Arcade Fire to play The Daily Show
Mark your calendars. The world’s greatest Canadian rock and roll septet will appear on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart August 12, according to a recent tweet by the band’s Twitter feed.
Arcade Fire are on tour in support of their third album, The Suburbs which is out August 2. It’s available for pre-order at the band’s website.
–Carney
Video: Guy from Vampire Weekend catches guys from Radiohead at Glastonbury Festival
Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend was backstage at Glastonbury Festival this weekend when Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood sang “Karma Police” with an highly-approving crowd of fanned-out Brits.
Karma Police, Glastonbury 2k10 from Rostam on Vimeo.
Lucky for us that Batmanglij’s iPhone was apparently in tow. That crowd’s singing is nearly overwhelming.
–Carney
Video: Ashlee Madison’s “My Escape” Tribute
Friends of Ashlee Madison gathered Thursday to rehearse for a Jazz in June memorial concert, and I thought it would be a good chance to not only film local music but also get some insight into Madison.
She died in April shortly before she was supposed to perform with Oklahoma rapper Jabee at the 2010 Norman Music Festival. I had never seen her perform, but her voice was something special.
Staff Writer Jane Cannon wrote a story previewing the Saturday performance.
-Poppe
Kanye resurfaces with inflated swagger
It appears Kanye West -largely hermitic since his drunken MTV Music Award snafu of last year- has climbed to the top of the mountain to address the masses with a new single from his upcoming album, Good Ass Job.
“Power” finds Kanye more brash and blaringly confident than he’s ever been and the stormy weather and ‘alone-at-the-top’ symbolism seems to give a lot away. Suffice it to say the guy doesn’t intend to apologize to anybody anytime soon.
Good Ass Job is out 9/14 on Roc-A-Fella Records.
–Carney
Photos: Lou Barlow at The Opolis
I visited the Lou Barlow show at The Opolis last week and snapped some shots of the Dinosaur Jr. founding member.
And it’s worth mentioning Barlow performed in his socks and he rocks.
Good show.
Check out the whole photo set here.
- Poppe
Review: Drive-By Truckers at Cain’s Ballroom
Saturday night, the expanse of wood floor at Cain’s Ballroom hosted the people it was built to serve in 1924: Wearers of cowboy boots.
That’s because the South’s best and longest-running songwriting duo Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley had rolled into town with the other four members of Drive-By Truckers (all of whom were also clad in brown leather boots and pearl-snap ranch-hand shirts) and a stable of guitars in tow.
Their live catalogue plunges deep into the mid-1990s with eight studio records, though they’ve made their living and reputation on the road. With three singers (Hood, Cooley and bassist Shonna Tucker for that female touch) and just as many guitars, it wasn’t any surprise that the set was long. The Truckers kicked off at 9:30 and played well past 11:30 with a single interruption for encore.
“After the Scene Dies” set the tone for the night as a loud fist-pumper, one of the eight songs they played from their most recent record, The Big To-Do. Said tone was both loud and driven by soaring guitar play between the talented Cooley, Hood and quality third man John Neff, though they broke the monopoly up nicely by interspersing Tucker’s songs in with tracks from 2008′s omnivorous Brighter Than Creation’s Dark.
Tucker shined early in the set with “(It’s Gonna Be) I Told You So” and later dazzled in front of flashing lights and crashing drums on “Home Field Advantage”, one of the evening’s best. The band’s live chops and tendencies are well-honed; they appeared to be playing without a setlist, simply agreeing on the next song as they finished each one.
One was “The Wig He Made Her Wear”, one of the least subtle and most disturbing songs –it concerns the self-defense murder of pervert preacher by his wife– in recent memory. Most disturbing though was the crowd’s reaction, which could only be described as extremely supportive, likely because of the song’s addictive swaying guitar rhythms and Hood’s emphatic singing. It was the best-received song of the evening.
After a short break around 11 p.m. they returned to play three Lynyrd Skynyrd homages but that just wasn’t enough. After “A Ghost To Most”, Hood delivered a brief sermon about the value of “persistence, persistence, persistence” which he said resulted in getting to open for Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, the band he and Cooley had named their first band (Breakdown) after more than 25 years ago. It was a testament as powerful and moving as “Let There Be Rock”, the final song in the set.
–Carney
Static, Episode 4: Ali Harter
Interview
“All Over Me”
“Untitled #3″
“Never Any Good”
Video of the Day: The Guggenheim Grotto, “Her Beautiful Ideas”
The Dublin, Ireland due of Mick Lynch and Kevin May released their second disc, Happy the Man, in January, and will be performing live next Thursday at the Blue Door, 2805 N McKinley. But before that, they will show up to play in the NewsOK studios for an upcoming edition of Static.
Sugarland to Perform at Zoo, September 11
Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush of Sugarland.
During the Grammy Awards this month, Staticblog readers became an unlikely fandom bloc for Sugarland, the Athens, Ga. band featuring Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush. This morning the duo announced a new slate of tour stops, including one on Sept. 11, 2009 at the Zoo Amphitheatre.
This is serious advance notice, so there is no ticketing information at this time — the Zoo hasn’t even formally announced its summer season. But as soon as the information is available, we’ll post it.
Static, Episode 3: Matthew Alvin Brown
Interview
“Miles Around”
“Cupcake”
