Backseat Sandbar's Birthday Show

Backseat Sandbar is celebrating their first Birthday this Saturday with a free show over at the Pour Haus in Germantown. Cory and Nick have been working hard informing folks around the city of local art and music events for nearly a year now and they have reason to celebrate, congratulations guys!

details straight from Backseat Sandbar...

Backseat Sandbar turns 1 on May 23rd & we’re having a little party to celebrate. For the occasion, The Zero Element, Skyscraper Stereo, The Instruction, and DJ duo Azns n Bnzs are going to play at The Pour Haus. The show is meant to provide a cross section of the Louisville Music scene genre-wise, and we specifically chose each band as the embodiment of this scene…whether you’ve heard of any or all of these guys or not….

For the evening, the already incredibly cheap drinks are going to be even cheaper at $1.25 PBR & $3.25 well drinks. The Instruction is going to head on stage first right at 9. I know its the first band an all….but we only chose bands we really liked and you’d be missing out by coming late. These guys recently won a local “Battle of the Bands” at Headliners. When we met them & received their CD, we were instantly hooked. We reviewed it HERE. Everyone we’ve played the album for asks if it is Matt Berninger of The National singing. Interested? After that, we’ve got The Zero Element. The Zero Element just got two forms of shoutout from People Noise. The first was in our Take 5 series, when Zeke answered that The Zero Element was one of his favorite Louisville bands, and the second was asking them to open last Friday’s show at The Pink Door. Next up is local hip hop heads Skyscraper Stereo who rap about more than guns and drugs, and are known to occasionally do it over 8-bit beats. Lastly, our good friends Azns n Bnzs, whose last show we promoted was the incredible Clay Buffett in March, where they performed alongside Skyscraper Stereo. Cheap drinks, good music, good venue, and free admission should make for an all-around awesome night…

For an idea of how far we’ve come…our first post on May 23rd, 2007 was a youtube video about a talented beer pong player. Louisville has embraced Backseat Sandbar far more than we ever anticipated & we intend to keep going strong….going to more and more shows and doing more and more concert reviews, and bringing all the information that you actually care about to one spot.

We hope to see all of you kids out at The Pour Haus on May 23rd…in the meantime, have a sampling of the talent…

Zero Element- XOR
Skyscraper Stereo- 1up
The Instruction- Hello Darlin’
Azns n Bnzs- Lately Misunderstood

Evil Urges Listening Party Announcement

We are excited announce that we will be hosting Louisville's Official Evil Urges Listening Party. The event will be held at Vernon Lanes on Saturday May 31st and will start at 9pm. After we spin the cd, members of the band Murals will be playing a set pure Louisville rock to keep the party going strong. Last month My Morning Jacket gave us a sneak peek at the title track and we posted the mp3 of Evil Urges here.
Mark your calendars and come on out and enjoy the High Life on draft and bowling til your fingers bleed at Vernon Lanes!

Pre-Order My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges at iTunes or Amazon.

Ticketmaster Video

A few weeks ago I ranted about how much I hate Ticketmaster. Tonight ESPN did a story on the problem. A couple things stand out to me. One is that Ticketmaster also owns TicketsNow.com a ticker broker company, so they are making money twice! Second, is that some guy is paying people in India to sit there and enter Captchas all day long so people can purchase tickets fast and in large quantities. Here is the video:

My Morning Jacket SNL Vids

The following is from Linda Park's Velocity Blog.

"Tom and I spent the early afternoon in Herald Square trying to find a black shirt with black buttons (so as not to clash with the black velvet jacket he wore). Thank G for H&M (my favorite store on earth!). If you ever wondered what bands are doing before performing on SNL, there's one example.

An evening at Saturday Night Live is a long one (you arrive around 4 and are there for about nine hours).

However, they are kind enough to provide you with good food, bread pudding, cheesecake and gelato (cookie dough gelato, no less!)

The band went through another set of rehearsals (the first being on Thursday) that sounded great in the studio. I will admit (and am sort of embarrassed, but) I got a bit choked up when I watched them do "I'm Amazed." That song is purty good, I must say.

From 8 - 10 they do a dress rehearsal with a live audience to run through all the skits and both band performances. It was quite interesting to see how things evolved from dress to the actual show, and I think they did a great job of cutting out the fat. My favorite bits of the night were the MacGruber series and Bill Hader's Italian talk show host.

Say what you will about SNL's somewhat inconsistent nature, it's pretty awesome to watch the show come together and see how hard the performers work. They seem like a genial, close-knit bunch (I've read about how it's a pretty dog eat dog environment, but you don't get that feeling when you're there - at least not the parts I saw).

Oh, I forgot to mention that Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen warmed the crowd up with a cover of Blondie's "One Way or Another." She has a great voice, actually, which only makes her even cooler (if that's possible). She has that Suze Orman voice down... and who was in the audience for the live show but... Suze Orman!! I got to walk out next to Suze Orman!! She was pretty good natured about the skit. I did not ask her for investment advice or if Oprah is nice or anything like that.

My Morning Jacket did really well, I thought. I figured I wouldn't be surprised having watched the whole process, but then they did the stop-action thing at the end of both songs (which they didn't in rehearsal) so that was pretty cute. Those boys know how to entertain. I think we were all (the wives) sort of nervous for them, but I don't know why - they've never not delivered in the hundreds of times I've seen them. However, this was probably their most high profile performance EVER.

When the show is over, the cast, crew and loads of other people head to the after party and it was chock full of celebs (I admired Will Arnett from afar... I love that guy). I asked Bill Hader if he would do the LP Questionnaire, and he said yes so I'm excited about that. Will Forte told Tom he wants to go to Bonnaroo so maybe we'll see him again someday. I never talk to famous people, mostly because what on earth am I going to say, really? But also because I think if I was a famous type person, would I want me stumbling up like a moron going, "You're so cool. Tee hee. Can I steal your fork?" Probably not.

So that is what it's like to spend a Saturday at Saturday Night Live. We got back to the hotel around 4.30 am. I haven't stayed out that late since... umm... yeah. I can't wait to get back to NYC next month for MMJ at Radio City Music Hall. They should dress up like the Rockettes.

It was a good week,
Ms. P

ps. How great was it that Pooch made it into the band pics?! He was super happy."

Mason Jennings recording from waterfront available

Here's a sweet little nugget since it's been a little while since we've posted... I managed to tape the Mason Jennings performance on WFPK before we left to catch the show out on the waterfront during Derby week. Mason put on a great show and now you can download it in all it's glory. Thanks goes to WFPK for airing it live. Check out a few pictures I shot from the show as well, enjoy!

1 Soldier Boy
2 Darkness Between the Fireflies
3 Living in the Moment
4 Butterfly
5 Fighter Girl
6 Crown
7 Something About Your Love
8 I Love You and Buddha Too
9 Be Here Now
10 Jackson Square
11 The Light [part ii]
12 Your New Man
13 Adrian
14 Ballad of My One True Love
15 Simple Life
16 Bullet
17 encore break
18 If You Need a Reason
19 California

Whigs set from Waterfront Wednesday available for download

The Whigs played the first Waterfront Wednesday two days ago to what I would guess would be a record crowd on Harbor Lawn. We set up some mics and recorded the show for those that couldn't make it down. Enjoy!

01 Violet Furs.mp3
02 Like a Vibration.mp3
03 Technology.mp3
04 O.K., Alright.mp3
05 Already Young.mp3
06 Sleep Sunshine.mp3
07 banter.mp3
08 Nothing is Easy.mp3
09 Swallow My Pride (Ramones).mp3
10 Production City.mp3
11 Half the World Away.mp3
12 banter.mp3
13 Hot Bed.mp3
14 Right Hand on My Heart.mp3
15 Need You Need You.mp3
16 Get Off of My Cloud (Rolling Stones).mp3

Boycott Ticketmaster

With summer Festivals and concerts quickly approaching, now would be a good time to stand up for yourself and stop taking it in the rear from this evil company. Stop PAYING 5$ to print your tickets out using your own ink and paper.

I don't really have any answers (maybe Eddie Vedder does) but I do know one thing you can do to save some money, and stickit to the man! If you plan on attending the My Morning Jacket show this August, do yourself a favor and head down to Slugger Field and buy your tickets from their box office. You can pick them up for the face value of 33.50 and save around 8$ per ticket (they actully print them for free too!).

Since I brought him up, here is some Eddie for you...
Eddie Vedder - Long Nights (Into The Wild Soundtrack)

Whigs play the first Waterfront Wednesday of 2008

A couple months ago we made a last minute trip to Lexington to catch the Whigs open for our local favorites Wax Fang; it was well worth the trip. The Whigs have a pure rock power that's hard to deny and are headlining this year's first Waterfront Wednesday concert series sponsored by WFPK.
Playing along with the Whigs are Wild Sweet Orange from Birmingham, Alabama and Griffin House from Nashville, Tennessee. As usual, this a free concert series that occurs all summer long on the last Wednesday of the month (aside from this first one... due to Derby conflicts.)

Schedule is as follows:
The Whigs 9pm Right Hand On My Heart
Wild Sweet Orange 7:30pm 10 Dead Dogs
Griffin House 6:00pm Dance With Me