Next Thursday, July 16th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Son Volt and Cowboy Junkies live at The Wiltern in L.A. Son Volt are touring behind American Central Dust their new LP released last week on Rounder Records. We are giving away a bunch of pairs of tickets to AD readers. To land a pair, hit up the comments [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Cowboy Junkies : 2009-06-19, York [mp3,ogg,flac] "Powderfinger" [mp3] Cowboy Junkies : 2009-06-18, Richmond [mp3,ogg,flac] other Cowboy Junkies posts at Largehearted Boy fIREHOSE : 1992-02-12, San Pedro [mp3,ogg,flac] "In My Mind" [mp3] other fIREHOSE posts at Largehearted Boy The Gourds [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Cowboy Junkies : 1994-02-04, WNNX [mp3,ogg,flac] "Anniversary Song" [mp3] other Cowboy Junkies posts at Largehearted Boy Degenerettes : 2009-06-13, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac] "Queer for You" [mp3] other Degenerettes posts at Largehearted Boy Drive-By Truckers (with Booker T.) : 2009-06-13, Bonnaroo [mp3,ogg,flac] "Green [...]

I used to read this weekly magazine religiously until it merged with NME in 2000 which was a bit too brash for my taste. Here is a typical Melody Maker cover and the music
MUSIC NEWS - Son Volt have just announced their summer plans, and are gearing up for the release of their new album 'American Central Dust', out July 7 Rounder Records ( order here ) , an appearance at the Rothbury festival in Rothbury, MI, and a co-headlining tour with the Cowboy Junkies ; which begins July 8 in Denver, CO at the Ogden Theatre. Son Volt band leader, and former Uncle Tupelo [...]
So in this post I'm wearing my musically-inclined fiction suit, The Rex Monday, to offer up another virtual mixtape of sorts. There's not much of a mix, per se-more like old-school tapes I'd pass around with friends, where songs play in order to convey a story or a psychic state. If you're of a certain age, you likely know exactly what I mean. Yeah, this is another blind stab in my attempt to deal with Mr. Skips and me parting ways. I'm not at a place where I can really write much about it. I know I'm going [...]
This coming weekend one of the many famous Man City fans... No, the other one. Not him either... ...now you are just taking the piss. I mean the boxing one: Ricky Hatton (nickname: The Hitman) will be fighting Manny Pacquiao (nickname: Pacman) in Las Vegas . [...]

[ A note to readers: with our new family commitments we will institute some changes here. One of these is the shelving of the Today's Hotness feature, which collected newsworthy items into an amalgamated post. Instead we will run more shorter items as we are able to churn them out. Here is the first. -- Ed. ] Portland, OR-based slowcore stars A Weather have spent recent weeks recording a new set that may see release before year-end. The quintet has laid down tracks in its home town at the studio Type Foundry , and as [...]

Welcome back, readers! I've been meaning to do the inevitable Rolling Stones -esque post for a while now and my reasons were threefold: 1) They're only one of the best fucking bands on the planet (still) .. 2) The Rolling Stones are about as relevant to me now as a child growing up on classic rock .. and 3) It is safe to say that "Wild Horses" is the earliest song I can remember absolutely falling in love with the instant I heard it. It is quite possibly one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard and [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : 2009-04-08, Chicago [mp3,ogg,flac] "Fall Apart with You" [mp3] other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Cowboy Junkies : 2009-04-09, Skowhegan [mp3,ogg,flac] "A Common Disaster" [mp3] Cowboy Junkies : 2009-04-03, Newburyport [mp3,ogg,flac] "Misguided Angel" [mp3] other Cowboy Junkies posts at Largehearted Boy [...]
Okay, I didn't pick this months selections. But as folks have told me when I mentioned this month's topic to them, this is "definitely a theme chosen by a guy." Yup, there's testosterone all over this theme, and I've tried to find truly angry stuff in my collection. And there isn't much, at first glance. But I knuckled down and found these for your perusal. And yes, there's one angry chick in the mix (a word of warning: said track is extremely explicit - you've been warned). [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Annie Bethancourt : 2009-04-01, Hollywood [mp3,ogg,flac] "Dead Men Are Heavier Than Broken Hearts" [mp3] other Annie Bethancourt< posts at Largehearted Boy Arbouretum : 2009-03-03, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac] "Ghosts of Here and There" [mp3] other Arbouretum posts at Largehearted Boy Camper Van Beethoven : 2004-02-06, Boulder [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : 2009-03-20, Austin [mp3,ogg,flac] "Sway (Rolling Stones cover)" [mp3] other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Camper Van Beethoven : 2005-03-25, Boston [mp3,ogg,flac] "Friends" [mp3] Camper Van Beethoven : 2004-02-05, Colorado Springs [mp3,ogg,flac] "Pictures of Matchstick Men" [mp3] other Camper Van Beethoven posts [...]

kurt vile red apples 2009 insect trust mountain song 1968 cowboy junkies mining for gold 1988 speck mountain I feel eternal 2009 (française version) [...]

About a month ago, I did a post about finding great new music on TV. Well, last week I hit the jackpot again on "ER." At the end of the episode, a catchy, soulful song was playing over an emotional scene where Dr. John Carter (Noah Wyle) was contemplating his fate on a cold Chicago day. After some serious digging (it would be nice if the names of the songs were included on the credits at the end of the show, but I digress) I found out that the tune, with a great melody and a piano part you can get [...]
Leonard Mynx mi ha messo in contatto con altri artisti residenti nell'area di Portland che hanno collaborato alla realizzazione del suo ottimo album "Vesper". Lo ringrazio, è sempre piacevole ricevere consigli per gli ascolti da persone che si stimano. Sono venuto così a conoscenza di Audie Darling, il progetto musicale di Audie Jarvis, giovane artista di [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bloodkin : 2009-01-31, Asheville [mp3,ogg,flac] "Wet Trombone" [mp3] Bloodkin : 2009-01-30, Asheville [mp3,ogg,flac] "The Viper" [mp3] other Bloodkin posts at Largehearted Boy Cowboy Junkies : 2009-02-12, Stuart [mp3,ogg,flac] "Good Friday" [mp3] Cowboy Junkies : 2009-02-08, Asheville [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]

It began to snow monday night, but I didn't really expect it to stick. There hasn't been much snow this year, so I figured it would just tease. Clearly I'm no expert on these things, because lo and behold, there was a lot of snow outside my door yesterday morning. It's also frickin' freezin'! Snow is fun to look at, but not so fun to be in. Especially when you have to climb a ladder to knock the snow off your satellite dish! Given the indoor nature of a day like this, [...]
Continuing in the info-porn that is my stats-madness of play-counts of last year's 2007 Top Tracks , here is my top 10 songs of the past year according to last.fm . What I like about this list is that the songs don't need to stay within the confines of the year, I just needed to have listened to them on a device that scobbled them in the past 12 months. 01. A Song for Ellie Greenwich by Parenthetical Girls Clearly one of the stars of Entanglements, the [...]
1. Lucinda Williams - Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams The Mary Chapin Carpenter cover version won Williams her first Grammy, but the original version is far superior. Still, it's as close to the glossy Nashville pop-country sound as Williams ever really got, and for that it sounds a bit out of place with the rest of her catalog. Just on that same album, the songs before and after "