Bandcamp is a great site for musicians and tomorrow they are helping them out even more by waiving their fees getting more money directly to musicians.
Over the years RtBE has used bandcamp to find many artists, so if you are looking for suggestions click here. Please support any artists you like, or try out some new ones.
As it happens I have two EPs currently available on Bandcamp that you can purchase from my band Angels & Vagabonds. Our first EP, The A&V EP from 2014 and our our acoustic based release Anyways... from 2015 are both available. A new album is currently being worked on and will be coming later this year (hopefully).
You can stream and purchase either, below are some tunes from both, but don't just support us, feel free to check out our bandcamp link for just a few of the great artists RtBE have found over the years.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
WWOZ will broadcast all 8 days for 8 hours each day-- 11am-7pm, the same days and hours as the originally-scheduled Jazz Fest! Tune in April 23-26 and April 30-May 3.
We’re even creating our own special cubes highlighting the schedule which will include some of the best performances in the history of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Dr. John, Fats Domino, The Neville Brothers, Irma Thomas, The Meters, Allen Toussaint, Henry Butler, Marcia Ball, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Trombone Shorty, Kermit Ruffins, John Boutte, The Radiators, Big Freedia, Ernie K-Doe, Ellis Marsalis, Danny Barker, The Rebirth Brass Band, Bob French and the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, and many other jazz, blues, cajun, and zydeco artists.
We'll also be airing the rarely heard "Fire Benefit" from 1974 featuring Professor Longhair, the Wild Magnolias, and Dr. John.
The 8-day broadcast will also include interview segments highlighting the music, food, crafts and heritage of New Orleans and Louisiana to give the feeling of a wide-reaching cultural festival. We will also be sharing recipes for some of your favorite Jazz Fest cuisine, and also help you connect with local festival food and craft vendors.
The next best thing to being there. RtBE will be posting every day to remind you to join in. Please support WWOZ as they are one of the best radio stations in the world.
Last weekend was amazing, WWOZ did a bang up job, every single set we caught was worth our time and got us feeling like we were at Jazz Fest in our living room, RtBE can't wait for this weekend.
To kick off the second weekend of Jazzfest and WWOZ's coverage here are the Rebirth Brass Band:
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
The last time RtBE made it down to New Orleans in February we caught a killer show from the band at Circle Bar. The group is a great mix of laid back worldly rock and roll, give them a listen tonight, make sure to give them a donation and help pitch in any way you can.
To get in the mood for tonight's stream here is a live version of "Boom Boom Boom" from the band:
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
Today we highlight: Rhett Miller Rhett Miller is going back in time and performing the Old '97's album Wreck Your Life which they reeleased on Bloodshot Records back in 1995:
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
Today we highlight: BnB Takeover Radio
Legends in the New York Hardcore Scene are hitting the airwaves tonight on BnB Takeover Radio:
In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's tune is a live cover by Marc Stoneplaying "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"
This month we have a special focus on artists who will be playing the 2020 Jazzfest in New Orleans. Today we highlight Marc Stonewho plays this Friday, May 1st.
Unfortunately due to the outbreak of Covid19, Jazzfest has been rescheduled for October (no official date as of yet). Hopefully all of the scheduled acts are healthy and will be performing then, but since we crafted these posts before the outbreak, RtBE will still post them this month and will regroup/revisit things in the fall when (hopefully) things return to semi-normal.
Thoughts on Original:
From the first time we tackled a cover of this song:
One of my favorite titled songs in the Dylan catalog,for some reason the title just nails an elusive feeling and perfectly works with the tune. Also contains multiple epic lines, my favorite being "I wanna be your lover babe/I don't wanna be your boss", AMEN brother Bob. A pretty straight forward blues number musically that lends itself to cover attempts, leading to... Cover:
Thoughts on Cover Artist: RtBE was unaware of Marc Stone until we heard this tune, but hope to catch some of his playing on Friday.
Thoughts on Cover:
We opened this monthly showcase of 2020 Jazzfest artists covering Dylan with a live tune from Tipitina's and we end this months showcase the same way. Where the Honey Island Swamp Band grew to invite Alvin Youngblood Hart out to join the fun, Stone goes small and played a solo show opening for The Radiators back in 2017 at the venue during the Daze Between Jazzfest weekends. A great solo version of the tune.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
For anyone who tuned into this weekends amazing "Fest In Place" series from WWOZ, you were treated to music that comes from a unique place; the heart of New Orleans. It is especially clear in times like these how vital WWOZ is to the town and tonight there is a virtual benefit for the station.
During these Daze Between Jazzfest weekends, there are so many cool benefits/shows/gatherings in NOLA it is one of RtBE's favorite weeks of the year, and you can help support the station through their Piano Night Benefit, by donating and listening to some of the all time great New Orleans piano artists participating.
It starts at 7pm Central and to get ready here is some live video of one of RtBE's favorites, Jon Cleary who we've reviewed a few times in the past:
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
The Grammy winning H.E.R. has been conducting a #GirlsWithGuitars series on her youtube channel. It is worth checking out as she plays songs and interviews other talented artists.
Here is some video from H.E.R on Austin City Limits to get ready:
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
WWOZ will broadcast all 8 days for 8 hours each day-- 11am-7pm, the same days and hours as the originally-scheduled Jazz Fest! Tune in April 23-26 and April 30-May 3.
We’re even creating our own special cubes highlighting the schedule which will include some of the best performances in the history of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Dr. John, Fats Domino, The Neville Brothers, Irma Thomas, The Meters, Allen Toussaint, Henry Butler, Marcia Ball, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Trombone Shorty, Kermit Ruffins, John Boutte, The Radiators, Big Freedia, Ernie K-Doe, Ellis Marsalis, Danny Barker, The Rebirth Brass Band, Bob French and the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, and many other jazz, blues, cajun, and zydeco artists.
We'll also be airing the rarely heard "Fire Benefit" from 1974 featuring Professor Longhair, the Wild Magnolias, and Dr. John.
The 8-day broadcast will also include interview segments highlighting the music, food, crafts and heritage of New Orleans and Louisiana to give the feeling of a wide-reaching cultural festival. We will also be sharing recipes for some of your favorite Jazz Fest cuisine, and also help you connect with local festival food and craft vendors.
The next best thing to being there. RtBE will be posting every day to remind you to join in. Please support WWOZ as they are one of the best radio stations in the world.
For Day 4, here is some of Irma Thomas set from the fairgrounds themselves in 2015:
Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of my first published review. Where has the time gone? Actually where has the review gone??!?
Back in 2005 I decided to email a live review I wrote for a friend (minus some inside jokes) to a few sites and Glide Magazine jumped at the chance to post it which I will always be thankful for.
The review was of the Bob Dylan & Merle Haggard show at NJPAC but while Glide still has the link, the review has been cut off after the introduction. The one thing I remember about this review in particular was how god damn long it was.
It has been a fun journey, and while we celebrated 10 Years of Glide reviews, nothing is currently planned outside of this post for 15 years, but who knows how the year goes?
Thanks for reading. Here is a great live Dylan compilation from 2005 (and some 04) and a Merle tune to commemorate the date.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
WWOZ will broadcast all 8 days for 8 hours each day-- 11am-7pm, the same days and hours as the originally-scheduled Jazz Fest! Tune in April 23-26 and April 30-May 3.
We’re even creating our own special cubes highlighting the schedule which will include some of the best performances in the history of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Dr. John, Fats Domino, The Neville Brothers, Irma Thomas, The Meters, Allen Toussaint, Henry Butler, Marcia Ball, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Trombone Shorty, Kermit Ruffins, John Boutte, The Radiators, Big Freedia, Ernie K-Doe, Ellis Marsalis, Danny Barker, The Rebirth Brass Band, Bob French and the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, and many other jazz, blues, cajun, and zydeco artists.
We'll also be airing the rarely heard "Fire Benefit" from 1974 featuring Professor Longhair, the Wild Magnolias, and Dr. John.
The 8-day broadcast will also include interview segments highlighting the music, food, crafts and heritage of New Orleans and Louisiana to give the feeling of a wide-reaching cultural festival. We will also be sharing recipes for some of your favorite Jazz Fest cuisine, and also help you connect with local festival food and craft vendors.
The next best thing to being there. RtBE will be posting every day to remind you to join in. Please support WWOZ as they are one of the best radio stations in the world.
We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Anthony Hamilton!
Every April we have a special showcase for bands who are playing this years Jazzfest in NOLA. Today we will focus on Anthony Hamiltonwho will be playing today, Friday April 24th.
Unfortunately due to the outbreak of Covid19, Jazzfest has been rescheduled for October (no official date as of yet). Hopefully all of the scheduled acts are healthy and will be performing then, but since we crafted these posts before the outbreak, RtBE will still post them this month and will regroup/revisit things in the fall when (hopefully) things return to semi-normal.
Anthony Hamilton delivers some rocking funky soul music with his group at their first Newport Jazz Fest set back in 2008. He will bring this energy, gorgeous vocals and soul strutting today to the Fairgrounds. RtBE wish we were there to get down with Hamilton and crew.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
WWOZ will broadcast all 8 days for 8 hours each day-- 11am-7pm, the same days and hours as the originally-scheduled Jazz Fest! Tune in April 23-26 and April 30-May 3.
We’re even creating our own special cubes highlighting the schedule which will include some of the best performances in the history of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Dr. John, Fats Domino, The Neville Brothers, Irma Thomas, The Meters, Allen Toussaint, Henry Butler, Marcia Ball, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Trombone Shorty, Kermit Ruffins, John Boutte, The Radiators, Big Freedia, Ernie K-Doe, Ellis Marsalis, Danny Barker, The Rebirth Brass Band, Bob French and the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, and many other jazz, blues, cajun, and zydeco artists.
We'll also be airing the rarely heard "Fire Benefit" from 1974 featuring Professor Longhair, the Wild Magnolias, and Dr. John.
The 8-day broadcast will also include interview segments highlighting the music, food, crafts and heritage of New Orleans and Louisiana to give the feeling of a wide-reaching cultural festival. We will also be sharing recipes for some of your favorite Jazz Fest cuisine, and also help you connect with local festival food and craft vendors.
The next best thing to being there. RtBE will be posting every day to remind you to join in. Please support WWOZ as they are one of the best radio stations in the world.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.
Today we highlight: Hip Hop Loves NY
A host of great artists are live streaming tonight on Youtube:
