Aloha Friday Music News You Can Use

5 songs by the Rhodes Scholar

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2013/10/17/236231843/five-songs-by-the-rhodes-scholar-keyboardist-of-hip-hop

A preview of Saturday's Staten Island Jazz Festival

http://www.silive.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2013/10/staten_island_jazz_fest_return.html

Terakaft's Desert Blues

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2013/10/17/terakaft-desert-blues-find-place-away-from-home/f6Px1YzCGUv3DrPWugP91J/story.html

A preview of the illustrations in Ringo's new kids' book

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2464129/Ringo-Starr-teams-childrens-illustrator-Ben-Cort-release-colourful-book-version-Octopuss-Garden.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

The guitars that Chicago built

http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/19828-the-guitars-that-chicago-built

Fans go Ookelele Mad

http://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk/news/local-news/slideshow-fans-go-ukulele-mad-1-6157735

Will Governors Island get a hotel?

http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2013/10/14/22815/333/hotels/Will_NYC%27s_Governors_Island_Get_a_Hotel%3F

Today's best tuneage in NOLA

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2013/10/new_orleans_music_hot_picks_fo_178.html

Meet Miss T and The Mosquitoes

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/907300_R-R-with-R-R--2-last-buzzes-for-Miss-T---The-Mosquitoes.html

And a report from this year's New Orleans Film Festival

http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2013/10/new_orleans_film_festival_2013_10.html