The three-piece Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band will headline WFPK’s May Waterfront Wednesday on May 29, with Brooklyn three-piece Lone Bellow and British trio the Slaves. It’s a free event.
Here’s “Devils Look L’ke Angels” from Peyton and company:
Her’s Lone Bellow from NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert:
This is “Winter Trees” from the Slaves:
WFPK will kick off the 2013 Waterfront Wednesday series on April 24, with a show featuring Ra Ra Riot, Leagues and A Lion Named Roar at the Big Four Lawn. Syracuse-based Ra Ra Riothas a new CD, Beta Love, with the video for “Dance With Me” getting big attention on the web. Leagues, whose previously scheduled show at Zanzabar on April 23 has been scrubbed in favor of this gig, made some noise at SXSW this year as a bass-less trio. It would seem that this show will require dance shoes. It’s a free show, of course.
WFPK will kick off the 2013 Waterfront Wednesday series with Ra Ra Riot, Leagues and A Lion Named Roar on April 24, on the Big Four Lawn (Leagues’ show at Zanzabar on April 23 has been scrubbed.) Syracuse-based Ra Ra Riot has a new CD, Beta Love, with the video for “Dance With Me” getting big attention on the web:
Leagues, meanwhile, is getting some shout-outs for “Spotlight”:
This week’s print about music includes an essay by Kyle Meredith of WFPK/Weekly Feed fame, called “Completely Obsessed,” in which, among other things, he offers off-handed advice about dating him.
Peter Berkowitz chats with Mike James of Been To The Gallows.
Berkowitz also has a piece on Milo Greene, coming to Headliners on Saturday, March 16.
WFPK continues their booking for the Coors Light Summer Concert Series at Iroquois Amphitheater with a show by Sparta, Tennessee indie rock groupThe Features on June 11. Tickets are $24 and will go on sale March 15. The band released their second album, Hummingbird, in January, with “This Disorder” the first single released:
Here’s “How It Starts,” from 2011’s Wilderness:
Recently, Michael Tierney at InsiderLouisville.com posed the eternal question of why WFPK doesn’t play more Louisville music. Then he went to WFPK and go the answer – it’s the money, specifically, from the donor (membership) base, most of whom are white professionals, 35-55, with a median age of 40. Duh. He got the rest of the answers, all of which reflect the reality of current-era music, radio and formatting. In case you have questions, go here to read the whole thing. Then remember that we still have Crescent Hill Radio, which plays only Louisville and regional music.
David Phillips has a preview of WFPK’s Winter Wednesday February 27 show with the Civil Twilight and Bobby Long show at the Clifton Center over at Louisville.com.
Houndmouth’s recent rise on the national scene has not gone unnoticed in Louisville, with Production Simple and WFPK selecting the band to open the Coors Light Summer Concert Series at Iroquois Amphitheater on April 26, which is also the Amphitheater’s 75th Anniversary Opening Weekend.
Regular readers of this blog are already aware of Houndmouth’s recent string of fortune; now more in Louisville will be aware of this terrific little Southern Indiana band. Here’s Houndmouth’s “Houston Train,” recorded at SXSW 2012L