Archive for June, 2011
Guitar Shopping: A Visit To Cordoba Guitars
There is a certain rock star feeling one gets when visiting a manufacturer’s artist lounge or showroom. There is a shock and awe factor seeing the company’s finest in an almost museum-like setting. Generally, the room is designed to help persuade an artist to endorse their wares or entice a buyer to stock their guitars [...]
Myth, Legend, Dust: The 2011 Bonnaroo Documentary
A brief recap of the fevered dream that is Bonnaroo.
Kanye, Jay-Z Album Could Drop July 4
Earlier this month, The Source wrote that Jay-Z and Kanye West’s collaboration, Watch The Throne, may make its debut July 4 on Def Jam. Originally slated to drop in January 2012, the initial release will most likely only be digital to avoid leakage, according to AllHipHop.com. CyHi the Prynce, an artist on West’s G.O.O.D. Music [...]
1st Place | “Just Married”
1st Place “Just Married” Larry Black Asheville, North Carolina www.americansongspace.com/larryblack Perfect strangers at first meeting, Prey to passion’s beck and call. Now our doubts just keep repeating, “We aren’t so perfect after all.” What happened to the vows that bound us? Were they mere shadows in a scheme Upon a wall that now surrounds us [...]
Rihanna At The Honda Center In Los Angeles 6/29/2011
Rihanna performs live at The Honda Center in Anaheim, California on June 29, 2011.
MySpace Sold To… Justin Timberlake?
On Wednesday it was announced that MySpace, once a bastion for music on the web, would be sold for $35 million to an Irvine, California-based digital advertising network named Specific Media. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005, will take a jaw-dropping loss on the deal. News Corp. has long [...]
3rd Place | “Lonely Ride”
3rd Place “Lonely Ride” Jeff Maddox Pearl, Mississippi www.americansongspace.com/goodganny A hundred miles to go, on this lonely ride Destination New Orleans, reasons undefined A bitter cup of coffee, a notebook by my side These empty pages tell the tale of the way I feel inside I stop in Ponchatoula for a refill and a smoke [...]
Behind The Song: “Man Of Constant Sorrow”
You’d think after one hundred years, “Man Of Constant Sorrow” would eventually get old. But the American folk standard, which has been covered by everyone from a young Bob Dylan to Norwegian girl-group Katzenjammer, and helped launch the modern Americana movement with its canny placement in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, has been [...]
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