Thursday Music Digest

Cuban Jazz at Carnegie Hall

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/arts/music/chucho-valdes-plays-with-the-afro-cuban-messengers.html?_r=1

New Orleans Jazz at Steel Stacks this Spring

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/music/index.ssf/2012/01/artsquest_to_host_steelstacks.html

Ookeleles to fight hunger

http://www.orangeville.com/what%27s%20on/article/1286233--blues-musicians-unite-to-fight-hunger

A new wood-protection law

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/01/25/business/wood-protection-law-creates-splintering-in-guitar-industry/

Smashing guitars instead of mirrors

http://fox4kc.com/2012/01/24/students-channel-the-who-prepare-for-smashing-performance/

Branding, Eh?

http://www.offbeat.com/2012/01/25/branding-eh/

Remembering McCartney's first movie soundtrack

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/153224-paul-mccartney-the-family-way-soundtrack/

Metallica will Shred your Blues

http://www.dnainfo.com/20120125/upper-west-side/metallica-will-shred-your-blues-psychiatrist-says

British All-Stars in NYC

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music/british-based-all-star-concert-to-debut-in-nyc/article_44ff7ad8-56bc-5cdb-9751-fc30fa5e0c42.html

And remembering the Battle of the Bands

http://www.timesreporter.com/newsnow/x364055832/Remembering-Battle-of-the-Bands