Hello Gina. Blog - Bands on tour

• Jennifer Gentle.

  Oh, EZArchive, you promise me this and that and new horizons, but your great migration is killing all those files I had planned to link to this week. No matter. This simply means it's time to resort to in-house sharing courtesy the record labels.If Willoughby is the music of a...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Jennifer Gentle
• Thursday Covers! #46

  Bebel Gilberto gracing This Is Where I Belong: The Songs Of Ray Davies & The Kinks (2002).Bebel Gilberto :: No ReturnA beautiful track as it is, but a real delight if you also happen to swoon for the songwriting of Ray Davies in its original Kinks splendor. The "various artists"...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Bebel Gilberto
  • Josh Rouse ON TOUR (UK)
  • Ray Davies
  • Yo La Tengo ON TOUR (US)
• Radio week. #4

  The last (for the moment) of the tracks I've been saving for a week dedicated to especially fine live-for-radio and live-in-studio recordings from recent years. This one is yet another performance we owe to the fine folks over at KCRW FM radio, where Broken Social Scene played an acoustic and...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Broken Social Scene ON TOUR (US)
• Yo La Tengo | Avalon 9/28/06.

  Posts related to Radio week will continue in the next couple days here at the old Hello Gina. In the meantime, I offer my photos from the energizing show Yo La Tengo put on at the Avalon here in Boston last Thursday night (9/28/06). This was my first time seeing...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Yo La Tengo ON TOUR (US)
• Radio week. #3

  Image credit. The pacing of posts may not be what I blissfully dreamed up last weekend, but here is another live-for-radio track worth stopping and savoring this week.The Arcade Fire :: InterventionThe Arcade Fire, in a Morning Becomes Eclectic appearance on KCRW from January 2005. Show details, interview, and streaming...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Arcade Fire