🦋 I’m so stoked 😛 to have done this t-shirt for @kurtvile tour 🪱 front and back 🫨 8 colour screen print 🤯 It was amazing to watch KV rip last night at @kokocamden ❤️‍🔥 Available now every night on the UK/EU tour 🫡💥 Thanks to Kurt & @mikesneeringer 🤝

SHAKY KNEES FEST DAY TWO – 04/30/2022

SHAKY KNEES FEST DAY TWO – 04/30/2022

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Quarter Notes: Blurbs & Briefs from Sound Bites

- In this issue: Kurt Vile and the Violators; Dead & Company; Neil Young; and Smashing Pumpkins

VIOLATORS’ ROB LAAKSO DIES AT 44: Rob Laakso, guitarist and keyboard player for Kurt Vile and the Violators, has died from cancer at age 44, NME reports.

GOD SAVE THE CHILD THAT RINGS THAT BELL: The Cornell chimes masters will play a concert of Grateful Dead music starting at 6 p.m. May 8 in the run up to Dead & Company’s concert at the university’s Barton Hall.

NEIL YOUNG TO TOUR?: Neil Young said his recent return to the stage for Stephen Stills’ autism benefit and Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday “made me want to play more,” in a note on his website.

“Maybe July,” said Young, who hadn’t performed since 2019

A SMASHING CHRISTMAS: Smashing Pumpkins have recorded a Christmas album, NME reports; no mention of a title or release date.

5/7/23

Kurt Vile and The Violators live on KEXP. Good songs, good sound.

This one has been in the queue for far too long (5 years?)... Dig it.

Woodsist Festival Announces Fall 2023 Lineup Featuring Kevin Morby, Kurt Vile and the Violators, and Avery Tate

https://music.mxdwn.com/2023/07/02/news/woodsist-festival-announces-fall-2023-lineup-featuring-kevin-morby-kurt-vile-and-the-violators-and-avery-tate/

Music | Heading to Body&Soul this weekend? Here is what you need to know

Prepare yourself for an unforgettable experience at the Body & Soul Festival this weekend from 16 – 18 June! For three days and nights, immerse yourself in creativity, celebration, and surprises under the solstice skies. This year, the musical offering boasts a line–up with Moderat, The Blaze, Fever Ray, Alison Goldfrapp, The Murder Capital, Kurt Vile & The Violators, to name a few. The…

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🦋 I’m so stoked 😛 to have done this t-shirt for @kurtvile tour 🪱 front and back 🫨 8 colour screen print 🤯 It was amazing to watch KV rip last night at @kokocamden ❤️‍🔥 Available now every night on the UK/EU tour 🫡💥 Thanks to Kurt & @mikesneeringer 🤝

nowplaying NRA Reprise by Kurt Vile And The Violators out of It’s A Big World Out There (And I Am Scared)

Bardo Pond — Volume 9 (Fire Records)

As its title indicates, Volume 9 is the ninth in a series of releases, dating back to 2000, of outtakes, jams and Bardo Pond-related sonic ephemera. But while most of the earlier Volumes were originally made and distributed independently by the band (on CDr, in small batches), Volume 9 has been released by Bardo Pond’s current label Fire Records on vinyl and as a digital download. The new (sorta) record makes visible Fire’s ongoing reissue campaign of the Volumes, including a number on vinyl of various splashy shades. That enterprise may principally be a collector’s fixation, and one might wonder about the relative value of the music, beyond the layers of insider hipness, the fluorescent orange records and the many, many 15-minute-plus explorations of deep and dark psychic terrain.

The relatively higher profile of its release implies that something is different about Volume 9, and the record makes good on that gesture. To be sure, if one listens to some of the earlier Volumes, there’s a charm to their shaggy-dog quality; see Volume 3, which wanders elliptically from informal studio jams like “Sifaka” to intensely stoned improv meditations like “Lomand” — sounds, one imagines, of a typical weekend at Lemur House in the early Aughts. Volume 9, on the other hand,feels like a more sonically focused affair, and the record makes more sense as a record, rather than just a collection of moments, however winning or blissed out.

Tracks on the first side — the long-ish (by Bardo standards, anyway, for whom songs don’t get really long until you top 20 minutes) “Conjunctio” and “The Nine Doubts” — were both recorded with Philly percussionist Michael Zanghi, likely best known as the drummer in the Violators, Kurt Vile’s live and frequent backing band. On these recordings, Zanghi leans into Eastern textures and flavors. There are suggestions of tabla in “Conjunctio,” along with tambourine and other hand-held percussive instruments. The Gibbons brothers’ fuzzed and fucked-with guitars dominate, as ever, but Bardo listeners who dig it when Isobel Sollenberger picks up her flute (and if you don’t, what are you doing listening to the band in the first place?) will want to tune into her playing, which hangs at the edge of the mix, spectral and mournful.

While “Conjunctio” suggests a bare melody and spends the rest of its time floating in the general area of that suggestion, “War is Over” is far more grounded in harmonic statement and something approaching song form. Two versions of the song appear on Volume 9: a three-minute statement and a twenty-one minute exploration of the statement’s potential. Both are evocative, yearning, a little melancholy. But the long version is the real deal, and for listeners attracted to the band’s sludgy psychedelia, it’s a terrific experience. Few bands are able to combine deliberation and slow accumulation with ecstatic abandon like Bardo Pond, and “War is Over” works that dynamic masterfully. While the song does not achieve the transcendent chaos of some of the band’s most sublime performances (see their cover of “Maggot Brain,” for instance, but buckle up), its fealty to its basic melodic structure makes it special and beautiful in different ways.

Volume 9 might not be the best way in to Bardo Pond’s particular powers and pleasures for the novice, but for anyone already familiar with the band’s remarkable music, the record is more than just a number for the completist. You’ll play it. And it will fill you with the peculiar, sometimes magnificent, sometimes terrifying joy that only Bardo Pond can create.

Jonathan Shaw

Comfort Festival 2024: la line up completa con The Gaslight Anthem, Rival Sons e altri

La seconda edizione del festival, nel 2023, si era conclusa con una serie di straordinarie jam session di Jack Johnson insieme agli altri artisti in lineup, tra i quali Glen Hansard, Kurt Vile and the Violators e Wolfmother. Ora sono finalmente ufficiali i nomi della terza edizione di Comfort Festival® che andrà in scena domenica 7 luglio 2024 presso la Nuova Darsena di Ferrara. I biglietti early…

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024 12pm ET: Feature Artist: Kurt Vile

Kurt Samuel Vile (born January 3, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is known for his solo work, music released under the name “Kurt Vile and The Violators,” and as the former lead guitarist of rock band the War on Drugs. Both in the studio and during live performances, Vile is accompanied by his backing band, the Violators, which currently…

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