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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Levon, LaMontagne hit Bass Nov. 12
The Bass Concert Hall has confirmed that the Levon Helm Band and singer Ray LaMontagne will play a double bill on Friday, November 12. Tickets go on sale this Friday at noon at the Bass Concert Hall ticket office, most H-E-B stores and online at TexasPerformingArts.org.
When Helm and his band played Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2008, he he was recovering from surgery and didn’t sing. On the current tour, however, Helm has handled most of the vocals. And, as always, his drumming is exquisite.
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Texas Music Museum benefit at the Victory
Clay Shorkey and his volunteer staff at the offices crammed with boxes of memorabilia that they call the Texas Music Museum have done an amazing job of preservation over the past 20-plus years. To boost its shoestring budget a tad, the TMM is hosting a benefit at the Victory Grill on Sunday at 6 p.m.
The lineup includes sets from blues titans Miss Lavelle White, and W.C. Clark, plus up-and-comers the Peterson Brothers Band and Mike Milligan and the Altar Boys. Also, Austin-based writer Bill Minutaglio will be on hand to sign copies of his new book “In Search of the Blues.”
Tickets are $10 in advance at www.TexasMusicMuseum.org or $15 at the door.
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The Gorillaz bring the cool shoe shine to the Frank Erwin Center
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s high-concept multimedia musical project the Gorillaz announced details for a full world tour this morning, and the trek includes a stop in Austin — October 22 at the Frank Erwin Center.
The “virtual band” is touring behind third album “Plastic Beach,” which was released in March. Having scuttled plans for a world tour featuring extremely expensive 3D technology a few years ago, the current live Gorillaz setup includes a large video screen with the band’s animated counterparts, and the band’s actual members on stage. The lineup will include vocalist, keyboard player and guitarist Albarn, as well as one-half of the Clash — both Mick Jones and Paul Simonon are currently playing with the band. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 13.
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Live Review: Robert Plant and the Band of Joy at Stubb’s
Robert Plant took all sorts of detours on his way from dancing like Legolas to looking like Gandalf.
There was that unfortunate haircut during Live Aid, that time he looked like a burrito on the cover of Musician magazine and naming a record “Now and Zen.”
But he seems to have hit a sweet spot these past few years. “Raising Sand,” his collaboration with Alison Krauss, was a weird miracle of rootsy swagger and classy rock lilt; the tour that followed produced some of his strongest, heaviest music in a very long time.
For his next trick, he revived the Band of Joy (which was the name of his pre-Led Zeppelin band with John Bonham), enlisted the help of Patty Griffin and “Raising Sand” tourmate Buddy Miller, cut a record that’s due in the fall and hit the road, stopping at a sold-out Stubb’s Monday night.
With Miller, Griffin and Nashville pros such as guitarist Darrell Scott, drummer Marco Giovino and bassist Byron House, Plant grooved through an often surprising set of covers, older solo material given a fresh coat of class and a few Zeppelin nuggets.
An swinging, almost psychedelic-folk take on Los Lobos’ “Angel Dance” followed opener “Down to the Sea” The Richard and Linda Thompson lament “House of Cards” and made beautiful use of Griffin’s vocals, which were occasionally a little lost elsewhere (she seemed to vanish on “Please Read the Letter”). Yes, he broke out “Tall Cool One” and “In the Mood.”
As for the Zeppelin, country-honk filled in for stomp on “Misty Mountain Hop,” “Over the Hills and Far Away” and especially “Houses of the Holy,” while the excellent “Gallows Pole” and “Tangerine” - both from the folkier “Led Zeppelin III” - flourished.
Miller was the set’s not-so-secret weapon, leading the band and contributing solos both razored and tuneful; his thrum of feedback powered the night’s most unexpected cover: indie rockers Low’s “Monkey.”
A glorious cover of Townes Van Zant’s “Harms Swift Way” all but upstaged Zep classics “Thank You” and “Rock and Roll” in the encore. The man really knows how to make folk songs into electric castles - it’s easy to see him making music like this for the rest of his life
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