The national slick publication Maxim has apparently decided that they can just make stuff up about CDs that they haven’t heard. The Kings of A& R site reports that “In the March issue of Maxim, David Peisner reviewed the new Black Crowes record, “Warpaint”, giving it a two and a half stars,” even though the label was not providing advance copies and Peisner had not heard it before writing the review.

The Associated Press reports that the magazine’s editor has issue an apology.

The C-j’s Andrew Adlerreviewed Sunday’s performance by the British Academy of Ancient Music at St. Francis-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church. From his review, we would judge that fans of early classical music were very pleased with the result.

Sailor’s band 16 Bones played a show at Shooter’s recently and shot some video. Take a look and listen:

Louisville metal band Descention has come to an end, according to a post on the 502 Scene Board.

Those gluttons for musical punishment via excess at Backseat Sandbar have a review of the Wax Fang/Ultra Pulverize show at Headliners, with photos. Clearly, UltraPulverize is into dress-up. Wheee.

The Headliners show on Derby Eve looks to be, um, crowded on stage, with a 30-piece punk marching band, Mucca Paza plus Wax Fang and Parlour. How do the numbers add up? Tickets are $12.

I suspect that there are times when J. L. Puckett wishes he were anything but a music writer for the Courier-Journal and I’ll wager that the Jonas Brothers show on Sunday night was one of those times. He did the best he could, given that he is known for his love of real, manly rock ‘n’ roll. If you’re interested, you can read his review here.

Your friendly editor has been busy, busy this weekend, putting together the March issue of Louisville Music News, which will feature the Celtic group My Darling Asleep. More posts later…

Velocity’s Joe Lord generally offers up his list of shows to see for each weekend. This week, he picks Wax Fang, Ultra Pulverize, Venus Trap at Headliners (doubled by Backseat Sandbar and 37 Flood); The Ladybirds, Dangerbird at the Pour Haus for Friday and Shannon Wright, King’s Daughters and Sons, Tara Jane O’Neil at the 930 Listening and Over The Rhine at the Brown for Saturday. As if we could go see them all.

J. L. Puckett was a busy fellow this last week. In addition to the two show plugs he wrote for the Friday edition of the Courier-Journal, he also reviewed Joe Manning’s newest, Clever Bird.