Catalpa Recap // TV On The Radio

One of acts I was most looking forward to seeing was TV On The Radio. Not because I'm a huge fan, but because during my college years, at their height of popularity, I was knee deep in a pile of dusty old vinyl. After missing the entire TVOTR rise to fame, I was curious to see what all the fuss was about. I was extremely surprised, not only at how much Guitarist Kyp Malone looks like a Koala-Bear, but at the sheer power these guys bring to the stage. 

Lead singer Tunde Adebimpe and multi-tasker David Sitek formed the band while sharing space in the same Brooklyn building. With influences covering Rock, Funk, Punk, and Electronica, the end result had the whole crowd working as one rocking, dancing, undulating organism. Just being part of it was an amazing experience. I would definitely see them live again. My favorite song they played was a straight up toe-tapper called Golden Age. Listen to it and check out viewing more pics below. 

TV On The Radio - Golden Age

Catalpa Recap // Reggae Mon-Day

This weekend I was a guest at the amazing Catalpa Music Festival. It was an outstanding inaugural event from top to bottom, but one of the all time highlights had to be the Reggae Stage.

It may be known to Rasta Mon-Day fans that I have a hot and cold relationship with the king of all reggae greats, Robert Nesta Marley. I have to say though, ever since this weekend it has been nothing but love. The Bob Marley Tribute band above did a beautiful rendition of the following song that has been playing in my head since Saturday. Enjoy a live performance by Bob and a full band (the only noticeable absence is the best of the I-Three's, Marcia Griffiths). You can even take this Mon-Day to the next level by watching the entire 1979 Santa Barbara Concert here.

Stay tuned all week for more pictures and words from Catalpa.

Bob Marley - Is This Love?

EDAS Shout-Out in the Chicago Tribune!

It has come to my attention that, thanks to Filligar, #EDAS has gotten a shout out in the Chicago Tribune.  In a piece about Filligar's most vital member, DeeDee (their tour-van), I got an unnamed shoutout as the "music blogger" that keeps DeeDee a'rocking while they drive long distances from gig to gig! You can check out the entire article here (without having to subscribe) but I've pulled the most important quote for your convenience.  

"The stereo, just passable, was fixed just this morning. They have been relying, lately, on a flash drive containing some 6,000 songs passed to them by a music blogger."

What an honor considering I love the Windy City and free uncredited press. Next time we'll get the site name in, but for now, baby steps. I'm getting ready for a big weekend including Filligar's show tonight, and the inaugural Catalpa Festival, featuring an #EDAS allstar lineup of Snoop Dogg, The Black Keys, The Sheepdogs and even a fully Dreadicated Reggae Stage.

In honor of my mere mention, I present a song that will kick off your Funky Friday right. Here's Former US President, George Clinton and his Parliament Funkadelic with Flashlight. You just have to pretend they are saying Flash Drive. 

Parliament - Flash Light Drive

Filligar Comes to Rock the Gramercy Theatre

Fresh off their Outlaw Roadshow tour with the Counting Crows, Rock and Roll saviors Filligar return to the Big Apple to take a bite out of the famed Gramecy Theatre. Not only are these guys one of my favorite bands, but they are quickly climbing my list of acts I've seen the most in my long concert-going career. I wouldn't keep coming back if they didn't get better every time. Trust me, grab your tickets now and swing by tomorrow for a bill filled with great young bands, capped off by one of the best. Download their latest album for the price of your choice and see the light if you haven't already done so.

Filligar - Gray Area

Don't Miss Way Yes in NYC Tonight 7/19 and Tomorrow 7/20

Two glorious live music options tonight as yesterday's Intrepid Show with Delicate Steve (minus Red Baraat) has been postponed until tonight. Those who follow #EDAS closely surely remember that today is the first of two area Way Yes shows. Catch the Tropicália fusioneers and all-around nice guys, as they take the Pianos Stage tonight at 11:00PM with support by Strange Shapes, RIMAR and Railbird (tickets here).

If you can't make it down to the lower east side tonight, then swing by Williamsburg tomorrow for the early show at Glasslands with Neighbors and Friend Roulette (tickets here). Possible... Nay, probable #EDAS afterparty at a local drinking hole. Follow @EDAS2go for the most up to date info. Definitely come out to enjoy some great unique and worldly heartfelt jams. 


Here's a Way Yes oldie but goodie. Off their Oranjudio release, here's a great video for Automail. Just watching this vid confirms that these kids bring the fun.

Way Yes - Automail

Delicate Summer Concert Update / 4Knots Recap

Is it unusually hot or is it just this pier?

]The hottest season of the year is in full effect and that means a near overload of Summer Concert options for you to sort out. This year, EDAS is bringing some heat of its own, fighting fire with fire with the best up to date concert info and smokin' reviews. We're already on the list for a bunch of great shows, festivals and much more more so keep checking back to make sure you don't miss a thing.

The sonic whirlwind began this past weekend with the 4Knots Music Festival, which is thrown by the Village Voice. Great friend of the blog, Sal and I specifically trekked down to the South Street Seaport to see psychedelic, slide-guitar act, Delicate Steve. When we arrived, the crowd already kind of big (not to mention a little hipster and high-school heavy) but after a warm $5 Beer, any personal spatial expectations were dropped and we joined the masses. We caught a few minutes of Bleached at the main stage and then Team Spirit at Skipper's. The girls of Bleached are as beautiful to look at as they are to listen to but Team Sprit really showed these youngin's how the things are done. Then 

The Ladies of Bleached

Team Spirit

Steve came out swinging with some great licks off his surreal new record, Positive Force, available now on the David Byrne's Luaka Bop record label. All of a sudden, not more than a couple of songs into the set a hubub breaks out. It turns out that across the way, Pier 17 is on fire! This pier is the main tourist strip with a mall with tons of stores and restaurants. Luckily, Steve jumps into action, using the microphone to get the attention of the hundreds in danger. At the same time a local tourist boat called 'The Shark' sprung into action started hosing down the blaze. That's where I got this epic picture of a Shark, fighting a fire in front of a New York Landmark topped off with American Flag. 

Delicate Steve Rocks Out @ 4Knots

Unfortunately after all the excitement, Delicate Steve was unable to finish his set. Don't fret (pun intended) because he comes back to play another nautical-themed show, this time onboard the world famous Intrepid.

Click here to RSVP and then show up at the Intrepid on the West Side Highway on Wednesday at 6PM. It's rain or shine and first come first served (barring lighting). Those that get in get to enjoy not only Delicate Steve, but MNDR, Javelin and North Indian Party Rockers, Red Baraat. If it holds out, EDAS will be there to cover the event in style. Here is my favorite jam off the new album by Delicate Steve. See you at the Intrepid.

Delicate Steve - Afria Talks To You

2 Explicit 2 Quit

Earlier this fine Biggie Sunday, I was grinding out some work listening to one of my favorite rappers.

Everyone knows that a Big Pun song without an explicit sign is like peanut butter without jelly. Ironically enough the only track without the EXPLICIT stamp happens to be the EXPLICIT version of I'm Not A Player. Wow it definitely is explicit. Put the earmuffs on and listen, then hear the O'Jays sing the original sample below. 

Big Pun - I'm Not a Player

The O'Jays - Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet, Tender, Love)

Happy Independence Day

Happy July 4th. Enjoy those fireworks.

(Every one who puts a firework in their butt deserves everything they get)

To celebrate our nation's birth I present national treasure, Ms. Sharon Jones singing Woody Guthrie's classic american ditty, This Land is Your Land. Great things coming up here at EDAS so stay tuned.

Sharon Jones - This Land Is Your Land

#EDAS Summer Space Update

All sorts of awesome things have been happening in space lately and if you haven't kept up, you've been missing out. Luckily, New York City's, Space Club Co-Founder and EDAS/UFO Correspondant, Deena, basically lives in outer space. She has a full rundown of all you need to know about our universe complete with a playlist of Cosmic Space Jams to send you over the moon.

Hey Humanoids, this has been a great season for celestial activity so far! First, there was an annular, or ring shaped, solar eclipse back in May.

The Big Picture

Next up was the Venus transit, which won't happen again until 2117. I probably did irreparable damage to my retinas trying to see a circle move in front of another circle but it was all in the name of science!

The Venus Transfer

Last week's solstice marks the official beginning of summer and there is a big announcement just around the corner. This Fourth of July, CERN is preparing to release information about the latest results of the experiments involving the Large Hadron Collider. Have they found the Higgs boson or God Particle? Have they cloned Geronimo? Have they finally created a Talking Heads reunion?

In honor of all this and the fact that space is the place in general, I've compiled this playlist of extra-terrestrial summer jams for your listening pleasure! We've got EDAS Favorites Dr. Dog, Patti Smith, a David Bowie cover and more. 

Yours in Cosmic Chaos,

Deena

You can read more by Deena Atkinson about her other passion, France at French Culture Guide.

M.I.A. - Space (David Starfire Remix)

Dr. Dog - That Old Black Hole

The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet

Aesop Rock - Bring Back Pluto

The Bad Plus - Life on Mars (David Bowie Cover)

Patti Smith - Space Monkey

Fête de la Musique 2012

Today is Fête de la Musique, or for those that speak the Queen's English, World Music Day. According to various sources, World Music Day was first conceptualized in France in 1976 by an American, Joel Cohen, who proposed an all-night music celebration to mark the beginning of the summer solstice. It makes me proud to know that there is a day set aside to celebrate the vast and diverse musical traditions that span this big blue marble that we all share. 

My first (and still favorite) job out of school was an internship working with the amazing World Music Institute here in New York. They do the thankless job of spreading the awareness of Non-Beiber, Non-Kanye music to those who come from other places and miss their tones of home, or those that are just curious about how the rest of the planet rocks out. It was an unpaid internship, but what I lacked in funds, I received tenfold in music education. The music I got back then has stayed so close to my heart (and ears) to this very day. Here are some of the highlights to help you celebrate World Music Day. Any recommendations? Leave them in the comments or email me @ everydayanothersong@gmail.com.

From Belize

Andy Palacio - Weyu Larigi Weyu

From Pakistan

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan gives An Amazing Live Qawwali Performance

From Zaire & The Congo

Lita Bembo & Stukas Boys - Mombombo Dominé

Kitty Pryde hits back with Orion's Belt

NO ONE KNOWS THE BASED DOG

The Rap Taylor Swift played a show last week at The Knit in Wburg. I missed it (dag yo) but I’m sure it registered somewhere on the scale between dope and worth the trip to Brooklyn. 

Check out Kitty’s new 5 song EP, Haha I’m Sorry. It includes the previously posted “Okay Cupid”, the old fashioned love song “Gave Me Scabies,” her cover of the infectious Carly Mae Jensen single “Call Me Maybe” and “Orion’s Belt” featuring Riff Raff. the carnival themed video for the latter can be found below.

Kitty Pryde - Orion's Belt

Buy Way Yes' New EP TODAY!!

Travis, Glenn and Max of Way Yes with a friend 

I have already expressed my ever increasing love for Way Yes on #EDAS, both in interview form and in dog form. If you have already heard of these amazing minstrels, you have undoubtedly been yearning to indulge in  more of their heartfelt honest lyrics and unique Afro-Brazili-ribbean melodies. Luckily for you and your ears, their brand new Walkability EP is available TODAY from Lefse Records. It is one of the most enjoyable and creative albums I have heard in a long time.  

In our last conversation here's what one of the guys had to say in anticipation of the new release:

Records are one of the great art forms in my opinion. Also, the records are what you get to leave behind as tangible proof that you existed. And with the wonders of the InterWeb and Time Capsules there's a good chance they'll always exist in one form or another. I know records aren't as profitable as they used to be, but they're at least being listened to by more people than ever. 

To read the rest of our interview about music, life and delicious chicken fingers, you can do so by clicking here. Otherwise the only clicking you should do today should be here to buy Walkability on CD direct from the label OR here to buy it the Mp3's from iTunes. Buy it for the 5 amazing original tunes, stay for the 5 remixes.


Below you will find the official video for their title track off the EP, which features the absolutely nothing out of the ordinary if you have ever been to Columbus. I feel like I partied with that blue guy back in my OSU days, in fact he may still owe me money. For a select and lucky few who live in Ohio and New York, Summer tour dates are below with the possibility of more to come. Stay tuned to Way Yes and #EDAS for more as it comes. 

WAY YES TOUR DATES
6/23 - Columbus, OH Comfest
7/14 - Akron, OH Musica w/ Ra Ra Riot
7/19 - New York, NY PIANOS w/ Rimar
7/20 - New York, NY Glasslands Gallery w/ Neighbors, Friend Roulette
7/23 - Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall w/ Best Coast, Those Darlins

Way Yes - Walkability

Ray Bradbury's Sci-Fi Wisdom

“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down”

~ Ray Bradbury

I'm not much of a Sci-Fi nerd, save for a few recent episodes of the X-Files on Hulu+, but I was saddened to hear of Ray Bradbury's death today. As a literary artist, he was pretty ballsy. I am definitely in full agreement with this quote. Double song today. The first by Psych-Shredders Hawkwind, dedicated to Bradbury's most famous work; the other by #EDAS Favorite, R&R Hall Of Famer and N'awlins cultural savior, Allen Toussaint, is inspired by his motivational words.

30 Months, And We're Just Getting Started!

This weekend saw another half-birthday just fly by. That means my beautiful Every Day, Another Song is now 30 Months old... And we're just getting started!

#EDAS Bidness Cards

Back with another enthralling edition of Rasta Mon-Day, Jimmy Cliff kicks off Celebrate Brooklyn's 2012 season tomorrow beginning at 8:00 at the Prospect Park Bandshell. It seems like only yesterday I was in Central Park covering his amazing 2010 performance at SummerStage. If the weather is anything more manageable than Fire & Brimstone, I suggest you grab an umbrella and prepare to have your Rasta-Socks rocked off. 

Here's to many more half-anniversaries.