti couldn't make it, but their children were at the ceremony and Jesse posted quite a few photos on her Instagram page. (Patti also commented on those posts and is clearly happy and proud of Fred's induction.)by belfast
You're welcome! He had an incredible run with the Messengers - he continued to write and record great songs afterwards (the updated double-disc version of Songs from the South has a pretty great selection that stops at 2008) but those records may be his best. I'll also throw in the one preceding them, Post, which was my introduction to Kelly. FWIW, a few months ago, I bought the origby belfast
The show at LPR in NYC was awesome. I even saw him after the show and asked him when he would be back in the U.S. for a full-on tour, and it sounds like it'll happen next year so fingers crossed! Perhaps as a nod to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Kelly introduced the final number of the main set by talking about the failed constitutional referendum to recognize Indigenous Australians which woulby belfast
I just caught Lowe's show with the Straitjackets at the Bowery Ballroom, and it was absolutely wonderful. Both times I saw them open for Elvis Costello they were great (and Lowe even joined Elvis both times for a few numbers, the highlight being "Indoor Fireworks" at Pier 17) but it's pretty amazing to see them in a club. We even got a second encore, with Lowe appearing aloneby belfast
No worries, she's been found safe and sound!by belfast
X was amazing at Town Hall last night, even better than when I saw them in July 2022, opening for the Psychedelic Furs, and they were flat out awesome at that show. It probably helps that they were the main act and played a longer set. It's just a shame this is probably their last NYC show and makes me regret missing those full-album shows from a decade ago which may have been the last timeby belfast
I hope they come back to the NYC area. I missed them because I already had tickets to see PJ Harvey at the same exact time. She was amazing but tbh that was a pretty ridiculous weekend for concerts. Springsteen's enormous Asbury Park show was the same day - already going down in Springsteen lore as one of his greatest - and ELO was also doing their final shows ever in NYC. White Eagle Hall wby belfast
>> If you string together their best singles, >> you have a solid and dependable greatest hits >> disc, nothing earth-shaking yet wholly >> enjoyable. But I don't find their individual >> albums all that interesting. >To me, The Pretenders' self-titled LP is one of the ten best debut albums in all of rock. Definitely all killer, no filler. Whby belfast
The new album's really good. If it's not up there with the Rockpile recordings, at minimum it's on par with the delightful Party of One. As I listen to it more, I may even put it on par with The Rose of England. Surprising in that he hadn't released an album in years, unsurprising when you consider that it's mostly compiled from several EP's spread out over a long peby belfast
I saw Foo Fighters for the first time this summer, mostly just to see the Pretenders who opened with an hour-long set. (The Pretenders were great. Chrissie's voice doesn't sound like it's aged at all and the band was excellent, especially the lead guitarist. Hope they come back to NYC and play the kind of headlining shows they did elsewhere this summer.) Visuals were pretty goodby belfast
Dookie was just certified days ago by the RIAA as 20x platinum. It's incredible how they've sustained their popularity to the point where they're like alternative's commercial equivalent to the Eagles.by belfast
He just posted an update in his latest Instagram story. He apologized for the two cancellations, which was a result of illness, and he says they're going to try and reschedule the DC and Chicago dates. Otherwise, the tour is back on and the next stop is Nashville.by belfast
The stories on his Instagram account re-posted info on upcoming tour stops, so I guess everything is still on schedule despite the two cancellations?by belfast
Chicago has been postponed too. Hope it's nothing serious.by belfast
Ugh - I just got word that the D.C. talk has been cancelled. No reason is given but it's now noted on Politics and Prose's website:by belfast
I should've posted this earlier, but I hadn't looked into the book until I attended Boyd's appearance at Villa Albertine tonight (the last NYC-area promotional event he has scheduled) and it's pretty magnificent. I haven't come close to finishing it yet as it's over 900 pages, but it's quite a read and these promotional appearances play like the college lectureby belfast
I think it's a terrible idea and a pretty asinine thing to debate, but 9th Wonder apparently keeps proposing the idea that "adult contemporary hip-hop" needs to be a category and Q-Tip responded that creating that category "is divisive...if there is a need to do so, call it traditional hip-hop as ‘adult’ will make ageist prejudge." (see Ebony link) FWIW the Common andby belfast
No, he was just working on his own album. Per LL: “So, the real story is that I did about 30 to 40 songs with Dr. Dre, and in doing those songs I felt like — the music was amazing what Dre was bringing to the table was super dope — but I felt like the writing, what I was bringing to these songs didn’t feel strong enough to me. I didn’t feel like I was expressing, I was getting out of me, whatby belfast
New album, The FORCE, is surprisingly good. REALLY good. It's sounding like he made the right call shelving everything he recorded with Dr. Dre and starting from scratch. For my money, Q-Tip is SO much better in every possible way and it shows - that, plus LL being hungry again and putting a lot more thought and time into this to get it right made all the difference in the world. I stby belfast
The tour just got shorter. This was posted by his social media accounts: Paul has to jump off the Keb’ Mo’ & Shawn Colvin US tour that has just been postponed until next year due to Keb’ Mo’ needing to take a pause for health reasons. The show at CityFolk in Ottawa is now off the cards, too. We’re sorry to everyone who’s planned to get to these shows in the coming weeks. Paul’s still headiby belfast
A truly vile practice that's par for the course with Ticketmaster. Even X's show at Town Hall has a handful of tickets with "dynamic pricing." A small fraction to be fair, the overwhelming majority were a lot more affordable, but it's the first time I've ever seen tickets to one of their shows with a face value of $260 (balcony) or $360 (orchestra)! (FWIW, if anyoby belfast
FWIW, the NYC show has a low-ticket alert and they already sold out of table seats. (All that's left is the standing GA section.) I'm not sure if it's too late for this to happen, but if they sell out, say, tomorrow, maybe they'll add another show? EDIT: I'll have to take that back, Le Poisson Rouge is already booked the following nights.by belfast
On closer inspection, it looks like he's opening for Shawn Colvin and Keb' Mo' for three weeks beginning September 14, but after that's over, he will do a club show in LA (Teragram Ballroom) and NYC (Le Poisson Rouge) in October with an appearance at the ACL festival in between. Not a big tour, but these are his first U.S. shows since 2017. The nice thing about the small venueby belfast
He's touring the U.S. this year! Another artist I didn't really know until Covid lockdown, I'm traveling for much of the fall, but will try and catch a show.by belfast
Just a heads up, Guy Picciotto of Fugazi and Jem Cohen will be giving an introduction to a screening of Instrument at the Paris Theater in NYC on Thursday, September 5. It's located right next to the Plaza Hotel, right off of Fifth Avenue...as Cohen said when thanking the programmer, "we're rarely associated with Fifth Avenue." FYI, it's an extended intro that starts at 1by belfast
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? was a genuine hit in the U.S., reaching #4 on the Billboard 200 chart and certified 4x platinum within a year. But that's still dwarfed by their success in the UK where the album is certified 17x platinum, which puts them among the all-time highest sellers there. They've grown on me, but only for that two-year window from 1994 to 1995, where botby belfast
This was great, and the format was brilliant. Concert was scheduled to start at 6pm, but when it got to 6:30 and we were still waiting, I wondered how the Roots were going to have two openers without cutting their set short (given Central Park's curfew). What they did was fold both acts into their own set, so that it was one giant three-hour performance with NO breaks, and the Roots backed tby belfast
Random story that happened at the one and only time I've been to the 9:30 Club - I was in town and wanted to see a show there in 2007 and luckily Drive-By Truckers were playing. Great show, never saw them live before. It was a GA show, and at some point between sets, this guy wearing glasses stepped away and eventually came back to his original spot, this time with his glasses off. Wheby belfast
After visiting various Reed-related events in NYC over the years (like the drones from his guitars and the exhibit at the NYPL), I'm convinced Metal Machine Music works best either as live performance or as an art installation. Something about that communal context brings the whole experience to complete fruition.by belfast
Minor coincidence, but I just bought Pearl Jam's 11/6/00 – Seattle, Washington (the official "bootleg" release) solely on his recommendation and it actually arrived on the day he passed. As much as I respect the band, I was never that taken by their music, so when I saw Charles's article on them in the 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, I was surprised to see him pby belfast
