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
Just appeared on one of NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts:by belfast
Much of the details also repeated in this post from Jon Wurster's Instagram account. For those who are unable to access the link: We celebrate the life of golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez (he departed yesterday) with the #rocknrollweirdness of him gracing the cover of Devo’s 1978 single, “Be Stiff,” and a mutated version of him appearing on the front of their debut LP later that year. The stoby belfast
Found it!by belfast
Marc Tracy of the NY Times actually got a follow-up from Bob Mould: Bob Mould, the former Hüsker Dü frontman, said Tuesday that he had only just learned from Mr. O’Rourke’s post on social media that Mr. Walz knew his band’s music. “I’m pretty speechless,” he said. “I was doing a happy dance.”by belfast
Tim Kaine, also a big Replacements fan.by belfast
Lead singer of the immortal classic "Stay," still the shortest recording ever to reach number one on the Billboard charts.by belfast
The memorial service will stream at this link a little under 24 hours from nowby belfast
Maria McKee and others already posted about this as the project was coming together, as far back as two years ago, but it's still a surprise. I'm not sure if these are '80s recordings that have been finished or a full-out reunion decades after the fact (and before Don Heffington died), but it's the lineup that recorded their best material. I've always liked this band,by belfast
The service may be turning into a huge deal: due to potential capacity issues, they’re moving it to Glenroy Auditorium at the Dunedin Town Hall Complex. More updates forthcoming.by belfast
FYI the funeral will be held Friday, August 9 at 2 pm local time at Hope and Sons Dunedin, followed by a private cremation. Details to follow but the funeral will be live-streamed.by belfast
Announced on Facebook: It is with broken hearts the family and friends of Martin Phillipps wish to advise Martin has died unexpectedly. The family ask for privacy at this time. Funeral arrangements will be advised in due course. Gutted, I only recently discovered the Chills and was so happy to see them on the last U.S. tour.by belfast
