Video: Alejandro Escovedo - "Castanets" Live at NO Jazz Fest

The first day of LouFest was nothing short of a smashing success. I still can't get over the simple fact that I biked 5 minutes from my house to my local park ( Forest Park ) and saw Broken Social Scene , Built To Spill , The Airborne Toxic Event , Lucero , Titus Andronicus , Adam Reichmann , So Many Dynamos , stephaniesid , and Bottle Rockets . Where else can you do that? (have fun trying to bike to Lollapalooza) [...]

For those bands who've discovered that throwing in the T-shirt sells the record, it's time to up the ante. In the ongoing reinvention of the music industry - which has finally discovered the give-away-the-razor-sell-the-b lades angle - Alejandro Escovedo has taken it one step further. Glomming onto the sudden rage around food truck, Escovedo did two performances in LA on Wednesday atop a double-decker bus turned food truck call World Fare. Escovedo did two 6-song sets atop the world's first "busturant" to promote his new album Street Songs of Love and his appearance that night [...]

Austin legend Alejandro Escovedo has (sadly) mostly dwelled in alt-country obscurity, despite an impressive solo catalog and a number of famous fans. Tonight, though, Escovedo will get some airtime on national TV; he's scheduled to perform "People (We're Only Gonna Live So Long)" from his Tony Visconti-produced album Real Animal as a warmup act for Hillary Clinton's appearance at the Democratic National Convention. A few clips from Alejandro's career after the cut. "Castanets" turned up on George W. Bush's iPod somehow, which prompted the song's [...]

Alejandro and the orchestra at Jazz Fest performing the classic track... See more MJTV video Listen to Musical Justice

I'm not going to bullshit you. The next several weeks are absolutely godawful in terms of new releases worth giving a flying monkey's poo about. But, as always, I'll try to find reason to help you keep on keeping on... New Alejandro Escovedo this week, so we got that going for us... Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal Alejandro's [...]