.. or anywhere outside, in a most beautiful Spring day in Derby City.
The C-J has been all over Modest Mouse for the last two or three days - a couple of Buzz items and now Jeffrey Lee Puckett reviewstheir latest CD, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and and a preview of The Hard Lessons show at Uncle P’s on Thursday, April 5. The Hard Lessons also got a write-up yesterday, too.
—PMM
Apple iTunes has made another step into the new music marketing model with the introduction of “Complete My Album,” whereby a customer who has previously bought on or more singles for 99 cents can buy the complete album, with the cost of those previous purchases deducted from the total cost of the album. Everybody is commenting on it; you can get the straight scoop at iTunes.com
Jeffrey Lee Puckett’s Friday Sound Effects column is all about the Detroit band The Hard Lessons, scheduled to play at the Skybar at Saints on April 5, plus a plug for the last 9 Volt Revolt show and yet another Warm in the Wake preview.
The Public Radio Partnership’s Spring Beg-A-Thon (Spring Membership Drive) is shorter than in previous years. It’s currently in progress and will wrap up on Sunday, April 1.
— PMM
A real fan of guitarist Phil Keaggy left a couple of extended messages on the office answering machine to the effect that Keaggy and his old band Glass Harp are going to be playing a show in Bowling Green. Since Bowling Green is really outside LMN’s coverage area, this show wouldn’t get usefully listed, but it’s well worth mentioning here, as there are bound to be some Keaggy fans in Louisville. For those of you who do not know who Phil Keaggy is, my sympathies. Go find his music and give it a listen.
The show is at the Capital Arts Center, 416 E. Main, Bowling Green on April 20. Greg Martin and his not-the-Kentucky-Headhunters band Rufus Huff and The Secret will open. For ticket info, call 270-782-7010.
Louisville has had a long-standing, serious case of Austin Envy, although why is beyond me. In any case, if you need to get up to speed with background on the South By Southwest event, Velocity’sRonson Slagle has the details.
Also at Velocity, Joseph Lord either has figured out how to get CD reviews with actually listening to the CDs - by hustling up three other people to comment - or he has figured out how to do CD reviews so that none of the reviewers actually can be pinpointed as the author of the review. Sound confusing? It is. Check it out for yourself here
This week’s LEO has a story about the replacement event for the BOTO (Bluegrass On The Ohio) festival that was canceled this year due to lack of sponsors. The new event is Itchin’ To Pick, a two-day jam session at the Galt House. Go forth and hear all the Bill Monroe/Ralph Stanley tunes you can stand. It’s free.
LEO’s editors seem to have stumbled across a post-20th Century journalistic trick - “Editor’s Note: Periodically, LEO will run reviews of Continuum’s 33 1/3 series of books that dissect classic and influential albums.)” Got that? A review of a book that reviews old albums, so that the book reviewer - who has to be a music reviewer as well and is, in this case, musician Jason Noble - comments on whether the record reviewer did a good job reviewing an album that was made sixteen years ago.
I’m sure at this point that if I was ever hip enough to follow all that, nowadays, I’m either not hip enough to care or not hip enough to follow that trail - or maybe some other problem. Actually, I think my head hurts. Try it for yourself here and pass me the aspirin.
In the plain and ordinary world we all live in, previews are the thing. David Salvo previews Zakk Wylde, Warm in the Wake, Bloom Street, Little Charlie and the Nightcats and Sexual Disaster Quartet
Hey, musicians, wanna play in the street without getting paid? The Kentucky Derby Festival is looking for Louisville bands to play along the route of the Meijer Derby miniMarathon and Marathon oh April 28. It’s sort of like busking, only without those demeaning tips or at least I suspect so, since Louisville has an ordinance against playing in the street for money without a license, which, the last time I checked, ran to $15 a day.
Whatever. If you’re interested, call the Derby Festival office at 584-3378, Ext. 851. In the meantime, we’ll run down a few more of the backend details.
If you have had trouble with the louisvillemusicnews.net site, specifically, slow loading or not loading, our apologies. We have been debugging the code and should have things back to normal later today.
Update: From a programmer’s point of view, there is nothing as maddening as a code failure that resolves itself before the actual problem - if there is one - is located and fixed. So the LMN site is back up and running and displaying photos properly.
Yep, here is a National Geographic story called “Hip-Hop Planet.” Makes for very interesting reading.
.. are getting less slow, musically speaking. Tonight in Louisville, you can catch da Mudcats on “The Player’s Spot” at 9 p.m. on WYCS, Channel 24 (138 Insight Cable).
The Pussycat Dolls are coming to Louisville on April 19. Tickets go on sale Friday at the Freedom Hall Box Office and on Ticketmaster.
Jeffrey Lee Puckett has his usual Tuesday (spelled Teusday at the C-J’s website) list of recent album releases.
—- PMM
…and it’s already 86 degrees here in Louisville. I had to scrounge up a Hawaiian shirt just so I wouldn’t overheat walking the dogs. Not to worry, it’ll be back around 55-60 later in the week.
Some weekend catchup - Jeffrey Lee Puckett took in the Wynonna/Louisville Orchestra concert on Saturday. Here’s his review. Marty Rosen got the B. B. King show to cover. His review is here.
The newpaper goes to the printer tonight, so if you had any last minute items, it’s too late, sorry.
The Player’s Spot starts back up on Thursday, with Douglas Lucas (perhaps playing as The North) and Allen Edison. It’s a free show, so wander on by if you’re out and about.
–PMM