The Herald (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
Things have never run smoothly for the Lost Soul Band. By rights, in the early 1990s, when the Edinburgh-based five-piece were at their peak, they should have become one of Scotland’s national treasures.
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Cuby & the Blizzards are a Dutch blues group that started in 1964. Right from the start they were a big hit in the Netherlands. This band is completely different from another Dutch band in the same time period, Peter & the Blizzards. In 1967 they toured with Van Morrison (in lieu of his band Them), played with Eddie Boyd, scored a hit with Window of my Eyes and received an Edison award. That year,...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
One of them started busking at four, another met Van Morrison while singing one of his songs, and all of them learned a few lessons at the unofficial music school that is the buskers patch. Some now-famous musicians tell Fiona McCann about their days on the streets
Write for Wine (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
We decided to go to 13 Coins over the weekend to listen to the fine tunes of Butch Harrison and Good Company. OK, we had a bottle of Cain Cuvee from Napa Valley and a delicious dinner too, but the main reason we went was to catch the great music. We first heard this funky trio at a wine [...]
Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
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Cocktail Party Physics (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Ever since I first heard Brian Eno's Music for Airports (hear a sample here) I've been into electronica and ambient music. WNYC radio show New Sounds' John Schaefer defines ambient music as "music of little or no rhythm, with background...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
McCain, addressing Queen Frostine and Lord Licorice in the chocolate village of Hershey, PA, described Obama's energy policy as: "blah blah blah, all this." [The Caucus] Say goodbye to your Christian Science Monitor, it is relocating permanently and exclusively to the Internet, which is a sunny suburb of Phoenix. [Marc Ambinder] And ...
Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Ever since hearing Arizona’s debut album Welcome Back Dear Children, I’ve been very fond of the band (”Some Kind of Chill” even made it’s way into the top ten of my songs of 2006 list). After giving their sophomore album, Glowing Bird, a number of listens I am growing to love them even more. [...]
CB Music (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Van Morrison has announced plans to perform his classic album Astral Weeks in concert. According to Rolling Stone, the artist will perform the classic 1968 album in it's entirety for a three night run to take place at the Hollywood Bowl on November 7, 8 and 9. The legendary singer/songwriter says that he will use many of the same musicians who played on the original release in the concerts
Bearded Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Hjaltin’s debut album was bombarded with praise on its release in their native Iceland last December and it’s easy to see why, their swooning orchestral indie-pop has several good ideas, and makes good use of all of them.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Multi-award winning musical legend Van Morrison will take to the Los Angeles concert stage for Astral Weeks
Losanjealous (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Buy them here. At $150/per for garden seats they’re certainly not cheap, but then, they’re not Van Morrison expensive, either. Step it up, cheapskate. Make it a Hot October Night. You snoozed on MBV (mind you, those are inexplicably still available too), and you probably won’t get into Joe Frank. What else have you got [...]
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Most folks know something about gumbo, a dish that’s generally accepted as having originated in Louisiana but that has since become common in many other areas. Although it’s prepared in many different ways, it’s basically a thick soup or stew that contains a lot of ingredients native to an area. Using that as a starting point, [...]
Peterblog (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
Last week I cycled about 300km from Ulm to Regensburg along the Danube, part of an ongoing project to descend the entire length of the river from the source to the Black Sea in stages. I decided at quite short...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
SO you want to be famous and live the champagne lifestyle do you, but don't know how to go about it?
