The Ice Cream Man has the Coachella 2007 review posted and there’s bound to be some stuff in there you’re curious about. They’re gearing up for their summer tour which will take them all over the country and hopefully into Canada. They’ll be at Lightning in a Bottle this coming weekend outside of Santa Barbara then they might hit Virgin Fest in Vancouver before Sasquatch Festival over Memorial Day weekend at the Gorge in Washington.
While they were down at Coachella they gave away almost 5000 free treats and snapped pics of hundreds of folks enjoying the free ice cream. For our trip to the desert we added some high-end speakers to Bessie and debuted tracks off the new White Stripes album Icky Thump which comes out June 19th. We even had some super cool custom White Stripes boxes with penguins on them for the ice cream that were designed by Rob Jones.
April 11th, 2007 . by Roxor
The Ice Cream Man just got back from Austin, Texas where the Ice Cream Crew gave away over 8000 free ice creams during their second annual trip to South by Southwest.
As you’ll witness by the thousand-plus pics in their SXSW Review, they had an unforgettable time. Giving Playboy Bunnies Ice Cream maybe the highlight from the trip.
They also away over 5000 copies of the second Off the Wookie Magazine which was a hit. It’s pocket sized and is perfect to hand out with free treats from Bessie and the Bessita’s.
You can view the whole zine online HERE.
They’ve only got a few print copies left but if you really want one, you can prolly email The Ice Cream Man and bug him to get a hard copy your way.
Jump in and dig around the massive review if you have time. There are stories in there from the Bessita drivers, Starr and Gooch, as well as some words from the newest crew member, James Boo.
March 15th, 2007 . by Roxor
Just watched Layer Cake, a british crime drama where Daniel Craig ( The new James Bond ) plays a nameless West End coke dealer that is trying to get out of the business but is tasked by bossman Jimmy Price ( HBO’s Rome’s Pompey Magnus - Ken Cranham ) to take on a couple unconventional tasks.
Layer Cake was produced and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Lock Stock and Two Smokin Barrels fame ( also Guy Ritchie’s best man when he married Madonna ) and it features his trademark look, without the over the top flash of Lock Stock or Snatch, nor any of the fun of those films.
If Layer Cake is not gritty it does feature a more realistic atmosphere and more down to earth characters. It tries to take the standard plot twists to an extreme featuring double cross after double cross told from the point of view of the main character.
Overall, while this is not a great movie, it is enjoyable if you enjoy the genre and deserves a slot in your netfilx queue.
January 1st, 2007 . by Roxor
I am not sure how this never got posted on TDB, but I guess better late then never…
The Dirty South finds Drive-By Truckers maturing into one of the most capable southern rock bands workin it today. While some of the fun of Hood and Cooley songs like Too Much Sex - Too Little Jesus has been replaced by the gritty realism of Puttin’ People on the Moon, it’s all good - DBT are now much more Steve Earl and much less Mojo Nixon. More grown up than their break out offering “Southern Rock Opera” and more consistent then Decoration Day The Dirty South seems to be a synthesis of both prove neither were flukes.
Even though it features 3 guitar players songwriting is what this CD is all about. More than songwriters Hood and Cooley are storytellers - and very good ones at that.. If you have ever lived in the southern side of tornado alley the imagery of Tornadoes will seem instantly familiar while Never Gonna Change celebrates the limitations of continuing to live the life you’ve been dealt come hell or high water.
Seemingly simple songs like Carl Perkins Cadillac stay away from the cliches that would be easy enough when writing songs about Sun Records in favor of lines like: “Damnit Elvis I swear son I think it’s time you came around, makin money you can spent is not what being dead is all about.” Jason Isbell’s Danko/Maunuel is a minor masterpiece a tribute to similar souls ( The Band’s Rick Danko and Richard Manuel ) a generation earlier, that drips with sweet melancholy and seems to examine if Isbell really wants to become like his heroes.
This CD features a nice range the greasy slide of Where the Devil Don’t Stay to the ballad blues of Cottonseed and the Neil Youngish Buford Stick. In fact, even with the irony about Neil Young/Southern Man/Sweet Home Alabama this CD reminds of of the best of what Crazyhorse was about in it’s prime - balls out rock-n-roll without sacrificing great songwriting and dynamics.
Over all one of the best CD’s of the year. And if you look at The Dirty South as part of a sort trilogy with their two previous releases you could make the argument that Drive-By Truckers are putting out the strongest Rock north or south of the Mason-Dixon.
