June 2010

Bloggy Goodness: Bitches Brew

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Miles Davis’ landmark jazz-fusion album Bitches Brew. While the legendary double-album is getting a full deluxe reissue treatment that includes a 4-disc package

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Jackie Greene: Till The Light Comes

Lyrics are not Jackie Greene’s strong suit; hooks and harmonics are. How else to explain the way Greene routinely crafts beautiful roots gems, inspired country blues and frayed-edge power pop with smooth, but ultimately featherweight narratives about bad love, weary yearning and wanton soul searching? It’s not meaty stuff, but it’s delivered with grace and gravitas; Greene says “feel it, anyway,” and you do.   It’s a formula that’s worked for him and continues to work on Till the Light Comes, his sixth album and, if not a great collection, surely a nourishing one, with buoyant arrangements and the fullness of a well-oiled band fleshing them out.

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Weezer Collaborates With Ryan Adams

Weezer have collaborated with Ryan Adams for their upcoming new album. In an interview with MTV, frontman Rivers Cuomo revealed that the pair had worked together on a song for

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Google Launching Digital Music Service

As reported in Rolling Stone, Google is in "very preliminary" talks with executives in the record business to launch a new music service to compete with Apple’s dominant iTunes, according

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Briefly: Gregg Allman Receives New Liver

Earlier this morning Allman Brothers Band founding member and keyboardist Gregg Allman underwent successful liver transplant surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Allman, whose fight with Hepatitis C

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