Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
There's been quite a bit of chatter across the site the last few days about compilation CDs, catching up with artists you'd never quite got found to listening to etc. As I was browsing iTunes this morning I came across, again, a series of 5-track downloadable EPs from the redoubtable Rhino label. I've bought a few in my time and was tempted by a few classic Dave Edmunds tracks when I thought "This...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
Photo courtesy of the Chicago Reed Quartet Maybe you don't like the world's greatest sport or consuming delicious food and drink. Or maybe you just aren't a Saints fan , a Colts fan , or a fan of hypocritical corporate decisions . Whatever the reason, if you're not planning on watching the Super Bowl this Sunday, here are some great alternatives: Chicago Reed Quartet Oboist Tim Sawyier, clarinetist...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Chashama 461 Gallery 461 West 126th street, New York, NY Harlem February 5 - February 6, 2010 Opening: Saturday, February 6, 6 - 9 PM Web Site Qualia: A Personal Iconography of Introspective Findings , a solo exhibition of new oil paintings by Lisa Taliano. This work examines the content and quality of consciousness, translating and recording subjective experience into symbols, shapes, form and color....
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Sondre Lerche @ MHOW in September (more by Tim Griffin) Sondre Lerche will be one of the many acts at the now-sold-out Bell House Haiti Benefit tonight (1/27). Sondre goes on tour after that with opener JBM. JBM is NYC...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
The press kit for Pat Methenys Orchestrion promises that the album redefines solo performance, and for once, that isnt just gently perfumed publicist smoke being blown up your ass its the Gods honest truth. Entranced by the orchestrion, a mechanical instrument array that surfaced in the late 19th century, Metheny enlisted a small army of inventors to help him bring the concept into the modern era....
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
Mose Allison fans couldnt have asked for a more ideal environment for the second performance of his two-night stand at Largo at the Coronet on Sunday night. The first winter storm of 2010 snarled traffic and might have taken a bite out of the evenings attendance, but there were few talents better suited to a rainy evening than the 82-year-old piano master...
LAist (Free subscription) | 01/16/2010
A.A. Bondy will be performing tonight at the Echo | Photo via A.A. Bondy's Myspace Our Pick: FYF presents AA Bondy, Nik Frantis, Willy Mason @ The Echo Tonight New York's own shoegaze queen Asobi Seksu ( LAist Review , #2 , #3 ) will be gracing the Hotel Café . Local indie rockers Radars to the Sky ( LAist Review , #2 , #3 ) are poised to take on the Dakota Live Music Lounge in Santa Monica...
jeffvrable.com (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
All About Jazz — Joe Henry’s strategy for coaxing Mose Allison back to the studio for the first time in twelve years was simple enough: All he had to do was quietly and thoughtfully stalk the jazz icon for a year. “He kept at it, and kept calling me and emailing and so forth,” the 82-year-old [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
Regarded as "the William Faulkner of jazz," pianist and songwriter Mose Allison counts Elvis Costello, Van Morrison and Ray Davies among his legion of fans. Possessed with a honeyed voice and a humorist's eye for detail, Allison is midway through a six-city tour previewing the spring release of his first album in 12 years, The Way of the World, produced by Largo favorite Joe Henry...
Bumpershine.com (Free subscription) | 12/24/2009
Music impresario Michael Dorf is putting together a tribute concert for The Who on March 2, 2010 at Carnegie Hall. The first announced performing artists to pay tribute to the Who: Warren Haynes & Gov’t Mule, The Postelles, Bettye LaVette, Robyn Hitchcock, The Smithereens, Sondre Lerche, Mose Allison, Matt Nathanson, Gaslight Anthem, Frank Black (of the Pixies), [...]
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 12/15/2009
Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü , Frank Black of Pixies and Gaslight Anthem are among 20 artists tapped to perform classic songs from The Who for a new charity event at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Set for March 2, 2010, the event will also include Warren Haynes & Gov't Mule, Postelles, Bettye LaVette, Robyn Hitchcock, The Smithereens, Sondre Lerche, Mose Allison, Matt Nathanson, Bobby McFerrin,...
Nightwatcher's House Of Rock (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
This past Saturday, December 5th at the Hmv PictureHouse, Edinburgh, Scotland, hard rockin' blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa performed a heavy version of the Mose Allison penned "Young Man Blues", made famous by The Who on their seminal live release 'Live At Leeds'. Here's some fan produced audio with stills from the show: In other Bonamassa related news, über producer Kevin Shirley...
East Side Jazz Club (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
8.30 - 11.00pm £5 on the door Jim Mullen (guitar) Mike Gorman (organ) Clive Fenner (drums) Glasgow born Jim Mullen is possibly best known for his long association with the legendary sax player Dick Morrisey. Their popular group Morrisey Mullen was at the forefront of the jazz-funk movement in the UK, producing seven albums. Jim has also gained acclaim backing vocalist Claire Martin on three...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
When the Who is on - it's really on. Maybe it hasn't always been as consistently ferocious or tuneful a live act as it once was. Then again, are you good at every aspect of what you've been doing since 1964?
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
In his Ash Grove recording, guitarist Dave Alvin laments the loss of a favorite Los Angeles club, a venue that should be on the National Register of Historic Places. It would have to be in an urn, however, the club burned not once, but three times. Ed Pearl (an uncle of Spirit's Randy California) founded the 250-seat Ash Grove in 1958.
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