Curious to know how Will Oldham performs when he’s out of the country? You might be surprised – read this review of a show at Hackney Empire, London, posted on the Guardian website.
Shannon Lawson will be a busy fellow this weekend: he’s fronting the Galoots at the 930 Listening Room (also playing:Relic, The 23 String Band, $15) for a 7:30 p.m., then he’s helping out with a cousin’s band, Judge Angus, at the Blue Mule in Jeffersontown later that night, at least if the Blue Mule’s manager is to be believed.
We’ll avoid the April Fool’s jokes, thanks, and just go with what’s happening. Over at Gannett®’s Louisville Profit Center, J. L. Puckett has a long write-up/interview with Cage The Elephant, the hot Bowling Green band playing a sold-out show at Headliners today. Joe Lord’s piece about Widespread Panic also ran in the GLPC today. Thomas Nord has a brief blurb and photo for the Pokey LaFarge and The South City Three show at Zanzabar on Saturday
The New York Times has a tour-the-city feature about the Derby City, called 36 hours in Louisville, which, in addition to all the usual attraction, plugs Louisville’s music scene. Brief but thank you very much, anyway. Mentioned are Will Oldham, Slint and My Morning Jacket (of course) plus Wax Fang, Cheyenne Mize, Seluah and Joe Manning.
MY subscription to Louisville Magazine is long expired, so I missed this story in the march issue about Ray Rizzo and the Motherlodge Festival at the Rudyard Kipling. It’s all over for this year, though.
Ye neo LEO is the annual fake issue, very amusing, very droll, but nothing of note about music. Over at the Velocity, Peter Berkowitz allows as how he’s not much interested Elton John (ditto that), plus Joe Lord has a full-page spread on Widespread Panic and and Justin Powell previews the Electric Six show (not online yet)
Needless to say, here at the International HQ of Louisville Music News, we get lots of emails from publicists, mostly about bands we never heard of. It struck us that we shouldn’t be hogging all this musical wealth, but instead, we should be sharing it you, our readers. Forthwith, then, the first edition of Publicist’s Roulette, in which we post links to music that publicists are offering, for free.
If you find something good, give us a holler.
We’re kind of late on this one - Ben Sollee has a new CD, Inclusions, coming out on May 10. He has a video of “Embrace” from that CD on his website.
Jeffrey Smith and his crew at Crash Avenue can be nuisances, but then, that’s what publicists do for a living, so …. However, they are in the business of promoting Louisville musicians, including the upwardly bound Cheyenne Marie Mize, who got some radio air time courtesy of NPR. Give the show a listen and thanks to Crash Avenue for the item.
Not only will the sales from the Songs for Japan compilation go to benefit the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, but no royalties will be paid to the artist whose songs appear on the CD: 38 top-selling artists from Dylan to U2 to Gaga, along with their record labels and publishers are waiving 100% of royalties. The compilation is available on iTunes for $9.99.