It’s basically a given that the Carolina Chocolate Drops will swing through the Madison area at least once a year. Last weekend the band had a two night stand at the Stoughton Opera House and both shows were sold out. They were in fine form when I caught them on Friday night.
What started as an [...]
There have been some notable deaths in the world of music this year that I’ve completely neglected to mention. So let me correct this situation.
Country music’s George Jones passed away last Friday. His marriage to Tammy Wynette is legendary as was his alcoholism. Who will step up and drive lawn tractors to the tavern? I’m [...]
The (mostly) reunited Black Sabbath release 13 on 11 June. It’s the first Sabbath album of all-new studio material in 18 years and the first studio album with Ozzy since 1978. The band have released a song from 13 called “God Is Dead?”. While the production is all shiny and clean, the song itself is [...]
I saw this over at Dangerous Minds.
Get yourself a SUPER-OUTTA-SIGHT-JETHRO-TULL-T-SHIRT and score with the ladies. After all they love apparel with “an enticing likeness of sexy Tull leader Ian Anderson somewhere in the vicinity of the right boob”. Who knew Benefit was such an aphrodisiac? On the other hand, I did once get down with [...]
Rush was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week and The Foo Fighters performed “Overture” from 2112 at the ceremony. And they did so in style wearing the same pseudo-kimonos that Rush themselves wore back in 1976.
All Songs Considered is usually a vast wasteland of soulless indie crap, but I subscribe to their podcast because they occasionally have some gems and this is one of them. Ólöf Arnalds is an Icelandic musician/singer and “Treat Her Kindly” is an absolutely gorgeous song. I love the drone in the background – very Nordic.
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I was, well, shocked this morning to read that Michelle Shocked went on an anti-gay tirade a couple days ago at a show in San Francisco, of all places.
“When they stop Prop 8 and force priests at gunpoint to marry gays, it will be the downfall of civilisation, and Jesus will come back,” [...]
Science has turned its gaze to mosh pits and the results are in: people in a mosh pit behave like 2D gas particles.
The collective behaviour of moshers at heavy metal rock concerts is similar to the way particles move in a disordered 2D gas, new research reveals.
Physicists at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who [...]
Rounder has released “Hearts and Minds” from Son Volt’s new album Honky Tonk which is due on 5 March. Quite traditional sounding – a little country and a little Cajun. It wouldn’t sound too out of place at some crawfish festival down on the bayou.
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Blues legend B.B. King will be performing at the Overture Center on 18 May. Anthony Gomes opens.
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Son Volt will stop in at the High Noon Saloon on 6 June in support of their new album Honky Tonk.