Jim James and Co. are regarded as one of the best live acts out there for a reason, so unless you were at Madison Square Garden last Wednesday (or stuck at home watching bits and pieces from CNN's New Year's Eve coverage,) you missed a doozy of a show. Included in the setlist were the following covers (which are available to download thanks to Brooklyn Vegan):
MP3: My Morning Jacket, "Move on Up (Curtis Mayfield cover)"
MP3: My Morning Jacket, "You're All I Need (Marvin Gaye cover)"
MP3: My
GLC, aka Gangsta L. Crisis, came to town Sunday and Monday to promote the release of True to the Game, a hip-hop compilation album featuring industry giants like Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, T-Pain and Kanye West. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the album benefit Kansas City's Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. I met with GLC, whose song with Kanye West, "The Big Screen," appears on the album. The 31-year-old is the latest signee to West's G.O.O.D. Records label. This post contains portions of the
I saw White Denim the night before SXSW started at a bar called Ms. Bea's. All they served was cheap beer, and the stage was out back on a sort of porch thing. The KJHK folks I'd gone down with and myself hadn't even checked into our hotel yet, and we were already rocking out to this band, who almost defy description.
myspace.com/whitedenimmusic
White Denim is one of those bands that requires name-checking something like half a dozen other bands to describe, and even then, something gets
