An interesting thing has come to my attention regarding my band, Birds Without, playing at the Avalon on Saturday.  It was an exciting prospect from the beginning, playing at a venue where I’d actually been to see a band I’d actually heard of before (I saw Love You Long Time, Dave also saw Eisley there, but I missed that one) and having people in the crowd who didn’t ride there with somebody playing that night, but it just got more exciting.  Turns out the show will be taped and available on ComCast’s On Demand Presents Band Wagon LIVE.  This is copy/pasted from the Avalon website:

ComCasts On Demand Presents Band Wagon LIVE. They will be filming live tonight at this show! Come show your local music support tonight on ComCast!

Tickets are ten bucks, doors at 6:30, show at 7:00.  The lineup will be Going Second, Uncomfortable Silence, Birds Without, The Desert, and our friends in Arienette, with whom we’ve played a few times.
I’m really excited to play this show, guys.  We’ve got a few new songs* that we’ve worked out, Dave got a drum kit, so this will be his first show on that instead of the bongos, and we haven’t played in a few weeks, I’m getting the itch (or maybe it’s just this Mountain Dew I had for breakfast).

Anyhow, come out and support us and Arienette and these other fine bands.  You can even do it without going to the Avalon (3605 South State Street)!  You can watch us at home (at least that’s my understanding of how On Demand works, I’m simple in the ways of cable and satellite teevee).

*”New” here meaning new to me.  Ned put a band together so he could play some of his newer, more experimental songs live, and then Dave (Ned’s brother) and Mick (who went to high school with Ned and played bass for him occasionally back then) got Ned interested in all these old songs he wrote in high school.  We’re working on rounding out the set, and even with all this old material, we’ve written one song since the band formed as such.

This is John Butler’s version of a classic cliche traditional Irish song, Danny boy. I like the song, but some don’t. He recorded it at Enmore Theater in Australia. I like the guitar solo towards the end. If you’re a faithful John Butler listener, you can totally tell that he’s playing it; he has a signature lick that he puts everywhere.

You can also pick up the mp3 at the forum.

Enjoy, and Happy Wednesday.

John Butler Trio | Myspazz

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In case you live under a rock, like me, Jack Johnson has a new album out. I know, right? Duh, Jen. Yeah, yeah, well I knew that he had stuff coming out, but I didn’t check up on when and I didn’t double check when I shoulda gotten my fix of Jackie J. This makes me a bad hippie. If I considered myself one but I DON’T, world.

So I’m checking it out. Spinning as we speak. IIt seems promising and chilly, like I expected a Jackie J record to be. A couple of MP3s are up on this post and then I may post with more opinions of the record later.

Jack Johnson | MySpazz | Get Sleep Through the Static

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 Jack Johnson - Adrift [3:56m]: Play in Popup | Download (982)