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First Reported May 19 2012 - Updated May 19 2012 - 1 Documents

70s-era reissue collections dominate this week’s Ear Bliss spotlight

Reissue collections from a couple of highly influential, but not so commercially successful, artists are in the Ear Bliss spotlight this week. The late Alex Chilton has always been tough to peg what with a career that spanned The Box Tops to Big Star ... [ Published May 19 2012 by RICentral.com ]
First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Ray Davies Sells Tickets, Camera

Ray Davies has opened the sale of tickets for his Autumn tour by selling his camera. Ray Davies' back catalogue is - for want of a better phrase - a national treasure. Carving out truly English rock 'n' roll, his work with The Kinks is enough to ... [ Published May 18 2012 by ClashMusic.com ]
First Reported May 17 2012 - Updated May 17 2012 - 1 Documents

Yep Roc Records celebrates anniversary with 3 nights of music

Current and past Yep Roc artists will be on hand for three nights of music at Cat's Cradle in October to celebrate the artist-driven record labels' 15th anniversary. The label announced the Oct. 11-13 event on Wednesday. The lineup includes Nick Lowe, ... [ Published May 17 2012 by WRAL ]
First Reported May 14 2012 - Updated May 14 2012 - 1 Documents

A simple sound is complex for the band Spiritualized

Listen to a Spiritualized album there are seven of them, all ranging from "good" to "stellar" and it's easy to cozy up to the notion that front man Jason Pierce loves nothing more than spending two or three years at a time composing epic, symphonic space ... [ Published May 14 2012 by Austin360 ]
First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Music Dump - Wilco's TLC Beastie Boys Rock Duran Duran's Lambert

What 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' Said by Spencer Kornhaber (The Atlantic): Wilco's most critically acclaimed album is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and part of the album's appeal, as Kornhaber suggests, is that it's an album about being unable to communicate; thus ... [ Published May 10 2012 by The Vine ]
First Reported May 07 2012 - Updated May 07 2012 - 1 Documents

Megan Reilly

Memphis-born singer-songwriter moved to New York City to jump start her music career, which lead to two critically acclaimed albums. Her third, The Well , is her first release in six years, and features a duet with John Wesley Harding. Reilly talked to ... [ Published May 07 2012 by American Songwriter ]
First Reported May 04 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

Webcast: New Orleans Jazz Fest 2012

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will will webcast a number of this weeknd’s sets on YouTube, including My Morning Jacket, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Bruce Hornsby, Allen Toussaint, The Neville Brothers, Preservation ... [ Published May 04 2012 by Consequence of Sound ]
First Reported May 04 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

M Ward, A Wasteland Companion (Bella Union) **

SPENDING too much time on the road can drain any musician. For someone as prolific and active as US indie icon M (as in Matt) Ward he can add making an excellent album with Monsters of Folk and a popular pair with She and Him’s Zooey Deschanel to constant ... [ Published May 04 2012 by York Press ]
First Reported May 03 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

‘Idol’ recap: Judge not

Entirely fitting I guess for what is going on with American Idol this season, which is beyond outrageous. I hate to drag Steven, Jennifer and Randy back to reality, but the pixie dust is wearing off. You need to come out of your Phillip Phillips’ spe ... [ Published May 03 2012 by Philadelphia Inquirer ]
First Reported May 01 2012 - Updated May 02 2012 - 2 Documents

Big Star's Third To Be Re-Created

Classic album Big Star's Third is set to be re-created by an all star cast including Brendan Benson, Norman Blake and more. After two albums of sublime pop, Big Star were exhausted. Problems with distribution, their label and more destroyed their ... [ Published May 02 2012 by ClashMusic.com ]
First Reported Apr 29 2012 - Updated Apr 29 2012 - 1 Documents

New Orleans Jazz Fest friends salute Alex Chilton

For a low-profile legend, Alex Chilton had a lot of friends. Many of them gathered Sunday (April 29) on the Gentilly Stage of the New Orleans Jazz Fest to remember him. A Memphis native, Chilton moved to New Orleans in the early 1980s, hightailing it ... [ Published Apr 29 2012 by NOLA Live ]
First Reported Apr 27 2012 - Updated Apr 27 2012 - 1 Documents

Jazz Fest: Tribute to Alex Chilton with David Pirner

On this week's edition of Noise Candy we speak with the frontman of Soul Asylum, David Pirner, about his upcoming tribute to at Jazz Fest. Pirner will be joined by Alex McMurry, Susan Cowsill, Doug Garrison and Rene Coman this Sunday at 12:45 on the Gentilly ... [ Published Apr 27 2012 by al.com ]

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70s-era reissue collections dominate this week’... [ Published May 19 2012 by RICentral.com ]
Yep Roc 15: Label Celebrates Anniversary With 3... [ Published May 18 2012 by Top40-Charts ]
Ray Davies Sells Tickets, Camera [ Published May 18 2012 by ClashMusic.com ]
Chuck Prophet Pays Tribute to San Francisco [ Published May 18 2012 by NOLA Live ]
Yep Roc Records celebrates anniversary with 3 n... [ Published May 17 2012 by WRAL ]
A simple sound is complex for the band Spiritua... [ Published May 14 2012 by Austin360 ]
New band of the day – Poor Moon (No 1,267) [ Published May 10 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Music Dump - Wilco's TLC Beastie Boys Rock Dura... [ Published May 10 2012 by The Vine ]
Preview: Plantain at Blank Club [ Published May 10 2012 by Metroactive ]
Stranger than fiction: The return of Dylan Hicks [ Published May 09 2012 by Minneapolis Star Tribune ]
Megan Reilly [ Published May 07 2012 by American Songwriter ]
Webcast: New Orleans Jazz Fest 2012 [ Published May 04 2012 by Consequence of Sound ]
M Ward, A Wasteland Companion (Bella Union) ** [ Published May 04 2012 by York Press ]
Merciless Ghost On Tour [ Published May 04 2012 by Nestor ]
Dispatch from New Orleans: Summoning ghosts at... [ Published May 03 2012 by Philadelphia Inquirer ]
‘Idol’ recap: Judge not [ Published May 03 2012 by Philadelphia Inquirer ]
Big Star's Third To Be Re-Created [ Published May 02 2012 by ClashMusic.com ]
REM, Hot Chip, Teenage Fanclub members confirme... [ Published May 01 2012 by Uncut ]
New Orleans Jazz Fest: The Boss Rules [ Published Apr 30 2012 by First Coast News ]
New Orleans Jazz Fest friends salute Alex Chilton [ Published Apr 29 2012 by NOLA Live ]
New Orleans Jazz Fest: Choices abound [ Published Apr 29 2012 by USA Today ]
Tav Falco & the Unapproachable Panther Burns [ Published Apr 28 2012 by Vintage Guitar ]
Jazz Fest: Tribute to Alex Chilton with David P... [ Published Apr 27 2012 by al.com ]
Listen to a Spotify playlist featuring Jazz Fes... [ Published Apr 26 2012 by NOLA Live ]
Track Of The Day 26/4 - Sparkwood & 21 [ Published Apr 26 2012 by Clash Music ]
At 57, Chris Stamey remains one of the Triangle... [ Published Apr 26 2012 by INDY ]
New Orleans Jazz Fest's best bets for the first... [ Published Apr 25 2012 by NOLA Live ]
Brendan Benson: What Kind of World [ Published Apr 24 2012 by Pitchfork ]
M Ward - A Wasteland Companion [ Published Apr 22 2012 by Uncut ]
Lena Dunham: from ?Tiny Furniture? to HBO series [ Published Apr 17 2012 by Pop Matters ]
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Alex Chilton: Free Again: The 1970 Sessions (Re... [ Published Apr 06 2012 by PopMatters ]
Free Again: The 1970 Sessions shows Chilton working in top form in a wide variety of genres; it’s as good as anything Chilton recorded ...
SXSW 2012 lineup: 20 acts set to be big [ Published Mar 13 2012 by Music blog | guardian.co.uk ]
The South By Southwest music festival kicks off in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, promising a familiar array of big names, little names and names you will never remember when you've sobered up Even if you're not heading to SXSW, here are 20 acts those ...
In Rotation: Ben Kweller's 'Go Fly a Kite' [ Published Feb 24 2012 by Pop & Hiss ]
In Rotation: Ben Kweller's "Go Fly a Kite." A series in Sunday Calendar about what Times writers and contributors are listening to right now ... The opening cut on Texas indie rocker Ben Kweller’s fifth studio album on his own label sounds like ...
Alex Chilton :: Jumpin’ Jack Flash / Free Again... [ Published Feb 14 2012 by Aquarium Drunkard: Music Blog ]
Released last month, Free Again: The 1970 Sessions highlights a fertile, if transient, period in Alex Chilton’s life and career. As the the decade began the twenty year old Chilton found himself at a crossroads. Having already achieved preternatural pop ...
In rotation: Bahamas' 'Bar Chords' [ Published Feb 08 2012 by Pop & Hiss ]
In Rotation: Bahamas' "Bar Chords." A series in Sunday Calendar about what Times writers and  contributors are listening to right now... Despite the nom de song chosen by Canadian singer-songwriter Afie Jurvanen, and his association with surf-dude ...
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