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thanks for the streaming link....this album is incredible!

Venutian Lady - Paul Pena feat. Jerry Garcia

I think that would be a great idea....to take a bus full of skanks

I agree it would have been nice to have a soundboard of this show

ya I'm going with Murphy.....I'll take some sweet pics and post them

I am finally making the trip to Woodstock to go see Big Pink and then on Saturday heading to Levon's ranch for the Midnight Ramble. I am so excited it's unreal! Has anyone been before?? and if so are there any cool stops to make for food, history, or other??? As if Big Pink and Levon aren't enough I want to make the most of this trip!

I agree with Jaimoe it definately has the raw bluesy slide tones like on De Stijl as well as some of the newer radio worthy tracks on Elephant. "Rag and Bone" is a great track.

Happy Birthday Dude! I hope it was a good one!

thank you everyone for the birthday wishes. I had a blast! Cheers!

Dire Wolf - GD

Hey if anyone is in the KW area this Thursday and looking for some live music, come to the Starlight for my buddy's CD release party. Below is an article written by shainhouse about the show and the new album. They had alot of guests perform on the album, and those guests will be performing with the band on Thursday. Both Sheebs and myself will be peforming as well as a number of others.....so come check it out if you have nothing better to do. Cover is $10 or $15 with a CD The Stars Here By Shain Shapiro When it comes to good country music, a few standard rules of thumb come to mind that wash over the entire genre, regardless of the direction a specific band takes tweaking its muse. In general, there has to be a laid–back atmosphere, a sense of longing, some sort of relationship conundrum that engenders loveless lyrics and lots and lots of booze. The greats mix these ingredients beautifully, while others muddle them up, leaving the end result cloudy and uninteresting. Thankfully, the loosely categorized country, folk and alternative twang scene in Canada has much more straddling the positive side than the negative one, and the Tri–City area is one such example. There are tons of great bands, jamborees, country festivals and tireless troubadours. The Stars Here are Kitchener’s best examples of how to properly craft deliciously heart–wrenching country music. The quintet have been on the local scene for some time, and have traversed almost every sweaty, knife–carved bar nationwide, honing a syrupy, twang–rich, countrified folk sound in the process. And yet, their sound has changed over the years. Since this countrified sound is newer, still developing over older Brit–pop and indie–folk standards that dot older releases, much more is to come from the genre. “I’d say that that has a lot to do with how often we play at the Boathouse in Kitchener,†explains guitarist Patrick Finch, whom is also an Echo correspondent. “We’ve played there very regularly in the last year or so, and the size and sound of the room is really conducive to acoustic–based music, which has really affected our growth as a band. Plus, they have got that upright piano there for Paddy (Townsend, on keys) to play. Aside from that, we’re just all really into that kind of music right now.†June will see the release of Fitzcarraldo, The Stars Here’s follow– up to their 2005 release of Check the Wreckage, a decidedly more pop release than country, by definition. The album encapsulates the band’s true live sound, revolving around twang, liquor and a lonesome lyrical stir stick to help combine the two. “Our goals for each record haven’t particularly varied,†expands Finch. “We write a pile of tunes and try our best to achieve an honest representation of them on record. It’s an ongoing process and each record has brought us a little bit closer to that goal, I think. “For this record, however, we did consciously strive to keep the recording as close to how we sound live as possible. Of course, as usual, we got a little carried away with the conveniences of overdubbing from time to time, but I think less so than in the past. “I think that our last record probably had a lot more despair on it than this one. There’s still a lot of tension though, and a lot of references to time and getting older and realizing that we have got to get our shit together,†reveals Finch. “We’ve got a bunch of new songs that I think go even further in that direction, but we can’t just keep writing about our broken hearts. We all have beautiful girls who love us so our inspirations have been forced to diversify.†That loved up inspiration joins politics, urban–sprawl, banality of small–town life and other symbolism on Fitzcarraldo, set for release on their own label, Doormat Records, June 14. “Bob Egan, who plays on the record, told us that the trick was to just make sure it sounds good when you play it. If it already sounds good, then there’s no reason the recording should sound bad. Of course, it’s not quite that easy, but that sort of simplification was what we were going for, that sort of change.†And the name? Fitzcarraldo is “a film about a guy who pushes a steamship over a mountain so that he can bring opera to the jungles of Peru,†explains Finch. “It is a swell movie.â€

Happy Birthday Sean!

that was insane! I think I just had a seizure!

I just picked up a pair....and thought I'd let people know they were onsale through Ticketmaster

Happy Birthday Uncle Greg!! I hope you have a great day!!

Happy Birthday man! Have an amazing day!

You too Northern Wish...I can't believe you guys made that trip home....good times indeed

Here's Umphrey's Setlist Thursday at the Square Set I: Example 1, Syncopated Strangers, Mullet (Over), August> Sweetness> August, Higgins, Resolution> Hurt Bird Bath, KaBump> 40's Theme Encore: The Fussy Dutchman> In the Kitchen

What a night...good to see so many fine folks out....amazing start to the Thursday Night Summer Concert Series!!

aww yeah should be good...hopefully the rain holds off

Cheers Brother! Happy Birthday! Umphrey's will be sweet!

I'm hitting up that UM/TLG show for sure

where can you buy tickets??

Hey does anyone know how or where to get tickets for the Toronto show at the Horseshoe....I went to go buy pre-sale tix at YMSB website and also tried to find info on the Horseshoe's website but nothing. It says presale bigins on May 22 at 10:00am local time....but I got nothing