Stormy Friday Music News You Can Use

And the Rain Trains never stop...

The Hag still knows how to Turn Up That Stupid Music

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130627/ENT03/306270066/Review-Merle-Haggard-still-thrill?nclick_check=1

The Cult of Feist

http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/Jazz+festival+cult+Feist/8587748/story.html

Amanda Palmer (very nearly) goes Dancing in the Nude

http://www.fuse.tv/videos/2013/06/amanda-palmer-stripped-exclusive

Meet the Artiphon 1

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/27/tech/innovation/artiphon-instrument-1-iphone/

A preview of this weekend's Arts Festival in Des Moines

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130627/ENT/306270013/-1/SPORTS12/Datebook-Best-Bets-Yankee-Doodle-Pops-Los-Lobos-Aaron-Neville-Other-art-show-Uncluded?nclick_check=1

Blowin' in the wind

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/wknd/wknd_article.asp?xfile=/data/wkndtopstoriesnew/2013/June/wkndtopstoriesnew_June16.xml&section=wkndtopstories

A preview of the first-ever Mystic Blues Festival this weekend in CT

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x997473568/Blues-legends-stopping-by-for-Mystic-music-festival#axzz2XWQT2HFs

Time for Wyoming's Donkey Creek Jazz Fest

http://trib.com/weekender/music/donkey-creek-jazz-festival-in-gillette/article_65d368a3-22f5-5f51-91d2-8a75a754477d.html?comment_form=true

Meet New Orleans'  Next Generation Big Band

http://www.offbeat.com/2013/07/01/next-generation-big-band-harold-battiste-presents-the-next-generation-big-band-afo-records/

And saying farewell to Bobby Blue Bland

http://www.wwno.org/post/remembering-multidimensional-music-bobby-blue-bland