Cover Photo: Jonny Leather

The latest issue of the NY Press is all about music, check out the big “Music Survey” over here (with picks from yours truly) and the “Top 20 NYC Bands” over here. The October 15th music issue of the New York Press is on newsstands now!

Just in case you forgot, NY Press cover band, Gogol Bordello has three shows coming up at Webster Hall (buy tickets) on December 27, 29 and 30. Check out some more of Tim Griffin’s Gogol Bordello pictures from the Virgin Mobile Festival (Pimlico) after the jump.

Gogol Bordello at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/09/08)

Photos: Tim Griffin

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Cat Power at Virgin Festival Pimlico (08/09/08)

Photos: Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival

Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) will be releasing a new covers EP (as follow up to her last covers LP) digitally and on limited edition double 10″ vinyl on December 9 from Matador.

The EP entitled Dark End of the Street, will feature six tunes that Chan and crew did during the Jukebox sessions, including covers of The Pogues, James Carr, CCR and Aretha Franklin. The band will then take off on a US tour that kicks off October 7 in Arizona and ends up at The Shoreline Amphitheater for Bridge School Benefit. [Filter]

Track listing, tour dates and lots more pictures of Cat Power from the Virgin Mobile Festival after the jump.

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Stone Temple Pilots at Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08)

Photos: Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival

OK, Scott Weiland has a new album coming out on November 25 called Happy In Galoshes, he’s also going on a solo tour to support it. Aside from that, I don’t much else, but this post is really just an excuse to post some Stone Temple Pilots pictures from the 2008 Virgin Mobile Festival.

STREAM: Scott Weiland - “Paralyis”

Lots more of Tim’s Virgin Festival pictures after the jump.

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Lil Wayne at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08)

Photos: Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival

Saturday Night Live kicks off with a bang this year, with Lil Wayne Carter as the musical guest and Olympic champion Michael Phelps as the host. (Hopefully, unlike seasons past, parts of this one will be funny.) Earlier in the year Wayne Carter remarkably sold a million records in a week, last month he played the Virgin Mobile Festival at Pimlico and threw the whole schedule off with his shenanigans.

More Wayne photos after the jump.

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Shudder To Think at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08)

Photos: Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival

Craig Wedren may no longer live in NYC, but his old band Shudder To Think is back together and on the road again. They played the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore (and the one in Toronto this past weekend) and Tim Griffin was there to capture the action. The new reunited STT is coming to New York on October 4 (buy tickets) and playing everyone’s favorite venue, Webster Hall.

Shudder To Think 2008 Tour Dates
Sep 05 2008 Park West Chicago, Illinois
Sep 06 2008 Virgin Festival Toronto, Ontario
Oct 03 2008 Theater of the Living Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 04 2008 Webster Hall New York, New York
Oct 11 2008 Paradise Boston, Massachusetts
Oct 25 2008 Voodoo Music Festival New Orleans, Louisiana
Oct 30 2008 Showbox At The Market Seattle, Washington
Nov 01 2008 El Rey Los Angeles, California
Nov 02 2008 The Fillmore San Francisco, California

More pictures after the jump.

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Rodrigo y Gabriela at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/09/08)

Photos: Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival

Dynamic guitar duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela are set to release a new live album entitled Live In Japan (with bonus DVD) on October 28, 2008. The album is being released as limited edition by ATO Records.

More pictures of Rodrigo y Gabriela at the Virgin Mobile Festival, album track listing, and all upcoming tour dates after the jump.

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Bloc Party at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/09/08)

Photos: Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival

You can pre-order a CD copy of the new Bloc Party album Intimacy right now and you’ll get the digital version immediately and the CD version when it is released on October 28th.

More photos from the Virgin Mobile Festival and all Bloc Party tour dates after the jump.

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The Swell Season at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/09/08)

Photos: Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, otherwise known as The Swell Season played a set at the Virgin Mobile Festival and crack photographer Tim Griffin was there to capture all the action. Still riding high from their Oscar win, Glen and Mar are coming back to NYC (with Patty Griffin) to play the Rumsey Playfield at Central Park on September 17, 2008 (buy tickets).

More pictures from the Virgin Mobile Festival more Swell Season tour dates after the jump.

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Andrew Bird at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08)

Photos: Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival

Andrew Bird played the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore a couple of weeks ago and he’ll be making his way back to NYC on October 6th and 7th for two shows at the Hiro Ballroom. The cool thing about this set of NYC shows is that on at least one of the nights Canada’s Sandro Perri will be opening for Chicago’s most famous whistler. Sandro, as you may recall, was first mentioned here on the Dew Line waaay back in March of 2008. What intrepid readers may also know is that Mr. Perri released an impressive album in 2007 called Tiny Mirrors which managed to make the long list for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize.

More Andrew Bird tour dates and pictures from the Baltimore V Fest after the jump.

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Paramore at the Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08)

Photos: Tim Griffin for Bumpershine/Virgin Mobile Festival

Popular indie band Paramore played the Virgin Festival last weekend and bumpershine photographer Tim Griffin was there to capture all the action. On August 28, the band is also playing what I believe is the last scheduled show of the season at the Rumsey Playfield in Central Park (buy tickets). Tonight, they’ll be at the Festival Pier in Philadelphia tonight (08/15) and tomorrow night (08/16) you can find them just across the river at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in Asbury Park, NJ.

One more photo and all Paramore tour dates after the jump.

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Day 2 schedule is after the jump. Tim will be on the ground.

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Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs

The folks at Sony/Columbia have dug another Bob Dylan album out of the vaults and this one is called Tell Tale Signs - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8. The “new” record comes out on October 7 and in the mean time Bob will be keeping busy with gigs at Virgin Mobile Festival this weekend and then our very own Prospect Park on August 12th. If all goes well, I should have lots of pictures from Bob’s set at the Virgin Festival, along with a bunch of other goodies starting next week.

A little more on Tell Tale Signs below:

Tell Tale Signs features previously unreleased recordings and alternate versions of tracks from sessions which generated some of Bob Dylan’s most acclaimed and commercially successful albums from the last two decades, including Time Out Of Mind, Love And Theft, Modern Times and Oh Mercy.

DOWNLOAD: Bob Dylan - “Dreamin’ of You” (limited time mp3)

Full Tell Tale Signs track listing after the jump.

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Just a reminder, I am running the following contests until Wednesday (07/23) of this week:

2 Free GA Weekend Passes to the 2008 Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore, MD
Best of Radiohead Quad LP Giveaway
Mad Men: Music From The Series, Vol. 1 CD

Hey, as you all probably know by now the Virgin Mobile Festival is taking place on August 9-10 in Baltimore, Maryland at the Pimlico Race Course (where Seabiscuit once ran). The weekend is jam packed full of music and will feature performances from such indie favorites as Andrew Bird, Cat Power, Gogol Bordello, Rodrigo y Gabriela, She and Him, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, The Swell Season and Wilco. In addition, for those of who enjoy your rock a little more mainstream shall we say, the fest also has its fair share of big name acts on the bill including Bob Dylan, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters and popular summer festival headliner Jack Johnson. Since it’s such a great looking lineup, I’m really excited to announce that I’m giving away a pair of general admission weekend passes (a $350.00+ value) to the Virgin Mobile Festival to one lucky person who emails me contests@bumpershine.com and tells me who their favorite artist performing at the festival is and why they want to go see them.