So we get to see yet another Jack White incarnation take to the stage this month. His Garage-blues supergroup, The Dead Weather, is booked to play New York’s Bowery Ballroom on April 14th. They were officially announced as an outfit less than a month ago, when White moved his Third Man vinyl record label to his newly adopted home of Nashville, Tennessee. This time around, the multi-talented rock svengali has decided to have a go…
What if you were told that there was a slim chance that Soundgarden might reform? Or if Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd actually got up on stage in Seattle earlier this week at a Tom Morello solo show? Well, as reported by Reverb (the Seattle Weekly music blog), what would “probably not happen” according to Chris Cornell in 2005, became a reality at The Crocodile Café last Tuesday evening. It was the trio’s…
Early last week, it was reported in the tabloids that the seminal sages of Brit-pop, The Stone Roses, were yet again in danger of reforming. While this would be seen as a glorious second (or even third) coming for many hardcore Roses fans, the truth is that they were never a good live act. Their heavily-produced breakthrough debut album lost its magic on stage and with a singer synonymous with out-of-tune vocal melodies in Ian…
Conor O' Brien