01
Oct
2008
This
should not be taken as anything other than an inquiry from a
discouraged person. We here at Daytrotter.com would like to know if
the general Quad Cities public cares if we present shows here in
town. We have the opportunity to host more and more shows here, with
some of the best bands in the country, but have been turning them
down because we can't afford to do them with the small draws that
we've been getting. We want to help build this music scene up to
what it could potentially be.
If
all else fails, with the help of his trusty loop pedal Marty Jones
could have a promising future as a one-man band. As the founder,
primary songwriter, and conductor - who also handles vocals, bass,
guitars, keyboards, additional percussion, sampling, and programming
duties - of Silvis' X+X (spoken as "X Add X"), Jones (a.k.a.
Heat) seems more than happy to take anyone willing to jam with him
along for the musical ride. But he's ready to do it alone, if
necessary.
For somebody who's been compared favorably to Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Nick Drake, Damien Jurado has had a touch-and-go career, and a bit of an inferiority complex.
When Rob Barber and Mary Pearson met in December 2005, they quickly struck up a friendship.
When Buckcherry co-founders Josh Todd and Keith Nelson re-formed the band in 2005 after a three-year hiatus, they got an opportunity to basically start from scratch.
Just
Tuesday morning we were able to confirm an exciting show that you're
not going to have to wait for. Like the Ingrid
Michaelson show about a
month ago, this one is a last-minute affair, but you have a week to
prepare instead of 24 hours.
Chris Thile doesn't like musical boundaries, and the mandolin player seems to almost relish pissing off those who would prefer to pigeonhole him.
We
had a last-minute show this past weekend with the always tremendous
Delta Spirit,
from California way. Those of you who were at Huckleberry's the
last time they were in town know this. We regret that there wasn't
more time to get the word out that they were going to be in town, but
we found out just a few hours before they were set to arrive for a
session that they were going to be here in time to play. They'd
made a long drive from Salt Lake City the night before and hauled it
east to make it so that we could add them to the Southeast
Engine bill. It might be
the best show in the Quad Cities that only 10 people showed up for in
the past five years or more.
In two
years, the Spokane, Washington-based five-piece Paper Mache - which
will be performing at Mixtapes in East Moline on September 3 - has
gone through more than a dozen members.
Our
little hub here in Rock Island feels doubly cool on a day such as
Sunday when we have into the studio a young, local talent gone Los
Angeles in Lissie,
then a few hours after she left to go swim at the pool and eat
hamburgers we have one of Daytrotter's original alums and makers of
one of the coolest records of the year, Koufax,
by for the second session of the day, and last, to cap the day, one
of the premier hip-hoppers on the planet: Aesop
Rock.
