Mountain Jam

Festival season is right around the corner folks. While we're still waiting on announcements from the big guns, the initial line-up for the 4th installment of Warren Haynes' Mountain Jam has been revealed. Check out the poster....


Tickets go on-sale this Friday, starting at 10 A.M. - grab them here.

HFTB favs The Felice Brothers will make their second appearance there, check out this video of them performing "The Ballad Of Lou The Welterweight" from last year's edition of the fest - watch it here.

Team Love For The Felice Brothers

Of all the great bands that I discovered in 2007 the one that I'm probably the most excited about (well maybe besides Vampire Weekend) is The Felice Brothers - whom I've mentioned here before. Well it looks like former tour mate Connor Oberst really digs them too as he's signed them to his label Team Love and will put out their self-title album on March 4th. Here's some info....

"Team Love will release a collection of The Felice Brothers hottest new tunes combined with some select and hard to find tracks from the tour-only full length “The Adventures of the Felice Brothers Vol 1”.

The Felice Brothers self-titled American debut will be available at brick and mortar retailers and digital stores on March 4th. In April, an 180 gram double vinyl version complete with a free download card will hit stores."

The Felice Brothers play their first New York headlining show on February 1st at Mercury Lounge and then hit the road with the Drive-By Truckers.

UPDATE: The Merc show is official sold out, but they have just announced that they will headline at the Bowery Ballroom on April 12th.

I Love Tuesdays..Top Ten

I've been waiting to figure out when to drop my Ten 10 list of '07 (like the blog-o-sphere really need another one of these) and well today seemed as good a time as any. So here we go, with links to videos too....

#10 - Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend EP / Mansard Rood (Single)

"Mansard Roof" (Music Video)

#9 - Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday

"All Night Without Love" (Music Video)

#8 - New Pornographers - Challengers

"Challengers" (Music Video)

#7 - Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

Back To Black (Music Video)

#6 - Bright Eyes - Cassadaga

"Four Winds" (Music Video)

#5 - Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin

"Is There A Ghost" (Music Video)

#4 - The Felice Brothers - The Adventures Of The Felice Brothers, Vol. 1

"Frankie's Gun" (Live Performance)

#3 - Okkervil River - The Stage Names

"Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe" (Music Video)

#2 - Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

"What Light" (Music Video)

#1 - Dr. Dog - We All Belong

"The Girl" (Music Video)

I Love Tuesdays

Clearly I've been on a big Felice Brother kick over the last week, as evident in this week's purchases....

The Felice Brothers - Tonight At The Arizona

Also grabbed the "free" Wilco EP - head here for instructions on how to get it.

Frankie's Gun

I honestly can't stop listening to The Felice Brother's album Adventure's Of The Felice Brothers, Vol. 1 - it's pretty much the only thing that's gotten played on my iPod this week. While I love the entire album (and it's sure to be in my Top Ten this year), the album opener "Frankie's Gun" is absolutely infectious and thought I'd share this live version. Enjoy....



While The Band and Dylan comparisons may get on their nerves - well at least according to this article - that song could have been a long, lost track from The Basement Tapes.

The Felice Brothers open for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band next Friday night at Highline Ballroom - get tickets here. Unfortunately I'm already heading out to Hoboken for Yo La Tengo, or else I'd be there, but be sure to grab you're copy of Adventures Of.... - since it's only available at their shows.

Music Video Mondays

Don't be surprised if over the course of the next months you see the name The Felice Brothers being thrown around a lot. These guys just finished up the holding down the opening slot on the East Coast leg of the Bright Eyes tour and at least at the Radio City show Connor invited one of them on-stage to play accordion for a song. They have a "tour only album" called Adventures of The Felice Brothers, Vol. 1 that I've been listening to non-stop for the last couple of days. It's a fantastic Americana album rooted in The Band, The Jayhawks, Bob Dylan, Los Lobos and even a bit of Tom Waits. Without further ado here they are with "Roll On Arte" off of Tonight At The Arizona.....