Rage Against the Machine are set to headline the 2020 Boston Calling Music Festival.
Consequence of Sound has reported that Rage Against The Machine will take the stage Memorial Day Weekend with two other iconic rock bands, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters.
Boston Calling has only confirmed Foo Fighters and Chili Peppers, but with the addition of RATM the festival is already turning into a dream come true for 90s rock fans. Rage hasn’t performed since 2011 and Red Hot Chili Peppers will have the classic lineup, including John Frusciante on guitar.
Boston Calling is expected to formally announce its 2020 lineup sometime this month.
Boston Calling – Harvard Athletic Complex – March 22-24.
Singer-songwriter, Kyle Stockman, has released a two-song package titled Opal. It’s been a few months since we’ve heard from Stockman, whose last project, Hearts, was released in June of 2019. “Since I moved back to the city [for school] I’ve been having a lot of trouble finding like-minded people, I was questioning what was going on in my life,” Stockman says of the new project. “It’s me reaching out and asking these questions.”
The records are “Opal” and “Sundays.” The former, is a ballad in which Stockman croons about his longing for that special someone. “I’m speaking through the lenses of talking to one specific person, but it’s really me speaking to everyone around me,” he elaborates. “If someone wanted to love, how could they do it for me without me having to put in all the work?”
“Sundays” sees Stockman break out a lot more spoken-word, while the record itself relies a lot less on melodies for the verses. He evaluates his current standing in life. Surrounded by peers, he contemplates where exactly he fits in, with the record resembling a self-therapy session. “Sundays talks about what I’m seeing around me, the people around me and what I’m realizing about what going on in my life,” says Stockman. “At the end, I go back questioning ‘do you want to be with me?’ Bringing it back full circle.”
On the heels of this new release, Stockman says he is looking more into performing, dialing back on releasing full-length project and focusing more on growing his brand and his name.
Opal is available on all streaming platforms, with a lyrics video for “Sunday” already on YouTube.
Inductees for the 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have officially been announced. The committee in charge of inductees – made up of more than 1,000 historians, members of the music industry and every living Rock Hall inductee – have included two prominent names in music culture, whose body of work was not based in the genre. In an effort to diversify the Rock Hall of Fame, soul songstress Whitney Houston and iconic hip-hop emcee The Notorious B.I.G., will make their entrance into the hallowed halls of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. They will be posthumously induced, at the 35th annual Rock Hall of Fame Induction ceremony, on Saturday, May 2, 2020, at Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio.
The duo headlines an illustrious class, which features influential rock band The Doobie Brothers, Grammy-winning rock act, Nine Inch Nails, English rockers, T. Rex, who were prominent in the development of the rock scene during the early 1970s, as well as Depeche Mode, a dominant force within the electronic music scene.
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Jon Landau, the longtime manager of Bruce Springsteen, and entertainment executive Irving Azoff will also be recognized at the ceremony. They will be presented with the Ahmet Ertegun Award, which honors songwriters, producers, disc jockeys, record executives, journalists, and other industry professionals who have had a major influence on rock & roll.
The ceremony will be broadcast live for the first time on HBO on May 2 at 8 p.m. ET. Performances and special guests and Induction Week programs will be announced later.
Tickets go on sale to Rock Hall members on February 25 and to the public on February 27 at 10 a.m. ET, at ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-745-3000.
Announced this week, country superstar Tim McGraw will kick off his Here On Earth Tour on July 10, 2020 at the Syracuse St. Joseph’s Health Ampitheater at Lakeview before making his way across the nation on a 30-city tour.
Baked Shrimp hit the road for their 2020 Northeast tour. This will be their longest tour yet in the band’s three-year history as they play 19 shows in the Upstate NY and New England region, including six shows in New York.
The Long Island trio opens the tour on January 16 in Syracuse, NY at Funk ‘n Waffles where they will be joined by Bead N Bone. On January 19, they will perform at The Low Beat in Albany with the “high energy psychedelic groove circus” Glass Pony. Ithaca’s Dapper Dan will perform them in their hometown on January 31 at The Range before Baked Shrimp moves onto New Paltz where they will play on February 1 at Snug’s Harbor with Toaster Basket. They will then hit Oneonta with Some.Of.Us ft/Lace on February 6 at The Black Oak Tavern. The band closes out the tour in Greenlawn at Beau’s Bar on February 22.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here. See a full list of tour dates below.
Baked Shrimp Winter Tour 2020: Jan.16 – Funk ‘n Waffles Syracuse – Syracuse, NY w/ Bead N Bone Jan.17 – Windsor Station Restaurant & Barroom – Windsor, VT Jan.18 – Orlando’s Bar And Lounge – Burlington, VT Jan.19 – The Low Beat – Albany, NY w/ Glass Pony Jan.21 – Tavern at the End of the World – Boston, MA Jan.22 – News Cafe – Providence, RI w/ Northeast Traffic Jan.23 – Bleachers Bar – Bristol, CT w/ Moon Matrix of the Lizard People Jan.24 – Soundcheck Studios Pembroke – Pembroke, MA w/ MacGuffin Jan.25 – Jewel Music Venue Manchester NH – Manchester, NH w/ Sophistafunk, DELA and Stead Rock Easy, and Lee Ross Jan.31 – The Range – Ithaca, NY w/ Dapper Dan Feb.01 – Snug’s Harbor – New Paltz, NY w/ ToasterBasket Feb.06 – Black Oak Tavern – Oneonta, NY w/ Some.Of.Us ft. Lace Feb.07 – Bar None – Uniontown, PA Feb.13 – Zeno’s Pub – State College, PA w/ West Beaver Arts Collective Feb.14 – DIVE Bar – Washington D.C. Feb.15 – Stage on Herr at Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center – Harrisburg, PA Feb.16 – Sprout Music Collective – West Chester, PA w/ Euphonious Feb.22 – Beau’s Bar – Greenlawn, NY
The Waterhole Upstairs Music Lounge in Saranac Lake is once again home for live music performances for the 123rd Saranac Lake Winter Carnival taking place January 31 to February 9, 2020. Spanning over a period of nine nights, the venue will host 17 nationally touring and on the rise bands . The live performances are brought to you by Vermont’s Zero Gravity Craft Brewery and Stowe Cider from Vermont.
Kicking off the events are folk group Carrie Nation and The Speakeasy with Massachusetts rockers Tigerman Woah on January 31 at 8 PM. Reuniting for the carnival is Adirondack Mountain rockers Lucid, joined by the alternative country group The Mallett Brothers Band on February 1. Hudson Valley’s own reggae rooted The Big Takeover will lead the Post Parade Party on Saturday February 8. The festivities will come to a close on February 9 for Bloody Mary Sunday with a performance by Saints & Liars. A full list of all scheduled performances are below.
Located in the Adirondack Mountains, The Saranac
Lake Winter Carnival is a 10-day festival that has encompassed a variety of
events and traditions over the years. Attendees will get to enjoy sporting
competitions, torchlight skiing, fireworks displays, an Ice Palace in addition
to the live performances.
For more information on how to RSVP to the shows click HERE. Available now for purchase are are full week VIP passes for Winter Carnival at the Waterhole for $64 – which gives you access to every show for the entirety of the Winter Carnival.
Neil Peart, the pioneering drummer and primary lyricist for Canadian progressive rock icons Rush died Tuesday, January 7 following a nearly three-year-long battle with brain cancer. He was 67 years old.
The influential drummer joined Rush, replacing John Rutsy, in 1974 for the band’s second album Fly By Night and immediately changed the musical direction of the band with his Ayn Rand and SciFi-inspired lyrics and technical drumming skills.
Peart was an unassuming and deeply private man with an extraordinary talent for drumming, the man who inspired legions of air-drummers throughout the world. He rarely did interviews, leaving those duties for bandmates Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, where he spoke most directly was through his lyrics.
Drawing from science fiction, fantasy and the works of Ayn Rand (which he would later renounce), Peart wrote lyrics that could be fantastical, could be direct but they made the listener think.
The 1982 single “Subdivisions” spoke directly to a generation of young disaffected high schoolers, addressing the loneliness and separation of one trying to fit in.
Subdivisions
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Rush – “Subdivisions” (1982)
Those lyrics spoke directly to this writer trying to find his way around the halls of Staley Junior High School. It let the disaffected know they weren’t alone in their feelings. And it struck home.
A truly lasting memory associated with Rush is from the winter following the release of the band’s breakthrough 1981 album Moving Pictures. This album was inescapable that year but nowhere more than at the outdoor hockey rink at Franklyn’s Field in my hometown.
My friends and I made the short trek to the park every day, sticks over tiny shoulders, skates dangling behind us. We knew we were in the right place once we heard the lone tinny speaker attached to a light pole overlooking the rink cranking “Limelight,” “Tom Sawyer,” “YYZ.” This was my first real exposure to Rush and the most lasting memory I have of the band. The songs were technical, yet accessible. And the drums. I’d never paid much attention to individual instrumentation as a 12-year-old finding his way in the music world. Peart demanded your attention. And he did just that, for 40 years. A virtuoso in a band of virtuosos.
Peart retired completely from drumming following Rush’s final tour in 2015. The demand put on his body over years of constant performing left Peart unsure of his ability to maintain his precision. The demands of the profession lost out over the desire to spend more time with his family and with his other writing and producing projects.
He leaves behind his wife Carrie Nuttal and a daughter, Olivia along with a legacy few humans can claim.
Brooklyn Comes Alive announced it will be back for the fifth time on Saturday, March 21, 2020.
The festival will take place at Avant Gardner, a multistage complex located at 140 Stewart Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237. The location is an 80,000 square foot facility that takes up an entire city block in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. The location includes two indoor stages, Great Hall and Kings Hall.
The festival will include many acts including Oteil & Friends, Turkuaz, Birds of a Feather (feat. Members of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong & Goose), The Motet, Dr. Klaw, Robert Randolph & Friends, Anomalie / Deitch / MonoNeon, Here Come The Mummies, SPAGA Plays The Dead and Karina Rykman. Brooklyn Comes Alive will also include late-night sets by electronic music producer Jade Cicada, and a rare Beats Antique DJ set featuring founding members and longtime collaborators David Satori and “Sidecar” Tommy Cappel at the Great Hall Starting at midnight and running until 4am.
Tickets are on sale now including a festival pass to the entire event. There is also late-night only passes available which grants attendees access to The Great Hall only from 12:00 am – 4:00 am. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
Legendary trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis and his Uptown Jazz Orchestra will be playing songs off their upcoming album, Jazz Party tonight, Friday Jan. 10, in NYC. The album promises to deliver modernized twists on New Orleans traditions as well as homages to modern jazz musicians. Tickets are still available.
“Jazz, the indigenous American music, is a music of celebration and optimism. The Uptown Jazz Orchestra is such a fun band that I wanted to capture its uniqueness. The idea was to keep the wide variety of styles that we play but to really capture the joy that is a central trademark of the band.”
Delfeayo Marsalis
Jazz Party is set to release on February 7, 2020 via Troubadour Jass Records. It’s Marsalis‘ seventh album as a band leader, and the second major recording with Uptown Jazz Orchestra. It’s a follow-up to 2017’s Kalamazoo.
The work of iconic singer-songwriter and musician Carly Simon will be honored on a special night at NYC’s Carnegie Hall with “The Music of Carly Simon,” hosted by Cyndi Lauper. The event takes place on March 19, and all the proceeds will be donated to music education for underprivileged youth. It will feature more than 20 artists who will be paying their tributes.
The star-studded lineup includes Lauper, Livingston Taylor, Indigo Girls and Michael McDonald. Also slated to appear is Rachel Price of Lake Street Dive. More artists will be announced.
“I’m so proud to be involved with bringing music into the lives of underprivileged children. It’s a tribute to them. I will be singing along with all of the exceptional performers who have given their time. If it’s only in the rehearsals, I’m going to be footloose in the aisles.”
Carly Simon
Tickets are on sale now. For more information and updates, visit musicof.org.
