Last week, when Monkey: Journey To The West, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's Chinese opera based on the legend of the Monkey King, opened at London's O2 Arena, the audience included Albarn's former Blur bandmates Graham Coxon and Alex James. This was more than enough to get the UK music press all atwitter with unsubstantiated reports of an imminent Blur reunion, which, interestingly, no one seems to have batted down so far. Meanwhile, Albarn and Hewlett's supposedly-amazing spectacle runs until December 5. The score is available on XL Recordings. And if you want to read the legend in full, the best English-language version is Arthur Waley's poetic and often downright psychedelic 1942 translation Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China.
--Stewart Mason
LISTEN TO BLUR ON EVR:
Sandy Acres Sound Lab Hella Fabulous Guilty Pleasure
EVR Music News: Elvis Costello Hosts Talk Show on Sundance
Elvis Costello: Former new wave icon. Tin Pan Alley crooner. Occasional bit-part actor. Husband of a sexy jazz-pop chanteuse. And now... chat show host! Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... premieres on The Sundance Channel on Wednesday, December 3 at 9 p.m. Produced by Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish, the 13-part series is basically a combination of Inside the Actors Studio and VH1 Storytellers, with interview segments and live performances. Guests include Sir Elton himself, Lou Reed, The Police, She and Him, and Bill Clinton, hopefully leaving his sax at home.
--Stewart Mason
Listen to Elvis Costello on EVR:
Domino Records Radio Show Know Your Rights! (((Attuned)))
EVR Music News: Todd Rundgren To Reunite With The New York Dolls
36 years ago the multi-talented eccentric Todd Rundgren produced the New York Dolls’ self-titled 1973 debut album, a landmark record in rock history, featuring classic punk tracks such as “Personality Crisis” and “Bad Girl”. Rundgren will once again return to the studio with the legendary glam-punk outfit, which includes founding members David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, to produce a brand new album early in 2009. Rundgren, who has also produced the likes of Meat Loaf, Hall & Oates and XTC, is currently touring Europe with his latest solo album.
-- Tom Larkin
Listen to New York Dolls on EVR: On The Fly (((Attuned)))
Listen to Todd Rundgren on EVR: Local Only
EVR Music News: Michael Dashes Hopes of Jackson 5 Comeback
Will it happen? Won’t it happen? Jermaine Jackson recently seemed to confirm that “Michael, Randy, and the whole family” would reunite next year for a tour, and to record new Jackson 5 material. Such claims have proved unfounded in recent years, and this looks to be the case once again, with Michael emerging days later to vehemently deny any agreement with the group, as he works on his own comeback. Who to believe is anyone’s guess, but fans would be wise not to get their hopes up.
--Tom Larkin
British singer/songwriter/guitarist Neil Halstead has always said more with a murmur than many can with a shout. While still in his teens, he founded pioneering shoegaze band Slowdive, whose shimmering sonic haze gradually metamorphosed into the gauzy, folk-tinged dream-pop of Mojave 3. Halstead's solo work emphasizes the folkier side of his former band, and his 2002 solo debut, Sleeping On Roads, was full of hushed, Nick Drake-like acoustic balladry. Six years later, he's made a transatlantic connection with Jack Johnson's Brushfire label to release the long-awaited follow-up, Oh! Mighty Engine.
Neil Halstead dropped by EVR last week. Click HERE for an exclusive in-studio performance and interview.
--Jim Allen
Listen to Neil Halstead on EVR: (((Attuned)))
Listen to Slowdive on EVR: Fast Forward Reverse
Listen to Mojave 3 on EVR: Sandy Acres Sound Lab
EVR DJ Show Alert: Gibby Haynes on The Continuous Mammal
There were big thrills on The Continuous Mammal on Sunday, November 16 from noon to 2 p.m., when Niall's special guest was the legendary Gibby Haynes, frontman of the Butthole Surfers. Playing tracks ranging from Johnny Cash and Tom T. Hall to selections from Sublime Frequencies' amazing Radio Myanmar collection, Gibby told fascinating and hilarious stories in his own inimitable style, including the tale of the time he was thrown out of a club during his own show.
Listen here to Gibby Haynes on The Continuous Mammal
EVR Music News: “Lost” Beatles Track to be Released?
In a BBC Radio 4 interview this week, Paul McCartney confirms the existence of a legendary "lost" Beatles track, "Carnival of Light." A 14-minute improvisation commissioned for a January 1967 electronic music festival called The Million Volt Light and Sound Rave, "Carnival of Light" hasn't been heard in public for over 40 years. (Really crap fakes have appeared on file-sharing networks over the years.) McCartney wants to release the Karlheinz Stockhausen-influenced piece, pending the approval of Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison. This would be the first unheard Beatles music since 2000's Liverpool Sound Collage, a McCartney collaboration with Super Furry Animals that incorporated a previously unreleased Beatles studio jam.
--Stewart Mason
Listen to the Beatles on EVR:
Atlantic Tunnel The Dirt Parking Lot Chances With Wolves
EVR Music News: Sigur Rós Offers Deluxe Edition
Sigur Rós’ fifth album is going deluxe. An extended version of Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (in English, “with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly”), originally released in June on XL Recordings, will be in stores November 18 and is available now via Sigur Rós’ Web site. The special edition, which costs about $100, is packed with extras: a 200-page book of photos shot by photographer Eva Vermandel throughout the album-making process; a 55-minute DVD of two documentary films about the band by filmmaker Nick Abrahams; and a strip of the original 16mm film from the “Gobbledigook” music video.
-- Laura Leebove
Listen to Sigur Rós on EVR:
The Shocking Blue Sessions No New York Fast Forward Reverse
EVR Music News: Classic Hip-Hop Movie at Film Forum
Wild Style, the classic 1983 movie about the emerging hip-hop underground, plays the Film Forum (209 W. Houston St.) November 14-20. Other early hip-hop movies like Breakin' look laughably silly now, but Charlie Ahearn's largely improvised documentary-style tale of a South Bronx subway tagger (played by legendary graffiti artist Lee Quinones) on the run from fame and the law still feels bracingly real. Appearances by Fab Five Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, and other old-school legends add to its time-capsule appeal. Ahearn and special guests will appear at the 10 p.m. screenings on Friday and Saturday night, and he'll be signing copies of his new book Wild Style: The Sampler, in the lobby starting at 9 p.m.
--Stewart Mason
Listen To Old-School Hip-Hop On EVR:
Forty Deuce Radio THE BLOCK
EVR DJ Show Alert: Sal Principato on Body Control, Sun. Nov 16, 8pm
Check out Body Control, Sunday, November 16, from 8 to 10 p.m. when host Bruce Tantum welcomes guest Sal Principato, singer and percussionist for the legendary post-punk dance-rockers Liquid Liquid. One of NYC's key underground bands of the early '80s, Liquid Liquid remains best known for their song "Cavern," the original source for the hypnotic bassline that Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five swiped for their 1983 classic "White Lines (Don't Do It)." Celebrating Domino Records' recent comprehensive anthology Slip In and Out of Phenomenon, Liquid Liquid are playing Santos Party House (100 Lafayette St) on Wednesday, November 19.
EVR Music News: Strokes To Return With New Album In 2009
Scruffy New York indie heroes the Strokes are set to return to the studio in February next year to start work on their fourth album, or so says drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Since 2006’s First Impressions Of Earth, Moretti formed side project Little Joy, and he claims it had crossed his mind that Casablancas and Co. might call it a day. But not to worry: we can look forward to more retro rock ‘n roll sometime in the latter half of next year.
Listen to The Strokes on EVR:
Know Your Rights! Authentic Shit Guilty Pleasure
EVR Music News: Mitch Mitchell, 1947-2008
John "Mitch" Mitchell, drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, died Wednesday, November 12 in Portland, Oregon of unspecified natural causes. The drummer had just completed the 18-city 2008 Experience Hendrix tribute tour, and was scheduled to fly home to England that day. Prior to his tenure in the Experience, Mitchell was briefly a member of the Pretty Things and Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames. Afterwards, he was in the short-lived prog trio Ramatam. Sobering thought: following the deaths of Hendrix and bassist Noel Redding, the Jimi Hendrix Experience are the first major rock band with no living members.
--Stewart Mason
Listen To The Jimi Hendrix Experience On EVR:
TURNTABLE LAB RADIO The Dirt Parking Lot Chances With Wolves
EVR DJ Show Alert: Reuben Wilson on Never Not Working, Fri Nov. 14, Midnight
Tune into Never Not Working Radio Friday night, November 14, from midnight to 2 a.m., when Radio Rios and Oskar Mann offer a live recap of soul-jazz organist Reuben Wilson's show at ReBar (147 Front Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn). Wilson's five classic 1968-71 albums for Blue Note Records are beloved by deep funk and acid jazz heads. His new all-star band features the Dap-Kings' Cochemea Gastelum (sax) and Eric Kalb (drums), Sugarman 3's Al Street (guitar), and Antibalas' Yoshi Takemasa (percussion). Tommy "TNT" Brenneck and DJ Honeydripper man the decks between sets. Show runs from 9 p.m. to midnight, with no cover.
EVR DJ Show Alert: Fast Forward Reverse Welcomes Autodrone, Sat. Nov. 15, 8am
Check out Fast Forward Reverse Saturday, November 15 from 8 to 10 a.m., when host TimmyG welcomes rising local indie rockers Autodrone. Their full-length debut Strike A Match (Clairecords) fuses dream pop and shoegazer influences with the bass- and synth-driven, neo-post-punk side of contemporary indie rock. Catch the Strike A Match record release show at The Annex (152 Orchard Street), Thursday, November 13.
EVR Album Review: Little Joy - Little Joy (Rough Trade)
If you're expecting gritty garage-rock from Strokes drummer Fab Moretti's side project Little Joy, you're in for a surprise. The trio's debut album finds Moretti and his partners (girlfriend Binki Shapiro and Rodrigo Amarante of Brazil's Los Hermanos) playing a multitude of acoustic and electric instruments and crafting a loose, homemade sound with elements of everything from lo-fi indie pop to jazz and jug-band folk. A sunny, open-hearted affair that began as an off-hand collaboration between friends, the album exudes a warm, friendly vibe that only the most stone-hearted Scrooge could fail to find endearing.
--Jim Allen
Little Joy plays at the Mercury Lounge on November 13
EVR Music News: Antony and the Johnsons Announce New Album
Since I Am A Bird Now dramatically boosted Antony and the Johnsons' profile, Anthony Hegarty has become the Michael McDonald of the new millennium, singing backup for everyone from Lou Reed and Rufus Wainwright to CocoRosie and Joan As Police Woman. Over three years later, he's finally returned to his own project: Secretly Canadian has announced that Antony and the Johnsons' third album, The Crying Light, will be released January 20. Featuring orchestral arrangements by rising young post-minimalist composer Nico Muhly (whose own recent album Mothertongue (Bedroom Community) is outstanding), the album is preceded by the five-song teaser EP Another World, out now.
--Stewart Mason
Listen to Antony & the Johnsons on EVR:
Domino Records Radio Show Loisaida Cultural Wire The Shocking Blue Sessions
EVR Music News: Nirvana Guitarist Reappears…Where?
Jason Everman was the Stu Sutcliffe of Nirvana, briefly their second guitarist between Bleach and Nevermind(he’s the one with the giant poodle mane). In the November 10 New Yorker, there's a short piece about a group of Iraq and Afghanistan vets invited to a performance of Gregory Burke's Iraq-themed play Black Watch: one is retired Army Special Forces vet Jason Everman. Turns out he enlisted in 1994, directly influenced by Renaissance icon Benvenuto Cellini, whose autobiography promotes the ideal of the well-rounded man as artist, warrior and philosopher. Indeed, Everman is currently studying philosophy at Columbia. And you thought Krist Novoselic going into local politics was unexpected?
--Stewart Mason
Listen to Nirvana on EVR:
Peer Pressure Know Your Rights! Pizza Party
EVR Music News: Rhino Reissues New Order’s Best Albums
Rhino has performed a desperately needed upgrade to New Order's 1980s catalogue, reissuing the pioneering post-punk/dance synthesists' first five albums as double-disc sets. All five -- 1981's Movement, 1983's Power, Corruption and Lies, 1985's Low-Life, 1986's Brotherhood and 1989's Technique -- are essential listening, and were in need of a sonic upgrade from the original CDs. But the inclusion of a bonus disc of singles, b-sides, rarities and remixes in each makes them a must-purchase: most of New Order's best tracks, including "Ceremony," "Temptation," "Blue Monday" and "True Faith," never appeared on their albums.
--Stewart Mason
Listen to New Order on EVR:
The New York Groove Tummy Touch Presents Two For Tennis Minimal-Electronik Plus
EVR Music News: Merle Haggard Home and Hardy After Surgery
Honky-tonk hero Merle Haggard who was recently diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (more curable than the small-cell variety), underwent lung surgery in his hometown of Bakersfield, CA last Monday. It’s reported that after a successful operation, the ol’ Lonesome Fugitive woke, opened his eyes, yodeled, and smiled. He has now returned home for recovery. In a statement, Haggard thanked his surgeon, his wife and “the Tylenol pushers on the fourth floor of the memorial hospital,” adding, “I’d sure like to know who controls the largest shares of Tylenol. God forbid it be the oil companies!”
--Jim Allen
Listen to Merle Haggard on EVR
Root Hog Or Die Infinite Eargasm
EVR DJ News Alert: The Block Celebrates 1 Year on EVR
On Friday, November 7, The Block celebrated its one-year anniversary on East Village Radio. Brought to you by Forty Deuce Radio and hosted by Capital P and O.G. Chino, The Block has been EVR's source for old school hip-hop, from its '70s roots through the early '90s golden age. After a year of live guests that included Fab Five Freddy and Devin The Dude, Capital P and Chino celebrated their milestone show this weekend with hip-hop pioneers DJ Rockin' Rob and Tony Tone of the Cold Crush Brothers. The Block comes at you every Friday night from 10 to midnight.
New EVR DJ Show: The Ragged Phonograph Program, Tuesdays at 6am
Be sure to check out the newest DJ Show on East Village Radio, The Ragged Phonograph Program with Mike the Barber, every Tuesday morning from 6 to 8 a.m. Host Michael W. Haar brings EVR listeners original disc and Edison cylinder recordings from the turn of the 20th century: rags, early jazz, sentimental ballads, pop songs, marches, and comedy pieces. This Tuesday, November 11 at 6am, The Ragged Phonograph Program celebrates the birthday of comic vaudeville star Bert Williams, the best selling black recording artist of the early 1900s and the first black man to star on Broadway.
EVR Music News: Wedding Present Release Limited-Edition Box Set
Following a US tour in support of their latest album El Rey, the Wedding Present are releasing a special limited-edition box set of singles. How The West Was Won contains four CD EPs totaling 16 tracks, including remixes and alternate versions of El Rey's three singles. The set also features four previously unreleased songs recorded with Steve Albini during the album sessions, and a special Christmas EP featuring two versions of David Gedge's own "Holly Jolly Hollywood" and covers of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" and Take That's "Back For Good." Limited to 1,000 copies, How the West Was Won will be released by Vibrant Records.
List to the Wedding Present artists on EVR:
Peer Pressure Sandy Acres Sound Lab Fast Forward Reverse
EVR DJ Profile: Delphine Blue from the Shocking Blue Sessions
Every Wednesday at noon, EVR's DJ booth reverberates with the expertly curated strains of post-punk, heavy funk, new wave, world music, indie rock and more, courtesy of Delphine Blue's Shocking Blue Sessions. A New York radio institution, Delphine started as a club DJ in the early '80s at the Ritz. “I had to convince them,” she says. “There were not many girl DJs at the time.” She spun a mouth-watering variety of contemporary wax, from Gang of Four to Black Uhuru, Grandmaster Flash to the Clash. “DJs could mix any genre together and people went to clubs to hear new music because it was the only place you could do that,” recalls Delphine. “Frankie Crocker from [NYC R&B station] WBLS called The Ritz to find out about some record he'd heard there the night before. It was 'Paint Me Down' by Spandau Ballet. That's how it got on WBLS.”
Delphine has worked at mainstream commercial stations like Sirius, Jack FM and WLIR, as well as public radio's countercultural oasis WBAI and the musical voice of MOMA's P.S.1 annex, WPS1. But EVR is special to her. “It's a super creative environment,” she observes. “The 70 DJs we have are always opening up my mind and ears. EVR is a candy shop for people who can't live without music.” The forward-looking DJ considers her East Village slot a cutting-edge perch. “Internet radio is 10 million times cooler than satellite,” she says. If that's true, it's shows like Shocking Blue Sessions that make it so.
--Jim Allen
Delphine Blue's Honor Roll:
Classic:
Kraftwerk – Computer Love
The Lounge Lizards - No Pain For Cakes
Roxy Music - Avalon
The Cure - everything up to Disintegration
PJ Harvey
Fela Kuti
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Mulatu Astatke
Current:
Glasvegas
Black Acid
High Places
Vivian Girls
All The Saints
Juana Molina
EVR Music News: Descendents Guitarist Frank Navetta Dies
Frank Navetta, the original guitarist for Southern-California punk band the Descendants, died last week due to an as-yet undisclosed illness. Navetta started the band with drummer Bill Stevenson and bassist Tony Lombardo in 1979. He played guitar on the band’s now classic 1982 full-length, Milo Goes to College, and made his last official contribution on their 1996 comeback album, Everything Sucks. Navetta apparently gave up on the Descendents by burning all his equipment and becoming a fisherman in Oregon, living up to at least part of the group’s worthy credo: “fishing, girls and velocity.”
EVR DJ Show Alert: Carlos Giffoni on Radio Heart, Tues. Nov.11, 10pm
Tune into Radio Heart Tuesday, November 11, from 10 p.m. to midnight, when host Ceci Moss welcomes noise pioneer Carlos Giffoni. The curator of the annual No Fun international noise festival, Giffoni has a new album, Adult Life, on his own No Fun Productions label. Giffoni will play a live set at the beginning of the show, and will also be spinning discs from the No Fun Productions catalog, featuring Thurston Moore, Merzbow, Consumer Electronics, Religious Knives, Prurient, Greg Kelley, and Hair Police.
LISTEN HERE to an exclusive LIVE performance by Carlos Giffoni!
EVR New Release Pick
Micah Blue Smaldone - Red River(Immune)
Portland, Maine troubadour Micah Blue Smaldone is one of the most striking, distinctive stylists on the indie-folk scene. His latest imagines a world where Will Oldham cross-pollinates with Antony Hegarty, crafting stately, stirring, poetic art-folk epics that make most of Smaldone's strum-and-croon peers seem like slackers by comparison.
--Jim Allen
EVR Album Review: Pete Molinari – One Stolen Moment EP
Any release from Pete Molinari is worthy of investigation, and this limited edition 7" vinyl EP provides further evidence of the Kent lad's talent. The title track is taken from his A Virtual Landslide LP and captures Molinari in a reflective mood, taking on Nashville at their own game and proving English country music can be a contender. The EP also includes “Love Lies Bleeding” from his debut album, on which you could swear the ghost of early Dylan walks again. For completists, however, the jewel in the crown is a spot-on acoustic version of The Buff Medways track “The Poets Dream”.
-- Nic Oliver
Listen to Pete Molinari on EVR:
Atlantic Tunnel
EVR DJ Show Alert: Stockholm’s Finest Visits EVR
It was a Swedish invasion on East Village Radio, Thursday morning. Stockholm-based singer-songwriters Ane Brun and Tobias Froberg took over the EVR broadcast booth, each spinning some of their favorite discs before joining together for a brief set of their own songs (check out the video above). Brun, whose Changing of the Seasons (Cheap Lullaby) is one of 2008's finest alt-folk records, also guests on Froberg's most recent album, Turn Heads (Cheap Lullaby). The duo plays Union Hall on November 12.
Listen here to Ane Brun and Tobia Froberg live on EVR.
Download all 6 of the in-studio performances in high quality video Here
EVR New Release Pick
The Smiths - The Sound of the Smiths (Rhino)
Rhino's new collection honoring Manchester's favorite sons comes as a single disc and a deluxe two-disc set, but don't be a cheapskate—that second disc is teeming with rarities, including live cuts and a bevy of B-sides. Of course if you're only going to have a single Smiths disc, the basic one-CD version is a pretty stellar anthology.
--Jim Allen
Listen to the Smiths on EVR:
Sandy Acres Sound Lab Know Your Rights Guilty Pleasure
EVR Album Review: Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs
A Dylan release of any kind is always a major event, and the Bootleg Series, now in its eighth installment, is certainly no exception. Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006 covers the most recent period of Dylan’s work, an utterly fascinating era within a remarkable five-decade-spanning career. The most interesting moments come from sessions for the two Daniel Lanois-produced albums, Oh Mercy and Time Out Of Mind. Now stripped of Lanois’ trademark ambient production, tracks such as “Most Of The Time” and “Series Of Dreams” are laid bare in a way you’ve never heard before. Other gems include a heartfelt live version of ‘Ring Them Bells’, a stunning version of “Mississippi” (a song eventually appearing on 2001’s Love And Theft), a cover of Robert Johnson’s “32-20 Blues”, and alternative takes from Dylan’s acclaimed latest original release, Modern Times. Dylan fans will find this a rewarding collection with more than its fair share of surprises.
--Tom Larkin
Listen to Bob Dylan on EVR:
Pizza Party Hella Fabulous Infinite Eargasm
Last week, when 
Elvis Costello: Former new wave icon. Tin Pan Alley crooner. Occasional bit-part actor. Husband of a sexy jazz-pop chanteuse. And now... chat show host! 
36 years ago the multi-talented eccentric Todd Rundgren produced the 
Will it happen? Won’t it happen? Jermaine Jackson recently seemed to confirm that “Michael, Randy, and the whole family” would reunite next year for a tour, and to record new Jackson 5 material. Such claims have proved unfounded in recent years, and this looks to be the case once again, with Michael emerging days later to vehemently deny any agreement with the group, as he works on his own comeback. Who to believe is anyone’s guess, but fans would be wise not to get their hopes up.
--Tom Larkin
British singer/songwriter/guitarist 
There were big thrills on 
In a BBC Radio 4 interview this week, 
Sigur Rós’ fifth album is going deluxe. An extended version of Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (in English, “with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly”), originally released in June on XL Recordings, will be in stores November 18 and is available now via Sigur Rós’ Web site. The special edition, which costs about $100, is packed with extras: a 200-page book of photos shot by photographer Eva Vermandel throughout the album-making process; a 55-minute DVD of two documentary films about the band by filmmaker Nick Abrahams; and a strip of the original 16mm film from the “Gobbledigook” music video.
-- Laura Leebove
Listen to Sigur Rós on EVR:
Wild Style, the classic 1983 movie about the emerging hip-hop underground, plays the Film Forum (209 W. Houston St.) November 14-20. Other early hip-hop movies like Breakin' look laughably silly now, but Charlie Ahearn's largely improvised documentary-style tale of a South Bronx subway tagger (played by legendary graffiti artist Lee Quinones) on the run from fame and the law still feels bracingly real. Appearances by Fab Five Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, and other old-school legends add to its time-capsule appeal. Ahearn and special guests will appear at the 10 p.m. screenings on Friday and Saturday night, and he'll be signing copies of his new book Wild Style: The Sampler, in the lobby starting at 9 p.m.
--Stewart Mason
Listen To Old-School Hip-Hop On EVR:
Check out 
Scruffy New York indie heroes the Strokes are set to return to the studio in February next year to start work on their fourth album, or so says drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Since 2006’s First Impressions Of Earth, Moretti formed side project Little Joy, and he claims it had crossed his mind that Casablancas and Co. might call it a day. But not to worry: we can look forward to more retro rock ‘n roll sometime in the latter half of next year.
Listen to The Strokes on EVR:
John "Mitch" Mitchell, drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, died Wednesday, November 12 in Portland, Oregon of unspecified natural causes. The drummer had just completed the 18-city 2008 Experience Hendrix tribute tour, and was scheduled to fly home to England that day. Prior to his tenure in the Experience, Mitchell was briefly a member of the Pretty Things and Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames. Afterwards, he was in the short-lived prog trio Ramatam. Sobering thought: following the deaths of Hendrix and bassist Noel Redding, the Jimi Hendrix Experience are the first major rock band with no living members.
--Stewart Mason
Listen To The Jimi Hendrix Experience On EVR:
Tune into 
Check out 
If you're expecting gritty garage-rock from Strokes drummer Fab Moretti's side project Little Joy, you're in for a surprise. The trio's debut album finds Moretti and his partners (girlfriend Binki Shapiro and Rodrigo Amarante of Brazil's Los Hermanos) playing a multitude of acoustic and electric instruments and crafting a loose, homemade sound with elements of everything from lo-fi indie pop to jazz and jug-band folk. A sunny, open-hearted affair that began as an off-hand collaboration between friends, the album exudes a warm, friendly vibe that only the most stone-hearted Scrooge could fail to find endearing.
--Jim Allen
Little Joy plays at the Mercury Lounge on November 13
Since I Am A Bird Now dramatically boosted 
Jason Everman was the Stu Sutcliffe of 
Rhino has performed a desperately needed upgrade to 
Honky-tonk hero 
Be sure to check out the newest DJ Show on East Village Radio, 
Following a US tour in support of their latest album El Rey, the 
Every Wednesday at noon, EVR's DJ booth reverberates with the expertly curated strains of post-punk, heavy funk, new wave, world music, indie rock and more, courtesy of Delphine Blue's 
Frank Navetta, the original guitarist for Southern-California punk band the 
Tune into 
Micah Blue Smaldone - Red River (Immune)
Portland, Maine troubadour 
Any release from 
The Smiths - The Sound of the Smiths (Rhino)
Rhino's new collection honoring Manchester's favorite sons comes as a single disc and a deluxe two-disc set, but don't be a cheapskate—that second disc is teeming with rarities, including live cuts and a bevy of B-sides. Of course if you're only going to have a single Smiths disc, the basic one-CD version is a pretty stellar anthology.
--Jim Allen
Listen to the Smiths on EVR:
A Dylan release of any kind is always a major event, and the Bootleg Series, now in its eighth installment, is certainly no exception. Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006 covers the most recent period of Dylan’s work, an utterly fascinating era within a remarkable five-decade-spanning career. The most interesting moments come from sessions for the two Daniel Lanois-produced albums, Oh Mercy and Time Out Of Mind. Now stripped of Lanois’ trademark ambient production, tracks such as “Most Of The Time” and “Series Of Dreams” are laid bare in a way you’ve never heard before. Other gems include a heartfelt live version of ‘Ring Them Bells’, a stunning version of “Mississippi” (a song eventually appearing on 2001’s Love And Theft), a cover of Robert Johnson’s “32-20 Blues”, and alternative takes from Dylan’s acclaimed latest original release, Modern Times. Dylan fans will find this a rewarding collection with more than its fair share of surprises.
--Tom Larkin
Listen to Bob Dylan on EVR:
