Winter Solstice Music Digest

Los have to cancel a gig in Jamaica

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/los-lobos-1221/

A drummer comes home for Christmas

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703395204576024023937358258.html

What a wonderful house

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703886904576031774275445108.html

Ben Towle's history of the ookelele

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/12/ben-towles-history-of-the-ukulele/

D'Adarrio is buying a drumstick maker

http://www.newsday.com/business/inside-long-island-business-1.811933/d-addario-buying-drumstick-maker-1.2554891

Best Louisiana music of the past year

http://www.louisianaweekly.com/news.php?viewStory=3667

REM has a new album in the oven

http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2010/12/20/750943.aspx

"Let Me Mourn"

http://www.noisecreep.com/2010/12/20/crowbars-let-me-mourn-song-premiere/

A Beatles fanatic hits the motherlode

http://www.lenconnect.com/opinions/columnists/x1682024897/David-Frownfelder-Beatles-fanatic-hits-the-motherlode

And ten essential Captain Beefheart songs

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ten-essential-captain-beefheart-songs-20101220