2010

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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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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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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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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iClips Couch Tour Continues

We’re smack dab in the middle of the Summer Festival Season and for those who can’t make it to some of the biggies coming up, iClips has you covered. The

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Intermezzo: Google Readying Music Service

Apple’s dominance in selling music will be challenged in a big way by Google according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. The article states that the search engine giant

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