News: October, 2008

On Halloween 2008, Bobby played at the famed Ryman Auditorium in Nashville with Drive By Truckers and The Hold Steady.  Looky here for video of another Ryman appearance by Bobby.  It's with his dad in, like, 1975.  If this don't warm your heart, you ain't got one.

Online zine Prefix Mag has a great collection of photos of Ben Weaver live in Brooklyn with the Watson Twins and Tim Fite from earlier this fall. Take a look at the pics over at Prefix's online gallery.

Twin Cities music blog More Cowbell has a fantastic collection of shots from Ben Weaver's CD release show for The Ax in the Oak in St. Paul. Take a look at the photo gallery here.

I'm Not Jim's You Are All My People received a glowing review on WHYY/NPR's Fresh Air from Ken Tucker, who said "[Some] songs have a gleaming hard edge ... and elsewhere they've created crisp little pop tunes with choruses that sound like forgotten hits from decades old rock radio stations." To take a listen to the review and hear clips, head over to the NPR Music site here!

South Florida's music got together for a fundraising concert.  Johnny Depp (yes, THE...) and our man Charlie jammed.  Check out photos and get the whole story in the November issue of SPIN magazine or go to spin.com.

Andre hit the stage with some BURLESQUE dancers in New Orleans. Check out some photos and a review of Can You Deal With It? from the fine folks at My Old Kentucky Blog here.

Waco Brothers appeared on the fabulous World Cafe syndicated radio show for a live set.

Go here for a listen of the Bruthas kicking out 5 songs in the studio.

WNYC's Soundcheck spoke with Jonathan Lethem and Walter Salas-Humara about I'm Not Jim, and discussed how they fused their creative approaches. Take a listen to the interview here.

eMusic.com asked its subscribers to vote for the Best 100 albums available through their site.

Heartbreaker came in at #24.

Read all about it here.

The Rockets are survivors. To celebrate and to gear up for their forthcoming Bloodshot album (to be released in 2009,) The Bottle Rockets are playing 15 select shows world wide. This is your chance to join the band in an anniversary celebration of all they've accomplished and the remarkable work to come. In addition, Brian will play all dates with a custom made guitar (worth $1500) courtesy of Creston Electric Instruments that will be given away at the last show of 2008 via a live webcast. In addition to the guitar, the band will be awarding a "Bottle Rockets for Life" prize package to a lucky fan that includes all past and future albums, t-shirts, and free tickets to any show, anytime (see contest and tour details here).