Posted on Monday 28 August 2006
Anybody catch the season finale of Entourage last night? Let me hear your thoughts/predictions, I know you got ‘em.
Posted on Monday 28 August 2006
Art Brut and We Are Scientists will co-headline a show at the Metro on October 12th.
I’d like to start including Chicago in the territory that we report on here, so you will also start to see some Chicago dates/reviews/announcements as well. If anyone would be interested in covering shows and reviews in the Chicago area, hit me up and I’ll get you hooked up.
The rest of the tour dates are as follows:
Sept 18 / Cat’s Cradle / Carborro, NC
Sept 19 / The Roxy / Atlanta, GA
Sept 20 / The Social / Orlando, FL
Sept 21 / Studio A / Miami, FL
Sept 22 / Club Downunder / Tallahassee, FL
Sept 23 / One Eyed Jack’s / New Orleans, LA
Sept 24 / Warehouse Live / Houston, TX
Sept 25 / Emo’s / Austin, TX
Sept 26 / Gypsy Tea Room / Dallas, TX
Sept 28 / Brickhouse Theatre / Phoenix, AZ
Sept 29 / House of Blues / San Diego, CA
Sept 30 / Henry Fonda Theatre / Los Angeles, CA
Oct 02 / The Fillmore / San Francisco, CA
Oct 04 / WOW Hall / Eugene, OR
Oct 05 / Hawthorne Theatre / Portland, OR
Oct 06 / Commodore Ballroom / Vancouver, BC
Oct 07 / Neumo’s Crystal Ball / Seattle, WA
Oct 09 / In The Venue / Salt Lake City, UT
Oct 10 / Bluebird Theatre / Denver, CO
Oct 11 / The Granada / Lawrence, KS
Oct 12 / Metro / Chicago, IL
Oct 13 / Magic Stick / Detroit, MI
Oct 14 / Opera House / Toronto, ON
Oct 15 / La Tulipe / Montreal, QC
Oct 16 / Middle East / Cambridge, MA
Oct 17 / Black Cat / Washington, DC
Oct 18 / Warsaw / Brooklyn, NY
Oct 19 / Irving Plaza / New York, NY
Oct 20 / Starlight Ballroom / Philadelphia, PA
Oct 21 / Cornell University / Ithaca, NY
Posted on Monday 28 August 2006
I’m just getting to my feet after a long weekend. Here are a couple of newly announced concerts for you Madison kids.
10/16 – Cold War Kids – The Annex, Madison
11/4 – Alejandro Escovedo Trio – High Noon Saloon, Madison
I can’t say enough good things about Cold War Kids. I first saw them in June opening for Tapes ‘N Tapes, and they stole the show. I saw them again at Lollapalooza and had a blast. Don’t miss this show as they come back to town as headliners for the first time.
Alejandro Escovedo is another one of my favorites, and I’m so happy he’s coming back to the High Noon Saloon. If you haven’t had a chance to get his new album, The Boxing Mirror then start gathering your currency and pick it up. I posted some MP3′s from the album back in April, check them out.
Posted on Saturday 26 August 2006
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco turned 39 yesterday. If you didn’t already know the name of this site was taken from a Wilco song. Wilco has a new album in the works and they’ve been debuting a lot of the new songs on their recent tours. I’ve posted some live tracks for your enjoyment below, some of the quality is better than others, but if you’re a fan I guess you’ll take what you can get.
Fans of Jeff Tweedy’s solo work can look forward to October 24th, when the Sunken Treasure DVD is released with MP3′s of songs included for those who buy the DVD.
Wilco – Let’s Fight (live)
Wilco – Impossible Germany (live)
Wilco – Is This The Thanks I Get? (live)
Wilco – There’s A Light (live)
Wilco – The Good Part (live)
Posted on Friday 25 August 2006
Here at Muzzleofbees.com we are always excited when one of our favorite bands comes to Madison or Milwaukee. In trying to celebrate that, we came up with a new feature called 5 Questions with Muzzle of Bees. We’re going to do our best to lock down the acts that pass through town and hit them with five questions. Andy from Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s was kind enough to be the first participant. You can catch Andy and the rest of the band at the Annex tonight. Doors open at 8:30 with openers starting at 9:30, best of all this show is the low low price of $8. Hope to see you guys out there, thanks to Andy, and enjoy our new feature.
Q. How’s the tour going so far? You’ve played in Madison before, anything about the city or specific performance that stands out in your memory?
We have played in Madison before. In July we played in front of the lake and last year we played at Mother Fool’s, the coffee shop. I remember there was one person there. And 8 of us. There is video of that on our website at http://www.margotandthenuclearsoandsos.com/video/Sea_Chanty.wmv
Q. Your music video for “Quiet As A Mouse” is really incredible, done by combining multiple pieces of art. Can you talk a little bit about how that video came to be?
We wanted to make a video, but felt that it had to be animated because we were touring and didn’t have time to be actually in it ourselves or even to build sets. The video is based on very specific storyline that Richard had about a war between cat and mice armies. So Stacy Novak made about 75 or 80 paintings of characters and scenes from the story, which we digital-ized with our own proprietary technological process. Somehow these images were animated by a company called Café in Los Angeles, eventually resulting in the finished video.
Q. You’re nearing the end of your current tour, what’s next for the band? Any plans to enter the studio?
We have already started work on our next album, which we will be making throughout the rest of the year at our studio in Indianapolis. Don’t quote me on this… but I think we will be going on one more major tour before the end of the year as well.
Q. Are you able to write while touring or is that something you like to do away from the road?
It’s hard to say. I think writing is a continual process – Richard is always thinking and rearranging things in his head if not planted in front of mics in a studio. I have heard many new ideas and songs sitting in a hotel. Sometimes we soundcheck with new material. But in general we prefer to try to write parts and arrange songs in the studio.
Q. What music keeps you guys company on the road?
All sorts. If you can imagine 8 music nerds with full iPods… it’s a fairly large catalog. Lately some of us have been listening to Mew, which is like this freaky uber-perfect european art rock band that makes me feel weird. We listen to our friends’ bands a lot. I listen to rough mixes and demos more than anything else.
Q. The Dust of Retreat has been a favorite of ours at Muzzleofbees.com and around other blogs/myspace/internet/etc. What are your thoughts on music blogs and the power of the internet in terms of helping your music reach more people?
Well, it’s great in a democratic sense, like I said above. But the problem you run into sometimes is that there is no real accountability on the part of the blogger. So the fact-checking part, the grunt work of writing, often gets eschewed in favor of knee-jerk reaction. Which then gets regurgitated by others as fact. Like a high school rumor mill, except we are conditioned to accept things that are written and published as fact. Blogs benefit from the gravity of the history of the written word without all of the responsibilty that traditionally accompanies journalism. It sort of fudges the line between journalism and gossip in a new and interesting way.
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Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s on Myspace.
Posted on Thursday 24 August 2006
Here are some newly announced concerts in Madison that I added to our shows page:
9/1 – Jeff Hanson – The Journey Music, Madison
9/25 – Heavy Trash/The Sadies – High Noon Saloon
11/1 – Mat Kearney/Griffin House – The Annex, Madison
11/14 – My Brightest Diamond – High Noon Saloon, Madison
11/17 – Amos Lee – High Noon Saloon, Madison