2 Days till Pemberton...

Ahh music! Combined with food and sport there is nothing better in life. It is Tuesday which means we get new music, new podcasts and only a few more days we get a new festival experience. In the newsletter we reviewed Dr. Dog's album Fate, as well as CSS's latest Donkey. There will be more reviews to come and a podcast round up by from CBC Radio 3 and NPR's All Songs Considered.

But, before we begin we will start with NMT blogs very first concert review. Well, kids all other concert reviews will be all down hill from here. Last Thursday was the greatest day ever! The Legendary Roots Crew from Philly took to Flames Central and blew every one's mind. The lead up was typical hip hop concert stuff. Dj spins some tunes trying to get the crowd hyped, it wasn't bad but fairly standard. Then Black Thought walked out on stage, the crowd went nuts! Following him was F Knuckles, ?uestlove, Kamal Gray, Captain Kirk Douglas, Owen Biddle and then sousaphonist, Damon "Tuba Gooding Jr." Bryson. That's right as ?uestlove liked to point out his nickname is Tuba Gooding Jr.....wicked!!!!

Sadly, I don't have the set list, but I can tell you that they did cover most of their well known songs and missed some of my personal favorites. The show began and was non-stop energy Tuba Gooding Jr. was running around the stage and jumping onto the raised stage that ?uestlove was on and at one point jumped down into the crowd to play. The band was clearly having a ton of fun playing and enjoying themselves. ?uestlove and F. Knuckles had a bet that ?uest had to play an entire song with only one drumstick and one hand (which he did and rocked it out), while F. Knuckles the percussionist was playing with sticks on his bongo drums. It was great.

The true star of the show was Captain Kirk Douglas, he took his guitar solos and ran with them, playing them with amazing talent to the crowds delight. The longest version of "I Got You" ever I am sure had at least a 4 minute solo from Captain Kirk. Also, ?uestlove, Captain Kirk and Tuba Gooding Jr. had a side project which they played Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" which Kirk Douglas and ?uestlove had 5 minute long solos which were great.

One of the biggest highlights to the show was the hip hop mashup performed by the band, including songs by Kanye, Biz Markie, ODB, Jay Z, TLC and more. It was phenomenal! There wasn't many down points of the show where you could rest, it was all energy all the time. It is great to see a band live that is having so much fun you have to ask yourself if they are having more fun then you. Best concert I have ever seen and for those that don't know me I see a fair amount of concerts every year. If you ever get the chance to see The Roots live don't pass it up!!!!!!!!!!

Podcast Central

CBC Radio 3 with Grant Lawrence

This week there was a guest host, Amanda Putz, who did a fine job leading us through the Summer music festivals in Canada. We hear from Snailhouse, Bell Orchestre, Hey Rosetta and my favorite song on this weeks podcast The Superfantasics. It was a good podcast although it would be nicer to listen to the summer music fest podcast in January so you could plan your summer vacation around going up to the Dawson City Music Festival located in beautiful Dawson City, Yukon.

NPR - All Songs Considered

Interesting week this week, we got introduced to Tilly and the Wall, who use a tap dancer as their percussionist. One of my favorite new band names is an electronic artist Podington Bear, the track hear on this weeks podcast was quite good and I may check out the album. Also hear this week were Notwist who have been getting quite the press coverage of late with a new album on the way. Also, Doveman who wasn't my cup of tea but this podcast does play everything under the sun so you take the good with the bad.

Well, next week New Music Tues may or may not be out on Tuesday as I am coming back from Pemberton on Monday and may need a day or so to recoup before heading of to the Death Race the following weekend. Enjoy the tunes and make sure to check out something new this week. If you can't afford the new albums or downloads go to www.imeem.com and listen to some samples of the bands there.

- Dave