Hump Day Music Digest

Uncle Tom!

http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/utg/

Starkey is walking to New Orleans

http://www.neworleans.com/blog/414648-ringo-starr-in-concert-at-beau-rivage.html

Review: Steve Miller Band

http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/107619/steve_miller_band_bingo_review.php

Persian music from Mohsen

http://www.spinner.com/2010/06/15/mohsen-namjoo-strange-times/

What to download: new music this week

http://www.buzzsugar.com/New-Albums-From-Devo-Drake-Tom-Petty-Heartbreakers-8803586

Teenage Beatle bandmate Ken Brown R.I.P.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/ken-brown-0615/

Allen Toussaint goes to Brooklyn

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/51e97258-7896-11df-a312-00144feabdc0.html

The return of a band from New Orleans called Crowbar

http://www.noisecreep.com/2010/06/15/crowbar-sign-to-e1-hope-to-release-new-album-by-november/

R.I.P. to the queen of modern Zulu music

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-06-16-busi-mhlongo-queen-of-modern-zulu-music-dead-at-62

And romance grounded with a bit of gravity

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/arts/music/16wicks.html