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ARTICLE: "New Phish Box Set Brings Back the Bliss"

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:16:21 -0500

Photo: Brantley Gutierrez

The release of the economically titled Phish box set “Hampton/Winston-Salem ‘97” provided a chance to review the release by way of my memory banks of the original shows. Part review, part essay, full-on musing. It’s nice to have an excuse to write about Phish, which doesn’t happen very often nowadays.

“‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,’ Wordsworth wrote of the French Revolution. ‘But to be young was very heaven!’

Allow me to hyperbolically apply the same equation to the act of seeing Phish play at the Hampton Coliseum in 1997.”

ARTICLE: "Unconventional wisdoms" (Steely Dan)

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:20:00 -0400

I had the chance to just run with a sort of essay on Steely Dan by way of preparing the populace for their show at Tanglewood on Tuesday evening. Had the chance to quote some of my favorite Dan lyrics; I’m curious to hear what anyone may think of this. Just click on “Comments and Reactions” below.

“Fagen’s lyrics are frequently so dry, so cynical, so dense with in-jokes and references that hint at worlds of meaning while remaining curtly mysterious, that even hipsters can find this radio-ready mainstream behemoth to be irresistible.

In detail-rich lines dense with cultural signifiers—Dean and Deluca and Gramercy Park, a car phone in a Chrysler (in 1980), Cuervo Gold and “fine Columbian”—Fagen depicts a world of cocktail lounges and late-night ice cream parlors, romantic conquests that lead to malaise and romantic failures that inspire pride, white men possessing disposable income and a good dose of nihilism.

ARTICLE: "Playing backup to Charlie Chaplin" (Marc Ribot)

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:59:15 -0400

I had the chance to write about Marc Ribot’s solo-guitar score for Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid in today’s Boston Globe. He performs it tonight at good ‘ole MASS MoCA.

“I don’t want it to be heard as a concert. I want to disappear, which is what good film scoring does. If the effect is done perfectly, people will think they’re seeing what they’re, in fact, hearing. It’s a kind of alchemy.’’

PHOTOS: Liam Finn amid the work of Nari Ward at MASS MoCA during Solid Sound Festival (6/26/11)

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:09:00 -0400

Liam Finn playing a “pop-up” gallery show on Sunday afternoon at Solid Sound Festival. He and the crowd are situated amidst Nari Ward’s 2011 piece, Mango Tourists.

Photos by Jeremy D. Goodwin

PHOTOS: Thurston Moore and Nels Cline at Solid Sound

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:04:45 -0400

Pillow Wand (Thurston Moore and Nels Cline), 6/26/11

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:55:03 -0400

Pillow Wand (Thurston Moore and Nels Cline), 6/26/11

Liam Finn playing pop-up show amid an exhibition at MASS moCA...

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:46:56 -0400

Liam Finn playing pop-up show amid an exhibition at MASS moCA right now.

Interactive Moog installation at Solid Sound Festival. All Moog,...

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:51:30 -0400

Interactive Moog installation at Solid Sound Festival. All Moog, all the time.

Thurston Moore performing with Demolished Thought at Solid Sound...

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:15:59 -0400

Thurston Moore performing with Demolished Thought at Solid Sound Festival, 6/25/11

Wilco opens its 6/25/11 show with “I Love My Label,”...

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:45:09 -0400

Wilco opens its 6/25/11 show with “I Love My Label,” the new single release *at* Solid Sound the day before in an on-site-only clear vinyl pressing.

PHOTOS: DJ Spooky in North Adams late-night

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:33:19 -0400

Photos by Jeremy D. Goodwin

Thurston Moore w/ Demolished Thought

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:10:29 -0400

Thurston Moore w/ Demolished Thought

PHOTOS: Glenn, Nels, Darin and co.

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:17:24 -0400

PHOTOS: Sarah Lee Guthris & Johnny Irion @ MASS MoCA gallery

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:15:09 -0400

Photos by Jeremy D. Goodwin

PHOTOS: Wilco at Solid Sound, Day 1

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:30:02 -0400

Photos by Jeremy D. Goodwin

Jen N’ Outlaw food truck offering Po’ Boys and...

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:02:27 -0400

Jen N’ Outlaw food truck offering Po’ Boys and crawfish.

PHOTOS: Wilco press conference at MASS MoCA, 6/24/11

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:13:21 -0400

Wilco held its pre-festival press conference in the gallery of work by Katharina Grosse at MASS MoCa in North Adams, Mass. Photos by Jeremy D. Goodwin

Photos by Jeremy D. Goodwin

Looking ahead to Solid Sound Festival 2011

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:30:00 -0400

Photo of Glenn Kotche by Jeremy D. Goodwin, 2010

So, we’re heading toward the end of June and the Solid Sound Festival II is fixin’ to get nasty at MASS MoCA up in North Adams this weekend. Last year, it proved a very mellow weekend of pleasant surprises. This second take boasts two completeish shows by Wilco, plus sets from Thurston Moore and his partially acoustic five-piece, Thurston and Nels Cline together as the Pillow Wand duo, Dave Douglas and the cats he’s apparently plain’ with these days, and Glenn Kotche under his own name as well as joining with On Fillmore partner Darin Gray for an in-gallery, all-improv set on found instruments of various types. And of course the de rigueur bout of falconry.

I’ll be propagating various bits of data, photos, video, analysis and the like throughout the festival, via various venues I can talk about later. Last year, I managed to come away with some pretty decent photos and I hope to this year again as well.

Fun fact of the day: when asked, in a pre-festival interview, G. Kotche told me he and Jeff Tweedy would love to mount a live Loose Fur gig, but Jim O’ Rourke can apparently be summoned from his adoptive Tokyo for no deed. Alas!