Ear Candy: Disco Biscuits "The Safety Dance" @ Bonnaroo

Let's just say that My Morning Jacket might have only been the second best show that night...



On a random side note, one of the Disco Biscuits' crew had a "My Boss is a Jewish Bass Player" t-shirt at Forecastle. I want one.

Biscuits Busted on Way to Bonnaroo; Hilarity Ensues

This is hilarious! From Spinner:

The Disco Biscuits took their late-night set to new heights on Friday at Bonnaroo, performing straight on 'til daybreak. A three-hour marathon that went more than an hour past their 4am scheduled stop, the Biscuits had special encouragement to play their hearts out -- it was a direct order from Tennessee's Cumberland County police department, who stopped them en route, searched their tour bus, and wrote citations to certain members of the band and crew for carrying personal amounts of marijuana.

During the song 'Nughuffer,' bassist Marc Brownstein recounted the events with his typical humor and flair, claiming the officer hugged him and told the band to "play the best set of their life," even after confiscating their pot and writing citations. Brownstein then asked the officer if he could have just a small amount of it back so he could twist one up for the final 90 minute stretch to the festival. When the cop obviously said no, Brownstein told him he was going to do a search of his tour bus twice as hard as the police because he was sure he could find something left, somewhere. We're pretty sure he was right.

I couldn't think of a more appropriate to end this post than with a little 03/27/99 Run Like Hell -> Nughuffer

Ear Candy: My Morning Jacket @ Bonnaroo

Here's a copy of MMJ's Bonnaroo performance. This downloaded from Mediafire at least ten times faster than Sendspace.

(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)

Thanks to RT's spauldazzio for the link and the pic.

Disco Biscuits "Kiling in the Name of" @ Bonnaroo Tube

This looks rowdy. Is the Barber glowing in the dark?

Bonnaroo Interviews

With all of the music coverage going on at Bonnaroo, there isn't very much devoted to that other thing that makes music festivals awesome: the people.

I guess the people conducting the interviews are radio hosts, and while they are kind of annoying, some of these interviews are priceless. I especially like the skinny wookie who can't get laid, the bro, and the tripping topless body painter. You'll see.

'roo Artist Additions and Late Night

Bonnaroo had a pretty good round of artist additions today: The Disco Biscuits, Zappa Plays Zappa, Cat Power, MSTRKRFT, and Chromeo. Had these recent additions been in the initial announcement I may have considered attending at the time.

Bonnaroo has also announced that My Morning Jacket and Phil Lesh will play late-night sets at the main stage, which will be in addition to their traditional late-night tent sows.

Don't get me wrong; I'm still not going...

See you at Rothbury (which sold out their early bird tickets in about a half hour this morning.)

My Morning Jacket: Live From Your Cell Phone

My Morning Jacket introduced a really cool way of making a video of their Lollapalooza performance today: a collage of fan videos from the performance (it would be even sweeter if MMJ went on tour again sometime soon, but for now this will have to do).

-check out official Bonnaroo video highlights

-SIRIUS' "Jam On" station will take a one week hiatus to preview the new Grateful Dead channel

-?uestlove sounds off after being denied D.J. honors at his high school reunion

-Ryan Adams will play more Fall dates

-Stewart Copeland will release his own Anthology

Couldn't Make it to Bonnaroo?

If you didn't get a chance to make it to Bonnaroo 2007 check out PT user Jiggs_' "Why Are You Here?" The flick contains a bunch of pics and clips but what makes it stand out to me is the film's variety (hell it seems like Jiggs_ covered every corner of the festival). Thanks Jiggs_!

For another mini-movie montage, check out Goodbye Deer Creek, "A home-movie type account of a Phish fans last trip to see a show. The second night of a 2 night Deer Creek show run."

Last Call

Here's some fun to wrap up the day...

-lucky enough to have a ticket to see the String Cheese Incident at Horning's Hideout? Check out what the Peak Productions has in store for you

-the Summer really brings the Phish nostalgia out; Gadiel recalls 6/19/95 at Deer Creek while the Joker reminisces about 6/26/04 at Alpine Valley

-get to know U-Melt

-Cinema Blend highlights everything that wasn't awesome about Bonnaroo

-ned covers the decline of the music industry

-while you've got a second, check out the new JamBase

Internet Radio's Day of Silence

Today is the Internet Radio day of Silence; give 'em some traffic and help support Internet Radio Equality. Here's what else is going on today...

-Michael Franti & Spearhead, Los Lobos, and the John Butler Trio will headline the Taos Solar Music Festival in New Mexico

-the Smashing Pumpkins + Asheville = Smasheville

-spend a day at Bonnaroo with Tea Leaf Green's Josh Clark

-Live Daily reviews Ryan Adams' "Easy Tiger"

-the Verve will reunite for a Winter tour

-Weezer plans to release a new album in early 2007

-Axl Rose fights with fans, this time in Australia

-Nintendo Wiilco?

-and for a sneak-peak at a Bob Marley after-party, check out Hidden Track

Bonnaritis

Well it looks like I'm not the only one out there with the Bonnaritis; nothing's going on out there right now. Here's the best of what I can scrounge up...

-get your Bonnaroo downloads here (thanks to a largeheartedboy)

-a Chicago Tribune article about the increasing prevalence of VIP tickets, areas, bathrooms, etc. (and its corresponding douchiness)

-Roger Waters talks about...wait for it....wait for it...his own greatness...does he still have it? see what Isorki thinks

-someone from Kentucky died at Bonnaroo? (and other thoughts from the Courier-Journal)

-do you live in Michigan (or happen to travel there often?) Go here and stop the ticket tax

-there's a new Tea Leaf Green acoustic Podcast with Tim Carbone

-and if nothing else, download an epic Halley's Comet and have an epic day (or car ride)

Catch Up-aroo

I would like to apologize to all ten of my devoted fans out there for the week long absence but with Bonnaroo and starting real work this week I've been kind of swamped...

-moe. will play another Radio City Music Hall New Year's Eve show; they've also announced a free outdoor show in Utah for you moe.rmons out there

-Umphrey's will play live on WLUP (Chicago radio) June 26

-speaking of Umphrey's - here's a Grateful Web interview with Jake and some MP3s from their 6/14 San Diego show courtesy of Rock Music Daily

-was March a good month for Tea Leaf Green? Decide for yourself with their latest podcast

-Vegoose is back October 26-28 (no lineup yet)

-Burning Oak interviews Keller Williams

-check out Hidden Track's 'roo Tubes

-and speaking of Tubes, I've missed at at least one WeTube Wednesday in the mix; here's the consolation prize - Phish doing "Halley's Comet" on 11/22/97 at Hampton



And of course, a roo-review is in the making...but before I say anything I think I disagree with every single point in this guy's Bonnaroo Review

This Week in the World

Wow it's been a busy week - and with Bonnaroo only a day away there's hardly time for any of it...

-the Lollapalooza schedule was released...let's just say I could be more upset about missing it this year...

-speaking of underwhelming schedules, Hidden Track previews the key Bonnaroo schedule conflicts

-Farm Aid will take place in New York City in early September

-Rage Against the Machine added an Alpine Valley show

-G. Love, Slightly Stoopid, and Ozomatli announced the Summer Haze Tour

-Page breaks out Army of One in Indy...

-Mountain Jam gets reviewed

-the Live Music Blog takes a hiatus

-oh yeah, and go get the latest Nugscast before Bonnaroo! (side question: does this mean that 08/13/93 at the Murat will be the next LivePhish release?)

-if you're looking for more music, get your Ben Harper on over a Rock Music Daily

-and for a good laugh, a heckling fan (of better music) provoked a fight at last night's Fall Out Boy show in Chicago

SuperSham

Last year's SuperJam at Bonnaroo consisted of Trey, Mike, the duo, and special guest Phil Lesh. It was definitely one of the most fun sets I've ever seen.

This year's SuperJam at Bonnaroo consists of John Paul Jones, Ben Harper, and ?uestlove. All three of these artists are clearly talented; it's just not what I would call a super lineup especially considering all of the other talent at the festival (wouldn't it have been awesome to see Bob Weir play with JPJ?)

I guess for me it doesn't really matter who is playing in the SuperJam; I will be seeing String Cheese no matter what...

Today in the World

Busy news day...

-Page (whose begins touring again tonight) added a slew of west coast dates

-Umphrey's will headline the Riverview Music Festival August 25-26 with Tea Leaf Green, Cornmeal, Brother's Past, and others

-The Disco Biscuits added two more dates to their summer run

-Ryan Adams mapped out his Summer tour

-Stewart Copeland promised not to play the same old reunion show at Bonnaroo

Catching Up

Unfortunately I was not able to blog from the middle of this year's Summer Camp Monsoon. Here's what I missed...

10,000 Lakes: Trey's out, Cheese's in

Speaking of Cheese, they've added more NYC and Red Rocks dates

Led Zeppelin Reunion?

moe. joins Lollapalooza

the Bonnaroo schedule was released; let the bitching begin...

How was Summer Camp you ask? Here are the highlights; I'll be posting more later...

-An entire year's worth of rain descended upon central Illinois in one day; it was not, however, nearly as effective at driving away hippies as...say...death metal
-Tea Leaf Green played a pretty good show (with Bayliss sitting in for a song or two)
-ALO blew my mind
-The Wailers just blew
-Keller and the WMDS were underwhelming, though I never realized how good Gibb Droll is
-Cornmeal was fun
-Brother's Past; what a great find!
-Umphrey's was great night one, sub-par night two
-moe. met and exceeded all expectations; not only was the music great; but the sets were well-chosen and probably had the best light show that I have ever seen

As I said, more later!

Showeroo!

So here's an unexpected plus side of the continual corporatization of Bonnaroo: showers.

(Not the) Bonnaroo Artist Additions (We're Waiting For)

Bonnaroo announced its next round of underwhelming artist additions today. The evil geniuses at Superfly Productions decided to further increase the anticipation surrounding possible additions to the festival by announcing their Cafe Tent Artists.

Intended to showcase "many exciting regional and soon-to-be nationally known performers from all over the country" the Cafe tents allow festival goers the choice to take a break from some of the more crowded, high-profile shows and discover new music that they would not have heard otherwise.

Click here for a complete list of the Bonnaroo Cafe Artists.

Honestly, I am really starting to question if Superfly is trying to put on the best festival possible or if they're just waiting to see if tickets sell out quickly enough with the current lineup so that they don't have to pay anyone else to play. While I was initially very neutral about allowing Widespread Panic to close the 'roo; the more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that Superfly just wants to see how quickly they can cash in on another Vegoose or Langerado-style spreadhead invasion. I've resisted the anti-Bonnaroo bandwagon for a while now; but if and when Bonnaroo announces yet another round of Port-A-Potty Artist Additions, I might have to jump ship.

What about the real additions? The last time I checked, Page, Umphrey's, Bisco, and moe. (the only group to perform at every Bonnaroo festival) are all free that weekend.