With not only a year but an entire decade of music to celebrate, we’ll be bringing you our “Best of” 2009 lists all week long. We begin with our favorite 10 live shows of the year, followed later this week by our favorite albums of the year and our 101 favorite albums of the decade.
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December 27, 2009
Wounded Messenger’s Best of 2009 Week Begins!
September 25, 2009
Austin City Limits Broadcast Schedule Announced
Now in its 35th year, the dependable PBS program Austin City Limits returns with another stellar lineup of music. Beginning October 3rd with Dave Matthews Band, the series will air 14 episodes that feature the expected array of underground heroes, worldwide superstars, and eclectic oddities. DMB, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Kenny Chesney, Pearl Jam, Allen [...]
July 8, 2009
News Fragments: End of the Road Festival, Poorly Planned Stevie Wonder Show, Trent Reznor Eats My Soul
-Any festival that features Explosions in the Sky, The Hold Steady, and Okkervil River as main headliners is just fine by me. Interested? Head to the UK’s End of the Road Festival. Music, comedy, cinema, yes.
-A fun, interesting read with great photos of what looks like one of the most frustrating concert experiences imaginable: a [...]
June 24, 2009
News Fragments: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup, Sunny Day Real Estate Reunion, Phish Album Announcement, Virgin FreeFest
-San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival has announced the initial lineup for the free event, which takes place at Golden Gate Park October 2-4, 2009. The first announced acts look just great, and the lineup includes Okkervil River, Del McCoury Band, Robyn Hitchcock, Aimee Mann, Allen Toussaint, Dr. Dog, Neko Case, Booker T. and the [...]
June 23, 2009
Live Review: Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, June 11 – 14, 2009
It’s hard to convey everything that happens at Bonnaroo. So much is missed, and so many different experiences occur that it’s futile to try and capture it all. At the same time, so much is seen and so many experiences had. For me, Bonnaroo has been all about the music since the very first year, [...]
May 27, 2009
Bonnaroo Preview: Okkervil River
Bonnaroo has done Okkervil River no favors.
The Austin-based band will perform at the festival’s geographically-challenged Other Tent on Sunday afternoon, when exhausted fans will be doing more hunkering than walking. Other bands have fallen victim to the sinister stage and schedule spot – even an increasingly rare stateside Broken Social Scene performance couldn’t lure the [...]
May 7, 2009
The Messenger at Bonnaroo – Festival Schedule Available
Bonnaroo is just over a month away, and now that the schedule is available, it’s as good of a time as any to let you know that I will be attending the festival and providing updates numerous times per day.
Eventually, there will be a Wounded Messenger Twitter feed, which I will use to keep [...]
April 8, 2009
Neko Case and Will Sheff Live Webcast – Thursday April 9
Neko Case’s April 9, 2009 concert at Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club will be broadcast live at NPR.org. Will Sheff of Okkervil River will open the show (and the webcast) at 8:15 PM. Here’s the link to their story, and you can find the link for the broadcast at the NPR homepage tomorrow evening.
