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I love a Cloudcast where I get to hear a bunch of music I wouldn't otherwise have heard. Rinjo's got it right: this is a worthwhile 33 minutes. Rough Cuts by Rinjonjori on Mixcloud

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By: David Schultz After choosing a lifestyle that had him on the road for long stretches of time, Bob Seger lost the forest for the trees, cataloging the downside of being a world famous rock and roll star on “Turn The Page.” Fellow Midwesterners Backyard Tire Fire travel down some similar highways on Good To Be, their fifth studio album. Seger saw the glass as half empty; Tire Fire’s Ed

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By: David Schultz The T.A.M.I. Show, the 1964 documentary featuring performances by The Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, James Brown and The Rolling Stones, has made its way on to PBS. Recently tabbed by David Fricke as “The Greatest Rock Concert Film” ever made, the film makes perfect DVR/Tivo fodder so you can fast forward through the pledge drive and tote bag breaks. (Apocryphal, but c’mon). As Sting

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By: David Schultz The 2010 Allman Brothers Band has been fraught with change. After 20 years (give or take a residency) at the Beacon Theater, the Allmans were forced to move the event uptown due to a conflict with a Cirque du Soleil booking. The Banana Shpeel spectacular was scheduled to begin a multiple month run in early February. Ironically, with Shpeel's opening date being pushed forward to

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By: David Schultz Leroy Justice will be in Woodstock tonight, opening for Ireland's Hothouse Flowers at the Bearsville Theater. For those not familiar with the area, this would be the venue that's not located in Levon Helm's home. Last night, the Justice warmed up the Flowers' crowd at the HighLine Ballroom, proving the pairing of the two bands to bit of inspired genius. Getting used to the big

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In the world of fictional bands, The Electric Mayhem are to The Rolling Stones what The Banana Splits are to The Beatles. (This should be worth something on the SAT). Going in reverse, here is Part 1 of the 2:22 Cloudcast series which contains the theme song from The Banana Splits, one of the greatest songs in the history of music.The 2:22 Playlist Pt. 1 by Rinjonjori on Mixcloud

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By: David Schultz The second album from Blues & Lasers, Scott Tournet's Delta blues side-project that features fellow Nocturnals Benny Yurco and Matt Burr, bassist John Rogone and drummer Steve Sharon, is at the mastering stage and is on schedule to beat the new Grace Potter & The Nocturnals album into the stores (or whatever passes for one these days). The band is targeting April 15 as a

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By: David Schultz Despite the remarkable longevity of the band and the chart topping success of "Start Me Up," there is a prevailing wisdom that The Rolling Stones ceased to be a vital cog in the classic rock machinery once they embraced disco and recorded "Miss You." Subscribers to that dogma have cause to rejoice. It's become common corporate practice to cull together outtakes and B-versions

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By: David Schultz In the days before the wave of political correctness swept across the language of popular culture, there was a whole subsection of music referred to as black music. Billboard even had a chart dedicated to the genre. If the term was used nowadays, it would apply to wide swaths of rap and hip-hop. In the days when the term was in use, it applied to soul, R&B and the blues.

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I am unsure how this started but some time back Rinjo developed an obsession with songs that lasted 2:22. I know of no significant February 22 birthdays and unless he's been hiding it from me, there's no weird numerological fixation at work. It results in The Hives, The Len Price 3 and The Staples Singers ending up on the same Cloudcast, so three cheers for iTunes for making this simple. The 2:

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By: David Schultz If The Kinks are going to make their return anytime in the near future, Ray Davies has done his part in keeping their music alive and vital over the last few months. The 65-year-old singer won over a skeptical Metallica at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concerts this past October and the seminal metal rockers gave "All Day And All Of The Night" and "You Really Got Me" its biggest

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By: David Schultz On June 8, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals will release their self-titled third album on Hollywood Records. Their long awaited follow-up to 2007's This Is Somewhere bears the fruits of their collaboration with Mark Batson and moves the T-Bone Burnett album into the realm once occupied by Chinese Democracy and Smile. Grace Potter & The Nocturnals will feature the five piece lineup

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By: David Schultz Anyone watching the final season of Lost is already intimately familiar with the topic of the Flash Sideways. After three seasons of flashbacks into the lives of the Oceanic 815 survivors stranded on the island, the storytelling shifted into showing the future and then simply went back in time to 1977. (This is much less confusing then it sounds). In dealing with a possibly

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By: David Schultz Linked together for eternity due to their shared Yardbirds history, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck have played together a shockingly few number of times. Whether it’s as the lead guitarist of The Yardbirds or as the featured guitarist at this October’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concerts, Beck usually seems to come into the picture when Clapton is out of the shot. This time last year

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There's a Rocky Horror Picture Show joke here somewhere. Feel free to make it at your leisure. Lipszipped by Rinjonjori on Mixcloud

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By: David Schultz At the end of Trey Anastasio’s mammoth first set at Terminal 5 this past Tuesday, the Classic TAB went backstage, leaving the guitarist to accompany himself with an acoustic guitar. What followed were twenty or so minutes of what makes going to live shows meaningful and worthwhile. Starting with “Brian And Robert,” Anastasio played an acoustic set of Phish tunes that included “

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By: David Schultz Rock from the South encompasses more than oversized guitarists with long hair singing songs about the heartland and being tied to the whipping post. It’s also the home of death metal and a region where Black Sabbath and Judas Priest still hold sway over impressionable adolescents. (So I’ve heard. It’s been years since I’ve been in the area). Hailing from Savannah, Georgia,

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By: David Schultz Small Black, one of the bands that created quite a stir for themselves at last year's CMJ Festival in New York City, has accepted their birthright as a hot, buzzed-about band and signed with Jagjaguwar, a label that knows a thing or two about good music. On April 27, Jagjaguwar will release an remixed, remastered and expanded version of the Small Black EP, adding "King Of

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When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one. Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run. Gun it comin' off the line Sharona Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sharona Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh. Close enough to look in my eyes, Sharona. Keeping it a

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By: David Schultz B.B. King, the legendary blues musician, had every right to be seated upon on a throne at the United Palace. With Lucille resting comfortably astride his now ample girth, a microphone just within reach of his left hand, King soaked in the adulation from a room filled predominantly with people who became enamored with King well into and long after the apex of his 60-plus year

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Rinjo finishes culling through the Best of 2009. With every Cloudcast, I find one or two new bands, this week it's Big Boss Man. So come on Rick, listen to the Cloudcast. (Yes, it has Future Of The Left too). Shutupredux by Rinjonjori on Mixcloud

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By: David Schultz Eric Clapton's Third Crossroads Festival will take place on June 26 at Chicago's Toyota Park. All profits from the event benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, the rehab facility center founded by Slow Hand. For those who aren't familiar with Clapton or his facility, its where Britney Spears spent a day back in 2007 when she toyed with cleaning herself up. This year's show

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By: David Schultz Superfly Productions announced the lineup for the 2010 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival which will take place June 10 through June 13 in Manchester, Tennessee. Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Dave Matthews Band and Kings Of Leon will headline this year's event; not as inspiring as the last couple lineups that featured the likes of Springsteen, Phish and Metallica. The Festival will also

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By: David Schultz Two years ago, Yeasayer's debut album All Hour Cymbals had bloggers all atwitter in their usual state of excitement and at SXSW, every one of their numerous sets, including one at the NPR showcase, had lines streaming down West Sixth or Red River. They surely didn't rush back into the studio to capitalize on the success. Quite the opposite, they seemed to let the buzz fade

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By: David Schultz Tea Leaf/Galactic Photo: Jeremy Gordon On the eve of the Saints’ first ever Super Bowl appearance, New Orleans’ funkmeisters Galactic brought a bit of the French Quarter to New York City this past Friday night, packing people into the spacious Terminal 5 for a wild night of Mardi Gras-tinged reveling. A guest laden night, Galactic received tremendous infusions of energy from

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