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We’ll be seeing RED as we devote our Friday Feature to the music of two longtime XRT favorites who will each be appearing in sold-out XRT Shows within the next two weeks: Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bonnie Raitt. Don’t miss a single note from one of the great modern rock bands of and one of the most celebrated and socially conscious artists of our time.
Set your listening device to ROCK starting with Lin Brehmer’s show Friday morning. Read More
You may have heard or seen by now, but Six Flags Great America launched a new roller coaster last week: The X Flight. We got to take a ride to be some of the first to experience it. If ‘coasters are your thing, you should definitely check it out. Watch Video Of Kristin’s X Flight
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Throughout the course of history, there are not many musicians as innovative as Jack White.
The delightfully eccentric rock star is now celebrating his first charted number one album with his recent solo work Blunderbuss and his record label–Third Man Records–has kept up accordingly with balloon music delivery systems, party favor vinyl that is nearly impossible to play, and White’s plans to be the first-ever person to play vinyl in space.
Most recently, White has unveiled a video of a Triple Decker Poster that was created, designed, and printed by Matthew Jacobsen and Bryce McCloud for White’s Ryman Auditorium Nashville, Tennessee shows with the Alabama Shakes.
The Dave Matthews Band live Lakeside (photo by Nate Azark)
Photos: Dave Matthews Band Performs Live…This week, we’ve got a first- run Sunday Night Concert Special recorded “live” last July at the 3rd & final night of Dave Matthews Band’s Caravan, which took place on Chicago’s South Shore at “Lakeside.” DMB closed the festival with a full set each night; Don’t miss this week’s Sunday Night Concert at 7:30pm.Read More & Watch DMB Video
The cover of The Beatles’ Abbey Road is an iconic image in popular culture, but now a variation on that photo is up for sale. A rare photo of the Beatles walking in the opposite direction from the original album cover on Abbey Road may fetch around $16,000 (£10,000) at an auction on May 22. It is one of only six pictures taken during the shoot by photographer Iain McMillan.
In the reverse photo the Beatles walk right to left and Paul is wearing leather sandals.Read More, View Photos
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Seven installments already? Damn. That was fast. Again, every Wednesday I post a few shows/events for the coming weekend that I’m excited about. Stuff that I’ll most likely be attending and hopefully you’ll feel like doing the same. This week it’s Chicago’s own Joe Pug, Puerto Rican garage rockers Davila 666 and the legendary Bonnie Raitt…Click here for the when & where.
Photo by Ellen Von Unwerth
Bassist Flea Balzary and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers joined the multi-genre, multi-dimensional music maker, Damon Albarn, as part of Africa Express.
The music project has helped bring Western musicians to Africian nations and African musicians to perform collaborations in the United Kingdom. Flea and Klinghoffer were two of the lucky musicians who got to perform in Ethiopia because of the “profound” Damon Albarn co-founded initiative.
“Josh [Klinghoffer - guitarist] and I went to Ethiopia as part of Africa Express with Damon, who was so kind to invite us, said Flea in an interview with NME. “What an amazing place it is. We meet all kind of people, artists, poets, intellectuals. It’s like another world.”
“We had such a good time,” Flea continued. “One time me and Josh went to this orphanage and we took these two little amps and we just started rocking and they left just started laughing. Like three hundred kids standing all in this circle, all from this orphanage and we just started rocking. Just the two of us. They thought it was the craziest thing. It was righteous man. It was a really profound experience.”
![John Mayer, Born & Raised [Full Album Stream]](http://cbswxrt.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/113304201_10.jpg?w=183&h=102&crop=1 "John Mayer, Born & Raised [Full Album Stream]")
John Mayer: 25 Things You Probably…What would it sound like if John Mayer wrote an album of cowboy songs on this guitar under the stars? You can find out this week. John was in town last night for an album listening party, joining a few XRT listeners for an in-person preview of his forthcoming album, Born & Raised.
If you weren’t one of the lucky few selected to share a couch with John, we have the next best thing — preview the new album here, in full. Mayer said the LP will have “organic cowboy guitar sounds — more organic, more natural lyrics and chords and artful simplicity.”
Stream the album below and let us know what you think.Stream The New Album From John Mayer
(Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Starting with Tony Iommi’s sudden lymphoma diagnosis in January, it’s not been so easy for Black Sabbath’s original members to get the old band back together. And the reunion roadblocks just keep coming. Drummer Bill Ward, who, in February, threatened to back out of the Sabbath reunion unless he was presented with a “signable contract” from management, has done just that.
In a new letter published today (May 15) on his official website, Ward says he, regrettably, will not participate in Black Sabbath’s upcoming shows. This decision was reached following an incident involving the band’s hometown concert in Birmingham, England on May 19 – a gig Ward found about through an Internet ad on April 30, not his bandmates. Ward explains that his lawyer contacted Sabbath’s representative last week only to be told that he could “come to the UK, play for free and see how the first show goes.”Read More
Ben Howard is coming to Vic Theatre for an XRT Show on September 26! Tickets go on sale this Saturday, but VIPs have a chance to win a pair right here. Tickets are courtesy of JAM Productions.Enter To Win Tickets
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