Rob Nichols

Avett Brothers Live webcast October 30 with Live on Letterman

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avettQuietly, David Letterman has quietly built quite the music legacy.  His Live on Letterman webcasts have been featuring bands like Mumford and Sons, Taylor Swift, John Mayer, Kings of Leon, Adele and lots more.  Recorded in the hours before the show airs on TV, but just after the talk show is actually taped, it’s a up-close, high-production, intimate venue featuring bands letting loose for the audience sitting in the same building where The Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan Show

Coming up on October 30, a particularly noteworthy show is worth catching. Fans can watch the Avett Brothers’ webcast live or on-demand. Also during CBS.com’s live webcast, fans will have access to  multiple camera angles, and the ability to pick the last song in the band’s set.

According to the Letterman show, the performance will feature songs off of their newly released album, Magpie and the Dandelion, including “Another Is Waiting,” as well as songs from their previous albums 2012’s The Carpenter and the band’s 2009 major label debut, I and Love and You.

Additionally, the webcast is available live and on-demand on Radio.com, and on-demand via the CBS App for iOS, Android and Windows 8.

Rock Notes: Chad Kichula, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Beatles and Arcade Fire

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chadkichulaTAKE A LISTEN: Chad Kichula – He calls it alt-country; I can agree.  His bio mentions Springsteen and Steve Earle. His new LP was released Sept. 10,with the new single and video The Whale’s Back.  I hear some Warren Zevon and James McMurtry influence is this one…
Notes: Chad sold his truck in 2005 to pay for his debut album.  The Whale’s Back sessions began in 2012.

ONE TO WATCH:  St. Paul and the Broken Bones
http://stpaulandthebrokenbones.bandcamp.com/
stpaulMemphis soul from a crew of white guys.  Wilson Pickett would be diggin’ it.
St Paul and the Broken Bones: Paul Janeway, Jesse Phillips, Browan Lollar, Andrew Lee, Ben Griner, and Allen Branstetter. Additional performances by James Brangle, Les Nuby, and Ron Alexander.
Like the Alabama Shakes, St. Paul and The Broken Bones made it big from North Alabama. Birmingham is their town. Their four-song EP  Greetings from St. Paul & The Broken Bones was released in December 2012.

LOVE THE BEATLES BBC STUFF: A new set from The Beatles recorded at the BBC will include early hits and cover songs, with the majority recorded at the BBC in 1963 and 1964.  Songs include “Lucille” and “Hippy Hippy Shake”. On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2, out November 11, follows the successful Live at the BBC album issued in 1994.
Track List

READY FOR THE SMASH HIT OF THE LATE 2013 RELEASES?: Arcade Fire’s new album will be a double LP. Pre-orders for the Reflektor album are at Arcadefire.com. They will embark on a world tour. The band played the small Salsatheque venue under the alias The Reflektors on  September 9 in Montreal. CBC News reports that only 100 tickets went on sale for the show. The black and white video for “Reflektor”, directed by Anton Corbijn, includes David Bowie’s singing backup on the song.  The video already has more than 2,000,000 viewes on YouTube.

VIDEO: Warren Zevon -1982- "Poor Poor Pitful Me"/"Cadillac Ranch"

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warrenzevonBeen a while since the last post.  Workin” to get back in the groove.  Watch for more. Here’s one from a Zevon video I rented at the local video store 30 years ago – the performance and the energy blew me away.  My first real good foray into what a great rock and roll show might feel like.
Love some roots-rock that I need to know about?  Favorite album?  Lost album?  Find me at rob@rockforward.com.  Shoot me some ideas and thought about what’s good and great in the place I call American rock and roll.

VIDEO: Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon kinda screwed up his presentation

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Whoops. Don't tell Brian we posted this picture with the link
Whoops. Don’t tell Brian we posted this picture with the link
I like Gaslight Anthem, but sometimes their singer (Brian Fallon)  is not too tight between songs if he decides to talk.  Love the band, think their audience believes it is more “punk” than it really is (moshing doesn’t mean you are punk), and the band  –for better or worse – is hitched to some of the Jersey rock and roll lineage.  I’d embrace it.  Mostly, they have.
 
Great piece on the NPR site about the night Fallon told the”Bruuuuce”-ers to shut up.
 
Rob
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Last weekend the Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon lashed out at his audience; an audience that had already been lashed by winds and rain during what was pretty terrific set in a spectacular new waterfront venue in lower Manhattan.