Archive for February, 2011

Trent Dabbs: <em>Southerner</em>

Trent Dabbs: Southerner

Songs about Neil Young and Southern men.

FAME Launches “Songwriters Of FAME” Online Series

FAME Launches “Songwriters Of FAME” Online Series

FAME, the Muscle Shoals, Alabama studio, has launched the new video series “Songwriters of FAME”. In these webisodes, songwriters will discuss the perils and peaks of songwriting and the music business. First on the roster is songwriting veteran Brad Crisler (Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts). Later on in the month, FAME will release an episode on [...]

Bellamy Brothers Question Dr. Luke In Britney Spears Case

Bellamy Brothers Question Dr. Luke In Britney Spears Case

The Bellamy Brothers’ lawyer questions Dr. Luke’s “track” record. “Gotta be a song left to sing, ’cause everybody can’t of thought of everything,” sang Gillian Welch on 2007′s “One Little Song.” But, really, how many hooks are left? Recently news came from Florida’s Bellamy Brothers that they would seek legal action against Britney Spears for [...]

Porcelain Raft

Porcelain Raft

On the four-song EP Gone Blind (Acephale), Mauro Remiddi builds on the ear-worming single “Tip Of Your Tongue,” which was released in 2010. Remiddi, a Roman who lives in London, says he records at home, with guitars, keyboards, external effects and a laptop – but his songs have a human quality that some electronic-based music [...]

Rufus Wainwright Has A Baby With Leonard Cohen’s Daughter

Rufus Wainwright Has A Baby With Leonard Cohen’s Daughter

How’s this for a collabo? Piano pop songwriter Rufus Wainwright and Lorca Cohen, the daugther of Canadian songwriting legend Leonard Cohen, are the proud parents of a new baby girl. Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen was born on February 2nd, it was reported today. The child will be raised by both parents, and Wainwright’s partner or [...]

“Junior’s Farm,” Paul McCartney

“Junior’s Farm,” Paul McCartney

McCartney wrote “Junior’s Farm” as an homage to Nashville’s “Curly” Putman.

Radiohead: <em>The King of Limbs</em>

Radiohead: The King of Limbs

When a genius band is merely great.

Writer of the Week: Darwin Deez

Writer of the Week: Darwin Deez

Be careful when you listen to the music of Darwin Deez; you may not be able to get it out of your head for the next 48 hours. The North Carolina native with the impressively strange haircut knows how to craft a hook; he’s also been known to bust a move, OK Go style. We [...]

Justin Bieber at The Palladium, Los Angeles 02/14/10

Justin Bieber at The Palladium, Los Angeles 02/14/10

Justin Bieber performs to a sold out crowd at The Palladium in Los Angeles on Valentine’s Day, 2010.

Booker T. Drafts The Roots, The National, Lou Reed, My Morning Jacket For New Album

Booker T. Drafts The Roots, The National, Lou Reed, My Morning Jacket For New Album

Rock legend and three-time Grammy winner Booker T. Jones will release his latest album, The Road From Memphis on May 10 via Anti- Records. The new disc will feature guest vocals Matt Berninger from The National, The Roots, Sharon Jones, Yim Yames from My Morning Jacket and Lou Reed, and was produced by the Roots’ [...]