Folk and Folk-Rock

Sitting on the dock of the Black Diamond Bay

i (heart) music (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Black Diamond Bay used to be known as Krief, after group frontman Patrick Krief. Chances are good that few parts of that previous sentence made much sense to most people. Chances are even better, however, that you've heard Krief's other band , the one with which he tours the world and plays lead guitar. Kelly Bergeron recently interviewed the band, and was kind enough to offer it to me for publishing....

Incompetence is its own reward

nigel hastilow (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Anyone who has listened to the songs of Leonard Cohen will know it’s music to slash your wrists by. That may be why Chancellor Alastair Darling is so keen on the American singer. As the economy goes down the tubes, Mr Darling is being forced to abandon Gordon Brown’s “Golden Rule” which limited Government borrowing. When the going gets tough, the gold turns to base metal (though not lead because that’s...

The beauty of Suchitra Sen

Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Here's one more clip from a Bengali movie starring Suchitra Sen and Uttam Kumar. She was so beautiful. I myself wonder sometimes how is it possible to love the music of the Beatles and Bob Dylan and these old Bengali...

Can We Do Anything about iPod Audio Quality?

Tom Keating (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

In the iPod age, music sound quality has been dumbed down to "Fisher-Price toy" levels , said one of my all time favorite rockers, Neil Young , at Fortune 's Brainstorm Tech Conference . " Apple has taken a detour down the convenience highway," he said, talking about what he considers to be the poor audio quality of MP3. He's currently working on a multimedia archiving project of his entire career,...

Liam Finn gig in London, no 2. Alternatively titled I've got sore feet

kimbofo (Free subscription) | yesterday

We saw Liam Finn's second London gig last night. This one was at Cargo, a live music venue in Shoreditch, in a much larger concert space than last week's gig. We were at the back surrounded by a lot of TALL people, so I didn't get to see much beyond the occasional blur of Liam's beard. But the sound was AWESOME and the set list impressive. He basically played the entire contents of his album, I'll...

Down in the flood

RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Thanks to Marek for the link to a piece by Brian Doyle in The American Scholar: Was that Bob Dylan my sister met on a weir above Woodstock? It’s too short to quote — best read it all. It’s a little bit hard to know what to make of the story, but it sounds too strange [...]

Love, in Various Forms

Spanglemonkey (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

I love peaches. It's summertime, for real, when I have a really good peach. I'm looking forward to the Colorado peaches especially. I"m sitting around with the air conditioning on, watching a biography of Bob Dylan and wondering about folk...

Positively 4th Street

Connecticut Bob (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

You got a lotta nerve To say you are my friend When I was down You just stood there grinning No, this isn't about that classic Bob Dylan song, although I'm sure there's some parallels here if you delve deep enough into the lyrics. This is about a brand new blog, called "4th Street News", and featuring the mysterious "Anderson Scooper" as the blogmiester in residence. This blog will showcase

Rock Band 2 Sonic FAQ Pt. 2

IGN (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

The lowdown on all the music featured in the upcoming game.

7/23: Open Game Thread, Part 2

Lookout Landing (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Coco Crisp doesn't at all belong in the Boston lineup today. Figure out why.

Neil Young documents anti-war tour in film

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Not every musician will make a film that features a fan facing him from a concert audience with two arms raised, middle fingers extended - more than one fan, in fact.

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Neil Young film documents anti-war tour

MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

‘CSNY: Deja Vu’ shows band clearly struck a nerve with political message.

Neil Young to tech industry: You can do better

Cnet (Free subscription) | yesterday

Singer-songwriter says the technology industry can do better than suffice with current MP3 quality.

Neil Young documents anti-war tour in film

The Washington Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Not every musician will make a film that features a fan facing him from a concert audience with two arms raised, middle fingers extended _ more than one fan, in fact.

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Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | yesterday

After being away for a couple weeks surfing in Mexico, I wanted my return post to be about skepticism south of the border, or the science of tides and waves, or something really cool like that. Barring any insightful thoughts on those subjects, I thought at the very least I’d post about something unique, like perhaps an expose of the training [...]