Here is the last set of music links for 2006. If you have any sites you’d like me to highlight, please leave me a post.
Rodrigo & Gabriela : Two Mexicans living in Dublin, Ireland, making metal/Spanish/Flamenco-influenced music. A group getting lots of buzz around the public radio sphere.
www.gigposters.com : Posters from all ages of rock [...]
The unquestionably legendary (thanks, MKZ) James Brown died early Christmas morning in Atlanta of complications from pneumonia at 73. For more information, go to USA Today’s story
here
Rolling down toward Christmas and with a print deadline looming, I nevertheless find time to search the web for interesting sites. Here’s this week’s list:
Radio is Wrecked : An article in the Nation about the problems with commercial radio and what can be done about it.
Big Ears: A cool Java-based application for improving your ability [...]
Your ‘umble editor’s selection of interesting music-related links
Legendary bluegrass musician and instrument maker Homer Ledford, of Winchester, died yesterday afternoon at age 79. Ledford had been ill for most of the last year. More information is at The Lexington Herald-Leader
My favorite music-related links of the past week
The cover story for the December issue Louisville Music News features John Timmons, owner of ear X-tacy Records, Louisville’s largest independent record store. Timmons has managed to keep his store afloat while other record stores, both independent and chains, have gone out of business or shrunk dramatically in size and quantity of merchandise. Read [...]