The Weight (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
His last days were spent celebrating the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix with old and new friends on the 2008 Experience Hendrix tour. For nearly 4 weeks, the tour traveled coast-to-coast bringing the music of Jimi Hendrix to nearly 50,000 fans across the country. In addition to Mitchell, the tour featured Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Cesar Rojas and David Hidalgo (Los...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Right, before I go on, I must make it known that my run-ins with blues nights have been few and far between: my last was as a young glass- lifter at a party for a dead biker, a night that...
Matt Geary's Blog (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
The Drip-Dry Man. The Drip-Dry Man sounds more like he is from the swamplands of the American Deep South rather than Aberystwyth. Along with his nuclear fallout compadres, the Glitter-Dome band, most notably a gas-masked bass player and pot-banging percussionist, I gathered I would be witness to something slightly different when I walked in on [...]
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
(Another great show helping us to live without the saccharine drek they play on American mainstream radio. This one comes from Australia and Salty does a two hour show every week!) OLD SCHOOL Salty Dog Blues n Roots Podcast ----------- Track List: ** Australia 1. Howlin Wolf (I Asked Her For Water) CD 'The Chess Story' 2. Bo Diddley (I'm A Man) CD 'The Chess Story' 3. Jimmy Rogers (Goin Away Baby)...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Fleet Foxes have announced a full tour of North America, kicking off after they complete dates with Wilco later this month.
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Love is All @ Market Hotel (more by Ryan Muir) Love is All are returning to our area in October to open three shows for Of Montreal. That includes the previously announced Roseland date. Tickets are still on sale. All...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
by Damian Bradley The great thing about Seattle is that great musicians grace our presence every day. Last night, blues legend and historian John Hammond (son of the also legendary John Hammond, Sr.) opened a two night run at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, taking the crowd on a musical journey through the history of American blues. [...]
Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Today is the 5th anniversary of the death of Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, Memphis, and therefore a friend to us all. He doesn't have his own entry in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia but he's referred to not only in the entries on Arthur Crudup, Howlin Wolf, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Billy Lee Riley, rock'n'roll and Warren Smith but also in those on the inequality of reward in the blues ; T-Bone...
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
The Free Music Archive -- WFMU's interactive library of curated, legal music downloads -- is in pre-launch-blog-mode until November while we continue to build the site and grow the library. In the meantime, here's a sampling of some participating artists...
The Yellow Stereo (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
I’ve been catching up on all of the new Of Montreal goodness over at You Ain’t No Picasso, as Matt has been serving the internet well with all of the news regarding the forthcoming record titled Skeletal Lamping, which is due out later this year. As you can see from the newly unveiled artwork for [...]
You Ain't No Picasso (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
It’s a good time to be an Of Montreal fan. Kevin finished up work on their next record Skeletal Lamping over a month ago, the band are setting out on tour later this year with an album shortly after and they’ve got a live DVD coming out later this year. Now we’ve got a few [...]
Article Archive (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
This article discusses about the geniuses who helped create the music of Memphis soul.
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
When producer T Bone Burnett first met with B.B. King, he presented the blues legend with a simple mission statement: “I’d like for you to go back to the Fifties and do some of the stuff as you did it then.” At 82, King wondered whether he could really re-create what he calls “the B.B. [...]
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
KT Tunstall reveals that she finds her busy schedule of gigs "cathartic".
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama reveals that Stevie Wonder is his "musical hero".
