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Mike Gordon Announces The Mossery Otherwise Known As The Best Thing Ever

Not to take anything away from the amazing work the Umphrey's McGee team has been doing in regards to fan and band interaction, but this is probably the coolest band/fan thingy I've ever heard of. For those of you that like to make the music and happen to be fans of any (or all) of the work Mike Gordon has done, you might just want to go and get yourselves a clean pair of shorts as this next bit of news is pretty darn fantabulous. Let's copy and paste so as not to lose any awesome in translation.

You're invited to "The Mossery," a free-form musical event on the eve of the release of Mike Gordon's new studio album Moss. The event will take place at a fully transformed Kenny's Castaway on Monday, October 18th in New York City. There's no cost to get in and you can come, explore and leave as you please. Guests will have the chance to pick up Mike's new album, Moss, which hits stores on Tuesday.

Attendees will have the opportunity to play along, with Mike on bass. We supply the instruments and mikes and you show up. We can't guarantee that everyone will get to (it's first come, first served), but we'll rotate as many willing participants through as possible, because a rolling stone gathers no moss.

The first half of the event will start at 7:30pm and continue through 9:00pm, at which point we'll rotate out all folks, making room for the next flock of people. The second half of the event, with all new participants, will begin at 9:30pm and continue through 11:00pm.

So yeah, you can jam with Cactus. For serious and for free. Not to mention you get to pick up his new album Moss a day early. And you get to jam with Cactus. Did I mention Mike will be on bass and you can play with him. If I somehow manage to hit the lottery tonight I'm moving to New York by Monday. One important question remains though, will the supplied instruments include a keytar? Everyone knows I only play with things I can strap around my neck. That's what she said.

For more information on The Mossery and all around awesomeness head on over to Mike's killer website. Also if anyone actually makes it out to this event and wants to share their experience or pictures please let us know. Can't wait to hear how it goes.

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Music
Awesome Stuff
You're Doing It Right
Mike Gordon
Moss

Brandon Flowers Announces First Solo Dates In August

As Brandon Flowers prepares for the release of his debut solo album Flamingo, The Killers frontman has announced a five date US tour that in all likely is going to amount to some warm-up shows before a massive US tour. Set to start in the singer's hometown of Las Vegas on August 15th, the mini-tour will then take the wing-wearing Flowers to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and finally a closing show in New York.

As for the album, Flamingo is still scheduled for a September 14th release and that fancy image up above is the album artwork. The first single "Crossfire" has a ninja heavy video starring Charlize Theron you can check out here.

Tickets for the newly announced shows will be available through a presale at The Killers fanclub beginning on Wednesday July 21st, with a general public onsale taking place on Friday July 23rd through Ticketmaster. By my account that leaves only one question still unanswered, is he human or is he dancer?   [via CoS]

08/15 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Shiner Showroom
08/17 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour
08/19 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
08/23 – Chicago, IL @ Park West
08/26 – New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom

Update: Looks like Ticketmaster has an August 25th date listed in Toronto which would make sense although that has not been officially announced.

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Music
Tour Dates
Album Art
Brandon Flowers
Flamingo

Las Tortugas Dance Of The Dead V Lineup Is Here

The lineup for the fifth annual Las Tortugas Dance of the Dead festival has just been announced. Once again set to take place over Halloween weekend Oct 28-31 at the Evergreen Lodge in Yosemite, CA, this year's event features a whole bunch of familiar faces as ALO returns as headliners along with 7 Walkers feat Bill Kreutzman, Papa Mali and George Porter Jr. as well as The Mother Hips, and more. As per usual the Tea Leaf Green crew will make their mark with a Trevor Garrard solo show along with Josh Clark's Guitarmageddon doing the music of Prince in addition to a full band show. Partay.

The main jist of ticketing is that the festival will go on sale next Wednesday, but there are some more details worth mentioning that the official copy covers well so let's do some pasting!

Super early bird ticket sales--$175 for a festival pass until August 15-- will be available on Wednesday July 21 at 10am PST. Please call the Lodge at 209/379-2606, for on-site camping at 10am PST on July 21st.

Each year, the cabins at Evergreen Lodge sell out quickly. This year, in order to give everyone a chance to reserve a cabin, we are instituting a random cabin drawing. To enter the drawing you must email tortugascabin@gmail.com no later than Saturday, July 17, by 2pm PST. Please click here for additional instructions on the Tortugas V cabin drawing and what you need to include in that email.

For more information head on over to the official site.

  • ALO
  • 7 Walkers feat. Bill Kreutzmann, Papa Mali and George Porter Jr.
  • The Mother Hips
  • Tea Leaf Green
  • Hot Buttered Rum
  • New Monsoon
  • Cornmeal
  • Melvin Seals and JGB with Stu Allen
  • Pimps of Joytime
  • Poor Man's Whiskey, including a perfromance of Old and In the Way
  • Lebo
  • BLVD
  • Big Light
  • Guitarmageddon feat. the music of Prince
  • Montana Slim String Band
  • Dead Winter Carpenters
  • Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers
  • Tracorum
  • Trevor Garrod
  • Nat Keefe and Friends
  • Sean Leahy and Friends
  • Jack Grace Band
  • Moonalice
  • Antioquia
  • Kate Gaffney
  • The Hongs
  • Honeymoon
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Music
Tea Leaf Green
The Mother Hips
ALO
Cornmeal
7 Walkers
Big Light
Las Tortugas Dance Of The Dead

Treasure Island Music Festival's 2010 Lineup Is Here!

The lineup for the fourth Treasure Island Music Festival has just been announced and it's indie-tastic. Set to take place Oct 16th and 17th, this year's good times will be headlined by LCD Soundsystem, Belle & Sebastian, The National, Broken Social Scene, and Deadmau5.  My favorite part of the lineup, aside from some of the big guns already mentioned, would have to be Parisian rockers Jamaica, who you may remember kicked off that whole Music Video of the Day thing here at SHA with their mock bio video for "I Think I Like U2".

Tickets for the festival will go on sale tomorrow July 13th at 10am PST. Early bird two day tickets are avaiable for just $99 so you should clearly strike while the iron's hot as single day tickets are $67.50 each. Although I feel I should warn you that there are rumors of Phish possibly rocking Las Vegas that same weekend so you may want to tread lightly if that would possibly create a conflict for you.

Head to the official site for more info. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster right here.

Saturday Oct 16

  • LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
  • DEADMAU5
  • KRUDER & DORFMEISTER {LIVE}
  • MIIKE SNOW
  • !!!
  • DIE ANTWOORD
  • LITTLE DRAGON
  • FOUR TET
  • HOLY FUCK
  • PHANTOGRAM
  • JAMAICA
  • WALLPAPER
  • MAUS HAUS

Sunday Oct 17

  • BELLE & SEBASTIAN
  • THE NATIONAL
  • BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
  • SHE & HIM
  • SUPERCHUNK
  • ROGUE WAVE
  •  SURFER BLOOD
  • RA RA RIOT
  • MONOTONIX
  • THE SEA AND CAKE
  • PHOSPHORESCENT
  • PAPERCUTS
  • THE MUMLERS
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Music
Broken Social Scene
The National
LCD Soundsystem
Jamaica
She & Him
Belle & Sebastian
Treasure Island

Initial Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup Has Umphrey's, Avett Brothers

San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is one of those good times that comes at the especially good times price of free. This year will mark the tenth anniversary of the event and will take place once again in the comfy comfines of Golden Gate Park on October 1st-3rd. The lineup is set to be released sometime soon but the festival's facebook page recently pointed out that there are some clues over at the official site.  These clues come in the form of some scrolling images of artists that presumably will be playing this year's fest. From what the internet sleuths over at the Umphrey's McGee message board The Bort have gathered, the list below are confirmed for this year's fun in the park.

  • Umphrey's McGee
  • The Avett Brothers
  • Trombone Shorty
  • Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
  • The Felice Brothers
  • Earl Scruggs 
  • Hazel Dickens 
  • Del McCoury  
  • Peter Himmelman 
  • Roseanne Cash
  • Carolina Chocolate Drops 
  • Patti Smith  
  • Lucero 
  • Justin Townes Earle 
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Music
Music Festivals
Umphrey's McGee
The Avett Brothers
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Trombone Shorty
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

I Feel The Need, The Need For Top Gun Day

Certain holidays are for the dogs, especially when you learn that Boxer Day doesn't celebrate Mike Tyson and Flag Day has nothing to do with a nationwide capture the flag tournament. Fortunately there are lots of good holidays too, like the 4th of July and Talk Like A Pirate Day. Well you might not be aware but today is actually one of those amazing holidays. It's time to put on some aviators and set the Kenny Loggins to full blast, Happy Top Gun Day!

The official website of this powerful holiday answers the how to participate question.

  1. On May 13th update your social network profile picture / avatar to be anything Top Gun related. Use an image from our photo gallery or get creative and make your own. If you do make your own we’d love it if you could share it with us. If it’s good we’ll post it to our user gallery so other people can use it. 
  2. Use as many Top Gun lines throughout the day as possible. For example, say your friend Jim asks you what you’re doing on Friday night, you should respond: “Hey Jim, you stink”. 
  3. Wear aviator sunglasses. Cheap or expensive. Inside or out. Just don’t “Scratch one”! 
  4. Grab your Top Gun Day T-Shirt and “CALL THE BALL!” 
  5. Go to a bar…wearing a flight suit or aviator wings and order a glass of Hemlock. 
  6. Call your friends and tell them, “I’m going to Top Gun!” and then hangup. 
  7. Buy some rubber dog shit. 
  8. Don’t wear deodorant and only respond to the name, Slider. 
  9. Join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! 

Use your imagination, there is NO wrong way to participate. If Slider can do it, so can you.

No idea how they don't mention Loggins or the ridiculously amazing soundtrack but that is clearly mandatory listening on Top Gun Day. Did I mention how much I love Kenny Loggins? That's right, but I held something back. I see some real genius in your flying, Kenny, but I can't say that in here. I was afraid that everyone on the interwebs would see right through me, and I just don't want anyone to know that I've fallen for you.

*cue Take My Breath Away *    [via film school rejects]

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Movies
Holidays
Top Gun
Val Kilmer
Tom Cruise

Outside Lands Loses A Day, Early Tickets On Sale Tomorrow

Looks like Facebook was wrong as all the official Outside Lands activity that took place on Monday was a Ranger Dave tweet saying he was getting antsy. How cute. Today they announced the official dates and if you enjoy the festival you'll probably be pretty pissed as there will be one less day of rocking this year. The festival will once again return to Golden Gate Park August 14th and 15th. 

As far as the lineup is concerned, that will be announced June 1st, which is pretty ridiculous considering almost all bands will have announced their summer dates by then, if they haven't already. "Eager Beaver" tickets will go on sale tomorrow at 10am PST for $115 through Ticketmaster.  Not too bad for two days, although the two days thing is too bad. For more information head on over to the official site.

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Music
Music Festivals
Outside Lands

Jam Cruise 9 Lineup Is Here! Weir, Lotus, Garage A Trois, Mastersounds

The details for the ninth edition of the highly successful Jam Cruise have just been announced. The 2011 version will see the boats headed to Roatan, Honduras and Casa Maya, Mexico with the cruise taking place January 4th-9th. Joining in on the fun this year include SHA favorites Garage A Trois, Lotus, The New Mastersounds, Robert Randolph, as well as a strong Grateful Dead contingent in the form of both Bob Weir's Scaring The Children as well as the Rhythym Devils.

The full initial lineup is listed below. Any cabins leftover from the presale will go on sale to the general public June 2nd at 12pm EST. For more details head over to the official site.

  • Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman, & Jay Lane are Scaring the Children 
  • Rhythm Devils feat. Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart
  • Robert Randolph & The Family Band
  • Galactic
  • The Greyboy Allstars
  • God Street Wine
  • Stockholm Syndrome
  • Lotus
  • JoJo's Mardi Gras Band
  • ALO
  • Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
  • Easy Star All-Stars
  • Lettuce
  • Garage A Trois
  • The New Mastersounds
  • Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
  • Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
  • Anders Osborne Feat. sets with Stanton Moore & Robert Walter and with George Porter, Jr & Johnny Vidacovich
  • Big Sam's Funky Nation
  • Cornmeal
  • Some Cat From Japan feat. Ron Johnson, Will Bernard, Scott Metzger, Eric Bolivar & Nigel Hall performing a tribute to Jimi Hendrix
  • Greensky Bluegrass
  • Big Gigantic
  • Zach Deputy
  • The Pimps Of Joytime
  • Maceo Parker Super Jam

Special Guests:

  • Leo Nocentelli
  • Fred Wesley
  • Col. Bruce Hampton
  • Jennifer Hartswick
  • Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
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Music
Jam Cruise
Lotus
The New Mastersounds
Galactic
Garage A Trois
ALO
Scaring The Children

Al Green To Play Outside Lands, Possible Lineup Tomorrow

So, let's get to talking about this year's Outside Lands Festival. Aside from an adjustment to the website claiming "fresh dates coming soon" there has been little to no news.  About a month or so ago some Kings of Leon tourdates went around that had an August 15th Outside Lands date included. The band offers no official confirmation of this date but if you look at their itinerary you will see they are playing pretty much everywhere on the planet except for the bay area, and just so happen to have the date available.

This means two things, the dates for the festival have been moved up a couple weeks to August 13-15 and it seems that Sunday's headliner will probably be Kings Of Leon. If you needed some more confirmation, aside from the super trustworthy Consequence of Sound Festival Outlook, Pollstar just added an August 15th date for Al Green in Golden Gate Park. Yes, that Al Green thus alieviating any concerns of a Sunday lineup people would consider missing.

Wait, there's more! If some adamant people over at the Festival's Facebook page are to be believed we are actually going to get some official news, and probably even an initial lineup announcement tomorrow on the Bay Area radio station Live 105. We'll update you as soon as we hear anything official but for now let's have some fun in the form of a Super Hella Awesome contest.

Just leave a comment below with ten bands that you think will be playing at this year's Outside Lands Festival, aside from the two mentioned in this article. Whoever picks the most is the winner, pretty simple. We'll make the deadline midnight so you probably won't have much competition. Ties will be broken scientifically, as we are nothing if not scientific.  If the lineup is leaked early, we'll end the contest as soon as we see it. The winner gets their very own SHA shirt, party.

Update: Looks like the Facebook peeps were wrong. Officially August 14th and 15th, with the lineup coming out June 1st. We'll leave this contest open until May 31st, with the same leaked lineup exception as before. Keep em coming.

Also, Al Green.

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Music
Music Festivals
SHA Contests
Kings Of Leon
Al Green
Outside Lands

Yim Yames, Yo La Tengo, YMSB Join Blind Boys Of Alabama For Shows

Curating is really all the rage these days with Wilco, The National, and now The Blind Boys Of Alabama getting into the act.  The legendary Gospel group will be curating three nights of music July 12th,14th, and 16th at Lincoln Center in New York City, each with a uniquely awesome lineup. Per the Lincoln Center website:

The Blind Boys of Alabama curate, host, and perform in three distinct programs developed specially for Festival audiences. Each night features a different musical journey with special artists from many walks of life, joining The Blind Boys in a celebration of what it means to perform music, in any genre, that is not only entertaining but moving. These concerts are inspired in part by the group's latest collaborative release Duets, which showcases the band's unique ability to blend with a wide variety of musical styles and artists.

The first night holds a special place in my heart as it includes My Morning Jacket frontman Yim Yames, Yo La Tengo, and others.  The second night will be more country based and will see Randy Travis, Yonder Mountain String Band, and others perform. The final evening will see The Boys sticking to their Gospel wheelhouse with a decidely New Orleans flare.

Tickets for all three shows are available now here. The full lineup for each night is listed after the jump.

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Music
Collaborations
Jim James
Yonder Mountain String Band
Yo La Tengo
The Blind Boys Of Alabama

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