Tomorrow, of course, is St. Patrick’s Day. And in keeping with its Guinness-powered theme, we just spoke with the Dublin-bred Dave King, whose great Celtic punk band Flogging Molly will play the Fox in Oakland this Saturday.
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Mark Mothersbaugh had no idea his Hollywood neighbors were country rocker Shooter Jennings and actress Drea de Matteo until their 3-year-old daughter, Alabama, raced up to him recently, gushing and calling out his name.
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Growing up in England’s scenic Lake District, Hayden Thorpe was surrounded by mostly lager louts and soccer hooligans. But somehow, the Fauvism-inspired singer managed to find the truly unearthly falsetto he wields in his brilliant art-rock combo Wild Beasts.
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It’s been a tough couple of years for raspy-throated Beastie Boys rascal Adam “MCA” Yauch.
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Curious about just how fast the music biz is progressing in the digital age? Here’s how fast: Grammy-winning Brit Imogen Heap will be releasing her as-yet-untitled new album one song at a time online, in three-month increments. And she’s inviting fans to participate in the composition of the first track, now known only as #heapsong1. Sound kinda “Blade Runner”-ish? Check out her futuristic timeline.
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No, your mind wasn’t playing tricks on you.
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Rock And Roll Hall Of Famers Steely Dan — Donald Fagen and Walter Becker — rightfully reclaimed their historic heritage two years ago with a jokingly dubbed Rent Party Tour, wherein they played several of their classic albums in full. But this summer, they’ve come up with yet another twist: The Shuffle Diplomacy Twenty Eleven Tour, which hits the Mountain Winery in Saratoga on July 5. The novel approach?
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Thought Joe Cocker was Sheffield’s favorite working-class son? No longer. That title’s been snagged by precocious young tunesmith Alex Turner and his scrappy four-piece Arctic Monkeys. And just in time for summer, the band returns June 7 with a flippantly titled fourth set, “Suck It And See.”
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Mercury-Prize-winning Mancunians Elbow have just released their adventurous new fifth album — “build a rocket boys!” — digitally in the states. They’ve also just been offered a slot opening for U2 at this summer’s Glastonbury Festival — not bad for a little prog-minded combo that started out in their hometown’s dinky Night and Day Café.
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The lineup hasn’t been solidified, so it’s anybody’s guess who’ll be headlining The City’s annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival this August. But hey — why should that stop you from buying a pig-in-a-poke ticket, eh? So the kind folks at Another Planet Entertainment are making something special available tomorrow — a dice-rolling Eager Beaver ducat, covering all three days — Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 12-14 — for the nominal fee of $149.50.
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At 65, Texas twangsmith Jimmie Dale Gilmore has become a philosopher who teaches courses at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur and the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York. So he’ll consider the question — what exactly has gone wrong with country music today? — with precision.
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The Los Angeles combo Warpaint recently issued its dark full-length CD “The Fool” on Rough Trade. But it’s taken the girl group an eternity, and a breakup or two, to get this far. “We just loved playing music together,” says bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg, whose actress sister Shannyn Sossamon slapped skins in two of the group’s early incarnations. “So there was never an incentive, like, ‘We’ve got to get a record label!’ or ‘We’ve got to book a tour!’ It just felt good.
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OK, let’s admit it — we all felt a weird little pang of regret when we saw Steve Perry singing along to Journey at the World Series, a sense of “Why in the hell don’t these guys just get back together already? Just patch up their differences and move on?” Right? And enough with all these halcyon recollections of Perry-Journey’s “classic” album “Escape” — purists all know that “Infinity” and “Evolution” are where it’s at.
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In Texas family band Eisley’s estimation, “The Valley” is a low point between peaks. It’s also the title of their first album in four years, just out on Equal Vision Records. And it’s safe to say that its songs — like “Sad,” “Ambulance” and “Watch It Die” — echo that dark sentiment, because the three key DuPree sisters, Stacy, Chauntelle and Sherri, have all endured some sort of serious breakup leading up to the album’s recording.
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