A) I love the Grateful Dead
B) I love Slightly Stoopid
C) Who doesn’t love Karl Denson
D) Watch and listen to this!
E) Enjoy your day and don’t forget to smile!
If you want to read a little, check out THIS piece from Rolling Stone.
Just released today, the lineup for the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shoes, Alabama taking place May 17-19. Take a look (and one headliner still to be announced).
Labor Day Weekend has arrived and for me it is lining up to be a music filled one and without having to leave Las Vegas! But since it’s Friday, time for five nuggets of music news that grabbed my attention. Enjoy the holiday weekend and be safe.
Can’t believe it’s already the end of summer? Neither can I but the good news is it doesn’t really have to end. So since I put up Summer Playlist Vol.I back in June, here are a bunch more songs and bands that have been powering me through the summer. Once again this is available via my Spotify profile so unfortunately some songs and bands have been left off (blame them, not me). Hope you enjoy and find some good tunes to really make this an endless summer!
Click HERE to access End of Summer Playlist.
Milo Greene – “Don’t Give Up On Me”
Family of the Year – “St. Croix”
The Kingston Springs – “Tennessee Moon”
The Weeks – “The House We Grew Up In”
Diamond Rugs – “Hightail”
Viva Viva – “Dial Tone”
The D.A. – “Big Woman”
The Gaslight Anthem – “Too Much Blood”
Passion Pit – “Constant Conversations”
Walk The Moon – “Tightrope”
The Dunwells – “I Could Be A King”
LP – “Into the Wild”
Dry The River – “Shield Your Eyes”
The Lumineers – “Classy Girls”
St. Lucia – “Closer Than This”
The Killers – “Runaways”
Slightly Stoopid – “Just Thinking” ft. Chali 2na
Oh yes, you read that headline correctly, Slightly Stoopid have dropped “Just Thinking” featuring the one and only Chali 2na of Jurassic5 and Ozomatli fame. The hip-hop baritone guests on the track which will appear on the album Top of the World dropping August 14.
Check it out. I’m trying something new at DoYouHearTheMusic.com with a Five For Friday post. The Triple F is five nuggets of musical goodness to get you through the weekend. In other words, the soundtrack to your weekend begins right here!
This is like new old music since their debut album came on in 2008 but The Dirty Heads are a group everyone should be listening to. Any Point In A Storm is a great disc to listen to from beginning to end, beaming of roots, rock, reggae, hip-hop and ska. Earlier this summer the music video for “Lay Me Down” ft. Rome from Sublime with Rome was released and is the perfect song to ride out the rest of summer and chill to.
Perhaps the most exciting news on The Dirty Heads may be that O.A.R. tapped them as one of the opening acts on their 2010 fall tour. Click here for their upcoming tour dates.
If you’re a fan of O.A.R., Pepper, Slightly Stoopid, Jack Johnson, Sublime, 311, Fishbone, The Expendables and G. Love there’s nothing else to say except grab the CD and crank up the speakers.
More notes from Day 1: Beta Beach was bumping great house music all day and provided a good place to cool off in the water playground; in Coors Country and Budweiser was the beer sponsor?; Whole Foods was easily the best vendor at MHMF with cheap (yes, really) food and drinks and an amazing deal on SIGG water bottles and Honest Tea refills for $1; Justin’s Almond Butter and Hazelnut Spread are amazing; TicketHorse is the future of purchasing concert tickets.