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The Week in Music…Blogs – June 2 to June 8, 2012
There are still a few tickets left for the Steve Carlson and Jonah Dolan concert on StageIt tonight.
I missed this when I did the post yesterday so I’m tucking it in before the blog list. The Amends have their new EP, Signal up for two bucks on Bandcamp.
Monx from over on I Want 1000 Guitars reviewed Living with Scars by The Jo Wymer Band. I Want 1000 Guitars is also the home of Free Music Mondays so look around a little while you are there and pop some new stuff on your mp3 player.
Terry Gross from from NPR‘s Fresh Air interviewed Neil Young about Americana, the new album from Young and Crazy Horse.
Dora from Buzznet profiled the Young Electrics and streamed a track for listening. Jack Moore (Gypsy and the Wolf) is playing guitar for them (although not in the vid she has up).
Peter Parcek continues his Unsung Heroes of the Blues Guitar series with a piece on Andy Fairweather Low.
From Reader‘s Artist on Artist Johnny Burgin interviews Charlie Musselwhite.
Rachel from Adobe and Teardrops reviews Bear Creek from Brandi Carlile.
Debbie Davies is looking for some tremelo pedal recs. You can help her out on Twitter @DebDaviesBlues.
Gonna end this week with a video from the Americana Music Association Award Nominee Announcement, which was apparently a good excuse for lots of cool musicians to get on stage and play. This is Robert Ellis (with a little help from Jim Lauderdale, Don Was, Buddy Miller, Don Heffington and Greg Leisz on the pedal steel) performing Westbound Train.
- Kit
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The Week in Music…Blogs – May 19 to May 25, 2012
Grab your mugs and pull up a seat. The coffee is hot and there is plenty of music to read and enjoy this morning. Sending out a quick Happy Birthday to both my baby brother and my dad-in-law.
Michalis Limnios from Blues.gr interviewed Debbie Davis about her new album, After the Fall.
Terry Mullins from Blues Blast interviewed Bob Margolin.
indieLondon tossed up their ‘singles of the week’ including music from Rumer (cool little cover song btw), and The Coronas.
Seba Rashii Culture reviewed Closer to You by The Coronas. I’m not going to argue since Addicted to Progress is a great song – but it isn’t the best track on the album. (that would be Write to Me) Though it does have a nice video.
Getting her punk on, Laura Snapes from Pitchfork interviewed Savages.
And over on NPR Music, Joel Rose talks Ramones, Joey Ramone and music, both old and soon to be released.
That’s it for me this morning. I have an omelet to finish and a pool to lounge (can lounge be a verb?) around. As always, if you have a music post on your blog you would like me to add to list please send me a quick email (guitarkit at gmail dot com) or toss a comment below the post with your addy and I’ll add you to the post.
- Kit
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The Week in Music…Blogs March 24 to March 30, 2012
Pour yourselves a very big cup of coffee ’cause the links this week are going to take a while to work through.
Kendra Carter of The Gadsden Times eulogized Bluesman Jerry “Boogie” McCain.
Jim White from Community Voices reviewed Stronger for It, the new release by Javina Magness.
Pete Feenstra over on Get Ready to Rock reviewed the new Walter Trout, Blues for the Modern Daze.
Bluesman Peter Parcek took a little time out of his playing schedule to pen another in his Unsung Heroes series and profiled blues guitarist Leroy Foster.
MusiciansFriend interviewed Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks in their home studio:
Moving away from blues, Metal Insider tossed out their Top Five Live Metal Albums of ever and Spin shared several photos from Too Tough to Die, the soon-to-be published Johnny Ramone memoir.
Jordan Richardson over at Blinded by Sound reviewed the new Cannibal Corpse release, Torture.
Mike Ostrov from Ninebullets.net reviewed Giant Orange from Cheap Girls.
Over on Adobe and Teardrops, Rachel reviewed electronic pop band Xylos.
Sandy Auden from London Calling interviewed Steve Carlson about his music and his “mini” European tour.
Finally, Mark Memmott from NPR reminded us just how cool Earl Scruggs really was while Steve Martin nearly made me cry.
Okay, this is a slightly larger fraction of all the music blogs and posts this week. If I missed yours please shoot me an email or leave your post addy in the comment section below.
- Kit
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The Week in Music…Blogs – March 10 to March 16, 2012
Nichtmehrclaire at Ears to the Ground interviewed ME and shared a couple of the band’s videos.
Ann Powers from The Record on NPR tossed up the recording of Bruce Springsteen’s opening speech for SXSW. She also included several vids of the songs and bands he mentioned in his speech.
On his blog open mic oddyssey, Cary Morin wrote about his show in North Carolina and his trip to Colorado to do some recording:
On the 14th of March I went to Loveland Colorado to spend some time with Jason Larson and Johnny Hickman at Backbone Studio. I have been wanting to record an entire project at that studio but the opportunity has not come up yet. Jason used to play guitar for the Atoll and is now the main engineer at Backbone. He has been a great friend over the years and it’s always fun to work with him…”
ReverbNation released a set of Facebook Apps for musicians to use on the new Timeline layout.
From the new Otis Gibbs video to the somewhat controversial Lucero review all the way to the ninebullets radio show, Ninebullets.net spent the entire week pretty much vibrating with music cool.
Peter Parcek made me oh-so very happy by doing another entry in his Unsung Heroes of the Blues Guitar series. This week he profiled Harvey Mandel.
After seeing last week’s Unsung Heroes entry on Clarence Hollimon, Linda Leinen from The Task at Hand sent me a link to a great Hollimon performance from the 1993 Blues Blast for The Phoenix Blues Society.
As always, if I missed your music post please toss me an email or leave your blog addy in the comment section and I’ll put your link in the post.
- Kit
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Eyeball! Eyeball!
Eyeballed on the Web this week:
Scooter is watching ‘Phineas and Ferb’ a kids show she and the ‘Bit are kind of addicted to and apparently Wired has just discovered. She is running around with her elephant storage cube on her head because for some bizarre reason doing so makes her a tree. (Jeremy is a tree in the episode she is watching)
Two Cow Garage on NPR! Check out the November 1st World Cafe entry and listen to a couple of songs off the new album.
Future writers and editors of the world, yes material you find on the internet can be and most often is copy protected. (This is a link to the Washington Post article but I first saw the story on Martha Wells’ blog early yesterday) I am not sure if the lesson here is ‘do not steal’ or ‘do not tell the person you stole from they should be -happy- about the theft’. I suspect it is both. 
November is National Blog Posting Month or NaBloPoMo. While it sounds like some kind of seafood sandwich you would find in the coastal south, it is just posting a blog entry every day in November. You can check out the website for daily posting topics and sign up for prizes if you feel inspired to try an entry a day.
Limited Pressing is celebrating their one year anniversay this week. Stop by the site, look around, check out the Hoverboard for music news feeds from all over the internet, listen to some music and download some free (yes they are legal) tracks.
Enjoy the Weekend!
- Kit
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I’m a jazz baby, little jazz baby, that’s me…
Thursday it was rainy and grey. Scooter was fussy (two molars coming in-sigh) and I was still tired from her teething and my cold. So I composed my post while we listened to some great jazz on NPR.
Jazz is like the musical version of orajel for babies. Seriously, the only other music that even comes close is Patsy Cline. I have no qualms about dosing my kid with either of them.
Then I tried to save the post and all kinds of buggy badness ensued. I spent the rest of the day back and forth with tech support but the problem only shows up for me. Kind of like the car noise that drives you insane but the mechanic never hears. Finally today they have an idea of the problem so with a clean sheet of paper and freshly sharpened pencils in hand, (metaphorically speaking) I will give it another try.
Scooter and I were listening to a wonderful program on the NPR website called Take Five:A Weekly Jazz Sampler. The program profiles and provides streaming audio for five different jazz songs each week. This week they brought out their picks for best jazz of 2009 – so far. We liked all the selections but Scooter’s favorite was Dancin’ 4 Chicken by Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, while I loved ‘Waves‘ by Miles Okazaki.
- Kit
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The mighty ‘Wolf’ was howlin’ and carryin’ on…
Kahuna listens to NPR. (national public radio) All the time. In the car, in the house, at lunch. All. The. Time. This past Saturday he came in from running errands for his trip (he is working in Atlanta next week) and said, “Hey, I was listening to NPR and they were interviewing this blues guy. Elvin somebody.”
“Elvin Bishop?” I ask.
“Maybe?” he guesses.
So I pop over to NPR.org and find the interview with Elvin Bishop.
He talks about his new CD, The Blues Rolls On, his love of the blues and canning stuff from his garden. (I love that he takes his canned produce on the road with him).
They also play some bits from his new cd and have a couple tracks up you can listen to. It is one of those “get lots of people together and record” things but it is pretty cool. (he plays with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks and Tommy Castro…how can it not be cool?)
I also like the rock edge it has (it reminds of Walter Trout’s Full Circle) and the energy. It just sounds like he had as much fun recording as I had listening to it.
You can pick up The Blues Rolls On at the Elvin Bishop website, at Delta Groove Music or over on Amazon.
- Blurred…
February 12, 2013 | 4:06 pm
I have been trying to write the review for Blurred, by San Francisco singer/songwriter Alex Wise for a few months now but can’t seem to finish it. This is difficult for me to say but I get about halfway through the process and find myself so homesick I just can’t continue. The past few years have been full [...] - Arc & Stones…
February 11, 2013 | 4:53 am
Now that Scooter is back sleeping nights I proclaim this ’dig myself out from under the mountain of un-reviewed music‘ week. Kicking off the week o’reviewing is Arc & Stones, the debut EP from Brooklyn band Arc & Stones. The guys are Dan Pellarin (vocals), Ben Cramer (guitar), Joe Doino (drums) and Eddy Bayes (bass). I had [...] - Telegraph Taboo…
January 21, 2013 | 8:45 am
So, I was in the mood for some blues and whoosh – blues appeared. Other people get coupons, bills and news updates in the mail while I get blues music. Cool new blues music in the form of the debut release Telegraph Taboo from the Chicago-based band Nick and the Ovorols. This is not a pretty album. The vocals on a few tracks [...] -
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