Posts Tagged ‘earthless’

Album of the day: Earthless – Live at Roadburn

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010

Earthless - Live at Roadburn

Lovingly pinched from StonerRock.com: The trick of free-flowing instrumental jams is keeping it interesting for long stretches of time. If there’s a group currently out there that knows this better than Earthless, I’d like to know who it is. From my vantage point, Earthless is the cream of the psychedelic rock crop, and while that opinion was solidified well before I heard Live at Roadburn, the San Diego-based band’s latest reinforced that feeling tenfold.

This two CD/LP release, recorded live and without any overdubs at this year’s (2009 -ed) prestigious Roadburn Festival (You don’t know about this? What are you, dense?), may take awhile to get going, but once it does, the band’s impossible to stop.

Continue reading:  StonerRock.com – Earthless – Live at Roadburn.
Please click HERE for the audio stream of Earthless – Live at Roadburn.

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Earthless confirmed to play Roadburn Festival on Thursday, April 15th

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010

We are thrilled to announce the return of Earthless to the Roadburn stage on Thursday, 15 April 2010.

Earthless were among the undisputed highlights of the 2008 edition of the festival. The story behind the recording of Earthless  — Live at Roadburn has been documented widely by various ...read more

We need more records: What’s In My Bag? Tortoise purchasing Earthless Live at Roadburn

Posted on Friday, November 13th, 2009

Bassist Doug McCombs and drummer John Herndon of Tortoise were caught shopping at Amoeba Records lately and bared the contents of their shopping bags for Amoeba’s film crew. Interestingly, both band members separately purchased the vinyl edition of Earthless’ Live at Roadburn.
“I bought this live record because they were on ...read more

Earthless: Cosmic nodding for hours

Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009

James Knight of Vice Music Blog recently conducted an interview with Earthless.  An excerpt from the chat follows below.
Today we talk to Earthless, who play endless, riffing, stoned-out psyche with just the right amount of rock and roll to keep you gripped no matter how long they noodle on for.
At ...read more

Supersonic Festival 2009

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Sunday night’s performance of the reunited Goblin brought Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival to a close, a fitting conclusion to a great weekend for me and Jurgen.
One of the special things about Supersonic that we noticed was how much time the musicians from the various bands on the bill ...read more

Supersonic Festival: Birmingham, July 24th – 26th

Posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009

We are currently gearing up for our sonic pilgrimage to Birmingham’s annual Supersonic Festival.
Louise of Terrorizer.com recently conducted an interview with promoter Lisa to find out more about their aural annual adventure. An excerpt from the chat follows below.
What is Supersonic Festival all about?
We aim to put on an ...read more

Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, 24th – 26th of July

Posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

We’re going to attend Birmingham’s very own Supersonic Festival in July: “As British music festivals go, Birmingham’s annual Supersonic event is the best kind of mixed musical bag, a dizzying assortment of avant rock textures and Heavy Metal thunder on a bill which swings from the sublime to the ridiculous ...read more

Roadburn Audio Streams

Posted on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

For those who didn’t get to take part in the Roadburn Festivals, and for those who did, but want to relive it –we have put up the VPRO 3voor12 on-demand audio webcasts for your listening pleasure!
Roadburn Festival  2008 (013, Tilburg – Holland)
Pre-Heat, Thursday, April 17:
Mainstage:
Capricorns
Grand Magus

Green Room:
Diagonal
Taint

Bat Cave:
Litmus
Friday, April 18th:

Mainstage:
Earthless
Trouble
Witchcraft
Blood ...read more

Earthless on Live at Roadburn

Posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

“Is something like last year’s Live At Roadburn more of what you guys are going for in terms of that?
Yeah Live At Roadburn was basically an accidental thing in a really cool way. We played that festival to a much larger crowd than we were anticipating to, and when we ...read more