Sunday, August 24, 2008 This week: Holy shit. Times seem like I haven't had a single moment to rest (no, I don't count watching The Wire as rest). Rather than my usual computer-side hibernation with the company of 50 new CD's, I've been buying books for school, starting new jobs, cleaning my home, listening to new music and driving back up to Dallas in a car with no air to get some old pine bookshelves and another load of leftover books (most notably my now archaic but thoroughly extensive Calvin and Hobbes collection). [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Amie Miriello : "Disarm (Smashing Pumpkins cover)" [mp3] other Amie Miriello posts at Largehearted Boy Beaujolais : "Friday the Thirteenth: The Loft" [mp3] from Love At Thirty (out September 30th) other Beaujolais posts at Largehearted Boy Broadfield Marchers : "Warchful Hill People" [mp3] [...]
Louisville's Broadfield Marchers and The Scarlet Veil are playing at The Vernon Club (below Vernon Lanes) with Cincy's The Libertines (not to be confused with Pete Doherty's The Libertines) and Lexington's K Davis will be at newly renovated Vernon Club (below Vernon Lanes), tonight, March 22. While I can't speak for The Libertines or K [...]

It's always exciting when South by Southwest announces its schedule and posts songs by many of the bands that will be appearing at the festival. I just spent several--okay, six--pleasant hours making my way through the entire list from Aa to zZz (I skipped +/- because they didn't provide a sample mp3). I admit I didn't listen to every single song. Certain categories didn't really interest me, not yet at least. But I did give ear to everything labelled rock and pop that I didn't [...]