As her Facebook friends know already, Brigid flew home from Scotland for a surprise visit for her parents 40th Anniversary, so of course, she’ll play a show at the Monkey Wrench tonight (May 18). Even J.L. Puckett squeezed in a plug.
UPDATE: The Thirteen13 blog also talked to Marlowe about the store.
Over at the Never Nervous blog, Phillip Olympia has an interview with Jim Marlowe of the band Tropical Trash and the soon-to-be owner of the Astro Black record store. It’s an interesting read, as Marlowe talks about “avoiding playing anything resembling a tune from 2008 to around summer 2010” in the process that lead to the creation of the improvisational band Tropical Trash. Needless to say, the band’s output challenges the listener. He also talks about the new record store and it’s parameters for inclusion of material, which are limiting. The interview provides quite enough evidence to demonstrate that the Louisville music scene overall is not dull, repetitive or trite.
May 182012
WFPK Music Director Kyle Meredith’s The Weekly Feed program has picked up a major sponsor, teaming with Gentleman Jack Rare Tennessee Whiskey. The deal will allow Meredith to travel to even more shows to do interviews and, likely, expand the reach of the show, including additional online interviews and new music content. AllAccessMedia.com has a few additional details.
May 172012
Doug Dillard of the bluegrass band The Dillards died on Wednesday. May 16 in Nashville, after a lengthy illness. He found fame with the Dillards, playing on “The Andy Griffith Show,” under the name “The Darlings.” More info is here.
May 172012
The Lady Antebellum Prom Gig for Henryville High School and subsequent show at Yum! got lots of media attention, as would be expected. The C-J put the story on the front page: “Lady Antebellum rocks tornado benefit concert, raises $235,000 for Henryville.” Over at the Scene And Heard blog, C. Michael Stewart has some excellent photos of the show. There’ll likely be more to this story.
May 172012
Bounce on over to Distonal.com for a couple of sets of pix from the MMoss, Woods and Gangly Youth and Bear In Heaven, Blouse shows at Zanzabar.
May 162012
Peter Berkowitz tried to do a phoner with Dark, Dark, Dark, but was not successful. He did get an interview with Lee Raynaldo, however.
Yeasayer is coming to Headliners for a show on June 23 and everybody is cranked about this new tune, “Henrietta”:
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