Live Stream: Unbroken Chain: Phil Lesh Tribute All Weekend

We are now heading into the new normal with live music. Live shows will need to be flexible and streaming is a great way to keep music going. Streams have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE.  We will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing/listening pleasure. You can check out our weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past and as always, please support the artists any which way you can.

Live Stream: Unbroken Chain: Phil Lesh Tribute All Weekend

All weekend the Capitol Theater is hosting Unbroken Chain: Phil Lesh Tribute. It starts tonight and can be streamed on nugs.net.

To get in the mood, here is some Phil and Friends live from the Cap in 2021:

Full Show Friday: Dropkick Murphys - Hellfest 2019

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...Dropkick Murphy's!

St. Patrick's Day is a few days away, so to get in the mood, here is Dropkick Murphy's @ Hellfest 2019. Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Full Setlist below. Enjoy!

Hellfest, Clisson, France - 21/06/2019 

SETLIST: 00:00 (Charles O’Neill song) (Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains version) 00:21 Cadence to Arms 01:28 The Boys Are Back 04:38 Going Out in Style 08:31 Blood 12:54 Prisoner's Song 15:41 Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya 19:52 Caught in a Jar 22:22 The Walking Dead 25:02 Don't Tear Us Apart 28:11 First Class Loser 31:08 Out of Our Heads 34:11 I Fought the Law (The Crickets cover) 36:54 Cruel 41:21 The Irish Rover (Joseph M. Crofts cover) 44:50 The State of Massachusetts 48:50 You'll Never Walk Alone (Rodgers & Hammerstein cover) 52:36 Rose Tattoo 57:40 Until the Next Time 1:02:46 I'm Shipping Up to Boston

New Single/Video from Sarah Shafey "Messin Around"

The new single/video from Toronto based artist Sarah Shafey, "Messin Around" is a fun joyride. 

Check it out below:

Album Review: Dirty Rotten Vipers - Tip The Band

Dirty Rotten Vipers

Tip The Band

*** out of *****

The New Orleans, LA based, 12 piece, gutter jazz, street band The Dirty Rotten Vipers deliver their debut album, Tip The Band with all of the energy and joy that makes them a blast to catch down on Royal St. and St. Peters in the French Quarter when they are busking. 

Happy 60th Anniversary to the Sonics - Here Are the Sonics

Today we will take a second to wish a Happy 60th Anniversary to The Sonics - Here Are the Sonics. The exact release date is unknown, but this debut album from the band was released back in March 1965, so RtBE will celebrate it today. 

Some thoughts and tunes below:

Album Review: Benjamin Booker - Lower

Benjamin Booker

Lower

**and1/2 out of *****

For Lower, his first album in over eight years, Benjamin Booker has reinvented his sound, moving away from the rambling, soulful, gospel influenced garage rock towards more artsy, beats based, restrained offerings. Lower is dark, lonely and isolated, not a comeback album, more of a reinvention that sounds like a personally evolving work in progress.

New Single/Video from Vienna Vienna "God Save The Queens"

Hollywood based artist Vienna Vienna has released a new video/single "God Save The Queens".

For those in NYC, Vienna Vienna who will be coming through NYC tomorrow night, March 12th, playing Irving Plaza opening for K.Flay. 

Check out the rip roaring, live out loud, video below:

Album Review: Benmont Tench - The Melancholy Season

Hey all, got a review up @glidemag which you can read Right C'here:

It is of Benmont Tench's newest album, The Melancholy Season.

Support the artist, buy the album, read the review and peep some video below:

Dylan Cover #672 Miriam Hopper "My Back Pages"

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 Miriam Hooper of "My Back Pages"

Thoughts on Dylan Original:

From the first time we tackled a cover of this song:

The original has taken upon itself a cultural importance, and the chorus has simply become iconic. I doubt Dylan intended such, but it toes the line of out and out protest and illustrative questions. He puts down everyone from evangelists to girls, but the language snakes and flows so magically that it doesn't seem as harsh as "Positively 4th St" or "Ballad in Plain D". The sense of exhaling desperation or at least the realization that age confuses things even more seems to be what I take from this tune after each listen, but things can change...or can they?

Cover:

Thoughts on Cover Artist:

The is RtBE's first time checking out Miriam Hopper who is an amateur singer/songwriter.  

Thoughts on Cover:

A standard cover that finds Hopper working her way through the song. Feels more like practice than a finished product, but is a breezy listen. 

Full Show Friday: Living Colour at Przystanek Woodstock - Poland 2016

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...Living Colour!

Today we head out out Poland in 2016 for a set from the rocking Living Colour. 

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Enjoy:

 

New Single/Video from OF LIMBO "Joke's On You"

Long Beach, CA based OF LIMBO have a new acoustic album coming out, Unplugged and the first single is "Joke's On You"

The band’s Jake Davies says

“Joke’s On You’ is about recognizing gaslighting techniques in a relationship.  You see the person feigning tears and storming off expecting you to chase after them.  Most of us are all too familiar with these kinds of manipulative tactics by now. But when you first start to really recognize it, it’s a relief and kind of empowering. Because you realize it’s not you… It’s all them.” 

The band shot the video for “Joke’s On You” entirely on an IPhone 14 at a park next to their mom’s house in Australia, armed with nothing but a $20 LED from Amazon and a six pack of tall boys. Jake explains “We filmed this in the moment, just going with the flow.  The red and blue color overlays are meant to be a representation of being two faced.”

Check out the effort below:

Album Review: Mdou Moctar - Tears of Injustice

Hey all, got a review up @glidemag which you can read Right C'here:

It is of Mdou Moctar's Tears of Injustice, and acoustic version of last years fantastic Funeral for Justice, which RtBE rated very highly during our year end round up of 2024. 

While we like the original much more, feel free to check this out as well. 

Support the artists, buy the album, read the review and peep some video below:

 

New Single from Jamie James "Let The Praying Begin"

Guitarist, singer/songwriter Jamie James has released a new a single, "Let The Praying Begin".

About the song, James says, 

"I grew up in rock 'n' roll in the '60s—let’s just say I didn’t always live the life of a choirboy. But after a while, you find someone you actually love, and that feels better than anything. The song is about saying, if this relationship is wrong or a sin, or if this woman is too good for me, I’m not stopping—so go ahead and pray for me. In the end, the power of love makes us better"

Check out the grooving, bluesy track below:

Live Review: Los Lobos - "Disconnected Tour" 2/28/25, City Winery NYC

Los Lobos

"Disconnected Tour" 2/28/25

City Winery NYC 

The last Friday night of February brought the East L.A. legends Los Lobos to NYC for the first of three sold out nights at the gorgeous City Winery on the Hudson River. This show was a stop on their "Disconnected Tour" which finds the band laying down electric guitars and picking up acoustics. While that is true, this was far from and 'unplugged' concert, more of a slightly tuned down, normal, Los Lobos show.

Album Review: The Wild Tchoupitoulas featuring The Neville Brothers - New Orleans '77

Hey all, got a review up @glidemag which you can read Right C'here:

It is of The Wild Tchoupitoulas featuring The Neville Brothers - New Orleans '77. RtBE was so happy to receive this installment from the Tipitina's Record Club. The vinyl itself is super cool and has a "king cake" paint splatter that is unique and great. Perfect for Mardi Gras day.

As stated in the review, a historic and funky show. 

Support the artists, buy the album, read the review, and peep some video below:

All On A Mardi Gras Day!

Today is Fat Tuesday so live it up. If you are lucky enough to be in the Big Easy enjoy yourself. If you are anywhere else, party like you are in NOLA. Laissez les bons temps rouler!

2011 Mardi Gras Parade

Marching Bands Down Canal St.

Mardi Gras Pirates from 1930's

1910 New Orleans Mardi Gras

To help you get in the mood, here are some applicable tunes starting with the fantastic Professor Longhair. Also you can live stream Zulu and Rex on Nola.com's Youtube channel:

You can also tune into WWOZ to get the flavor of the city today or any day. Have a great and safe day everyone. 

The New Colossus Festival Starts Tomorrow, March 4th and Runs Through March 9th

The NYC based New Colossus Festival returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan and expands to six days. Starting today (Tuesday March 4th) it will run until Sunday. 

A full schedule can be found here and more info below.

Dylan Cover #671 Charlie Starr "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry"

 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 Charlie Starr playing "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"

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:
Mr. Starr is the lead singer and guitarist of Blackberry Smoke whose live stream we spotlighted a few years ago.

 
Thoughts on Cover:

After a funny joke, the tune is straight ahead and direct. Enjoyable live acoustic version of this song, sung and played well from 2015.