
As reunion-mania continues in the world of music, the latest act to throw their hat into the ring is 1960s pop sensations The Monkees , who will reportedly be hitting the road for a full stage show, that would include dialogue, in 2011 - which coincidentally will mark their 45th anniversary. This will be the first time all four members of the band, which was formed as America's answer to The Beatles and starred in their own television show from 1965 to 1968, have shared the stage together since 1997. [...]
Welcome to this Friday's mp3 Mixtape everyone, our favorite way to keep the Roman numerical system alive while also bestowing a ton of new music upon you. Whether you're looking for this week's newest singles, reworked and redone versions of songs you know (courtesy of Cover Me ), or want to hear something new and out of the blue, it's all here, packaged together in one nice little offering. Use it as your weekend's soundtrack and/or a way to kill time until Kanye drops his next G.O.O.D. Friday gem; plus, because it's all free and legal to stream/download, [...]
Festy Fun 2010 - Telluride Bluegrass Festival - Telluride, CO Recommendations from your trusty Vags on must-see bands at this summer's hottest festivals. The bluegrass faithful come from across the country to experience this banjo pickin' good time. Your resident bluegrass Vagabond has got the recs on who you should check out if you were lucky enough to get a camp site. L.Sizzle says… The Carolina Chocolate Drops - as mentioned in our Bonnaroo Festy Fun [...]

I've been thinking bluegrass all week, thanks to a pair of tickets to this weekend's Joe Val Festival - an annual mid-winter marathon excursion which we've written about profusely in past years. It's a form that often doesn't get included in the folk blogger pantheon, save for the tradfolk and oldtimey set, and a tiny handful of Bluegrass specialists, but here at Cover Lay Down we like to define our terms broadly. In an older sense, of course, our inclusion of the 'grass is easy to defend: bluegrass is most definitely [...]