Archive for May, 2010
Zac Brown Band Songwriting Contest Deadline Extended
ZAC BROWN BAND SONGWRITING CONTEST Update: The contest deadline has been extended to Thursday, July 8, 2010. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this one of a kind experience! Zac Brown Band first performed on a Sixthman cruise when they were chosen as the winner of the 2004 Battle of the Band contest [...]
Songs You Need To Hear: Neil Young — “You Never Call”
Surprise, surprise: Neil Young has been using his current solo tour to unveil new songs. The maverick singer-songwriter has never been one to hold on to his new tunes; on his 2008 tour, Young challenged his audience with several new tracks from his then-unreleased Fork In The Road album. This time out, Young has been [...]
Ten Out Of Tenn Drop Album For Nashville Flood Relief
Nashville’s Ten Out Of Tenn collective, a rotating roster of artists and singer-songwriters, have banded together to release We Are All In This Together, a benefit compilation where all the proceeds benefit Nashville flood victims. The disc features exclusives tracks by Ten Out Of Tenn artists Butterfly Boucher, Griffin House, Katie Herzig, Matthew Perryman Jones, [...]
Bert Jansch Travels His Own Twisted Road
Bert Jansch, at his home in Scotland. [Photo: Loren Jansch] Like his current tour mate Neil Young, Bert Jansch’s fifty-year career has covered a lot of ground. From his early days in the folk clubs of Edinburgh and London, Jansch emerged as a unique, individual songwriter, releasing several highly influential solo albums before forming the [...]
Willie Nelson Loses His Locks
(Photo: Jessica Pearl, via The Boot) Someone decided to free Willie….of his oppressive pony tail. Nelson, who’s rocked the braided look for as long as we can remember, decided to go with a new look, which he unveiled at a recent gig in Hawaii, when he joined his son Micah’s band, the Refractacles, on stage. [...]
Hear Lee DeWyze’s “Beautiful Day” Single
It was a beautiful day yesterday for Illinois’ own Lee DeWyze, who’s officially been crowned the nation’s next American Idol. We thought his performance of “Beautiful Day” on Tuesday’s show was a bit lacking, but we’ll reserve our judgment on the single, which you can listen to here, until we hear from you. What do [...]
Arcade Fire Get Ready To Rock The Suburbs
Canadian band Arcade Fire are no strangers to singing about the pains of growing up—their first album, Funeral, featured the aching “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” and their indie anthem “Wake Up” was featured in trailers for the recent film Where the Wild Things Are. If the title of their new album, Suburbs, is any indication, they [...]
BOSS FZ-5
BOSS FUZZ FZ-5 LIST PRICE: $163.50 WWW.BOSSUS.COM Rating: The first fuzz pedals, like so much in the annals of rock history, were an accident. Legend has it that Grady Martin, one of the rotating members of Nashville’s top session men, The A-Team, first happened upon the effect after running his guitar direct to the console [...]
Drinks With: Pegi Young
Skip Matheny— currently a songwriter in the band Roman Candle and former bartender in a retirement community — caught up with the wonderful Pegi Young in Austin TX recently. Though she had been writing songs and poems since high school and married Neil Young along the way, she had never had the chance to properly [...]
Karen Elson @ Third Man Records, Nashville, TN 5/24/10
When you walked into the small show space at Third Man Records this past Monday, something was different. Replacing the usual cobalt blue and grey color scheme were soft peach spotlights. The space seemed dainty, instead of the hard edgy vibe that usually accompanies most Third Man shows. As model turned mom turned musician Karen [...]
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