Space Invader (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Thanks for listening, see y'all next month and remember folks: country fences oughta' be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong. Tracklist: Sarabeth Tucek - Something For You Cat Power - Empty Shell The Littlest Birds - The Be Good Tanyas Alela Diane - Tired Feet Gillian Welsh - Elvis Presley Blues Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness My Morning Jacket - Suspicious Minds Son Of Dave - Goddamn Silverjews...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Lots of neat vinyl reissues this week, as well as other notable first-runs. B is for Bob comes out today, which is the first collection of Bob Marley's music to be rearranged for children. Also of note is a 7-cd Creedence Clearwater Revival box set, the first two R.E.M. albums remastered and reissued on vinyl, and much more. Yahowa 13 Magnificence in the Memory In the early 1970s, members of the commune...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Regina Spektor's new album Far pushes the singer-songwriter even closer to pop superstardom without sacrificing any of the melodic or lyrical wit that is so endearing. Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood's second solo album, Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs),...
Merry Swankster (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Phoenix will mercilessly destroy the Bluebird Theater and its broccoli-headed inhabitants on Thursday. Monday, June 22 A.A. Bondy @ Hi-Dive The B-52s @ Denver Botanic Gardens Bill Callahan/Julie Doiron @ Oriental Theater Tuesday, June 23 The Artery Foundation Across America Tour 2009 @ Marquis Theater Bachelorette @ Larimer Lounge Death Hickey Blues @ Bluebird Theater Deleted Scenes @ Walnut Room...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
Art of Life Records is pleased to present a previously unreleased recording by three legendary British musicians. Bassist {{Danny Thompson = 10784}} (Pentangle, John Martyn, Tubby Hayes, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson), guitarist {{Allan Holdsworth = 7678}} (Igginbottom, Nucleus, Tempest, Soft Machine, Gong, Bruford, U.K., Tony Williams New Lifetime) and drummer {{John Stevens = 4615}} (Spontaneous...
The Driftwood Singers Present (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
And speaking of getting your roots of Led Zeppelin on, and speaking of infinite revival, and speaking of great band names, and speaking of folks who look like the ecstatic crowd shots (floppy felt hats) from the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, and speaking of potent Scottish situations, here’s a track from Trembling Bells. Listening to the vocalist, it drives home just how few people sing...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
A genuine treat. LA Turnaround was recorded soon after the final demise of Pentangle in 1973, produced (by former Monkee Mike Nesmith) for the "progressive" label Charisma. It now makes its first ever appearance on CD and should be bought by anyone who has ever felt frustrated by the determined tonal insularity of the English folk revival – this has American warmth in its blood to...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Back in 2006 while Messers Blunt, Morrison and Nutini were making pop-folk fashionable, another group of apparently similar singer-songwriters like Tom Baxter, Teddy Thompson and Scott Matthews were serving up more intriguing, brooding fare. Matthews' debut, 'Passing Stranger', passed most people by, but it was an intriguing, varied collection that took in ragged sitar-blues jams and melancholic twilight...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Victoria: Bert Jansch, legendary songwriter and guitarist, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential musicians of all time. It is a rare opportunity to see one of the British music scene’s true legends play.
Londonist (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Image courtesy of deadmartyr under a Creative Commons Attribution licence . The MOJO Honours List is almost upon us again (what do you mean, you hadn't noticed') and in the run up to the awards ceremony there's a series of gigs happening at the recently-renamed HMV Forum in Kentish Town. Yes, it's yet another set of awards shows run by a magazine, so we're not surprised if they didn't register. But...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
We would never claim Jimmy Page to be an angel (actually, we have gotta give the man some credit for having impeccable taste) but, though innovative as he was in some regards, he cribbed notes wholesale time and time again. It has become a known fact that if Page snakes your action you must be something special. This may be some consolation to Bert Jansch but more consolation would come in the form...
The big take over (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
Blackshaw sees the guitar as a tool for conveying his melodic ideas, not a method of showing off his technique.
Everything's Swirling (Free subscription) | 05/15/2009
McCarthy and Ballboy pretty much own this list I could have filled it up with either of them… And Tomorrow the Stock Exchange Will Be the Human Race - (54 characters) - McCarthy I Don’t Have Time to Stand Here With You Fighting About the Size of My Dick - (75 characters) - Ballboy Stars of Aviation are [...]
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009
GRAHAM COXON ** KING TUTS, GLASGOW
Losanjealous (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
PICK OF THE WEEK Meat Puppets Sewn Together record release show w/ Retribution Gospel Choir Tues, May 12 The Mint Info THIS WEEK’S TICKET GIVEAWAYS Mogwai w/ Dead Meadow Sat, May 16th Orpheum Theater Info [ENTER TO WIN] Doves w/ Wild Light Sat, May 16 The Wiltern Info [ENTER TO WIN] HEADS UP Brightblack Morning Light w/ Rio En Medio @ Eagle Rock Cultural Center Fri 5/29 Amanda Palmer @ Troubadour...
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