Experimental indie/pop band Broken Bells will be on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon at 11:35 PM on NBC. Broken Bells is made up of James Mercer from The Shins and Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse). Their 3rd album, After the Disco, came out a month ago and has been getting good reviews. When David Letterman had his Beatles week last month, Broken Bells covered "And I Love Her" with the help of virtual Ringo Starr. Check it out here:
Here's the Drive-By Truckers on last night's Conan with "Sh*t Shots Count":
Friday, March 7, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Late Night Pick: Drive-By Truckers
Another easy pick for me. My favorite band of the last decade, Drive-By Truckers, will be on Conan tonight on TBS at 11 PM. Unfortunately, this is the closest I'm going to get to a DBT live show for a while as I can't make it to their show at The National on 3/15. But I will be heading out to get their critically acclaimed (as usual) new album, English Oceans, which just came out Tuesday. I will be heading out this weekend to pick up the album at Plan 9 and get back into that seedy Southern gothic DBT world of alcohol, adultery, murder and down on their luck characters that will occassionally touch your heart. Here's DBT doing "Righteous Path" on "Austin City Limits" a few years back:
Here's the three songs Prince did last night on the Arsenio Hall show. Two new ones and one of my favorite b-sides (a-side was "Raspberry Beret". Kids, ask your parents what an a-side and a b-side were), "She's Always in my Hair":
Here's the three songs Prince did last night on the Arsenio Hall show. Two new ones and one of my favorite b-sides (a-side was "Raspberry Beret". Kids, ask your parents what an a-side and a b-side were), "She's Always in my Hair":
Friday Cheers 2014 Schedule Announced
Here's the press release from Venture Richmond announcing the full schedule for Friday Cheers this year. I'm most excited about Lord Huron, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, Funky Meters, St. Paul and the Broken Bones and Neko Case, but it all looks tasty! More on each in our weekly picks column as the shows approach.
Venture Richmond is a non-profit organization which engages business and community leaders in partnering with the City of Richmond to enhance the vitality of the community, particularly Downtown, through economic development, marketing, promotion, advocacy and events. Venture Richmond also produces TEDxRVA, Easter on Parade, the Second Street Festival and the Richmond Folk Festival, and partners with the Richmond Sportsbackers to produce Dominion Riverrock. For more information visit www.venturerichmond.com.
(RICHMOND, VA) March 6, 2014 – Celebrating its
30th season, Venture Richmond's premier outdoor concert series, Friday Cheers, presented by Coors Light and Blue Moon, returns to Brown's Island on May
2, with a stellar line-up of bands you won't want to miss, at one of
RVA’s most beautiful venues. Enjoy breakout bands, national acts and
Richmond's hometown talent. Children 12 & under are free.
May 17-19 – Dominion Riverrock, featuring The Infamous
Stringdusters, Matisyahu, FREE.
May 23 – RVA Music Night
featuring Richmond bands: Avers, Todd
Herrington: Things and The Green Boys,
$5.
June 27 –Neko Case with
Laura Veirs
$10.
Advance tickets for
individual shows and season passes to Friday Cheers are available online at Ticketstobuy.com starting tomorrow, Friday March 7.
Season Passes cost $35
from March 7th – April 1st and $45 after.
For more interviews with
the bands, insider and behind- the-scenes info, and back stories on the artist,
visit the Friday Cheers blog.
Presented by: Coors Light and Blue Moon
Sponsored by: 103.7 Play, Classic Rock 96.5, K95, Hot 100.9, Hilton Garden Inn, Style Weekly, Richmond.com and Pasture
Sponsored by: 103.7 Play, Classic Rock 96.5, K95, Hot 100.9, Hilton Garden Inn, Style Weekly, Richmond.com and Pasture
Venture Richmond is a non-profit organization which engages business and community leaders in partnering with the City of Richmond to enhance the vitality of the community, particularly Downtown, through economic development, marketing, promotion, advocacy and events. Venture Richmond also produces TEDxRVA, Easter on Parade, the Second Street Festival and the Richmond Folk Festival, and partners with the Richmond Sportsbackers to produce Dominion Riverrock. For more information visit www.venturerichmond.com.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Late Night Pick: Prince
Some nights the pick is easy. The reclusive Prince will be on Arsenio Hall Show tonight to talk (perhaps) and play (definitely). Prince is the only one on the show. So he's gotta do something. He will most likely talk about and play tunes from his new, guitar-driven album, "PlectrumElectrum" which is due out sometime this spring. The album features his all-female band, 3rd Eye Girl. Hopefully, there will be a tour too. Perhaps his Royal Badness will announce that tonight. Here's "Fixurlifeup":
From last night's Tavis Smiley show, here's the interview with jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter:
From last night's Tavis Smiley show, here's the interview with jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter:
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Weekly Picks: Widespread Panic, Miniature Tigers, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Southern Belles, Lyceum Experience, Black Girls
Indie/dream-pop band Miniature Tigers will be at Strange Matter on Wednesday night. Doors open at 9, show starts at 9:30 with openers Total Slacker (lo-fi, garage rock) and Bear Hands (synth pop). Tix are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. You might like Miniature Tigers if you like Weezer or The Cars or groovy dancable indie pop. Here's the Tigers "Sex on the Regular":
Widespread Panic starts three sold-out nights at The National on Thursday. If any tickets do go on sale, they'll be $45 in advance, $50 at the door. The doors open at 7 each night and the shows start at 8 with no opener just the usual two sets of Panic. These will be rare acoustic shows from the band. If you miss them at The National, they will be playing the Lockn' Festival in Arrington VA in September. They just announced today that they will be joined by the great Steve Winwood for one of their sets. Here's the band doing "Love Tractor" at the Austin City Limits festival:
Friday night is First Friday and as part of the First Friday festivities, Reverend D-Ray and The Shockers (Western surf-a-billy) will play at Aces & Eights Tattoo Emporium on Broad. There will also be an exhibit of classic car & pin-up photography by Melissa Duck of Precious Images Photography. The event runs from 7 PM until 10 PM with the band hitting the stage around 7:30.
Later in the evening, it looks like I'll be heading to The Camel to see Southern Belles as they continue their First Friday residency there. It's $7 to get in. Doors open at 9 and The Lawsuits from Philadelphia will kick things off around there.This is the third of four shows the bands are playing together, so expect some co-mingling of bands because that's what usually happens at these First Friday events with the Belles. Here's an original by The Belles called "All In Time" recorded about two months ago in Herndon VA:
Saturday, it's more art and music mixed at the Lyceum Experience at 3300 W Clay St. It will run from 7 PM until 11 PM and it's free to get in.There will be gallery exhibitions from over 20 RVA artists, music performance (Fool's Errand, an Americana band I've been seeing lately and enjoying, comes on around 9), comedy, and poetry.
Black Girls celebrate the release of their new CD, "Claire Sinclair", with a show at Balliceaux on Saturday night. It's $10 to get in and the show will kick off with Sleepwalkers and DJ Rattan will spin between sets. Black Girls will be augmented for the show (power ups!) with Charlie Glenn on keys and members of No BS! Brass Band. Should be a fine and funky show.
On Sunday, Scottish indie pop band We Were Promised Jetpacks (love the name) will be at The Camel. Doors open at 7, show starts at 8. Tix are $13 in advance, $15 at the door. Honeyblood will open. WWPJ sold our their show in Chicago on Monday. They've also got a new live album, "E Rey", which they recorded in Philly out now. Here they are doing "Medicine":
Have a great weekend!
Tony Jordan
Late Night Pick: Wayne Shorter
Legendary jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter will be on Tavis Smiley tonight on PBS. My usual word of warning when musicians are on Tavis' show is that they may or may not perform but Tavis always gets a good interview out of them. Check Tavis' site for the time and date of the show. Here in Richmond, it's on WCVW at 3 AM so set those DVRs. In this recent broadcast on BBC Radio, Wayne talks about his inspriations (from Mozart to Art Tatum) and his work with Miles Davis and Weather Report. Here's Wayne playing in the Miles Davis Quintet with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams:
Here's Roddy Hart and the Lonesome Fire's performance of "Bad Blood" on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Friday night:
Here's Roddy Hart and the Lonesome Fire's performance of "Bad Blood" on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Friday night:
Friday, February 28, 2014
Late Night Pick: Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire
We'll end the week like we began it, with Americana band Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (12:35 AM, NBC). The band is wrapping up a full week of performances on the show. They were first on the show last week after Craig saw their video on Twitter and liked what he saw. After that performance, he unexpectedly invited them back for the whole week. And now they are one of the hottest bands on iTunes. It's a Cinderella story. You can read the full story from the Daily Record in the UK HERE. And here's the band doing "Forget Me Not" earlier this week:
And here's The Haden Triplets with Ry Cooder performing "Single Girl" last night on Conan:
And here's The Haden Triplets with Ry Cooder performing "Single Girl" last night on Conan:
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Late Night Pick: The Haden Triplets featuring Ry Cooder
The daughters of jazz bassist Charlie Haden have joined up to form a group, appropriately named, The Haden Triplets and they'll bring their familial harmonies to Conan tonight on TBS at 11 PM. Joining them will be the producer of their new, self-titled debut album, guitarist Ry Cooder. Here's a preview of the album:
And here's last night's performance by Schoolboy Q on the Arsenio Hall Show:
And here's last night's performance by Schoolboy Q on the Arsenio Hall Show:
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Weekly Picks: Kelly Joe Phelps, Surfer Blood, Mardi Gras Block Party, CSN, Larry Keel, Long Arms
Thursday night at Ashland Coffee & Tea, slide guitar playing, blues/folk singer/songwriter Kelly Joe Phelps performs. Show starts at 8, tix are $16 in advance, $20 day of show. Here's Kelly Joe doing "Hard Time They Never Go Away" from his latest album, "Brother Sinner & The Whale":
Friday night, it's local action with Black Girls, Bryan Elijah Smith and the Wild Hearts, and Big Mama Shakes at the Camel. Show starts at 10 and it's $5 to get in. Black Girls are on this year's Style Magazine Sounds of Richmond collection of local music, which you can download for FREE right HERE.
Over at Balliceaux Friday, No BS Brass Band lights it up. Show starts at 10 and it's $7 to get in.
Americana artist from the Blue Ridge Mountains, Larry Keel, will be in town Saturday for a show at Capital Ale House. He'll be in his Power Trio configuration (Larry on guitar, Will Lee on banjo, Jenny Keel on bass) with the show starting at 8 and tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door. You can read a review of the Trio's recent show in Clarksville GA HERE. And here's the group at the Jewish Mother back in December. Some fine playing all around in this one:
Saturday at The Camel, Long Arms will celebrate the release of their second album, "Constant Comment" and you are invited to the party. From YouTube: "Long Arms blends all of the United States deep rooted musical history into one band blending everything from the energy and urgency of the mid 70s New York punk movement to the rambling story telling of California folk to the charming swagger of classic country and bluegrass." Also on the bill are HYPERCOLOR, Mayfair, and The Story Changes. Doors open at 8, show starts at 9 and it's $7 to get in. Here's Long Arms doing "Crazy Bet":
Monday night at The Camel, Florida indie-surf-rock-pop band Surfer Blood comes to town. Wake Up and Herro Sugar open the show which starts at 7. The doors open at 6 and it's $10. Here's Surfer Blood's "Say Yes to Me":
Tuesday it's Mardi Gras so have yourself some Mardi Gras fun at the Mardi Gras Block Party hosted by Lady N'awlins restaurant and bar.They'll be blocking off Stafford Avenue just off of Main from 2 PM until 9 PM. It's $5 to get in. 21 and older only. Besides food and beer, No BS! Brass Band, McGill Lee Jackson, Jackass Flats, Trongone Band, People's Blues of Richmond, and Pennies to the Side will be playing. I'm not sure if any of those bands play "Iko Iko" or "Mardi Gras Mambo" but they better learn.
Mardi Gras night, 70's supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash will be at the Carpenter Theater. I thought they might have to cancel after David Crosby's recent heart problems but nothing can keep that guy down (excpet jail). The show starts at 7:30 and no opener is listed. The show is sold out though the Carpenter Theater web site says standing room tickets are available at the box office. Here's a full CSN show from 1982:
Hopefully the "Thing That Only Eats Hippies" will not be in town Tuesday night. But even the Thing can't kill David Crosby.
Have a great weekend!
Tony Jordan
Friday night, it's local action with Black Girls, Bryan Elijah Smith and the Wild Hearts, and Big Mama Shakes at the Camel. Show starts at 10 and it's $5 to get in. Black Girls are on this year's Style Magazine Sounds of Richmond collection of local music, which you can download for FREE right HERE.
Over at Balliceaux Friday, No BS Brass Band lights it up. Show starts at 10 and it's $7 to get in.
Americana artist from the Blue Ridge Mountains, Larry Keel, will be in town Saturday for a show at Capital Ale House. He'll be in his Power Trio configuration (Larry on guitar, Will Lee on banjo, Jenny Keel on bass) with the show starting at 8 and tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door. You can read a review of the Trio's recent show in Clarksville GA HERE. And here's the group at the Jewish Mother back in December. Some fine playing all around in this one:
Saturday at The Camel, Long Arms will celebrate the release of their second album, "Constant Comment" and you are invited to the party. From YouTube: "Long Arms blends all of the United States deep rooted musical history into one band blending everything from the energy and urgency of the mid 70s New York punk movement to the rambling story telling of California folk to the charming swagger of classic country and bluegrass." Also on the bill are HYPERCOLOR, Mayfair, and The Story Changes. Doors open at 8, show starts at 9 and it's $7 to get in. Here's Long Arms doing "Crazy Bet":
Monday night at The Camel, Florida indie-surf-rock-pop band Surfer Blood comes to town. Wake Up and Herro Sugar open the show which starts at 7. The doors open at 6 and it's $10. Here's Surfer Blood's "Say Yes to Me":
Tuesday it's Mardi Gras so have yourself some Mardi Gras fun at the Mardi Gras Block Party hosted by Lady N'awlins restaurant and bar.They'll be blocking off Stafford Avenue just off of Main from 2 PM until 9 PM. It's $5 to get in. 21 and older only. Besides food and beer, No BS! Brass Band, McGill Lee Jackson, Jackass Flats, Trongone Band, People's Blues of Richmond, and Pennies to the Side will be playing. I'm not sure if any of those bands play "Iko Iko" or "Mardi Gras Mambo" but they better learn.
Mardi Gras night, 70's supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash will be at the Carpenter Theater. I thought they might have to cancel after David Crosby's recent heart problems but nothing can keep that guy down (excpet jail). The show starts at 7:30 and no opener is listed. The show is sold out though the Carpenter Theater web site says standing room tickets are available at the box office. Here's a full CSN show from 1982:
Hopefully the "Thing That Only Eats Hippies" will not be in town Tuesday night. But even the Thing can't kill David Crosby.
Have a great weekend!
Tony Jordan
Late Night Pick: ScHoolboy Q
Left-field rapper ScHoolboy Q has released his much anticipated major label debut, Oxymoron, and it's getting really good reviews so far. Check him out for yourself tonight on the Arsenio Hall Show, which is on WUPV here in Richmond at 11 PM. Here's ScHoolboy's "Collard Greens". Watch out if you're at work because there are bad words in this song.
I'll start bringing you the performance I recommended last night in the next day's blog (if it's available). Here's St. Vincent on Colbert Report last night doing "Digital Witness":
And as an added bonus, here's a web only exclusive from the show where she plays "Birth In Reverse":
I'll start bringing you the performance I recommended last night in the next day's blog (if it's available). Here's St. Vincent on Colbert Report last night doing "Digital Witness":
And as an added bonus, here's a web only exclusive from the show where she plays "Birth In Reverse":
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