Galactic gets a little help from their friends By: Skylar Browning There’s an extensive backstory to Galactic’s highly anticipated new album, due out in August, and it’s full of the New Orleans-based funksters’ creative collaborations, post-Katrina struggles and wrestling with their identity sans a frontman. But, really, the impetus for …
‘Infect me! Do something to make me spit fire through the saxophone!' Saxophonist Ben Ellman isn't exactly saying that he doesn't care what audiences think. But when his group, Galactic, performs each night, he's most concerned with impressing the men on stage — the guys he's been making music with …
Available now! LIVE CD OUT JULY 10TH ON ANTI- TO BENEFIT HEALING THE DIVIDE’S TIBETAN HEALTH INITIATIVE In advance of the July 10th Anti- release of Healing The Divide: A Concert For Peace And Reconciliation – a live benefit CD recorded at September 21, 2003 concert at NYC’s Avery Fisher …
By Christin Runkle PLAY contributing writer The New Orleans-based five-member band — including keyboardist Richard Vogel, guitarist Jeff Raines, saxophone and harmonica player Ben Ellman, bassist Robert Mercurio and drummer Stanton Moore — will visit Boise’s Big Easy Concert House with their enthusiastic brand of music clearly influenced by the …
Over The Counter Culture “Best Free Online Album Of The Year” Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Tim Fite – who has garnered rave reviews for his recent digital-only release, Over The Counter Culture and is currently plotting his proper sophomore Anti- album – will appear as the special guest on Ben Kweller’s U.S. …
We had an opportunity to sit down with Xavier Rudd at Bonnaroo to talk a little about production on his new album White Moth, playing with Dave Matthews Band and his participation in environmental sustainability at home and on tour. Xavier Rudd is a Australian-born musician from Torquay, Victoria. Xavier …