Weekly Update -October 18th edition

- Coolest roundabout discoveries recently via...  
From my friends @
Yo Gabba Gabba with Biz Markie, Bootsy Collins, Erykah Baduh, the Roots and friends on Jimmy Fallon!!






Free Music ALERT:
Via the Spinner Mp3 of the day, I found the White Arrows: For more info so, you an make your own finds head to http://www.spinner.com/category/mp3-of-the-day/

 Another recent find via Spinner was The Dead Trees 'My Time Has Come'



My Time Has Just Begun Via KEXP Song of the Day, is a track I've been listening to since May. I'm not sure where I downloaded Other Lives 'For 12' originally (iTunes song of the week maybe?), but this haunting track is available as a very recent KEXP Song of the Day But, hey don't take my word for it, check out the video to see what you think. OTHER LIVES 'For 12'






SupPop label ladies Dum Dum Girls newest single is either available straight from their site, or as part of the October Spin Compilation (only avail through 10-31-11). The track didn't catch me at first, but I can't skip it anymore and I keep finding myself singing along.  I could easily see this catching more attention.

Trampled by Turtles released an awesome cover song this week, picking The Pixies 'Where is My Mind', when checking out the charity single, be sure to sign up for their mailing list to get their stellar track 'Wait So Long'

Stealing straight from the bands website bio: "Duluth, MN’s Trampled by Turtles released their latest studio record, Palomino(Banjodad/Thirty Tigers), on April 10, 2010. Their blend of dazzling speedgrass coupled with thoughtful, Townes Van Zant-esque ballads launched them from hometown phenomenon to national status. With a sound that’s a bracing hybrid of classic American songwriting, bluegrass and folk, this is forceful acoustic music from the land of ice and snow – of dark winters, isolation and numbing cold – delivered at breakneck pace with the fervor of religion.

The five members of what would become Trampled by Turtles formed in 2003 in Duluth, Minnesota, the Great Lakes port town that had spawned slowcore pioneers Low a decade earlier. Down in the “The Cities” (Minneapolis and St. Paul to the rest of the world), such fabled Minnesota brethren as Dylan through to the Jayhawks had raised the bar pretty damn high, songcraft-wise. Within this contained music scene, the future members of TxT did their time in punk and rock and roll bands, brandishing their electricity proudly, before going “organic” with acoustic instruments."

While they never set out to be a “bluegrass” band, the band employs the same time-honored tools of the trade – guitar, acoustic bass, banjo, mandolin and fiddle – as their ‘grass-fed country cousins. But their soul-deep differences in influences, attitude and attack, from their quicksilver, deadly accurate picking to their lonesome, hauntingly spare ballads, make for a very different musical beast indeed.

The result of this pan-genre spot-welding is a sort of North Country & Mid-Western Blue-collar ’grass meets Basement Tapes-era The Band (unplugged!) with a fistful of gunpowder tossed into the wood-burning stove, all of which is permeated by a poignant, seductive desolation that hails from the likes of Townes Van Zandt (a favorite of Simonett’s) on up through current artists such as the Avett Brothers, Blitzen Trapper, Bill Callahan and Justin Vernon."

LAST CONCERT: Southern Culture on Skids with

Headliner - Southern Culture on Skids - photo by McgurkMusic

Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Sunday, October 16th @ World Cafe Live.  Check the concert tab above for more details on Sunday's show.  A full review is in the works!
















NEXT CONCERT(s):SPIRIT FAMILY REUNION


Spirit Family Reunion plays this Friday in NYC as part of the event -- CMJ Invisible Children Screening -- @The Big Screen Plaza. There will "be playing media on The Big Screen Plaza’s 30×16 ft HD screen while SPIRIT FAMILY REUNION and HUNDRED VISIONS perform on the plaza floor while the DETHKILLS art collective will be creating live art for purchase. The event will be supporting The Musician Coalition, a united group of musicians united with their fans to raise funds for life saving radio towers in Central Africa."

Spirit Family Reunion - performing "When My Name is Spoken"
 

Check out their myspace page for a five song taste of the band.  My personal favorite is 'Take Me Back Sweet Anna Lee'

Coming up Next Sunday Portugal the Man will be playing at Theater of the Living Arts October 23rd, with opener Alberta Cross.      The tour in support of the 2011 album IN THE MOUNTAIN IN THE CLOUD. 
As far as the show goes, I am keeping a complete open mind. My cohort gave me a best of, that I am getting into track by track. Really, you can't go wrong when going to see someone's #1A favorite band.


















REMAINING CONCERT(s) TBD FOR OCTOBER 


the Civil Wars   - @ the Trocadero October 25th... This duo has been along for one heck of a ride this year, only to hit a rough patch this week.  Half of the band Joy Williams has laryngitis, and several shows are being postponed.  This after John Paul White lost his voice earlier in the month.  I expect the band and both singers to make a full recovery!  Hopefully in time for the Philadelphia show!


Blitzen Trapper,   -  The Sub Pop sextet from Portland come to Philadelphia supporting their new Album American Goldwing on October 27th. I'll give a deeper preview next week, but in the mean time check out the video for 'Love the Way You Walk Away'





 Don't Forget the Spin October Download including this song!! 

Download Code: WYPKMPAY9YKL

Code Expiration: 10/31/11

Feist although I am going to put this in the unlikely category, I'd love to cap the month of October on October 29th @ Philadelphia's World Cafe Live.  This is part of the World Cafe Live's 20th Anniversary celebration.  Dawes comes back after performing with  Blitzen Trapper  on Thursday to open for Feist, who just released her third major full length album, Metals.

How Come You Never Go There by Feist