New Years Eve options for Northeast Florida
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Stephen Combs is one of many artists playing the event.
After you finish wrapping up your Christmas festivities, next on the agenda is what to do for New Years. If you’re looking for a New Years Eve plan with live entertainment in Northeast, Fla. an option to consider is The Party in the Park event with Donavan Frankenreiter & Friends.
Tickets for the event are $15 each in advance for admission to a whole evening. The event will be held at Metropolitan Park in downtown Jacksonville, Fla., which is across from Jacksonville Municipal Stadium on the St John’s River. Gates open at 5:00pm. The music starts at 5:30 p.m. with artists sets through the midnight firework display. For the romantics, the fireworks will display over the river.
The music lineup includes Stephen Combs, Charlie Walker, Nate Holly, Matt Still, Echo Movement, B-Liminal, Shawn Fisher, and Frankenreiter as the main act. Fans will have a chance to swing by a merchandise tent to meet the artists for photos or autographs. Drinks will be provided by Premier Beverage and Champion Brands. Food will range from burgers, hotdogs and BBQ, popcorn to a few healthier options for those opting into New Year’s Resolutions early.
CONTEST: 2 tix, Jonathan Tyler & Northern Lights
Win free tickets to next week's show at Buster's. Click photo to hear Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights.
It’s time again. Time for free tickets to another great show.
Courtesy of Buster’s Billiards and Backroom in Lexington, Ky., SaY is giving away two tickets to Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights. The show on Nov. 4 at Buster’s, and it is an 18 and over and the tickets are a $20 value. That’s the equivalent of four or five drinks, sans tips of course.
This contest will not be a random drawing, however. To enter, comment on this story and say who you will bring and why you would choose them to go to this show. Nothing complicated, just say who came to your mind when you heard this group or saw who it was. Whoever gives the best answer will win the contest, which concludes this Friday, Oct. 30. Contest details below.
[Listen to bands, enter contest, click enter]
Chuck Prophet ringing out sample before release
Chuck Prophet's new album is out Oct. 27.
Chuck Prophet is about to release an album of “political songs for nonpolitical people.”
And where else would you record such an album, but Mexico City? The studio was equipped with equipment that was “state-of-the-art in 1957,” Prophet said jokingly in a video on his Web site.
Prophet makes retro-rock n’ roll, and his latest production, “¡Let Freedom Ring!” will be released on Oct. 27.
[Get the MP3, tour info, click more]
Grayson Capps’ tour to ‘raise hell’ this fall
Grayson Capps is playing in Lexington and Louisville this weekend then heads South.
From Louisville, Ky. to Gulfport, Miss., Grayson Capps is spreading his hybrid of hill country blues, traditional folk and bar-setting blues this fall.
Capps, born in Alabama, grew up listening to his father and friends telling stories and strumming acoustic guitars, all while getting drunk, according to Capps’ Web site. Hank Williams, Tom T. Hall, Glenn Campbell and Woodie Guthrie were common on the front-porch-playlist.
Capps went on to Tulane University, and according to him, after graduating he took to “squatting with friends in a string of abandoned houses on the outskirts of the New Orleans, La., stealing electricity, growing a garden and busking for whatever money was needed.”
This weekend, Capps is bringing all that history to Kentucky for a few shows that promise songs about “prostitutes, alcoholics, vagrants and drifters.”
[Full tour set, hear Capps' music, click more]
Lexington tonight: Beer, band dedicated to liquor
Fifth on the Floor plays at Pazzo's tonight. Click to listen to them.
Today is a big day for alcohol for Lexington, Ky.
A new bar is opening over on Manchester (Buster’s Billiards and Backroom), and tonight is the Lexington Fest of Ales in Cheapside Park.
The Fest of Ales will have over forty types of beers from dozens of breweries, and ticket holders will be able to sample 20 beers at different tables. Click here to download a brochure.
[See who is playing the after-party, click more]
Kentucky band celebrating 10 years of Junk
Genuine Junk Band | Photo by Bill Fisher
This Saturday will make 10 years that one Kentucky band has been jamming. And since it’s their birthday, in the words of The Beatles, they are “gonna have a good time.” And yes, that means party.
Genuine Junk Band, a Kentucky based jam band, is playing a free show in honor of their 10th anniversary at Greenbo State Park in Greenup, Ky.This is far from a farewell show.
After a decade of smooth and bluesy guitar solos, “good vibe” lyrics switching off and on between male and female voices, and music that just makes you feel good, Genuine Junk Band guitarist and voice Nathan Gillum said he wants to double it.
“We’d love for it to go on for another ten years and progress into something where every small town in the U.S. knows our name,” Gillum said in an interview with SaY a few weeks ago.
Sunday Reading: What you might have missed
Kyp Malone new album
Corgan and Pumpkins name
The Dead Weather debut review
Carroll speaks out
Here are last week’s in-depth profiles, album reviews and other stories. These are some of the most read stories, all of which have free MP3s or streams attached. Click the photos to read the stories.
Kyp Malone, the bearded guitarist/co-vocalist from TV on the Radio, has a new solo project, which is coming out soon. Anti- promises the album to be just short of a stroke of genius. Oh, and Malone painted his own album cover, complete with naked women.
Billy Corgan came out in a blog to defend (like he always does) why he will not give up the name, “The Smashing Pumpkins.” But, he is the Great Pumpkin, so it seems he could do whatever he wants, however similar it appears to be to selling out.
The blues hounds of hell were released this week by Jack White’s new group, “The Dead Weather.” The new album “Horehound” gets a great review, and the band is recreating the modern blues.
What happens when an airline breaks your guitar? Well, nothing, unless you’re a country music singer who is taking vengeance. Dave Carroll speaks out against United Airlines in the first of what he promises will be three songs, and three videos about the incident.
Singer takes on airline for breaking his guitar
Dave Carroll is writing three songs about United Airways breaking his guitar.
There has been a bum rush of artists trying to figure out new ways to spread their work through social networking sites. Some catch on, and some don’t. For Dave Carroll, however, all it took to get his YouTube video viewed over 3 million times was a tale of a busted $3,500 guitar, a little controversy, and a fed-up musician with a video camera and - of course - another guitar, not broken.
[Click more for the video]
Pitchfork showing Townes Van Zandt documentary
Van Zandt from the film, Heartworn Highways.
Pitchfork’s One Week Only movie showing right now is “Townes Van Zandt: Be Here to Love Me”
According to the Web site, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Steve Shelley and others are featured in the documentary. The film is around 100 minutes and was directed by Margaret Brown.
[Play video, stream Van Zandt song, read bio by clicking more]
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Memphis’ Giant Bear another friendly beast
From the album Giant Bear
It’s time for a little Grizzly Giant Bear love.
With all these stories and blogs about Grizzly Bear, another type of bear was becoming endangered: The Giant Bear.
Actually, there’s certainly no abundance of Giant Bear enthusiasts. Their MySpace has roughly 100 friends, and Google turns up real bears in a search.
Rooted in Memphis, Giant Bear is a five person folk and country band that delivers a smooth collaborative of guitar, banjo, cello, violin, piano, bass and drums with raspy, dried out vocals similar to those of Jakob Dylan. You might even find yourself checking the CD jacket to make sure, but it’s not Dylan, it’s Robert Humphreys.
[Free MP3s by clicking more]
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