The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
OK, I have a confession to make: I’m a big wuss and I love Joni Mitchell. It’s almost all my mom listened to while I was growing up, so even before I started discovering music on my own, I was pretty familiar with most of her stuff from the late 60s through the 80s. [...]
Featured Blog Posts - Americana and roots music - No... (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
I have been listening recently to the Amchitka concert CD ( www.amchitka-concert.com ) that got its long overdue release late last year. This live double disc documents the historic October 16 1970 show that launched Greenpeace. Money raised from this Vancouver, British Columbia benefit concert was used to buy a boat (later named the Greenpeace) that served to successfully protest U.S. nuclear bomb...
Bemsha Swing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cross post to Writing Jazz There's an interesting give and take between vocal and instrumental jazz, beginning with Armstrong who was both the first great recorded jazz singer per se and the greatest soloist of the earliest period of recorded jazz. Really great horn players listen to singers and often model themselves after vocal stylings. (I've heard classical wind and brass players say the same thing...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you were to list your most played albums, would this differ greatly from what you would declare as your all time favourites. This is my "Top Played" list and of course it is skewed towards albums of the last century as I have had much more time to play them! There are certain albums that I would not have thought of listing as my favourites! OVER TO THE MASSIVE..... PINK FLOYD Dark Side...
The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Jams: A First Look at Beach House’s sublime Teen Dream, a second look at Pants Yell!’s Received Pronunciation, Joanna Newsom’s late-period Joni Mitchell homage “Good Intentions Paving Company,” ex-Everybodyfields singer Jill Andrews covers Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” a Grizzly Bear live take on “He Hit Me,” Spoon’s video for “Written...
Geek+Nerd (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
I have had a poopy week. Yesterday I sat down to write about it, which did absolutely nothing but make me feel more whiney and sad. So, poo on that post! Here are then things that I love, inspired by Elsie . 1. I am obsessing over The Last Time I Saw Richard by Joni Mitchell. It's a new to me Joni song, and I played it about 100 times last night. Choreography ideas are brewing. 2. Speaking of choreography,...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
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It is High, It is Far, It is ... ca (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Congrats, Johnny. "Don't it always seem as though, You don't know what you got 'till it's gone. Brave pair of dice, Buddha the barking yacht." -- Joni Mitchell --
Cara Community - Comments (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
In reply to Bill Cara’s Blog for February 5, 2010 [See post-close report] : grym- If, as Bill puts it, we are at a cycle extreme, then it pays to wait. Re gold/TBT- one thing I've noticed is that great entry points will always appear (and reappear) . Most of us don't have the conviction/patience to wait for those entry points. (Of course, the same applies to exit points.) One approach I will...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
Fuzzy Music releases new CD titled The Trio "Live" @ Charlie O's featuring pianist Terry Trotter, bassist Chuck Berghofer and drummer Peter Erskine "The TRIO" is the musical brainchild of west coast jazz veteran Chuck Berghofer, long known for his swinging work with Shelly Manne, Pete Jolly and Frank Sinatra. Pianist Terry Trotter is both a legendary pianist and a best-kept secret....
The Daily Blague (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
In the Metro, Paris. By Jean Ruaud. Dear DB’s readers – This is my last letter on The Daily Blague (for now), my week of guestblogging ends today. It’s time to give back the keys to our respected Editor and master of his domain. It was a good, motivating and interesting week and I have to thank [...]
Captain Obvious (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
SIDE A 1. Peter Gabriel - Flume (Bon Iver Cover) 2. Fruit Bats - Never Tear Us Apart (INXS Cover) 3. Eef Barzelay - Two Tickets To Paradise (Eddie Money Cover) 4. Phoenix - Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands (Bob Dylan Cover) 5. M. Ward - Sadie (Joanna Newsom Cover) 6. Denison Witmer - Comfort You (Van Morrison Cover) 7. Florence + The Machine - Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer Cover) SIDE B 1. Manchester...
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Btms^ for Friday, February 5. TGIF! Join Liquor Barn 2Nite @ Brown-Forman’s ART AFTER DARK at the Speed Museum in Louisville, starting @ 7 p.m. For more info, go to www.speedmuseum.org All Liquor Barns will be open this Super Sunday from 1 pm to 9 pm for all of your Bowl needs and wants! Reserve and [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
The first MP to start a blog, Labour's Tom Watson , loves his Mac and wind-up radios, but the slow computers at the House of Commons drive him crazy What's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life? It's a small wind-up radio. Great for camping and supports a busy disorganised life. It always takes me beyond Sailing By on Radio 4 before slowly fading out until its morning...
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
So Say So From: London Blurb: Fronted by Glenn Kerrigan, also to be found in Emmy The Great's backline, these sketch out a maxi-pop (we will get that phrase into common use, we assure you) of swooningly melodic and just occasionally direct multi-instrumentalism, optimist and heartaching in equal measure. RIYL: Fanfarlo, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Neutral Milk Hotel Pengilly's From: London/Leeds Blurb:...
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