Dave Matthews Band Video of the Day: 'American Baby'

Dave Matthews Band plays "American Baby" on the "Late Show with David Letterman," May 16, 2005:

Dave Matthews Band Video of the Day: 'Everyday'

Dave Matthews performs "Everyday" during the "America: A Tribute to Heroes" telethon for 9/11 victims Sept. 21, 2001 in New York:

Dave Matthews Band tour profiled in Mix magazine

Dave Matthews Band's touring setup is featured in the new issue of Mix magazine. The story features a lot of technical language but includes these highlights:

• Recording engineer/guest guitarist Joe Lawlor records every show, then sends the recordings to Charlottesville, Va., where they're transferred onto CDs and placed in climate-controlled storage.
• The band members all have their own preferences about the sound mix they receive in their in-ear monitors (IEMs). "Dave leans toward a full band mix, with his vocal and guitar peeking out over the top," according to monitor engineer Ian Kuhn.
• The sound crew uses a database to keep track of their cues for every song DMB has ever played and to record all of the band's setlists.

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Dave Matthews Band Video of the Day: 'For the Beauty of Wynona'

Dave Matthews Band covers "For the Beauty of Wynona" by Daniel Lanois on Aug. 7, 1999 in Hartford, Conn.:

Dave Matthews Band Video of the Day: 'Crush'/'Why (What's Goin' On)'

DMBnews.net has another new feature, the Dave Matthews Band Video of the Day. In the first installment, here's DMB and The Roots playing "Crush" and "Why (What's Goin' On)" at the 35th Annual NAACP Image Awards, followed by DMB receiving the NAACP Chairman's Award:

DMBnews.net joins Facebook

DMBnews.net now has a Facebook page. Facebook users can keep up-to-date with all the latest Dave Matthews Band news on the page, receive updates whenever there's a new post, and interact on the new discussion board. So check it out, become a fan and spread the word!

Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview: 'Eh Hee'

Dave Matthews Band is hitting the studio early this year to record the follow-up to 2005's Stand Up, and DMBnews.net is taking a look at every song that could potentially appear on the new album. In Part Six of the Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview, we focus on "Eh Hee."

"Eh Hee" debuted Feb. 5, 2006 on the Dave Matthews and Friends Caribbean Cruise Getaway. Dave Matthews played it once during a solo tour in England that spring, and then the song disappeared until Dave and Tim Reynolds' 2007 show at Radio City Music Hall. Dave Matthews Band then started playing it on the 2007 summer tour, including a memorable performance with The Roots.

In September of that year, Dave released a single and video for "Eh Hee," on which he played all the instruments by himself.

Unlike many new songs, "Eh Hee" has not seen its lyrics change much since its inception, and the structure of the song has remained the same as well. The lyrics seem to address Dave's thoughts on organized religion, which he drew heat for last year after telling Rolling Stone, "The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights -- it's more irritating than Santa Claus."

Why "Eh Hee" will end up on the new Dave Matthews Band album: DMB played the song a lot in the summer of 2007 and arranged new parts for every band member, even though it had never been a full-band song before.

Why it won't: There is already a studio version by Dave solo, and the song has also appeared on two live albums: Dave and Tim's Live at Radio City and DMB's Live at Piedmont Park.

Video: Dave Matthews Band feat. The Roots "Eh Hee"





If you haven't voted on previous songs yet, you can here:
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Five: "Shotgun"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Four: "Break Free"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Three: "Kill the King"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Two: "Sister"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part One: "The Idea of You"

Blog-Eyed Fish changes name to DMBnews.net

We've changed our name! Blog-Eyed Fish is now known as DMBnews.net.

You can still access the site at blogeyedfish.blogspot.com, but now you can also use dmbnews.net, which is much easier to remember. If you subscribed to the Blog-Eyed Fish RSS feed, you'll need to subscribe to the new DMBnews.net RSS feed. And our new e-mail address is colin@dmbnews.net.

Let us know what you think about the new name and other slight changes you may see on the site over the next days and weeks. And keep relying on us for all of your Dave Matthews Band news. With a new album due and another summer tour in the works, 2008 should be an exciting year for all of us.

Dave Matthews Band summer tour date rumors

Rumors of Dave Matthews Band summer tour dates in St. Louis, Denver and New Jersey are starting to come out.

AntsMarching.org is reporting that DMB's first stadium tour in seven years could be in the works. The news comes from two places: St. Louis radio station reports that DMB is planning to play Busch Stadium, and "sources familiar with New York concerts" who said DMB has approached Giants Stadium about performing there.

Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain News said DMB and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are scheduled to perform at the Mile High Music and Arts Festival in Denver in July. Petty's tour dates list a July 19 show in Denver at a to-be-determined venue.

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Dave Matthews visits Sundance Film Festival

Dave Matthews attended the Sundance Film Festival earlier this week in Park City, Utah.

Page Six reports that Dave arrived Sunday. He caught "Be Kind Rewind" on Monday with The Edge from U2 , according to FirstShowing.net, then was one of many celebrities to watch the world premiere of "Choke" on Tuesday, according to Cinematical.

Dave also attended Sundance last year because "Joshua," a film by his ATO Pictures, premiered there.

Photo courtesy: Getty Images

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Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview: 'Shotgun'

Dave Matthews Band is hitting the studio early this year to record the follow-up to 2005's Stand Up, and Blog-Eyed Fish is taking a look at every song that could potentially appear on the new album. In Part Five of the Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview, we focus on "Shotgun."

"Shotgun" debuted June 10, 2006 as a simple, riff-based song and went through rather significant changes during that summer tour. The first version was the shortest, coming in at 4 minutes, 45 seconds, while the longest version later in the tour was 10 minutes, 49 seconds long.

Dave Matthews Band worked on the song in the studio in November 2006 and January 2007, then brought it out for the 2007 summer tour. By then the band had eliminated the song's outro, cutting the song length to around seven or eight minutes.

The lyrics to "Shotgun" change regularly, but they are always about committing suicide for one reason or another.

Why "Shotgun" will end up on the new Dave Matthews Band album: Many fans think it is the best song DMB has written in years, and the band has put a lot of work into it both live and in the studio.

Why it won't: It has very dark subject matter, which DMB has mostly shied away from since the Lillywhite Sessions debacle.

Video: Dave Matthews Band "Shotgun"





If you haven't voted on previous songs yet, you can here:
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Four: "Break Free"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Three: "Kill the King"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Two: "Sister"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part One: "The Idea of You"

Yukon Kornelius videos hit YouTube

Videos of last night's Yukon Kornelius concert in Killington, Vt. are appearing on YouTube this afternoon. Blog-Eyed Fish has the entire performance here, song by song. Enjoy!

"Yukon Kornelius Theme"



"(Don't Fear) The Reaper"



"Low Rider" --> "Word Up"



"Sympathy for the Devil"



"Psycho Killer"



"Careless Whisper"



"White Room"



"Center of Attention"



"Pinch Me"



"Lost in the Supermarket"



"Superman"



Bass solo



"Rockin' in the Free World"



"We're Not Gonna Take It"



"Highway to Hell"



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Dave Matthews Band new album update

AntsMarching.org has posted a brief update on the status of the new Dave Matthews Band album.

According to the report, DMB has no timetable for releasing a new album and has not chosen a producer. The band worked on some songs in the studio in November and will return in March, the article said.

DMB has played a bunch of new songs in concert over the past few years, and some will likely appear on the band's next CD. Check out the Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview, an ongoing feature on Blog-Eyed Fish, for information about the songs, videos of live performances and fan polls. The next song to be featured will be "Shotgun."

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Yukon Kornelius debuts in Vermont

Yukon Kornelius -- the band made up of Dave Matthews Band's Stefan Lessard, Guster's Adam Gardner and Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson -- played its first concert last night at the Pickle Barrel Nightclub in Killington, Vt.

Here's the setlist:

"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (Blue Oyster Cult) *
"Low Rider" (War) * -->
"Word Up" (Cameo)
"Sympathy for the Devil" (Rolling Stones)
"Psycho Killer" (Talking Heads)
"Careless Whisper" (George Michael)
"White Room" (Cream)
"Center of Attention" (Guster)
"Pinch Me" (Barenaked Ladies)
"Lost In The Supermarket" (The Clash)
"Superman" (The Clique)
Bass solo
"Rockin' in the Free World" (Neil Young) -->
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (reprise)
"We're Not Gonna Take It" (Twisted Sister) **
---------------------------
"Highway to Hell" (AC/DC) ***

* with Jason Biggs on cowbell
** with Jason Biggs on cowbell and Dee Snider on vocals
*** with Dee Snider on vocals

Eric Fawcett of N.E.R.D. also played on every song, although he is considered a "special guest." Biggs, an actor most famous for the "American Pie" movies, and the members of Yukon Kornelius are filming a snowboarding movie, and the Pickle Barrel is at Okemo Mountain Resort. It's unclear how they got matched up with Snider, the lead singer of Twisted Sister.

It's interesting that Yukon Kornelius played a song each by Guster and Barenaked Ladies, but not Dave Matthews Band. Although the band did play two songs that DMB has covered: "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Rockin' in the Free World."

Photo credit: Mary Lepke

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Dave Matthews turns 41

Dave Matthews' 41st birthday is today, Jan. 9. Sharing a birthday today are sportscaster Dick Enberg (73), singer Joan Baez (67), Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page (64) and Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean (30).

To celebrate Dave's 41st birthday, here's a video of Dave Matthews Band playing "#41" on "The Late Show With David Letterman":



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Willie Nelson 'Gravedigger' video released

Willie Nelson has put out a video for "Gravedigger," the Dave Matthews song that is the first single from his new album, Moment of Forever. The video features Willie in several different roles, including a gravedigger, a hearse driver, a priest and ultimately a dead man in a casket.

Amazon has the exclusive "Gravedigger" video, and Moment of Forever will be released Jan. 29.

Dave and Willie know each other through their Farm Aid work, and Dave has covered Willie's "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away" in concert before.

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Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview: Poll results

The Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview is a new feature here at Blog-Eyed Fish. It takes a look at DMB's new songs over the past two years and gages each tune's chances of appearing on the next studio album -- which the band will start recording later this winter.

The Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview also offers videos of each new song, as well as polls asking whether each song should make the cut for the next CD. Here are the results so far:

1. "The Idea Of You" 87% yes, 13% no
2. "Kill the King" 65% yes, 35% no
3. "Sister" 42% yes, 58% no

You can also vote on "Break Free," but it hasn't received enough votes yet to include in the results.

Blog-Eyed Fish will feature another new song about once a week in 2008 and continue to provide news as Dave Matthews Band prepares to record the follow-up to 2005's Stand Up.

Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview: 'Break Free'

Dave Matthews Band is hitting the studio early this year to record the follow-up to 2005's Stand Up, and Blog-Eyed Fish is taking a look at every song that could potentially appear on the new album. In Part Four of the Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview, we focus on "Break Free."

Dave Matthews Band and Stand Up producer Mark Batson wrote "Break Free" during their spring 2006 studio sessions. The song made its live debut a few weeks into the 2006 summer tour, on June 13 in Toronto.

DMB played "Break Free" 19 times that summer and even released its July 8 performance as part of the Live Trax Volume 6 album. But the song completely disappeared in 2007 as DMB moved on to a different batch of new songs.

Why "Break Free" will end up on the new Dave Matthews Band album: DMB put in a lot of work to tweak and refine the song during soundchecks and performances in 2006.

Why it won't: By the time DMB returned to the studio in November 2006 and January 2007, the song had "fallen out of favor" with the band, according to AntsMarching.org.

Video: Dave Matthews Band "Break Free"

If you haven't voted on previous songs yet, you can here:
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Three: "Kill the King"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Two: "Sister"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part One: "The Idea of You"

Dave Matthews records in Pennsylvania

Dave Matthews Band's 2007 tour didn't just stop at amphitheaters, parks and stadiums. For the first time, the band also went into local studios on off days to write and record new songs. And now the location of one of those sessions is known.

Dave Matthews "did some recording" at Milkboy Studios in Ardmore, Pa. in August, according to The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. No details of the session are disclosed, because The News Journal's story is mostly about a local Delaware band that was recording at the studio at the same time. But the newspaper does say that Dave also managed to find time to visit his niece at nearby Haverford College.

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