One of the best surprises of the festival was how great Booker T and the Drive-By Truckers sounded. I’m a loose fan of both, but didn’t pick up their new collaborative album Potato Hole and hadn’t heard a thing from it until Bonnaroo. Those songs, the DBT songs and especially Booker T’s songs sounded great. [...]

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Having one of the best live bands in America as your house band has certain advantages. For instance, Jimmy Fallon can just turn the stage over to the Roots and he’ll have a musical guest better than pretty much any other late night show. Last night the Roots debuted their new song “How I Got [...]

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Last night I saw a fantastic performance (is there another kind?) by the Avett Brothers. I’ll be posting pictures from that soon, but now here’s an advance song from their upcoming major-label debut. MP3: The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You Man, when the Avett Bros want to pull your heartstrings, they pull [...]

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I missed this one while I was recovering from the Bonnaflu. This is Daniel Rossen’s (Grizzly Bear/Department of Eagles/c’mon you should know him by now) contribution to the Crayon Angel covers album of Judee Sill songs. Like many of you, I’m sure, I wasn’t familiar with Judee until that album was announced. But with Final [...]

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I would say that Robyn Hitchcock really surprised me with how great his show was… but I honestly wasn’t that surprised. I’ve only progressed slightly beyond a singles fan of Robyn’s, but I knew he wasn’t one to half-ass it. Plus, he was backed by the Venus 3 — including R.E.M.’s Peter Buck — so [...]

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My Of Montreal Covers Archive is full of dozens of covers Of Montreal have done, but very few of them are studio cuts. So audiophiles can slightly rejoice at this recording of Of Montreal’s take on Prince’s classic “Computer Blue.” This comes to us from SPIN’s “Purplish Rain” compilation. Enjoy! MP3: Of Montreal – Computer [...]

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Even though their debut album is not yet technically available in stores (well, some already have it — the rest will be stocked Sept 22), Cymbals Eat Guitars have been the talk of the people this year. Well, at least the talk of the People Who Eat, Breathe and Sleep Music. I mean, I live [...]

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Girl Talk had a predictably good set at Bonnaroo. He seems to really thrive at festivals where he can play during the late night. The only downer was that people tried so hard to get on stage that it became a security problem. People were leaping onto our heads in the photo pit, a few [...]

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I didn’t get in to the photo pit for Phoenix (a giant shame, since I love their new record) so I had to run across Bonnaroo to get to Public Enemy. After a minute or two of being held back buy a security guard, I finally got to see/shoot the show. Unfortunately I wound up [...]

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