I mentioned this album briefly before a few weeks ago and posted a track that caught my attention provided by the PR folks, I've now had the opportunity to spend some time with the full album and it's certainly made a good impression, here my favourite from the album. Tim Easton and the Freelan Barons - Nobody Plays Piano in Athens, Ga Tim Easton I've been a fan of for some time and I have most of his back catalogue in one format or another, on this album he's joined by the The Freelan [...]
I recall when Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks came out. I think I was 14 at the time and and this music knocked my socks off. One of my favourite tunes on that album was (and still is) a blues called Meet me in the Morning. Let's have a listen to some different interpretations... Here's Easton Stagger Phillips Here's Sloan Wainwright: The Sarah Jarosz Band: Excellent picking and fiddle playing on that performance. Wow. Sorry it gets cut off at the end...still well worth [...]
Ever since last week when I saw Leeroy Stagger and his band do a bad-ass cover of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," I have had that song stuck in my head. Photoblogger Steffen of TurnItUpOrTurnItOff.com posted some sweet photos of that show. Here's one of Stagger and guitarist Kevin Kane on stage at the Cadillac Lounge. Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money.mp3 Buy : Excitable Boy (1978, reissued 2007) [...]
There are pluses and minuses to big music festivals like NxNE . Plus: awesome bands and artists come to town. Minus: You have to get to the venue hours early and endure sweaty hipsters just to see these acts. The latter is one of reasons why I decided to skip a lot of the hyped artists that I wanted to see, and headed straight for the Cadillac Lounge on Friday, June 19. The Caddy is on West Queen West and if you blink you may miss it. Their clientele consists of mostly people in jeans, plaid, and [...]
Beat Surrender
SqueezeMyLemon
Rockstar Aimz
mp3: soko – i just want to make it new with you
Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
Music Alliance Pact – February 2012
A-Trak - "Round of Applause" / "Where My Money At" (MP3 Download)
Marilyn Manson - April/May 2012 US tour dates
