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Back in October, Galactic played a blistering late nighter at Tip’s to cap off Day One of this past year’s Voodoo Experience (Muse headlined that night in City Park). Luckily for us, the show was captured for posterity and will be released on the middle Tuesday of Jazz Fest (May 3rd) as a follow-up to We Love ‘Em Tonight , the band’s only other proper live release (released in 2001), a baker’s dozen of live tracks also recorded at the band’s home base at Tipitina’s.

October 29, 2010 was just your standard day at the roving Galactic office – To kick off the day, Drummer Stanton Moore delivered an eye-opening kickstarter set with the Stanton Moore Trio and Anders Osborne in the early afternoon in the Preservation Hall Tent. Galactic then played an evening set in a larger tent that featured Shamarr Allen guesting for a good chunk of the set. And as if that wasn’t enough, the band moved it down to Tip’s to throw a special guest laden party @ Tip’s that didn’t start ’til after 1 a.m. and pushed on ’til about 3:30 or so. With Soul Rebels Brass Band, Big Freedia and Trombone Shorty, this live album aptly encapsulates Galactic’s current touring model of playing with a who’s who of special guests and also features the incomparable Cyril Neville and Corey Henry, who have become a big part of the Galactic live experience these past couple of years.

New Orleans outfit GALACTIC has a well earned reputation as one of the most exhilarating live acts around. Last year the band released the critically acclaimed genre defying sonic tribute to the Big Easy entitled YA-KA-MAY, which The Boston Globe described as “an album that showcases a breathtaking array of New Orleans talent, from old-school R&B legends to influential underground hip-hop artists†and the Huffington Post proclaimed as “NOT your grandparents’ New Orleans record!†Now the celebrated outfit offers up a rollicking live counterpart to YA-KA-MAY with The Other Side Of Midnight: Live In New Orleans out 5/3 via Anti- Records.

The album was recorded during an electrifying sold-out show at legendary New Orleans’ nightclub Tipitinas which has hosted countless luminaries such as the Neville Bros, the Meters, Dr. John and Professor Longhair. The venue has, of late, become something of a regular home court for GALACTIC, with the band playing multiple sold out shows at the historic club throughout the year. Like Ya-Ka-May, The Other Side of Midnight: Live in New Orleans features a host of guest appearances from the bawdy hip-shaking gender bending “bounce†star Big Freedia to local legends Cyril Neville and Trombone Shorty, the whole thing capturing GALACTIC’s deep musical relationship with their storied hometown. Only in a city like New Orleans could a night this raucous, sweaty and wild also be so incredibly profound. - Wesley

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Tracklist:

1. Introduction

2. Gossip (feat. Cyril Neville)

3. Balkan Wedding

4. You Don’t Know (feat Cyril Neville)

5. Cinearamascope (feat. Trombone Shorty)

6. Heart Of Steel (feat. Cyril Neville)

7. Garbage Truck

8. Boe Money (feat. the Soul Rebels Brass Band)

9. Wild Man

10. From The Corner To The Block (feat. The Soul

Rebels Brass Band & Corey Henry)

11. Funky Bird

12. Boban (Mere Yaara Dildara)

13. Encore: Double It (feat. Big Freedia)

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Crosby and Nash - Another Stoney Evening

The Crosby-Nash subset of CSNY carried with it much of the charm and harmony of the larger group, and together and apart the two singers mined that appeal for several gold albums, especially in the first couple of years after the breakup of CSNY in 1970. They even inspired bootleggers, who released A Very Stoney Evening, drawn from one of their 1971 shows. Hence the title of this belated official release, drawn from a different show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on October 10. Working with acoustic guitars and piano, they sang some of their more popular CSNY songs (“Déjà Vu,†“Teach Your Childrenâ€), as well as tunes from their solo albums and songs that would turn up on their duo album the following year. Boasting of having “the loosest show on earth†and making cryptic drug references, they nevertheless sang and played well, overcoming with enthusiasm and craft the relative weaknesses of some of the material — Crosby’s formlessness, Nash’s preciousness. And the camaraderie they shared with each other and their audience even allowed them a certain imperiousness, such as when the drugged performers lectured the drugged audience on how to clap on the right beat. - William Ruhlmann

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Tracklist:

1. Anticipatory Crowd

2. Deja Vu

3. Wooden Ships

4. Man in the Mirror

5. Orleans

6. I Used to Be a King

7. Traction in the Rain

8. Lee Shore

9. Southbound Train

10. Laughing

11. Triad

12. Where Will I Be?

13. Strangers Room

14. Immigration Man

15. Guinevere

16. Teach Your Children

17. Exit Sounds - Crosby & Nash

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The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin Live La Fantastique de Institution 2011

The Flaming Lips recently recorded video of live performances of songs from their 1999 classic The Soft Bulletin live at at at upstate New York’s SUNY Fredonia campus a few weeks ago, as the Dunkirk, New York Observer reports. Why there? Well, longtime Lips collaborator Dave Fridmann is a professor at SUNY Fredonia, and the Lips were at Fridmann’s Tarbox Road Studio in nearby Cassadaga, New York to record a live version of The Soft Bulletin. The results of that performance, dubbed The Soft Bulletin: Live La Fantastique de Institution 2011, will be housed on a USB stick implanted in a marijuana-flavoured gummy skull sold with tickets to the band’s two-night residency at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2011.

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Tracklist:

01. Race For The Prize

02. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton

03. The Spark That Bled

04. The Spiderbite Song

05. What Is The Light? / The Observer

06. Waitin’ For A Superman

07. Suddenly Everything Has Changed

08. The Gash

09. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate

10. Sleeping On The Roof

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Eddie Vedder

Royce Hall UCLA

Los Angeles CA

2002-03-15

"All Tomorrow's Parties"

01. Soon Forget

02. Happy Birthday

03. Can't Keep

04. ??

05. Broken Hearted

06. Satellite

07. Thumbing My Way

08. I Am Mine

09. You're True

10. Longing To Belong

11. Parting Ways

Eddie Vedder - Ukulele / Elec. Guitar/ Vocals

James ?? - Violin

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Thievery Corporation - Culture of Fear

Thievery Corporation returns with their sixth original studio album Culture of Fear! Following up their incendiary and bombastic call to arms Radio Retaliation from 2008, this time around Eric Hilton and Rob Garza craft a simmering and hazy collection of atmospheric gems that recalls their early production work but reflects a thoroughly contemporary zeitgeist of socio-political angst and unease.

Utilizing a team of skilled session players from their acclaimed live show and beyond, Culture of Fear finds the duo easing into expansive multipart space-jams like “Tower Seven†and jazzy instrumental b-boy breaks like “Light Flares.†Not only are usual suspects like multilingual chanteuse Lou Lou and dancehall toaster Sleepy Wonder back to lend their haunting vocals, but several new contributors also join the Corporation.

Renowned hip-hop MC Mr. Lif blazes the microphone on the title track “Culture of Fear†with a scathing flow that aims to uplift and enlighten as it does burn down babylon! Rising star Ras Puma also drops mystic incantations on “False Flag Dub†and the slow burning roots reggae throwback “Overstand.†It’s not all fire and brimstone however, as Shana Halligan of Bitter:Sweet coos sultrily over booming tribal rhythms on “Is it Over?â€, and newcomer Kota lends angelic and sprightly verses on album closer “Free.â€

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Tracklist

01. Web Of Deception

02. Culture Of Fear

03. Take My Soul

04. Light Flares

05. Stargazer

06. Where It All Starts

07. Tower Seven

08. Is It Over

09. False Flag Dub

10. Safar (The Journey)

11. Fragments

12. Overstand

13. Free

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Bettye LaVette - Change Is Gonna Come Sessions

After a powerhouse performance at the Presidential Inauguration in January 2009, Bettye Lavette shines a new light on that past with, “A CHANGE IS GONNA COME SESSIONS.†The digital-only EP for Anti- Records, available exclusively through iTunes, revisits Bettye’s forgotten post-Atlantic Records years as a nightclub singer, Broadway performer, and touring cast member opposite Cab Calloway in “Bubbling Brown Sugar.â€

The EP opens with a stirring solo version of Sam Cooke’s posthumous Civil Rights anthem “A Change Is Gonna Come,†a song which Bettye sang with Jon Bon Jovi in January ‘09 as part of the “We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial†concert. Joining Bettye for these sessions are pianist and musical director Al Hill, veteran bassist John Heard who has accompanied such luminaries as Count Basie, Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald, and Art Pepper, drummer Danny Frankel (k.d. lang, Lou Reed), and Tom Hagerman from DeVotchKa on strings.

A mix of standards and soul classics from Bettye’s 1970s stage and nightclub repertoire rounds out the 6-song set, including songs by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Bill Withers, and Jimmy Reed. A rendition of Billie Holiday’s “God Bless The Child,†a song that Bettye first performed with show-stopping magnificence in “Bubbling Brown Sugar†highlights Bettye’s vocal mastery.

This nod to the past is just the latest step in a nearly five-decade career that has truly come full circle and is now pointed straight ahead: from early promise to a masterwork (“Child of the Seventiesâ€) shelved by Atlantic Records; from Broadway to obscurity; from a triumphant return with her 2005 Anti- debut “I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise,†to a Grammy nomination for “The Scene of the Crimeâ€; and most recently her devastating performances honoring The Who at the Kennedy Center Honors in December 2008, paired with Jon Bon Jovi at the Lincoln Memorial for President Obama’s inaugural celebration in January, and alongside Sir Paul McCartney at a Radio City Music Hall benefit for the David Lynch Foundation in April. - The Jazz Chill Corner

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Tracklist

01. Change Is Gonna Come (4:11) (Sam Cooke)

02. ‘Round Midnight (4:45) (Thelonious Monk)

03. God Bless the Child (3:55) (Billie Holliday / Arthur Herzog)

04. Lush Life (4:13) (Billy Strayhorn)

05. Ain’t No Sunshine (3:09) (Bill Withers)

06. Ain’t That Lovin’ You (3:28) (Jimmy Reed)

Bettye LaVette: vocals

Alan Hill: piano

John Heard: bass

Danny Frankel: percussion

Tom Hagerman: strings & string arrangements

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If you like your kickass blues-rock, i highly suggest you take a listen to this smokin' set from the late-great Jeff Healy. WOW. The Watchtower is worth it on its own ;)

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The Jeff Healey Band - Live At Grossman’s 1994

Capturing a homecoming gig for the conquering hero, Live at Grossman's 1994 finds blues-rocker Jeff Healey returning to a favorite club. Looking back, it’s easy to see that Healey was between stages: his most popular albums were just behind him and the years of him carving out a niche as a working bluesman who dabbled in jazz were ahead of him. Here, he was performing with the velocity and volume of a blues-rocker at his peak, invigorated by an intimate setting where he could just play, not worrying about throwing in “Angel Eyes†or “I Think I Love You Too Much.†The result is a set where he salutes his idols -- Clapton, Elmore James, Albert King, Howlin’ Wolf, Hendrix, even the Beatles via an excellent “Yer Blues†-- and it’s one of his purest and best records as a straight-ahead blues-rocker. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Tracklist:

01 – I’m Going Home

02 – Killing Floor

03 – As The Years Go Passing By

04 – Ain’t That Just Like A Woman

05 – Yer Blues

06 – Who’s Been Talking

07 – Crossroads

08 – Dust My Broom

09 – All Along The Watchtower

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