
I did a little playlist shuffle on January 1st to get a prediction of how 2012 is gonna be. A musical version of Tarot cards, if you will. 1. Athenaeum - Flat Tire 2. Bare, Jr. - You Blew Me Off 3. Cross Canadian Ragweed - Burn Like the Sun (Hmmm, seems like its going to be a rough start in the romance area) 4. [...]
During their years of touring, Guster has taken on many cover songs with both their sensitive and playful dispositions (but mostly the latter).
The late, great Ray Charles sang about her with love and tenderness. Little Feat memorialized the capital, and Blind Willie McTell sang about waking up with the Statesboro blues. Georgia has a long lineage of native sons and daughters who've gone on to musical greatness. Here are 10 acts from the Peach State, whose music is sure to keep Georgia on your mind. 1. Allman Brothers Band I know, "technically" the Allman Brothers are from Jacksonville, Florida, but they moved to Macon in 1969 and [...]

I heard the news that Lynyrd Skynyrd's bassist, Ean Evans, passed away this last Wednesday. He was 48. This has been a tough year for Skynyrd, first losing keyboardist Billy Powell and now Evans. Evans was always so cool to me. He always remembered who I was, and even remembered my name. It meant so much to me whenever he'd give me a hug hello. A class act, and Rock n' Roll will sincerely miss him. Here's This Week's Top 5 Most Played Songs From Swap's iTunes. [...]
I have said it before and I will say it again, I Love The 80's. It was such a unique time in music. The bands that formed in the 80's are one of the main inspirations for the indie music we listen to today. I am going to attempt to post up ten tracks from bands that formed during specific years in the 80's. The first is bands who formed in the year 1980. I specifically avoided well known bands (for the most part), for instance in 1980 we had the birth [...]