It's Block Party Time in Lahaina
http://www.lahainanews.com/page/content.detail/id/508455/Oceanside--Block-Party--set-on-Second-Friday-in-Lahaina.html?nav=19
Checking out this year's North City Jazz Walk
http://www.examiner.com/article/beats-hit-the-street-at-north-city-jazz-walk
Long Beach Jazz turns 25
http://www.inlandvalleynews.com/2012/08/08/the-long-beach-jazz-festival-celebrates-25-years-of-great-music-and-memorable-performances/
Misterioso
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/161096-thelonius-monk-quartet-misterioso/
A display of Rick Nielsen's guitars
http://www.rrstar.com/go/x417564653/Rick-Nielsen-s-guitars-more-on-display-at-Burpee-Museum
R.I.P. to Marshall Tucker Band guitarist Stuart Swanlund
http://global.christianpost.com/news/stuart-swanlund-dies-marshal-tucker-band-guitarist-mourned-79684/
A guitar-shaped high rise in Nashville?
http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/2012/08/nashville-developer-wants-to-build.html
More on the live entertainment crackdown in NOLA
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/08/live_music_permit_problems.html
A Louis Armstrong House block party
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Louis-Armstrong-House-Museum-Hosts-Jazzmobile-Block-Party-and-Hot-JazzCool-Garden-Concert-816-18-20120807
And the Blues that Israelis never heard before
http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/the-blues-that-israelis-never-heard-before.premium-1.456706