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Category Archives: music
From the City Stages reveal event
Tagged AL, alabama, birmingham, Cayenne Creative, city stages, CS21, Dan Monroe, event, George McMillan, information, live blog, logo, reveal
Urban Fabric playlist, 2.21.2009
It’s time again (with a slight delay because of our site transfer)… but here’s the Heavyweight Selection from last Saturday’s Urban Fabric with Ken Webb:
[audio:http://bhamterminal.com/audio/UF_HeavyweightSelection_Feb21.mp3]Click here for the download and make the jump for the playlist. Don’t forget you can also follow Ken on Twitter.
Posted in music, urban fabric
Tagged alabama, birmingham, Heavyweight Selection, Ken Webb, Live 100.5 FM, playlist, Urban Fabric
Urban Fabric playlist, 2.14.2009
I may be a little biased, but I’m thinking one of the best ways to get into an even better mood on this beautiful (alebit cold) President’s Day is to press play and listen to this week’s Heavyweight selection (Hour 2) from Urban Fabric with Ken Webb.
While you’re at it, check out the playlist from Saturday night after the jump.
[audio:http://bhamterminal.com/audio/02152009UF_HeavyweightSelection.mp3]Have fun!
Posted in music, urban fabric
Tagged 2.14.2009, dance, download, electronica, February 14, Ken Webb, Live 100.5 FM, mp3, music, playlist, Urban Fabric
Heartless Bastards climb The Mountain
The Heartless Bastards have indeed been climbing towards the mountaintop recently. Their new album, The Mountain
The Cincinnati, OH-based garage rock band made their debut on Letterman earlier this week (Tuesday actually) and now they’re getting ready to take the stage at The Bottletree this evening in a show that includes performances by Nashville’s The Deep Vibration. Tickets are $10 and it starts at 8 p.m. I’d say that they’re staying pretty busy indeed.
If you missed their performance of Out at Sea, check it out; If you’ve been wondering about if you wanted to go… take a listen to the title track:
[audio:http://www.fatpossum.com/media_kits/heartlessbastards/mp3s/HBTheMountain.mp3]Posted in music
Tagged alabama, birmingham, concert, Heartless Bastards, Letterman, music, Out at Sea, performance, rock, The Bottletree, The Deep Vibration, The Mountain, video
Welcome Frigid Records
Frigid Records at Magic City Motor Scooters – acnatta/Flickr
The independent music store scene gained a new entrant officially last weekend. Frigid Records set up their first physical location inside of Magic City Motor Scooters last week. Owners Ryan and Erin James plan to be there on Saturdays from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. to sell new and used vinyl and CDs. They also plan to take the store to local music events.
According to their entry on Bhamwiki, they plan to eventually open their own storefront.
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Tagged AL, alabama, birmingham, CDs, Frigid Records, information, Magic City Motoro Scooters, music, opening, Records
Vulture Whale’s latest efforts drops… TODAY!
If you hadn’t heard yet, one of the best bands in Birmingham, Vulture Whale, has dropped their new CD today. They’ve been great friends to this site, going so far as to perform at our first ever Terminal Concert last summer, something that we will forever be thankful for. We hope that you’ll show them and local label Skybucket Records some love in the coming days by checking out the effort.
Tomorrow we’ll turn on the link to purchase this piece online, but we thought we’d take an opportunity to encourage you to take a trip to one of our local record stores so you could show them some love. So don’t forget that you can pick up the new effort, Vulture Whale, at local record stores like Renaissance Records and Charlemagne Record Exchange, both in Five Points South. If you need some more convincing, you can either download the track Sugar at their website, play the video for the song in our sidebar as the “video of the week” returns to Timetable or press the play button below and check out another track from the release, Tote it to Cleveland, AL.
[audio:http://bhamterminal.com/audio/07totetocleveland.mp3]Enjoy!
BTW: Their CD release party is scheduled for Valentine’s Day (2.14.2009), starting at 9 p.m. Check it out!
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Tagged alabama, birmingham, Five Points South, free download, new album, Records, Skybucket, Tote it to Cleveland, track, vulture whale
Urban Fabric hits the airwaves
I was talking with our friend Ken Webb of Urban Fabric last night and he’s got a lot going on right now! Starting this weekend, Urban Fabric with Ken Webb will be on the air on Live 100.5 FM Saturday Nights from 10:30 p.m. – 1:30 a.m. Some of you may remember Ken’s old show The Underground X-Press hosted with DJ Beethoven (he was DJ Beethoven) that aired on WRAX (The X) in 1996 & 1997.
Ken shared with us that “this time around the format will be a broader range of sounds all based on dance music from around the world. Indie, House, Electro, Dubstep, Fidget etc.”
If you’re wondering what he’s been doing since, this should tell you; his remix of the Chemical Brothers – Galvanize (Urban Fabric’s Don’t Hold Back Remix) was among the top 5 most popular last week on Hype Machine.
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Tagged alabama, birmingham, DJ, Ken Webb, Live 100.5, new, new radio show, radio, remix, Urban Fabric, wrax
Four bands representing the ‘Ham at SxSW
The list of bands performing at this year’s edition of SxSW continues to grow, and so far the state of Alabama looks like it’s being represented quite nicely. Seven acts will grace venues in Austin, with four (that’s right – four!) of them calling Birmingham home. Here’s the lineup as it stands right now:
| Band | City | Additional profiles |
| Act of Congress | Birmingham | MySpace profile |
| 13ghosts | Birmingham | MySpace profile |
| Duquette Johnston | Birmingham | MySpace profile |
| Wild Sweet Orange | Birmingham | MySpace profile |
| Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit | Muscle Shoals | MySpace profile |
| The Escape Frame | Montgomery | MySpace profile |
| Willem Maker | Turkey Heaven Mtn. | MySpace profile |
If we hear of any more, we’ll let you know. If you hear of any more, just add them to the comments. And if we really wanted to, we could just head on over to the SxSW website…
Get Wild Sweet Orange on MTVu
It’s quite simple actually – and thanks to the folks at Reg’s Coffee House for making us aware of it…
Wild Sweet Orange has one of the five videos up for The Freshman spot on MTVu this week. So get on over there and cast your vote – NOW (or at least before noon on Friday!) – to influence whether one of your favorite local bands gets that much more national exposure, courtesy of MTVu.
[adult swim] cartoon hero mc chris in dixie
So, I was lucky enough to meet an adolescent obsession of mine this past week: Chris Ward IV, better known as mc chris. Known for his high-pitched voice and recurring characters on Space Ghost, The Brak Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021, he made a rare appearance in the Heart of Dixie on his headlining tour.
A surprisingly quiet guy, but who can blame him after a friend of mine commented that “maybe he’s just tired of words after using 75,000 of them in every song”? We talked about his recent stint on the Warped Tour and his upcoming projects with Williams Street Productions (the folks responsible for bringing you some of your favorite programming on Cartoon Network). One of which is a feature film and another a cartoon series dedicated solely to mc chris imagery and the misadventures of his character.
All this goes to say that the NYU screenwriting grad and cartoon animator has now officially crossed over into a world where he has legions of hyperloyal fans and one of the best TV networks essentially under his thumb.
Check out his music, blog and updates on his insanely productive schedule on his website.
