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Apparently City Paper is not the only crowd of folks who know April Mae and the June Bugs are a lot of fun. This Saturday night, one of their regular venues is giving them six hours to bring in fellow artists to throw a variation on the ol’ rent party theme, officially titled a Get Outta Town Party. The rent here is for that houseboat on wheels, the Boogie Bus. April Mae and Catfish are rolling that converted coach south to Mississippi and Alabama for two big recording sessions and a spot at the International Blues Challenge. Their friends — bands like the Missing Keys, Midnight Shift and Blue Cat Blues — are playing for free. The catch is, all would like you to show up and invest in your musical future by taking part in the silent auction. Pennsylvania Blues Festival has kicked in a pair of tix, Bucks County Blues seems to have shipped down everything they’ve got: blues CDs and books, plenty of merch as they say.
Why a funder now, given that the bus has been converted to bio-diesel and there is no shortage of fried food in the direction they are heading? The band has some big recording sessions coming up on the trip. April Mae is cutting with the International Blues Women Project in the heart of blues country, Clarksdale, Mississippi. Up river a bit both compete in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN. After that they have a session booked at the original Sun Studio.
Sat., Jan. 19, 6 p.m.-midnight, Red Hot and Blues, 2175 New Jersey Route 70, Cherry Hill, NJ. More info here.
Ever since I came across this Tip Of My Tongue post on Reddit, I can't get this song out of my head. Anybody know who the artist is? Sounds a little like Frazey Ford, but I'm not sure. The clues are few (it came from an old SXSW sampler, maybe?) and Shazam and Google have turned up nothing.
UPDATE: I asked Jolie Holland about it via Facebook. She doesn't recognize the voice.
UPDATE 2: The mystery arist is San Francisco singer and songwriter Indianna Hale. Big thanks to Stuart Woods for solving this and letting me get on with my life.
For everybody who didn't get into the Free At Noon show at WXPN today (like me).
On Wednesday, Philly natives the Disco Biscuits performed at the New Year's Run Kick-Off concert at the Best Buy Theater in NYC. The Biscuits' signature style, "Trancefusion" — a crossbreed of jam, prog and electronica — has elevated their status from sonic experimenters to pioneers to figureheads of the jam-band circuit. And, with the mainstream advent of EDM and dubstep finding the band's techno-savvy sound in high demand, it seems they're looking to make this New Year's Run one for the books.
The band returns to Time Square's Best Buy Theater again tonight and Sunday, taking a night off before hitting Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve with fellow jam giants, Phish.
If this is all jargon to you, the video above from Wednesday's show will give you a taste of the atmosphere. If the intoxicants don't get you, the light show will.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) Patty Crash is local. She’s fierce. I cannot wait till she drops a whole album.
Saw some of these tucked into City Paper boxes around Old City. Rodney Anonymous of course is one of the Dead Milkmen and a columnist for this newspaper. I'm guessing he did not like our Top 21 issue.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) This is the title track off Aimee Mann’s 2012 album Charmer and I think the song is lovely and the video is great. But the same could be said for “Labrador.” It was a total coinflip. By the way, both videos were directed by Tom Scharpling, legendary host of The Best Show on WFMU.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) This year’s Transcendental Youth came in ninth in our Top 21. I’ve never heard a Mountain Goats album I didn’t love.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) I’m not a huge fan of this video, but I think “Apocryphon” the song is one of the best things I heard all year. It’s Sabbathious, heavy and kinda nerdy.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) A couple year, New Jersey flag-fliers Titus Andronicus stormed through our Top 21 with The Monitor. This year’s Local Business was more of a slow burn, something you need to spend some time with.
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