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Camden Backyard BBQ

The 2nd Annual Camden Backyard Barbecue is a free New Orleans flavored daylong festival on the
Riverstage
at Wiggins Waterfront Park in Camden that’s also designed to promote Health & Wellness.

The event is Sunday, Sept. 5 from 2-10 p.m. , and stars Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, The Radiators, New
Orleans legend Marcia Ball
and their Crescent City neighbors, Big
Sam’s Funky Nation, combining
with returning local act North 61 (South Jersey) and 16-year-old visually impaired blues prodigy Conrad
Oberg to cook up an eight-hour groove of funk, soul and spiritual jams with a BBQ family flavor.

A number of booths from regional Health & Wellness Organizations will be lining the walkways around the festival
with
an abundance of information. Make sure you visit them, too! For complete information, call the Camden County
Special Events Hotline at (856) 216-2170.

Welcome back to JamBase’s friendly inquisition of the bright lights of the music world. Last time we heard from Big Head Todd.

To look at Big Light‘s Fred Torphy on the street you might not see what a natural born rocker he is. But, stick him beneath hot stage lights with an electric guitar and he looks just too right. Surround him with three equally primed-for-launch guys overflowing with talent – Bradley Bifulco (drums), Jeremy Korpas (guitar) and Steve Adams (bass) – and you’ve got a classic four-piece that off-handedly reminds one what a joyful, enriching thing rock ‘n’ roll can be.

And while their off-the-books tangents work great – they are jam band scholars – it’s the bare bones and killer smile inside their songwriting that snags you. It also doesn’t hurt that they stoke memories of Wilco, Big Star and Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians. Perhaps more than anything else, one picks up on a hunger in this group often missing from today’s too-cool-for-school bands. Big Light positively salivates at the chance to wreck and ride rock for all it’s worth. And they ain’t half bad at pretty stuff, too. 2010 has been a banner year for this young San Francisco-based band, with regular touring on both coasts, a flurry of new composing and the release of their bang-up debut album, Animals In Bloom (JamBase review). Yet, this all feels like the tip of the iceberg with Big Light, whose potential may well surpass even their wide, eager eyes ability to envision just yet. (Dennis Cook)

Here’s what Fred had to say to our inquiries.

Fred Torphy – Big Light by Dave Vann

Nicknames: Torph, Tiz, Vortex

Instrument of choice: Gibson SG standard

1. Great music rarely happens without
Lots of hard work

2. The first album I bought was
Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy

3. The last song or album to really flip my wig was
Dawes’ North Hills (JamBase review)

4. When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be
A musician or archaeologist

5. My favorite sort of gig is
Intimate, DIY, party/guerrilla festival set

6. One thing I wish people knew about me is
I dislike capers (as in the food) intensely.

7. I love the sound of
Ukulele

8. One day I hope to make an album as fantastic as
The Slip’s Eisenhower

9. The best meal I ever had on tour was at
At our guitar player Jeremy’s parents’ house on tour in New Jersey, March 2010. Best home-cooked Italian food I’ve ever had. Thank you, Dianne & Tom Korpas.

10. I always find the coolest audiences in
California

11. The worst habit I’ve picked up being on the road all the time is
Not eating well

12. The Beatles or the Stones? Por que?
The Beatles. They wrote better songs and made better albums.

13. The craziest thing I ever saw was
A friend do a perfect double back flip off of a 60-plus-foot cliff into Lake Champlain in Burlington, VT.

Big Light plays the grand re-opening of SF’s The Independent next Wednesday, August 4, with kissin’ cousins Apollo Sunshine before winging it back east later in the month for a string of shows in Boston, NYC, Asbury Park, Rockville and Baltimore.

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The Gaslight Anthem

The Gaslight Anthem is
excited to announce the first leg of their Fall North American headline tour, supported by The Menzingers and Fake Problems. Presale tickets for the
Fall tour dates announced this week can be purchased here before general onsale commences at the
end of this week. The band’s full Fall tour kicks off September 4 in Lincoln, NE, and will continue through
September, including a headline appearance in New York City at Radio City Music Hall, before culminating with The
Gaslight Anthem’s October 9 appearance at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Many more
headline shows during this run will be announced over the next few weeks.

The Gaslight Anthem are currently on tour with Tim Barry (Avail) and Chamberlain, and will be performing live on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno this
Friday, July 23. Additionally, the band also recently released a music video for the album’s title track that was
directed by Kevin Custer, director of the band’s seven-part “Making of American Slang” series that documented the
process of recording the new album. View The Gaslight anthem’s “American Slang” music video here.

American Slang was released globally the week of June 15, 2010 on SideOneDummy Records.
Produced by Ted Hutt (who produced the band’s acclaimed second album, The ’59 Sound), American
Slang heralds a dramatic leap forward for the New Jersey-based band. Tracks such as “Bring It On,” “Orphans”
and “Stay Lucky” bristle and burn with the spirit of soul and the artistic adventurousness and confidence of a band
that has come into its own and truly found its own voice.

JULY:
21 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern *
22 – San Jose, CA – “Music in the Park Series”
24 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre *
26 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue *
27 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues *
28 – Columbus, OH – LC Pavillion *
29 – Philadelphia, PA – Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing *
31 – Providence, RI – Lupo’s *

AUGUST:
01 – Montreal, QC – Osheaga Music and Arts Festival
02 – Boston, MA – House of Blues *
05 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summerstage (w/ Frank Turner and William Elliott Whitmore)

SEPTEMBER:
04 – Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theatre (18+) #
05 – Fargo, ND – The Venue (All Ages) #
06 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre (All Ages) #
08 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Event Centre (All Ages) #

09 – Calgary, AB – MacEwan Hall (All Ages) #

11 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom (19+) #
13 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo (All Ages) #
14 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom (All Ages) #
16 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot (21+) #
18 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave (All Ages) #
19 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre (All Ages) #
30 – New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall (w/ special guests)

OCTOBER:
09 – Austin City Limits Festival

* = w/ Tim Barry and Chamberlain
# = w/ The Menzingers and Fake Problems

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