05
Aug
2008
We
began the week by recording one of the world's hottest young bands,
The Black Kids,
and one that should definitely be watched in the next year - Black
Joe Lewis & the Honeybears.
The Austin band will be back touring through the Midwest in October
with Okkervil River
and Crooked Fingers,
and early indications from them are that there might be a hole in
their schedule that would allow the tour to come through the Quad
Cities.
Jim the Mule started recording its second studio album, Last Solid Ground, in March 2007, and a rough mix was finished in August.
It
has been a furious two days, as late this Monday we confirmed what is
just one of a number of flood-benefit shows that we're looking at
staging here in the Quad Cities over the next month. We've been
talking with some great bands about coming in here and donating their
talents to help out those who lost a lot in the recent floods here in
Iowa. All door proceeds for the show will go to local flood victims.
The Ani DiFranco appearing at the Capitol Theatre on Saturday might not be the same Ani DiFranco who became something of a legend over the past two decades.
We're
busy as always this week, bringing in a number of bands that will be
playing this week's Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. The sessions
that we'll be recording here in Rock Island include visits by
Candle, Bear Country, The New Year, The Icy Demons, Jennifer
O'Connor, Secret Machines, The Dutchess & the Duke, the Prairie
Spies, Ani DiFranco, and Supergrass.
Natalia Zukerman might as well have been born on the road. She is the child of two classical musicians who traveled a lot. (Her father is violinist, violist, and conductor Pinchas Zukerman.) She said last week that she got on a plane for the first time when she was six weeks old, and "I've learned to pack and unpack since I was a little kid.
It's
a relatively calm week at Daytrotter headquarters this week, but the
few things that are happening are exciting.
