Blogcritics Category: Music: Jam Band

Random Shuffle - The Grateful Dead, Depeche Mode and Andrew Bird

Mat Brewster — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:32:38 EST

I'm putting my music on shuffle and talking about rediscovering the Grateful Dead, 8th grade Christmas presents, and more.
It has been far too long since I wrote a Random Shuffle and I hope that this is the beginning of a renaissance for its return. Thanks for returning if you've read this column before, and if you haven't, well thanks for coming now. Each week (or as I get around to it) I put my music collection on shuffle and talk about what comes out. ...

Concert Review: Gov't Mule & Back Door Slam - House of Blues, Anaheim, CA - 11/20/08

El Bicho — Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:18:29 EST

Two blues bands pass through Anaheim.
I had heard the name Gov’t Mule and of its leader, guitarist Warren Haynes, bandied about in jam-band circles, but didn’t know their music. At one point, I downloaded a bootleg a portion of their 2007 Halloween show where they covered Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy in its entirety. They sounded very good, but I knew there had...

Music DVD Review: Widespread Panic - Live from Austin, TX

The Masked Movie Snobs — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:19:11 EST

Each time I hear them, I love their music more.
Written by Fumo Verde If you can catch Austin City Limits, then do so for you may get a chance to see something like this. The band from Georgia plays an amazing show on a Halloween Night in 2000. This DVD will be a special one for the hardcore fans, for it features the late, great Michael Houser.From what I’ve been told and have read, a...

Music Review: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Reissues

Ray Ellis — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:22:16 EST

Forty years later, this collection revives the legend of Creedence.
As much as we wax nostalgic about all the great music that came out of the sixties, precious little of it is remembered by the twenty-first century public. Sure, the Beatles stood the test of time, and the Rolling Stones continue to limp their way into immortality, but I can pretty much guarantee you that if you mention the Yardbirds, the Dave...

Music Review: Band from TV - Hoggin' All the Covers

Barbara Barnett — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:04:50 EST

The first release from Band From TV, the clever name for a group of television stars who play for charity.
Hugh Laurie (House, MD), Greg Grunberg (Heroes) and Jamie Denton (Desperate Housewives) are “Band” From TV. No, not banned from TV, but they are members of a Hollywood-based rock band called Band From TV. The group, comprised mainly of television stars also includes Bonnie Somerville, Teri Hatcher, Bob Guiney, and Jesse Spencer. Band...

Music Review: John Burnett Swing Orchestra - West Of State Street/East Of Harlem

Richard Marcus — Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:52:00 EST

You'll find yourself listening to some great music performed by musicians who really care about what they are doing.
The first time I ever really paid attention to or appreciated big band and/or swing music was when I appeared in a play set during WW2. I was playing the role of a soldier and at various points I would pop up on stage for a letter home to be read out loud. The penultimate scene took place at a dance to the sounds of the Glenn Miller Orchestra's...

Music Review: FreeWorld - From The Bluff

Richard Marcus — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:32:10 EDT

They'd be equally at home in either The Band, Parliament, or Weather Report.
My one claim to fame as a kid in the early seventies was that my aunt's boy friend was in the band Lighthouse. As that very rarely impressed anyone my age, most kids were into the Partridge Family or at best The Beatles, the information that he played electric viola in a rock and roll band meant that sort of knowing the late Don Dinovo never...

Concert Review: Galactic at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza, NYC, October 17, 2008

Ethan Stanislawski — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:01:33 EDT

The New Orleans jazz funk greats hit New York, with horns and hip-hop in tow.
Over the course of Galactic's first set at Irving Plaza last Friday night, (I did not see the second) they pretty much ran the course of just about every musical style America has invented over the past 70 years. They served up a mix of down-home Delta blues, heavy funk, the occasional rock-fusion touches, and backe with a jazz sensibility. Add...

Music Review: SMV - Thunder

Matt Wright — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:42:26 EDT

Jazz bass taken to another level.
Finally, I think it has been proven. Bass players are in fact actual musicians. For all the naysayers who think the bass is just a backup instrument and not really necessary, all that is needed to change your mind is a listen through the new album Thunder by SMV. Released on Heads Up Records on August 12, 2008, it is the culmination of three...

Music Review: Tea Leaf Green - Raise Up the Tent

The Masked Movie Snobs — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:55:50 EDT

They can raise up a tent in my town anytime and I will pay to see them.
Written by Fumo Verde I kept hearing of this band, Tea Leaf Green, and those who know me said this was a band that I needed to hear. After six months, I was stoked to finally get a chance to listen some of this music, which people say reminds them of the Grateful Dead and the music from back in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Raise Up...