News & Links – February 20
With my feed reader at 1000+ unread posts (thanks a lot, busy work week and unexpected out-of-country trip), I might as well just claim defeat and start from scratch, but not before compiling some things that have caught my eye.
Preservation, an Album Benefiting Preservation Hall and its Music Outreach Program
Take a bunch of artists from all different schools of music — country, blues, indie rock, gospel, folk and that strange place in music that can only be occupied by Tom Waits — and set them to covering some classic New Orleans songs, backed by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and what do you have? […]
News & Links – January 27
I’ll admit that I’m not much of a Joanna Newsom fan. I didn’t like either of her previous releases, The Milk-Eyed Mender or Ys. I wanted to like her music, because she oftentimes gets lumped in with musicians whose work I do enjoy, but I just couldn’t get into her whole sound. Regardless of my […]
News & Links – January 20
OK Go talks about embedding videos, the internet remembers Kate McGarrigle, and artists band together to support Haiti.
Kate McGarrigle, 1946-2010
Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle passed away last night after a three year battle with cancer.  While she’s probably best known now for being the mother to Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Kate herself has been performing and releasing albums since the 1960s, largely with her sister Anna. Kate and Anna were appointed Members of the […]
News & Links – January 15
It’s slow at work, there’s nothing going on on the internet… I don’t know what to do with myself today. Of course, dominating the news (and rightly so) are the disaster relief efforts that are ongoing (and which will be going on for a long while) in Haiti. Google has a great list of reputable […]