Great Quotations: Kevin Cronin

Buried Treasure: The Aztec Two-Step Movie

Deadline For Chris Austin Songwriting Contest Is Midnight Tonight (Feb. 18)

Attention songwriters! The deadline for the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest, presented by Merlefest, is midnight tonight, February 18, 2010, and the cost per entry is $30.00. So put the final touches on that masterpiece of yours and get it sent off. To enter your song(s), click here. The Chris Austin Songwriting Contest is in its [...]

Preservation Hall Tribute Album Boasts All-Star Cast

1500 grammar school kids are up in the aisles dancing and stomping their feet. When the music stops, they beg and plead for one more song, just one more song, please! The type of music that’s got them so worked up? Not hip-hop. Not rock. Why, it’s not even a little bit Top 40. It’s…jazz? [...]

Lyric Of The Day: “Josephine”

Leonard Cohen Leads Songwriters Hall Of Fame Inductees

Rufus Wainwright Preps Songs for Lulu

Johnny Depp To Narrate New Doors Documentary

LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION > Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You.

LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You. (DOMINO RECORDS) Rating: Determined to outdo his Mike Mogis-produced solo debut as Lightspeed Champion, Devonté Hynes enlisted the psychedelic skills of Ben Allen, who last year produced Animal Collective’s instant classic, Merriweather Post Pavillion. While Mogis lent Falling Off the Lavender Bridge a healthy helping of [...]

FIELD MUSIC > Field Music (Measure)

FIELD MUSIC Field Music (Measure) (MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES) Rating: Field Music hasn’t released an album since 2007. Three years ago the Sunderland, England-based group put out Tones of Town to critical acclaim, only to announce a few months later that the band was taking an extended hiatus. 2010 marks the return of David and Peter Brewis’ [...]