The AV Club has done many wonderful things in its time. However, you’ve never seen anything like this before – Coliseum, plus saxophonist Bruce Lamont, reimagining Eddie Money. Wow.
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“Due to today’s forecast, Louisville Loves Mountains Festival is moving to the Green Building (732 E. Market Street). The festival is still on from 4pm to 10pm.”
From a “street walking cheetah” to an aged aesthete, our favorite spitfire’s grit-gun is cocked and locked for another round of virile fury, not to mention original drummer Scott Asheton and Raw Power guitarist James Williamson are Pop’s missionaries on the Stooges’ fifth foray, Ready to Die. For another trademark arrangement of brash guitar and clever lyrical hooks, this next installation beckons more solemnity than any other Stooges record to date. Don’t get me wrong, crudity prevails (DD’s, Sex and Money), only it resides near the forlorn memories of the quintet’s ballistic past best depicted through Williamson’s slide guitar and Pop’s narcotic lull (“The Departed,” “Unfriendly World”). The bands unearthly vigor plainly opposes the album’s title, Ready to Die, as 44 years ago Iggy Pop wanted to be your dog — now everyone wants to be his. — Sam Wilkerson
For Louisville’s first edition of “Fresh Fest,” rappers Naughty By Nature, supergroup The Alumni (Chubb Rock, Monie Love, Dana Dane, Kwame and Special Ed) and host Ed Lover will pay tribute to the sounds of their generation.
The Belvedere will play host to this Sunday, August 4th concert, from 6 – 11 p.m. Food, alcohol and other vendors will be present.
“Basically, no one we know is going to pay the absorbadant (sic) amount that some festivals are charging for mediocre lineups. So we decided to make are (sic) own festival, make it as cheap as possible, but bring you the best local music we could find.”
So says the organizers of the first Poorcastle Festival. The acts listed so far are:
The Uncommon Houseflies
Tall Squares
Huh Robots
The Nick Peay Band
Phourist
Gangly Youth
Plastic Bubble
Kristen Cothran and the Darkside
Stereo Empire
with “more to come!” promised. The Saturday, July 6th event will take place at Apocalypse Brew Works from 2 – 11 p.m. Admission is $5.
Southern Indiana-based Americana singer/songwriter Nick Dittmeier has been playing music professionally for almost half his life, and now he has an EP, Extra Better, to show for it. While it’s the first release under his given name, he led the band Slithering Beast for several years, so he’s no newborn. WFPK has been playing “I Can Sing” from the EP, and Dittmeier celebrates its release with a show at the Monkey Wrench on Friday, May 17.
“My grandma is a music teacher, she taught me how to play guitar,” he says, sounding like a country song even in conversation. His dad Paul Dittmeier is now his pedal steel player, though he never showed young Nick how to play two decades ago.
As a boy, Dittmeier wanted to play in a band, partly because he thought a kid across the street was in a band he could join. He was wrong, so they started a new band instead.
In his teens, the streets of Louisville were filled with coffeehouses and other all-ages venues welcoming to unknown troubadours, more so than today, so he began learning how to win over crowds in that polite fashion. Today he mostly plays in bars and sees what he does as a job like any other, “like a guy who sweeps the floors.” He’s unlikely to label himself “an artist” but doesn’t care what you call him (“Nick”’s fine).
His new EP was recorded in his drummer’s house off Mellwood Avenue. “It was probably the most fun record I’ve gotten to make, because I didn’t think too hard about it. When I was tracking, I’d just go and do it and then leave.”
As a result, he sounds more relaxed, “more mellow,” he thinks, on the new recordings. He’s equally relaxed about its commercial prospects, even as he begins working on the next one.
His hope is to get a label interested in putting out his next record, or some radio airplay out of town — no private cruise with Beyoncé for this regular guy, just a realistic, down-to-earth dream he can work toward.
UPCOMING GIGS:
thursday, may 16th oshea’s on bardstown 9 pm free
friday monkey wrench cd release w/ fifth on the floor and Johnny berry 8:30, $5
saturday, may 18th diamond pub highlands 10 pm
may 22 bearno’s highlander point. starts at 8pm
may 23 manny & merle 7 pm
DETAILS:
Thursday, July 18th at 9pm
Tickets: On Sale Friday, May 17th at 10AM
BIO:
“Nearly three years on from his breakthrough album Here’s To Taking It Easy, Phosphorescent returns to the fray with his most stunning record yet: Muchacho. During the last album’s ‘cycle’, one could almost hear jaws hitting the floor witnessing a live band of such infinite verve. Not only did the album draw high praise in the form of Mojo’s ‘Album of the Month’ (#8 End of Year), Sunday Times & The Independent ‘Albums of the Week’, hit Rough Trade’s Top 5 Best of the Year, but the band also supported The National over the course of three sold out nights at Brixton Academy, a show that The Independent gave 5/5 and called ‘a sublime, joyous gig.”
