Thursday, November 29, 2012

Thursday Music News You Can Use

Celebrating Niihau at the 11th Princess Kaiulani Festival

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/niihau-celebrated-in-11th-annual-princess-kaiulani-festival/123

Berks Jazz 2013 announces its lineup

http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/music/mc-berks-jazz-fest-2013-lineup-20121128,0,6159085.story

An Ookelele attack in West Seattle?

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/2012/11/28/suspects-wanted-in-west-seattle-ukulele-attack/

R.I.P. to 50's singer Mickey "Guitar" Baker

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/50s-star-mickey-guitar-baker-dead-87-article-1.1209679

Glen Campbell continues his Farewell Tour

http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2019780487_glencampbellreviewxml.html?prmid=head_main

Class Got Brass returns for a second year in NOLA

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2012/11/new_orleans_jazz_heritage_foun.html

The Bayou Country Superfest announces its 2013 lineup

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/388ca651bb53443db4ea32d02f3e9481/LA--Music-Bayou-Country

The Library of Congress releases some Beatles chats

http://www.examiner.com/article/historic-beatles-chats-made-available-online-by-library-of-congress

Did George Harrison celebrate Indian culture, or exploit it?

http://www.ibtimes.com/george-harrison-did-he-celebrate-indian-culture-or-exploit-it-901324

And a singing frog hitches a ride on a Christmas Tree

http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y&id=181136081&id=181136081

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Saturday Music News You Can Use

Learn how to play guitar with You-Tab!

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/11/23/play-guitar-you-tab-is-a-great-way-to-learn-songs-and-watch-youtube-at-the-very-same-time/

Chronicling some crazy stage dives

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/entertainment/friday_fun_craziest_stage_dives.html

A new "best acoustic guitar player in the world" poll

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/tommy-emmanuel-tops-best-acoustic-guitar-player-in-the-world-poll-567463

Yet another great new band name-The Dillinger Escape Plan

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/the_dillinger_escape_plan_signs_with_sumerian_records.html

New Orleans' music scene, thru the eyes of a Vermonter

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2012/11/new_orleans_music_scene_throug.html

Pullman Porter Blues

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/172497-All-Aboard-Music-Kissed-Pullman-Porter-Blues-Starring-Cleavant-Derricks-Steams-Into-DCs-Arena-Stage

One of George Harrison's leather jackets goes on display in Liverpool

http://www.examiner.com/article/george-harrison-leather-jacket-goes-on-exhibit-liverpool

Time for the Baby Blues Showcase in St. Louis

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/348334/71/11th-Annual-Baby-Blues-Showcase

A youtube tour of Governors Island

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDKojYZ5-Q

And Buddy Guy has a new live album coming out December 18th

http://www.pluginmusic.com/news/article/blues-icon-buddy-guy-to-release-live-at-legends-on-december-18th

Friday, November 23, 2012

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Happy Turkey Day!

No Music News You Can Use today...see y'all on Black Friday!


Sunday, November 18, 2012

Sunday Music News You Can Use

The Coda Jazz Fund turns 10

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/11/17/3923039/coda-jazz-fund-marks-10-years.html
 
The Brubeck Brothers do Seattle

http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Music-Review-Brubeck-Brothers-Quartet-LifeTimes-4046543.php

Which Rolling Stones era was best?

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/which_rolling_stones_era_was_best.html

The Who do Beantown

http://www.telegram.com/article/20121117/NEWS/121119640/1312

Time for the Magazine Street Blues Fest in NOLA

http://www.nola.com/festivals/index.ssf/2012/11/today_in_new_orleans_fringe_ma.html

The San Diego Dixieland Jazz Fest gets youthful

http://www.nctimes.com/entertainment/music/youth-movement-reigniting-san-diego-dixieland-jazz-festival/article_83c35e72-3ab1-5ed7-ab41-3dcf25ba2cb9.html

More on Olivia Harrison's razor wire fence

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2234337/Razor-wire-place-Henley-George-Harrisons-widow-abandons-plans-fence-Oxfordshire-mansion-Beatle-stabbed-intruder.html

A rare 1967 John Lennon interview

http://www.examiner.com/article/john-lennon-rare-67-bbc-chat-magical-mystery-tour-had-strange-people

A new Beatles Box

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/1289265--reasons-to-live-for-nov-18-a-truly-fab-sounding-new-beatles-box

And a copy of the Decca audition tape of The Beatles goes on the block

http://www.examiner.com/article/copy-of-beatles-rejected-audition-tape-for-decca-records-to-be-auctioned

Friday, November 16, 2012

T.G.I.F. Music News You Can Use

11 For The Price of 10 Today!

Happy #20 to the Kaua'i Slack Key Guitar Festival

http://thegardenisland.com/lifestyles/slack-key-festival-celebrates-years-on-kaua-i-sunday/article_45331dfa-2fbb-11e2-ac0d-001a4bcf887a.html

While Keola Beamer will do a show on Mau'i this weekend as well

http://www.mauiweekly.com/page/content.detail/id/510596/Malama-Ko-Aloha-With-Keola-Beamer---Friends-at-the-MACC.html?nav=39

The Bakersfield College Jazz Ensemble travels the spaceways

http://www.therip.com/campus/2012/11/15/bc-jazz-plays-the-music-of-sun-ran/

NYU students are running an online Jazz publication

http://nyulocal.com/entertainment/2012/11/15/and-all-that-jazz-nyu-students-run-online-jazz-publications/

Yet another new Guitar App

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/11/15/4988514/ultimate-guitar-and-instrumagic.html

Aerosmith is Back...

http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20121115/ENTERTAINMENT/311150006?nclick_check=1

Recapping this year's Fringe Fest in NOLA

http://noladefender.com/content/frin34ge-binge-vol-28

Legends in The Cloud

http://allfacebook.com/legends-in-the-cloud_b104764

Digging in the past to fund the future

http://music.sonomaportal.com/2012/11/15/digging-in-to-the-past-to-fund-the-future/

The Vinyl Vaudeville Show

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/above/12-bit-blues-the-vinyl-vaudeville-show-music-hall-of-williamsburg

And Sir Paul will gig at the upcoming Hurricane Sandy benefit

http://www.examiner.com/article/paul-mccartney-announced-as-a-performer-at-hurricane-sandy-benefit

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Mid-November Music News You Can Use

Slack-Key: Hawai'i's musical gift to the world

http://www.midweekkauai.com/2012/11/slack-key-festival/

Marcus Roberts will bring a new concerto to the 2013 Savannah Jazz Fest

http://savannahnow.com/do/2012-11-15/marcus-roberts-return-2013-savannah-jazz-festival-new-piano-concerto#.UKTcxGf4WSo

More on Eddie Vedder's Ookelele Tour

http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/article/Vedder-s-Ukulele-Songs-tour-rocks-4036764.php

The "other" Al Anderson sighted

http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-11-15/music/al-anderson-original-wailers-bob-marley/

Will Soundgarden get back together again?

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/soundgarden_reunion_down_to_matt_cameron.html

The Gibson Guitars of Pete Townshend

http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/gibson-guitars-of-pete-townshend-1114-2012.aspx

The Steel Guitar Forum continues to grow

http://cloverdale.towns.pressdemocrat.com/2012/11/news/steel-guitar-forum-reaches-players-world-wide/

The world's first online guitar lesson from a moving vehicle!

http://webcast.broadcastnewsroom.com/article/Paul-Gilbert-Gives-the-Worlds-First-Online-Guitar-Lesson-from-a-Moving-Vehicle-2295529

A Satchmo Fest benefit in New Orleans

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Trumpet-auction-to-benefit-Satchmo-music-fest-4036438.php

And remembering New Orleans drummer Bob French

http://www.offbeat.com/2012/11/14/didn%E2%80%99t-he-ramble-remembering-bob-french/

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Hump Day Music News You Can Use

Uncle Tom Moffatt Gabs about Elvis' 1972 shows at the HIC

http://www.midweek.com/behati-prinsloo-rumer-willis-eddie-sherman-and-elvis-and-more-celebrity-news/

On tour with Los and Neil Young

http://seattlemusicinsider.com/?p=12147

Polish Jazz blossoms in Chicago

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-1114-jazz-polish-fest-20121114,0,7346831.column

A jazz workshop will be coming to Oxbridge Academy in 2013

http://tunes.broadwayworld.com/article/Julliard-to-Bring-Jazz-Workshop-to-Oxbridge-Academy-in-2013-20121113

Time for another Ookelele Festival in New Zealand

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/reviews/entertainment/7948708/Ukulele-Festival-a-definite-must-do

Fender has a new high tech guitar

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412051,00.asp

A new Andy Summers film documentary

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/11/watch-former-police-guitarist-andy-summers-on-his-new-documentary/

Time for the annual Tucson International Guitar Festival

http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2012/11/ua-school-of-music-fourth-international-tucson-guitar-festival-performances-111312

More live music coming to New Orleans' Fair Grounds, home of JazzFest

http://www.nola.com/festivals/index.ssf/2012/11/fairgrounds_race_course_will_s.html

And checking out this year's Bridgetown Blues Festival

http://www.donnybrookmail.com.au/story/1038443/rain-doesnt-dampen-spirits-at-bridgetown-blues-festival/?cs=1697

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Sunday Music News You Can Use

Exploring the music of North Kohala

http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2019627034_trkohala11.html

New music from Rosie Flores

http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Music-Review-Rosie-Flores-Working-Girl-s-Guitar-4025903.php

Woodie defends the Stones' high ticket prices

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/ronnie_wood_defends_rolling_stones_ticket_prices.html

A refuge for guitars and musicians

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/nyregion/retrofret-in-gowanus-brooklyn-sells-rare-guitars.html?_r=0

A list of the various festivals this weekend in New Orleans

http://www.nola.com/festivals/index.ssf/2012/11/hell_yes_fest_treme_creole_gum.html

Agatha Christie's lost radio plays brought back to life

http://www.tampabay.com/features/performingarts/agatha-christies-lost-radio-plays-come-back-to-life-in-the-bbc-murders/1260848

J.J. Watt's "Jazz Hands"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/sports/football/j-j-watts-jazz-hands-making-sweet-sweet-music-for-the-texans.html?pagewanted=all

Flamenco Fusion in Jamaica

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20121111/ent/ent6.html

Dylan does Chicago

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/turnitup/chi-bob-dylan-concert-review-20121109,0,817318.column

And big news from Two Old Hippies

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/industry_news/bruce_weber_and_tom_bedell_team_up_to_inspire_the_acoustic_and_bluegrass_markets.html?no_takeover

Friday, November 9, 2012

Thursday, November 8, 2012

(On Time!) Thursday Music News You Can Use

Teaching the language of Jazz

http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2012/11/07/entertainment/01ent%2011-07-12%20jazz.txt

Another update from the 2012 London Jazz Festival

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/nov/07/london-jazz-festival-2012

Ookeleles for Poppies!

http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=37767

And Ookeleles in Portsmouth!

http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Hampshire/Portsmouth/PO6/News/Local-News/235259-Ukelele-Sessions-Prove-Popular-in-Portsmouth

A new guitar exhibit in Nashville

http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/e7cbb4d00f6e51ca86110e33a1da7e5e/guitars-of-the-stars-going-on-display-in-nashville

Almost time for this year's Pedal Steel Convention in CT

http://www.thehour.com/entertainment/weekend/pedal-steel-guitar-players-converge-on-norwalk/article_eebd455b-10b0-578f-bcd9-259ca336a8ef.html

Healing Beams to guitarist Henry McCullough (Wings) who is In Hospital after a heart attack

http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/2012/11/henry-mccullough-guitarist-paul-mccartney-and-joe-cocker-critically-ill-after-heart-

Checking out the new Blake Shelton signature guitar

http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/11/review-blake-shelton-signature-guitar/

Almost time for Fringe Fest 5 in New Orleans

http://www.offbeat.com/2012/11/07/new-orleans-fringe-fest-focuses-music-fifth-year/

And a look at the new National Steel Blues Emergency Tour

http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/entertainment/177366191.html

Hump Day Music You CAN Use!

Only took 24 hours to show up in my e-mailbox!

Uncle Tom Gabs about The Rascals reuniting

http://www.midweek.com/jasmine-trias-camille-velasco-joyce-yang-and-more-celebrity-news/

Starkey adds some new shows Down Under

http://www.noise11.com/news/ringo-starr-adds-second-sydney-and-melbourne-shows-20121107

Time again for Blues in Dunedin

http://www.tbnweekly.com/editorial/local_entertainment/festivals/content_articles/110512_lefest-01.txt

If you like Bonnie Raitt...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/booming/if-you-like-bonnie-raitt.html?_r=0

Got Gumbo?

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/treme-creole-gumbo-festival/Content?oid=2096199

Boudin and Beer

http://noladefender.com/content/bo45udin-and-beer-com89es-back-bigger-and-blood

A new project from Guitar Hero's co-creator

http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/06/guitar-hero-co-creator-unveils-startup-with-a-plan-to-mobilize-the-living-room-exclusive-interview/

Bob Dylan to get a new guitar strap

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/11/06/bob-dylan-to-receive-guitar-strap-for-concert-at-xcel/

A John Lennon letter to Clapton goes on the auction block

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-john-lennon-letter-eric-clapton-auction-20121106,0,6157184.story

And Songs of Migration

http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/what-s-on/gauteng/songs-of-migration-1.1418295

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Hump Day Music You Can't Use, Part 2

Still having massive e-mail server issues. Hopefully I will get it up today!

Hump Day Music You Can't Use...

This morning's update is lost in cyberspace due to e-mail hassles. Hopefully I will have it up soon!

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Tuesday Music News You Can Use

Checking out a Nose Flute maker on the Valley Isle

http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/566723/Nose-flute-maker--player-hailed-for-unique-talents.html?nav=10

Da Bearzzz to get Jiggy

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-1107-jazz-veterans-20121106,0,1091133.column

When Jazz was king

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/11/when-jazz-was-king/

Checking out this year's Wangaratta Festival Down Under

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/wangaratta-jazz--blues-festival-20121105-28tzq.html

Eddie V brings his Ookelele to Phoenix

http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/articles/20121105eddie-vedder-concert-review-phoenix-ukulele-songs.html?nclick_check=1

A musical benefit on the Garden Isle

http://thegardenisland.com/entertainment/night-life/rhythm-of-da-islands-to-benefit-local-music-programs/article_44ef286a-270b-11e2-bda8-0019bb2963f4.html

10 tips for getting vintage guitar sounds

http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/10-tips-for-vintage-guitar-sounds-1105-2012.aspx

New music from Aerosmith

http://guitarinternational.com/2012/11/05/aerosmith-releases-music-from-another-dimension/

A festival of guitars in Ohio

http://www.indeonline.com/news/x795282696/String-Massillon-Museum-celebrates-Festival-of-Guitars

And some new guitar pedals from Rowland

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/roland-unleashes-v-guitar-twin-pedals-566483