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Carlos Santana Married Drummer Cindy Blackman In Pre-Holiday Hawaiian Wedding

January 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Rock icon Carlos Santana is a married man again after tying the knot with one of his bandmates in Hawaii over the holidays. The “Evil Ways” guitarist, 63, wed 51-year-old drummer Cindy Blackman, in a beach-side ceremony on Dec. 19. Their lavish nuptials were held at the luxury Ritz Carlton Resort on Maui island, Hawaii [...]

American Music Awards 2010 Red Carpet LIVE Stream [VIDEO]

November 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Hey Music Fans, the stars will be out tonight as the best in the industry converge on sunny Los Angeles to celebrate the 2010 American Music Awards. Hosts Lance Bass, Whitney Port, and Danny Gokey are on red carpet ready to chat with some of music’s biggest names as they arrive at the Nokia Theatre [...]

Grateful Dead Donate to Hungerthon

September 30th, 2010 | No Comments

STING, CSN, SANTANA, CHEAP TRICK & MORE DONATE TO 25TH ANNUAL
HUNGERTHON

2010 marks the 25th year that WhyHunger, the non-profit
organization founded by Harry Chapin and Bill Ayres, has made its annual November
Hungerthon auction a premiere charitable event during the holiday season. To date, the auction has raised over $11
million to help put a stop to hunger and poverty worldwide.

This year, WhyHunger will open the auction to participants nationwide online; promoting it on SIRIUS XM and at
radio stations across the country on Saturday, November 20 and Tuesday, November 23, making it the biggest
Hungerthon yet at a time when many are struggling.

Here are just a few of the many items up for bidding during the 2010 Hungerthon:

Autographed guitars from Sting; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Carlos Santana and Cheap Trick
Grateful Dead pelon (t-shirt design stencil) autographed by all original members of the band
Baseballs autographed by the Yankees’ Robinson Cano and Mariano Rivera and by the Mets’ David Wright
Comedy Central Package – 2 VIP tickets to attend a taping of The Colbert Report and 4 VIP tickets to attend a taping
of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Tom Chapin house concert
Lunch with Charles Grodin

Dinner with Vincent Pastore

NY Giants – 2 great seats to attend a 2010/2011 season home game, with a pre-game personalized tour of Timex
Performance Center stadium by the NY Giants’ Director of Community Relations (with opportunities for
autographs)

Additional Hungerthon auction items will be announced soon.

Rodrigo y Gabriela | Red Rocks Pics/Video

August 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Words & Images by: Mike Hardaker

Rodrigo y Gabriela :: 08.20.10 :: Red Rocks Amphitheatre :: Morrison, CO

Rodrigo y Gabriela were joined by special guests Shenkar, Al Di Meola and Zach de la Rocha for their concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The duo brought their amazing live acoustic show much to the delight of the nearly sold out crowd, combining classical flamenco music with modern day punk rock and metal elements.

Rodrigo and Gabriela first met while living in Mexico City playing in the thrash metal band Tierra Acida. Growing frustrated with the limited music scene in their hometown the two moved to Dublin, Ireland, where then gained instant fame playing in local pubs and music festivals.

The duo has released six albums to date, and their most recent, 11:11, catapulted the band into the American mainstream music by covering songs from artist such as, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd. With the addition of Shenkar from India, the sounds took on the feel of another world, or at the very least, another galaxy. Al Di Meola showed the crowd the possibilities of a string instrument, blending jazz-fusion with Latin guitar. The traveling guitar player, or gypsy as some call him, just played a gig in Italy and will be heading to Hungary after Red Rocks. It was an honor to be able to see this legend live and in concert. Zach de la Rocha, frontman for Rage Against The Machine, inspired people to talk about SB 1070 in Arizona and warned of the chances of something similar coming to Colorado.

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Videos From This Performance

Rodrigo y Gabriela hit “Tamaron”

Zach de la Rocha Speech, with Rodrigo y Gabriela jamming in the background

Rodrigo y Gabriela with Shenkar

Rodrigo y Gabriela jamming with Shenkar

Al Di Meola guitar solo

Rodrigo y Gabriela and Al Di Meola

Zach de la Rocha and Rodrigo Y Gabriela first part of “Bomb Track”

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Carlos Santana returns to Woodstock festival after four decades

July 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Rock guitarist Carlos Santana returned to the Woodstock festival for the first time since his debut there in 1969 for a concert in front of 15,000 fans. Santana offered a tribute to the 1960s, playing his version of songs by the ”Doors,” ”Jimi Hendrix” and ”Cream.” “All of us who were here remember the magic. [...]

Santana: Guitar Heaven Out 9/21

July 15th, 2010 | No Comments

GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME FIRST ALBUM SINCE 2005′S
ALL THAT I AM

Carlos Santana

The longest-running, most successful partnership in the history of rock takes flight anew, as legendary Rock And
Roll Hall of Fame inductees Carlos
Santana and Clive Davis, Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Entertainment, collaborate on the
brand new concept album, Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, arriving in
stores September 21 on Arista Records. The album was co-produced by Carlos Santana and Clive Davis with tracks
produced by Matt Serletic and Howard Benson.

Working from their collective encyclopedic knowledge of rock, Carlos Santana and Clive Davis devised a list of guitar-
centric titles – and then invited a Who’s Who of guest vocalists to perform on every track. Singers range from Chris Cornell (on Led Zeppelin’s Â“Whole
Lotta LoveÂ”), Pat Monahan (on Van
Halen’s Â“Dance the Night AwayÂ”), Chester
Bennington and Ray Manzarek
(on The Doors’ Â“Riders on the StormÂ”), Rob
Thomas (on Cream’s Â“Sunshine Of Your Love), Scott Weiland (on the Rolling Stones’ Â“Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’Â”), Chris Daughtry (on Def Leppard’s
Â“PhotographÂ”), Gavin Rossdale (on T.
Rex’s Â“Bang A GongÂ”) to rapper Nas
(on AC/DC’s Â“Back In BlackÂ”), veteran Joe
Cocker (on Jimi Hendrix’s Â“Little WingÂ”), and more.

A very special dedication to George Harrison comes together on Guitar HeavenÂ…, with Â“While My Guitar
Gently Weeps,Â” featuring singer india.arie and master cellist Yo Yo Ma. Â“Listening to the song,Â” Olivia Harrison told Carlos, Â“it made me jump for joy and
cry at the same time.Â” (Please see below for a working track listing.)

Along with these stars, Carlos offers Â“supreme validation and complimentÂ” to his full-time band for their work on
Guitar HeavenÂ…, their first entire full-length studio album recording together. Band members who join him
on the album include Dennis Chambers (drums), Benny Rietveld (bass), Karl Perrazo
(timbales), Tommy Anthony (rhythm guitar), Freddie Ravel (keyboards), Andy Vargas
(background vocals), and Raul Rekow (Congas). Bill Ortiz (trumpet) and Jeff Cressman
(trombone) also appear on the record.

Tracklisting:

Â“Whole Lotta LoveÂ” featuring Chris Cornell (Led Zeppelin)

Â“Sunshine Of Your LoveÂ” featuring Rob Thomas (Cream)

Â“Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’Â” featuring Scott Weiland (The Rolling Stones)

Â“Dance the Night AwayÂ” featuring Pat Monahan (Van Halen)

Â“While My Guitar Gently WeepsÂ” featuring india.arie and Yo-Yo Ma (The Beatles)

Â“Bang A GongÂ” featuring Gavin Rossdale (T. Rex)

Â“Smoke On the WaterÂ” featuring Jacoby Shaddix (Deep Purple)

Â“PhotographÂ” featuring Chris Daughtry (Def Leppard)

Â“Back In BlackÂ” featuring Nas (AC/DC)

Â“Little WingÂ” featuring Joe Cocker (Jimi Hendrix)

Â“Riders On the StormÂ” featuring Chester Bennington and Ray Manzarek (The Doors)

Â“I Ain’t SuperstitiousÂ” featuring Jonny Lang (Howlin’ Wolf, Jeff Beck Group)

Â“Fortunate SonÂ” featuring Scott Stapp (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

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Carlos Santana Engaged â€” Santana Proposes To Drummer Cindy Blackman Onstage

July 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Musician and philanthropist Carlos Santana proposed to drummer Cindy Blackman onstage during a concert in Tinley Park, Illinois on Friday night.The veteran rocker — who is spending the summer crisscrossing the globe on his summer Universal Tour — popped the question four songs into a show at the Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, just outside Chicago, [...]

Santana/Steve Winwood Tour

April 13th, 2010 | No Comments

SANTANA & STEVE WINWOOD JUNE/JULY EAST COAST TOUR KICKS OFF WITH
SANTANAFANCLUB.COM PRE-SALE APRIL 13

Santana

The Carlos Santana “Universal
Tone Tour” 2010 gets underway on June 30 with an initial North American leg running through early August. The
“Universal Tone Tour” 2010 will feature hits from Santana’s four-decades-long career, as well as songs from a brand
new studio album that Carlos Santana is currently putting finishing touches on. Carlos and the Santana Band will be
joined on the road by special guest Steve Winwood, who will open the dates. Following the kick-off concert at Xcel Energy
Center in St. Paul, MN, the tour travels through the Midwest and Canada for the first half of July, and then heads to
the East coast. www.santanafanclub.com will be
offering Best Seats, April 13. Ticket Pre-Sales begin April 13 at SantanaFanClub.com for unpaid site members, and
Supernatural and Lifetime members.

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New Mastersounds/Trombone Shorty | 03.13

March 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Words by: Dennis Cook | Images by: Susan J Weiand

The New Mastersounds/Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave/Salvador Santana
03.13.10 :: The Fillmore :: San Francisco, CA

The New Mastersounds :: 03.13 :: San Francisco

Once music is stuffed under the “funk/soul” umbrella there’s often little wiggle room. A certain tempo, energy, style, etc. is expected by the people putting cash on the barrelhead. This frequently leads to a homogeneous sound that’s predictable, down to the frenetic, wide-open soloing and sanctioned sources covered (James Brown, The Meters, Prince, Sly, Al Green, Dr. John, Motown, Stax). Even regional differences blur in the sameness not just expected but tacitly demanded of “funk/soul” purveyors, whose core audiences come to dance and savor flavors already dear to them. So, it’s a narrow tightrope to traverse if bands want to serve groove music’s basic instincts AND push the boundaries a bit. At The Fillmore we got three bands located at fairly divergent spots on this spectrum, with the evening’s headliner showing how one pirouettes on the high wire without missing a beat.

Salvador Santana and his tight, polished band kicked off the evening, and like his recent, quite winning solo album Keyboard City (JamBase review), their short set was summer afternoon warm and easy to like. However, the crispness and immediacy of the album wasn’t quite matched by Santana’s live presentation. His current mood recalls the crossover soul-rock of War, Donny Hathaway and even the bumpin’ side of early Doobie Brothers – like I said, easy to like stuff. What gelled in the studio hasn’t quite made its way to the stage, and things weren’t helped much, outside of a little residual star power, by a forgettable guest appearance by Salvador’s pop Carlos Santana, who just strummed along with one tune without setting off any fireworks.

One thing about Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave. is they put on a reliably exciting, musically robust show. In the half dozen sets I’ve caught they’ve never been less than satisfying, but the dance floor igniters were especially on and particularly charismatic this night. There’s an awful lot of talent stuffed into this band, and while Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews – just 24 and looking likely to conquer any mountain he sets his strong mind to – is the name upfront, he’s gracious in sharing the spotlight and exudes real enthusiasm for this band’s gifts. However, when the focus swings back his way his chops, talent and naked personal appeal is gripping. He kills on his brass instruments and he’s got a strong, flexible voice, but this gig also featured some tasty Hammond organ action, which surprised some folks coming from a dude whose trombone skills suggest we’re looking at this generation’s Fred Wesley. The other standout onstage, as per usual, was guitarist Pete Murano, whose feel and tone instincts mark him as an emerging great. Plenty of assholes can shred their way into Guitar Player transcription notoriety, but Murano works it in a way you can feel in your limbs.

Trombone Shorty :: 03.13 :: San Francisco

However, the one wrinkle in an otherwise pretty amazing bit of musical entertainment is a similarity in setlist construction from show to show, which bubbled up again at The Fillmore despite the exceeding pleasure their performance engendered. Hearing them switchback between a spot-on cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” and a melange that married ’50s Miles Davis-like bop to an oversized marching beat AND a strong dose of quality new jack swing and Cab Calloway, I felt sure that there’s music outside the hometown New Orleans comfort zone that shapes the boundaries of their set. This is largely a young band and there’s some very cool, original music lurking on the edges. Their newer originals, which will get a full airing on Shorty’s new album Backatown (arriving April 20), suggest they’re beginning to explore their own sound beyond the second line, James Brown and Meters moves they’ve gotten down very well already. Don’t get me wrong, I was still wiggling like I got happily tasered during their set, and there’s not many working the rich New Orleans traditions quite like Shorty and his boys. I’d just like to see where they’d go if they really took the brakes off and got as fearless as their music and potent drive suggests they might be.

I simply can’t rave enough about The New Mastersounds, who have steadily risen to my top spot for a largely instrumental soul/funk band over the past few years. It would be SO easy for a quartet with such traditional instrumentation for this genre – Eddie Roberts (guitar, tambourine),
Pete Shand (electric bass), Joe Tatton (Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes) and Simon Allen (drums) – to sound like a straight Meters knockoff or some derivative of any horn-less James Brown configuration – despite the fact they’re from England. But they don’t; they sound both classically grounded in the deepest roots of their chosen field – extending out to the most fiery, positive examples from ’70s electric jazz, ’90s acid jazz and contemporary dance music – and utterly their own men. From the opener onward, there was an inescapable sense of distinct personality to The New Mastersounds’ music, rising both from their individual touches and their absolutely dead solid compositions – the latter aspect being one of the chief ways NMS differentiate themselves from the competition.

The New Mastersounds with Trombone Shorty :: 03.13

“We’re at the bloody Fillmore!” whooped Eddie Roberts, who always looks a touch cooler than I’ll ever be on my best day and seemed ridiculously at ease on the fabled stage. “Ease” is an appropriate word for this group, who rarely whomp one over the head with obvious moves or overly showy soloing. Like this show, they just seem to divine the sweet spot of each number and stroke it until it purrs. There’s an unrushed charm to them, too, as if they’d all sipped of whatever nectar has fueled Charlie Watts endlessly unruffled demeanor all these years in the Rolling Stones. Taken together, they come across as a class act that’s always playing precisely what they want to and has real empathy for what will swerve an audience in the right ways at the right times. Shuffling contentedly in front of the soundboard, it took mere minutes before I’d caught their current, which took me with a sureness I genuinely appreciate when trying to get my funk on.

Another way they move away from their peers is in being satisfying on a cerebral as well as, shall we say, a tactile level. Moving and feeling are swell, but for a giant sized music nerd like myself there’s a great deal to parse and explore in their sound – the way each instrument is speaking and interacting with the others and the melody, all the texture and intelligent nuances they inject. Eyes closed below the lavender hued chandeliers, I felt a zing in my brain akin to the first time I encountered Miles Davis’ post-Hendrix, post-Sly work, and particularly his many ’70s live recordings. There’s something irrepressibly alive about the Mastersounds’ music, and though there’s greater discipline and less of a wild hair than Miles’ last great outpouring, this band stokes some of the same fires as the master.

It’s as if they’ve spent the last 10-plus years together pondering and then executing ALL the possibilities of their configuration they can figure out. While they do well incorporating guest vocalists and other high-end musicians, they’re usually at their best with the four of them, playing hot potato with their solos or gliding collectively into the curves of their songs. As this Fillmore show testified, NMS is always fun, never less than highly stimulating and living proof that, despite the perceived limitations of the genre, there are some artists capable of teaching old dogs new tricks.

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Katy Perry Shoe Line With Steve Madden

February 17th, 2010 | No Comments

“I Kissed A Girl” crooner Katy Perry is reportedly in chats to develop her own line of footwear with shoe man Steve Madden. The singer has been offered $1 million to create a collaborative collection to follow in the footsteps of celebrity footwear designers Jessica Simpson, Fergie, and Carlos Santana.

We Are The World 3.0

February 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Here’s another line up of big names who decided to bring back to life We Are The World, this 25-year-old song once produced by Quincy Jones to help raise people in Haiti who are still suffering from this earthquake that struck the island exactly one month ago today.
At first I was like; ok, not bad, [...]

â€œWe Are The Worldâ€ Remake Will Debut During 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony

February 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones’ star-studded remake of the charity classic “We Are The World” will be unveiled during tonight’s opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Twenty-five years ago, the iconic recording generated millions of dollars to aid famine relef in Africa. The recently-recorded contemporary version of the song — titled “We [...]

Best of 2009 JamBase Staff List

December 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Kayceman’s Cuts of 2009

Kayceman

Aaron Kayce (Kayceman) – Editor-in-Chief

Albums

1. Alberta Cross – Broken Side of Time

2. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul

3. Built to Spill – There Is No Enemy

4. Mastodon – Crack The Skye

5. Elliott Brood – Mountain Meadows

Shows

1. Them Crooked Vultures | 11/19/09 | Fox Theater Oakland, CA

2. Widespread Panic | 11/13/09 | Fox Theater Oakland, CA (review)

3. The Mars Volta | 08/29/09 | Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco, CA (review)

Dennis Cook

Dennis Cook – Associate Editor

Albums (no particular order)
1. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
2. Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
3. Todd Snider – The Excitement Plan
4. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
5. The Black Crowes – Before The Frost…After The Freeze

Close runners-up: Bruce Springsteen at HP Pavilion (04.01), Mastodon at San Jose Events Center (11.21), Flowmotion at Summer Meltdown (08.15), Tom Jones at Outside Lands (08.28), and Bon Iver/Megafaun at Fillmore (09.22).

Andy Gadiel

Andy Gadiel – JamBase Founder & President

Albums (no particular order)
1. Fun – Aim & Ignite
2. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
3. Jerry Garcia Band – Let It Rock – Keystone ’75
4. Nathan Moore – Folk Singer
5. Corinne West – The Promise

David Rosenheim

David Rosenheim – CEO

Albums
1. Polvo – In Prism
2. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
3. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
4. The Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
5. Bat for Lashes – Two Suns

Tanner Wyer

Tanner Wyer – Sales Associate

Albums
1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
3. Miike Snow – self-titled
4. Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
5. Portugal. The Man – Satanic Satanist

Mason Blake

Mason Blake – Lead Engineer

Albums
1. The Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Alberta Cross – Broken Side of Time
4. Passion Pit – Manners
5. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion

Patty Kaufman

Patty Kaufman – Information Coordinator

Albums
1. Alberta Cross – Broken Side of Time
2. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Iron and Wine – Around the Well

SuperDee

Deanne Herman – Web Producer & Designer

Albums
1. The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You
2. Phish – Joy
3. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
4. The Lonely Island – Incredibad
5. Nathan Moore - Folk Singer

Runners-up: Umphrey’s McGee’s Mantis and Lily Allen’s It’s Not Me, It’s You

Geoff Harrison

Geoff Harrison – Sales Director and Biz Dev

Albums
1. Erin McKeown – Hundreds of Lions
2. Marco Benevento – Me Not Me
3. Cracker – Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
4. Band of Skulls – Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
5. Brendan Benson – My Old, Familiar Friend

Leah Elton

Leah Elton – Accounting Manager

Albums
1. IAMX – Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
2. Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
3. John Vanderslice – Romanian Names
4. The Horrors – Primary Colours
5. Bat for Lashes – Two Suns

Matt Tice

Matt Tice – Sales

Albums
1. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
4. Elbow & The BBC Concert Orchestra – The Seldom Seen Kid
5. Fever Ray – self-titled

Jennifer Zeghibe

Jennifer Zeghibe – Sales

Albums
1. Levon Helm – Electric Dirt
2. Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
3. J.J. Cale – Roll On

Honorable Mention:
Greensky Bluegrass | 11.05.09 | Mission Rock | San Francisco, CA

Jamie Piazza – JamBase Web Producer & Designer

Albums
1. Passion Pit – Manners
2. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
3. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
5. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

Crystal Carlson – JamBase Information Coordinator

Albums (no particular order)
1. Monsters of Folk – self-titled
2. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
3. The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
4. Umphrey’s McGee – Mantis
5. The XX – self-titled

Shows

1. Phish | 03.06.09 | Hampton Coliseum
2. Bon Iver | 09.22.09 | The Fillmore
3. Ween | 08.30.09 | Outside Lands

Continue reading for Best of 2009 lists from JamBase Writers, Friends and Associates…

Brian Bavosa – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Brock Butler – Lately Here Though
2. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
3. Phish – Joy
4. Monsters of Folk – self-titled
5. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic

Shows

Basically, Phish is back!!!

Sarah Hagerman – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Danny Barnes – Pizza Box
2. Elliott BROOD – Mountain Meadows
3. Sometymes Why – Your Heart is a Glorious Machine
4. Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
5. The Felice Brothers – Yonder is the Clock

Jake Krolick – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
2. The Heavy – The House That Dirt Built
3. The Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
4. Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
5. Floating Action – Floating Action

Susan J. Weiand – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Phish – Joy
2. Umphrey’s McGee – Mantis
3. The Derek Trucks Band – Already Free
4. Chick Corea & John McLaughlin Five Peace Band – Five Peace Band, Live
5. Jimmy Herring Band – Lifeboat

Josh Miller – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. The Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. The Black Crowes – Before The FrostÂ…
4. The Dead Weather – Horehound
5. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic

Ron Hart – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Part II
2. Elvis Costello – Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
3. Iggy Pop – Preliminaires
4. Flaming Lips – Embryonic
5. Dam-Funk – Toeachizown

Steven Walter – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus
3. The Felice Brothers – Yonder is the Clock
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. J. Tillman – Year in the Kingdom

Andrew Bruss – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

2. Mastodon – Crack The Skye

3. Raekwon – Only Built For Cuban Linx Pt. II

Shows
1. My Morning Jacket At Madison Square Garden on NYE 2008.

Technically the second set was this year and it was the best musical performance I saw this year.

2. Phish at Fenway Park

3. Animal Collective at the House Of Blues in Boston, MA 5/14

Wesley Hodges – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Passion Pit – Manners
2. Alberta Cross – Broken Side of Time
3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Atlas Sound – Logos
5. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm

B Getz – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Jerry Garcia Band – Let It Rock – Keystone ’75
2. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
3. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
4. (tie) Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Pt. II/Wu-Tang Clan – Chamber Music
5. (tie) Lil Wayne No Ceilings (official mixtape)/Clipse – Til the Casket Drops

Cal Roach – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Minsk – With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone
3. BLK JKS – After Robots
4. Themselves – CrownsDown
5. Krallice – Dimensional Bleedthrough

Casey Flanigan – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Phish – Joy
2. Bassnectar – Cozza Frenzy
3. Jay-Z – Blueprint 3
4. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown

Court Scott – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
2. The Black Crowes – Before the FrostÂ…Until the Freeze
3. N.A.S.A. – Spirit of Apollo
4. Them Crooked Vultures – self-titled

Eric Podolsky – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Monsters of Folk – self-titled
2. Return to Forever – Returns
3. Steve Martin – The Crow: New Songs For The 5-String Banjo
4. The Black Crowes – Before the Frost… After the Freeze
5. Vetiver – Tight Knit

JC Mcilwaine – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Pretty Lights – Passing By Behind Your Eyes
2. Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer
3. White Rabbits – It’s Frightening
4. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Soulsavers – Broken

Kevin Schwartzbach – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. Super Furry Animals -Dark Days/Light Years
3. Jim O’Rourke – The Visitor
4. Wilco – Wilco (the Album)
5. Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11

Zack Sampsel – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
DÃ¢m-Funk – Toeachizown
Pantyraid – The Sauce
Drake – So Far Gone
Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms

Ryan Dembinsky – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Fanfarlo – Reservoir
2. The Avett Bros – I and Love and You
3. Devendra Banhart – What We Will Be
4. Alec Ounsworth – Mo Beauty
5. Bela Fleck – Throwdown Your Heart

Norman Sands – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Anthology
2. AC/DC – Backtracks
3. Mark Karan – Walk through fire
4. Tea Leaf Green – Coffee Bean Brown Comes Alive
5. Cornmeal – Live

Andy Tennille – BLURT & JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
2. Dave Rawlings Machine – Friend Of A Friend
3. Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
4. Monsters of Folk – self-titled
5. Alberta Cross – The Broken Side of Time

Fred Mills – BLURT Managing Editor & JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Flaming Lips – Embryonic
2. Reigning Sound – Love & Curses
3. Doveman – The Conformist
4. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – self-titled
5. The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You

Justin Gillett – JamBase contributor

Albums
1. Pretty Lights – Passing Before Your Eyes
2. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
3. Big Gigantic – Fire it Up
4. Eliot Lipp – Peace Love Weed 3D
5. Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms

Lindsay Colip – JamBase contributor

1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Vetiver – Tight Knit
4. White Lies – To Lose My Life
5. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

Alex Borsody – JamBase contributor

Albums
1. Gov’t Mule – By a Thread
2. Garage a Trois – Power Patriot
3. Math Head – Stab City
4. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
5. Greensky Bluegrass – Five Interstates

Mike Bookey – JamBase contributor

Albums
1. Monsters of Folk – self-titled
2. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
3. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
4. Dusty Rhodes and the River Band – Palace and Stage
5. The Decemberists – Hazards of Love

Jeff Terich – JamBase Contributor, Editor at www.treblezine.com

Albums
1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. The Antlers – Hospice
4. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Baroness – Blue Record

Tim Dwenger – JamBase contributor

Albums
1. Smoove, Turrell – Antique Soul
2. M Ward – Hold Time
3. Everest – Ghost Notes
4. The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
5. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

J Gibson – reapandsow

Albums
1. Flaming Lips – Embryonic
2. Alberta Cross – Broken Side of Time
3. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Big Rock Candy Mountain – self titled

Top Tracks
1. “Here to Fall” by Yo La Tengo
2. “These are my twisted words” by Radiohead
3. “Broken Side of Time” by Alberta Cross

Best Music Industry Article
“Smashing the CD… to Bits” by Paul Resnikoff (Digital Music News)

Jonathan Zwickel – Music Writer At Large

Albums
1. The Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
2. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
5. The Heliocentrics with Mulatu Astatke – Information Inspiration Vol. II

Melissa Adair – Elevation Group

Albums
1. The Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
2. Monsters of Folk – self-titled
3. The Dead Weather – Horehound
4. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
5. Nicki Bluhm – Toby’s Song

Jonathan Fordin – Camp Bisco Promoter, MCP Management

Albums (in no order)

1. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular

2. Jay-Z – Blueprint 3

3. Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon

4. Muse – The Resistance

5. Kings of Leon – Only by Night (Technically 2008 but tour was 2009)

Shows

1. U2

2. Muse (Opening for U2)

3. Camp Bisco – Nas and Damian Marley

Mike Greenhaus – Relix

Albums
1. Levon Helm – Electric Dirt
2. Passion Pit – Manners
3. Phish – Joy/Party Time
4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – self-titled
5. The Black Crowes – Before the FrostÂ…
6. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You

Ted Kartzman – IODA, reapandsow

Albums
1. Dawes – North Hills
2. The Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
3. Built To Spill – There Is No Enemy
4. Alberta Cross – Broken Side of Time
5. The XX – self-titled

Please use the Comments Section to tell the world what your top albums and shows are from 2009.

Continue reading for 2009 Stats!

Top Searched Bands of the Year

Phish

Pretty Lights

STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9)

The Disco Biscuits

Widespread Panic

The Dead

Umphrey’s McGee

Yonder Mountain String Band

moe.

Keller Williams

Radiohead

Dark Star Orchestra

EOTO

Lotus

The Allman Brothers Band

Railroad Earth

Bassnectar

Gov’t Mule

The New Deal

Furthur

Bands with the Most Shows

The World Famous Platters 436

Circle B Cowboy Supper Music 352

The Platters 307

Bill Medley 292

Roy Rogers Jr. 287

The Jim Stafford Show 260

Redhead Express 255

SIX 249

Fab Four Live 237

Baldknobbers Jamboree 235

The Marvelettes 234

Stacy Mitchhart 228

Zach Deputy 216

Joanna Connor 211

Passafire 204

Shinedown 203

Celtic Woman 198

Lightnin’ Malcolm & Cedric Burnside 198

A Skylit Drive 198

The Rankin Brothers 196

Venues with the Most Shows

Kingston Mines Chicago IL 627

Circle B Theater Branson MO 422

The Starlite Theatre Branson MO 414

B.B. King Blues Club New York NY 387

Jazz Alley Seattle WA 360

Le Poisson Rouge New York NY 345

Birchmere Alexandria VA 343

Mercury Lounge New York NY 329

9:30 Club Washington DC 323

The Jazz Standard New York NY 317

Highline Ballroom New York NY 313

The Masquerade Atlanta GA 310

Bowery Ballroom New York NY 309

Beachland Ballroom/Tavern Cleveland OH 309

Jim Stafford Theatre Branson MO 304

Iridium Jazz Club New York NY 300

The Independent San Francisco CA 300

Emo’s Alternative Lounge Austin TX 288

World Cafe Live Philadelphia PA 288

The Roy Rogers Theater Branson MO 287

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Experience Hendrix Tour 2010

December 14th, 2009 | No Comments

EXPERIENCE HENDRIX TOUR LAUNCHES IN MARCH, 2010
ALL STAR LINEUP INCLUDES JOE SATRIANI, LIVING COLOUR, DAVID HIDALGO, MANY MORE

Experience Hendrix, the fourth edition of the biennial concert tour that features an all star lineup of music greats paying homage to the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix gets underway in early March of next year with special performances across the country.

Featured artists who will be performing music written and inspired by Hendrix include some of the best known and most respected artists in contemporary rock and blues, including Joe Satriani, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad Whitford (Aerosmith), Doyle Bramhall II, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Chris Layton (Double Trouble), along with bassist Billy Cox.

Cox, who first befriended Hendrix when the two were in the 101st Airborne Division of U.S. Army, played in both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys and performed with Hendrix at such landmark festivals as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. Cox commented, “It’s a thrill for me to play Jimi’s music for audiences now as it was in the 1960s. The Experience Hendrix tours have shown how timeless this music really is.” Joe Satriani remarked, “I finally get to pay tribute to my hero the right way, onstage with an amazing, once in a lifetime, lineup of musicians!”

Sacred Steel, featuring Robert Randolph, Susan Tedeschi, and David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos are also performing on selected Experience Tour dates.

Various combinations of these music greats will be performing Jimi’s signature songs, including “Purple Haze,” “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” “The Wind Cries Mary,” “Little Wing,” and “Red House.” As has been the case with previous Experience Hendrix tour incarnations, special guests are expected to sit in at many of the dates, making the concerts all that much more memorable for both new and veteran Hendrix fans. Past special guests have included Paul Rodgers, Buddy Guy, and Carlos Santana.

Shepherd, a veteran of several Experience Hendrix tours remarked, “Jimi Hendrix’s music has really inspired to push the limits of my own music. He didn’t observe any boundaries musically. He was an amazing player and a tremendous showman so I incorporated some of his showmanship in what I do.” As far as having been part of the Experience Hendrix touring phenomenon, Shepherd noted, “It touches you on the inside and gets you fired up.”

The Experience Hendrix Tour is presented by Experience Hendrix, LLC, the Hendrix family-owned company founded by James A. “Al” Hendrix, Jimi’s father, entrusted with preserving and protecting the legacy of Jimi Hendrix. Earlier this year, Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Division and Experience Hendrix entered into a worldwide catalog licensing venture to make all of Jimi’s extraordinary music, including classic albums, never before heard archive recordings, and filmed concerts available through all forms of media.

Launching on the west coast, the month-long tour will bring the troupe of players, each a headliner in his or her own right, to concert venues in major U.S. markets including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and Atlanta.

Experience Hendrix 2010 Tour Dates

03/05/10 Fri Gibson Amphitheatre Universal City, CA

03/06/10 Sat The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas, NV

03/07/10 Sun Mesa Arts Center – Ikeda Theater Mesa, AZ

03/09/10 Tue Table Mountain Casino Friant, CA

03/10/10 Wed The Warfield San Francisco, CA

03/12/10 Fri Silver Legacy Hotel Casino Reno, NV

03/14/10 Sun Paramount Theatre Denver, CO

03/16/10 Tue Uptown Theater Kansas City, MO

03/17/10 Wed Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis, MN

03/18/10 Thu The Chicago Theatre Chicago, IL

03/20/10 Sat Fabulous Fox Theatre St. Louis, MO

03/21/10 Sun Riverside Theater Milwaukee, WI

03/23/10 Tue Akron Civic Theater Akron, OH

03/24/10 Wed The Wellmont Theatre Montclair, NJ

03/25/10 Thu Count Basie Theatre Red Bank, NJ

03/27/10 Sat Fox Theatre Atlanta, GA

Salvador Santana Solo Album

November 13th, 2009 | No Comments

SALVADOR SANTANA DEBUTS SOLO ALBUM, COLLABORATES WITH MONEY MARK, DEL, AND GZA
Keyboard City Out February 2 Via Quannum/Various Music

Salvador Santana

Music is a burst of choices. Not only what note to play when and with what instrument, but whether to play a note at all. Salvador Santana, the 26-year-old keyboardist, vocalist, composer, and songwriter with strong Bay Area roots, knows what it means to navigate the infinite options of music. His 2008 project with the Salvador Santana Band pursued the scope of his ability. But for Santana, it wasn’t enough. He has no choice but to push himself further.

Collaboration has always been the centerpiece of his creations, and this passion manifested his solo debut Keyboard City around the inspirations of a few legends: Bay Area MC/producer Del tha Funky Homosapien, who helped hone in Santana’s writing skills, Beastie Boys studio wizard Money Mark, and GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan. The legendary Wu founder rallied support around the album by featuring himself on a remix of the title track “Keyboard City” earlier this fall. Stream the track here.

Santana’s long anticipated debut hits the streets February 2, 2010 followed by extensive touring with his keyboard-laden band, featuring a three-person keyboard assault with Santana at the head.

Money Mark inspired Santana in a beautiful way during the creation process. “With all the people I’ve ever collaborated with or just working by myself, I have never produced so many ideas into songs as I have during these Money Mark sessions. That guy is just a machine,” said Santana. Additionally, Money Mark opened up a new way of recording that was previously unknown to Santana. “He has mentored me by showing me that it’s cool to be all over the place. It’s cool to sit there and work on a song, then out of nowhere, interrupt that flow and work on another idea… to just go with it.”

Santana is pushed by a need to step out of his comfort zone in a quest for new ideas. Easy going and humble, Santana exudes the Bay Area vibe. He began playing the drums at age three – sitting on his father’s lap, controlling the snare and tom, as his father worked the hi-hat and kick drum – but his true love was discovered when he began taking piano lessons when he was six. Later, he studied at San Francisco’s heralded School of the Arts before attending Cal Arts in Valencia, CA. His education, passion and lineage has turned Santana into a monster on the keys, leading him to say that he’s “a musician first, a vocalist second and a performer second-and-a-half.”

Music truly thrives in Santana’s veins. His maternal grandfather was blues pioneer Saunders King and his paternal grandfather was the internationally celebrated violinist and mariachi bandleader Jose Santana. And, of course, his father, and frequent collaborator, is 10 time Grammy-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Carlos Santana (Salvador co-wrote “El Farol” from 1999′s smash album Supernatural). With his upcoming solo project, however, Salvador Santana will truly become a brand of his own.

“With the Salvador Santana Band record I was very passive and insecure, only because I wasn’t listening to my gut, allowing my second opinions to get to me. Knowing what I know now, I could have played that part better. I don’t ever want to have that feeling ever again,” he says.

In addition to his musical desires, Santana has worldly efforts on his mind. After a trip to South Africa and inspiring work with Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA), something triggered inside of Santana to make sure his music wasn’t only about personal glory. Once the record is released and he begins touring the project, Salvador will be posting various non-profit organizations on his website that will receive a percentage of the profits. “I want to use music in a positive way, and give back to people in need. There can never be enough people who do that.” And there can never be enough musicians pushing their art to the brink.

Praise for Keyboard City

“On Keyboard City Sal and Mark layer reedy, synth atmospherics, icy-cool electronic keys and a smooth-as-butter beat underneath Sal’s awesomely zonked-out Vocoder-heavy vocals – RollingStone.com

Carlos Santana in Belgrade concert

July 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Famed Mexican-U.S. rock musician and guitarist Carlos Santana played in front of a Belgrade audience on Saturday night. Santana took his tour to the Serbian capital while promoting his compilation album, dubbed Multi-Dimensional Warrior.