Jun 21, 2009 | Luke Gilman 0
I’m not big on the late night talk scene, but I might have to start keeping an ear to the ground if stuff like this is going to turn up there on a regular basis. Jimmy Fallon’s new gig had Paul Simon sing Late in the Evening, backed by his house band the Roots and the horn section from the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra.
Jun 1, 2009 | Luke Gilman 0
I got to hang around the apartment for the first time in a while with nothing pressing to do but run through some music blogs and catch up on what’s happening. I was also sort of half-watching the 2006 documentary Before the Music Dies on Hulu (embedded below):
It began to dawn on me how much had changed even since Before the Music Dies came out. After waxing nostalgic and the standard artist/label horror stories (Doyle Bramhall was the posterchild) it moves to Napster and MySpace with some indie-power-to-the-people-be-true-to-yourself optimism. In a two-hour span, I went through a couple of hundred posts from mp3 blogs, MySpace pages and mp3 aggregators like hypemachine, pandora and last.fm, downloaded a few DRM free albums from Amazon and some tracks on iTunes (giftcard)… and all this in boxers.
There’s a certain amount that’s wrong with that - some concessions to convenience that I don’t have to have the album in my hand, that it takes more and more to get me out to a live show these days, that I’ll put up with MP3 sound quality - on the other hand I just checked out about 50 new artists I’d never heard of before today. Read the rest of this entry »
May 13, 2009 | Luke Gilman 0
The Greencards in KUT Studio 1a from Texas Music Matters at KUT on Vimeo.
via the Texas Music Matters blog
In 2007, the band was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for their song, “Mucky the Duck.” The tune was inspired by one of the band’s favorite musical venues in Texas, The Mucky Duck.
By which they mean McGonigel’s Mucky Duck, here in Houston. Check it out some time.
May 10, 2009 | Luke Gilman 0
How did I miss these guys? The Wood Brothers are Oliver and Chris Wood. Chris you might recognize from Medeski Martin and Wood. The collaboration is more roots-oriented, but retains the consummate musicianship.
May 5, 2009 | Luke Gilman 0
Apr 27, 2009 | Luke Gilman 0
I didn’t want to be the only one who hadn’t posted this clip.
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