This just popped into my inbox from the publicist of Tom Waits. Apparently it’s going to appear on tomwaits.com soon but it’s not there now and I want to get it out as fast as I can, so I’m reprinting it. If that’s an issue I’ll take it down if asked, but I […]
Entries from May 2008
Tom Waits interviews Tom Waits
May 20th, 2008 by Mykola Bilokonsky · No Comments
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The Artist in Profile: Casey Dienel/White Hinterland
May 15th, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas · No Comments
Always ahead of the curve, Matthew Perpetua of, Fluxblog, in February 2006, claimed that Casey Dienel was “a much much much less precious version of Nellie McKay”. McKay at that time being seemingly on the verge of super-stardom. I had never heard of Casey Dienel, but I was a fan of McKay, so I checked […]
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TBTMTU: Any Major Dude With Half a Heart
May 14th, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas · No Comments
Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend, that this weeks They Bring The Music To Us featured blog is epic!
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The Artist In Profile: Charles Mingus
May 8th, 2008 by Steve Mock · No Comments
It seems I have set myself up to fail. I fear there is nothing I can write about Mingus that hasn’t already been written. One need only peruse the half dozen or so substantial biographies (including his own apocrypha: Beneath The Underdog) or the voluminous holdings of The Charles Mingus Collection at The Library of […]
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TBTMTU: Destination Out
May 7th, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas · No Comments
Hello ladies and gents, I’m back from my break with another blog to add to the annals of They Bring The Music To Us, Destination Out
Do you like jazz music, and I mean really like it? Well you’ll be in good company with Chilly Jay Chill and Prof. Drew LeDrew, authors of Destination Out who […]
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What’s New In Music: 5/6/08
May 6th, 2008 by Brandon Kiser · No Comments
Another week under the belt (OK, make that 4) and one more week ahead of us that is no doubt filled to the brim with music. We’ll take a peek at new album releases, music news, and the leaders on the Billboard charts. So hang with us, and you’re guaranteed to feel musically enlightened.
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Rewind to 2001: Cannibal Ox’s The Cold Vein
May 5th, 2008 by Colin Wonnacott · No Comments
Seven years ago, Cannibal Ox put forth their chilling underground masterpiece, The Cold Vein, on El-P’s upstart record label Definitive Jux. With still only one true studio album to their name, Vast Aire and Vordul Mega manage to shine as gods among the hip-hop pantheon.
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Listen In Special Feature: Deezer Vs. Pandora, The Internet Radio Showdown
May 5th, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas · 2 Comments
It was an ancient Inside The Net podcast (now known as Net @ Nite) with an an interview with the creator of Pandora, that first turned me on to the concept of personalized streaming Internet radio. The concept was novel: You type in an artist or song title, and the engine plays that song, or […]
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The Artists in Profile: Sons and Daughters
May 2nd, 2008 by Eric Atienza · No Comments
Glasgow, Scotland’s Sons and Daughters spun off from indie darlings Arab Strap in 2001 when Adele Bethel (vocals, guitar, piano) and David Gowe (drums, percussion) conceived of the idea while on tour, and along with Ailidh Lennon (bass, mandolin, piano) birthed the young rock group. Scott Paterson soon completed the roster as second vocalist/guitarist and […]
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