25 Jun 2008

One Foot Then and One Foot Now: Justin Townes Earle, June 30 at Huckleberry's

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Justin Townes EarleJustin Townes Earle's debut EP, last year's Yuma, was a thrown-together affair, but it was a conscious component of his development.

"The whole point of Yuma was for me to go back to what I felt was the roots of being a singer/songwriter, which was back to Woody Guthrie ... an acoustic guitar and the song," Earle said in a phone interview last week. "That's something I felt like I needed to do to make the musical progression work properly. I'm very deliberate about what I do musically.

25 Jun 2008

This Week at Daytrotter

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Daytrotter We've got some show updates to report this week. There's much to be excited about here at Daytrotter central, which reads, "The Quad Cities."

25 Jun 2008

Book Offers a Trip to Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls

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Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls Chronicle Books has just issued three fantastic new rock-and-roll books, aimed at teen and pre-teen girls who wanna rock, inspired graphic artists, and anyone who's bowed down at the sexy "graphic-ication" of rock-and-roll poster girls. Featuring a foreword by Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney and contributions by Beth Ditto of Gossip, Hilken Mancini of Fuzzy, and Sarah Dougher of the SG's, Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls is an amazing companion to the not-for-profit Portland, Oregon, "summer camp" that began in 2001. Playfully illustrated and smartly empowering, the nearly 200 pages can take a young girl from rock dreams to putting out a CD and going on tour, holding hands through picking an instrument, writing your first song, forming a band, and booking an all-ages show.

18 Jun 2008

This Week at Daytrotter

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Daytrotter All of us at Daytrotter and everyone at the Capitol Theatre would like to thank those who came out to our Friday the 13th concert featuring The Botticellis, Driver of the Year, and Europe-bound Eyes. We had a nice crowd for the short amount of time that we had to promote the show, and we hope that the fun times had by all will bring you out more frequently, as we'll continue to present shows as often as we can. We can do them more if the interest is there. The Capitol show gave us a glimmer of hope.

18 Jun 2008

Band Delivers a Punk Elvis

By John M. James

Back from the Dead: A Punk Elvis Tribute Sporting their best quivering-lip sneer and alter egos as Elvis of Nazareth, Elvis '56, and "Has-Been" Elvis, members of the Bad Samaritans, NOFX, Ill Repute, and Stalag 13 have formed G.G. Elvis & the TCP Band. Next week Mental Records releases the fruit of their labors in Back from the Dead: A Punk Elvis Tribute, marrying the soul of the King and the punk-rock roar of G.G. Allin in a baker's dozen Elvis covers, from "In the Ghetto" to "Burning Love" to "Suspicious Minds."

11 Jun 2008

Small and Delicate: The Botticellis, June 13 at the Capitol Theatre

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The Botticellis The All Music Guide's review of the Botticellis' debut full-length begins by noting that "you'd never know from listening that it took the Botticellis four years to craft their debut album Old Home Movies. It sounds like the work of one sun-soaked late summer afternoon spent playing tunes with friends and family."

Singer and songwriter Alexi Glickman - who is bringing the San Francisco-based quintet to the Capitol Theatre in Davenport on Friday as part of a quadruple bill presented by Daytrotter.com - would be pleased.

11 Jun 2008

This Week at Daytrotter

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Daytrotter Another busy week is in store for us here in between and during the thunderstorms and tornado warnings. Once again, the offer stands for anyone who wants to buy merchandise - CDs, vinyl, T-shirts - from any of the bands recording with us who aren't playing a show in town to write (daytrotter@gmail.com), and we'll make an arrangement for you to meet up with the group. They'll be more than happy to do so.

11 Jun 2008

Soundtrack Brings "Temptation"

By John M. James

Temptation - Music from the Showtime Series Californication Abkco Records has just released a killer accompanying CD to Showtime's Californication. Originally available through iTunes in three "track packs," the 20-track disc collects songs by Bob Dylan, Peeping Tom, Harvey Danger, and The Heavy, a Paul Oakenfold remix of The Doors' "L.A. Woman," and a healthy dose of covers. The show is known for slipping unusual cover versions into the background, and the album is highlighted by takes on the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by Tommy Stinson & Friends, Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" by Gus Black, Elton John's "Rocket Man" by My Morning Jacket, and Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed," Cheap Trick's "Surrender," and Warren Zevon's "Don't Let Us Get Sick" by co-star Madeleine Martin. A digital edition adds six more tracks, and the soundtrack CD will also be found inside the first-season DVD set, due next week.

 

04 Jun 2008

The Sound of the Thing: Iron & Wine, June 12 at the Englert Theatre

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Reader issue #687 For Sam Beam, the impressively bearded man behind Iron & Wine, the transition from the spare, intimate folk that made his name in alternative-music circles to playful, lushly fleshed-out songs with an African flair was not something that gave him pause.

"It would just be kind of lame to do the same record over and over again, don't you think?" he said in a phone interview last week. "I can get bored real fast, to be honest."

04 Jun 2008

Off the Cliff: Weinland, June 7 at Huckleberry's

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Weinland For many musicians starting out, a day job is a means to support that which they love.

For Adam Shearer, the singer and songwriter for the Portland-based Weinland, his jobs in the mental-health field served that purpose, but they also held him back.

"When I was working as a mental-health counselor ... I could not write anything," Shearer said. "When you spend the day working with kids that have those experiences ... it would just take everything out of me." It was the type of job that provided a wealth of experiences and stories from which to draw songwriting material, but it was also draining.

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