Gen Kanai weblog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Phenomenal! Highly recommended. SNOWBOY: Los Rumberos de la Habana y Matanzas (Bobby Hughes Mix) SMOOVE: Big Balls MAINS IGNITION: Testify SPEAK LOW: Take Your Time SLY STEWART: Buttermilk NICOLE WILLIS & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS: Holdin' On HIGHTOWER: Rocking Chair SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS: What If We All Stopped Paying...
Feast of Music (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Langhorne Slim (USA) Daniel Johnston (Waller, TX) The Fratelllis (Glasgow, Scotland) Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (Brooklyn, NY) Man Man (Philadelphia, PA) Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears (Austin, TX) Spiritulaized (London, England)MGMT (Brooklyn, NY)John Fogerty (USA)
I Am Fuel, You Are Friends (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Me! I want to go explore New Orleans and see some bands like R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Old 97s, Thievery Corporation, Mars Volta, Ghostland Observatory, and Sharon Jones with her sassy Dap Kings. The Voodoo Music Experience takes over New Orleans on October 24-25-26th. Fuel/Friends has a pair of tickets to the festival to give to one of you guys because we love you. Please note,...
Merry Swankster (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Alternate title: Democracy and the festival performance. By 2:30 in the afternoon, I was stuck having to choose between MS.com favorite Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings versus RWM favorite Drive-By Truckers. And while the prospects of getting the best return on my music dollar and seeing James Brown being out James Browned were certainly enticing, the ticket was technically free so my selfish desires...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Los Angeles - R.E.M., Modest Mouse, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, Jarvis Cocker, The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, and Fleet Foxes are just a few of the artists whose handmade signs featured in Under the Radars Protest Issue will be auctioned off beginning September 30th to benefit War Child International...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Soul Men soundtrack features music from Isaac Hayes, Anthony Hamilton, John Legend, Sharon Jones and the DapKings, and more Upcoming Movie Stars Comedian Bernie Mac, Samuel L. Jackson and Includes a Cameo by Music Icon Isaac Hayes Authentic soul music is the consistent theme and backdrop for the side-splitting comedy, Soul Men, starring entertainment icons Bernie Mac, who passed away on August 9, and...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Yes, my protest sign is a coffee table, and it also didn't make it into the special Under the Radar Magazine's Summer Protest Issue, but who's counting? (Next year, I will spend more time on my tree disguise.) Artists like The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Built to Spill, Sharon Jones, Shout Out Louds, Les Savy Fav, R.E.M., Chuck D, Talib Kweli, and oh so many more donated their art skills and pretty faces...
NPT Media Update (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
At the recent Americana Music Festival and Conference here in Nashville, I had the great pleasure of sitting on a Music on TV panel with Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona and Yep Roc’s Records publicist James Bailey. Lickona was in town to receive the AMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award for an Executive. At the panel, [...]
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
photos by Kyle Dean Reinford Let's face it, anyone who is going to style themselves "The Dap-Tone Super Soul Revue" had better be able to represent. Or, as Jones put it, "TES-tify and REC-tify." After a JBs-style instrumental vamp and...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
The problem with big music festivals is that they’re, for the most part, shitty places to hear music. All the distractions—the...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
11:00am: I wake up already tired, faced with a choice between seeing Fleet Foxes for the fifth time in almost as many months,...
Billboard (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
As temperatures soared well into the 90s, American roots music reigned supreme on the second day of Austin City Limits festival (Sept. 27), with Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Iron & Wine, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and Conor Oberst leading the charge.
Feast of Music (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
I spent a bit too long in the press tent and almost missed Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings entire set - save for a kick-ass rendition of a fellow Augusta native's "Its a Man's World." Oh well, there'll be...
Py Korry (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Another Friday get together to listen to some music, watch some banks fail, and see the political crap storm in D.C. get crappier. But let’s not be all boo-hoo about all that. Let’s focus on the positives, shall we? You know, like the song featured today. But if you want to read about WaMu getting [...]
Austinist (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Image via Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings MySpace If our friends at KGSR were to curate a stage for ACL, we suspect it would look like this one. Though we have no knowledge that Austin radio mainstay Jody Denberg is the man behind the curtains for Saturday's AMD stage, the bands here certainly look a lot like his playlists! What strikes us as great about this stage is that the music all fits together...
