The January 5 edition of the New Yorker magazine arrived in the mail today, containing a lengthy story about Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy, based on an interview done around the time of the Funtown show some months back. Written by Kelefa Sanneh, it is, as usual with the New Yorker, intriguingly written. [...]
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Louisville’s Sever This Illusion has signed up with Fond du Lac, Wisconsin label Turkey Vulture Records. There will be a Sever This Illusion Signing Party at the Phoenix Hill Tavern on January 16, with Slow Intentional Damage, Witness the Reckoning, Nailgun Strategy, Fall of Dusk, Resin8and Hicks Road playing. The recently reconstituted Flaw and associated tour seem to have imploded, if posts by the drummer are to be believed. Apparently, all upcoming shows have been canceled and the various members of the band have gone their separate ways. There are many comments, mostly nasty and negative, on the 502Scene Board. Delaney Bramlett, one half of rock/soul act Delaney & Bonnie, died in Los Angeles on December 27 at the age of 69, due to complications from gallbladder surgery. The Los Angeles Times has more. Courier-Journal music writer J. L. Puckett has a nice interview with Jim James, with an overview of MMJ’s 2008 in today’s paper. Photographer Phil Songa has posted an array of photos of Brigid Kaelin and Peter Searcy playing the North Sea Stage at the Musicport 2008 World Music Festival. Travis Meeks of Days of the New is playing a New Year’s Eve show at the Dame in Lexington, according to several sources. Also on the bill are Rosie Rosie, The Dead Hours and Stitch Rivet. Aside from such misadventures as Jim James‘ recent onstage tumble, Scientific American reports that Andrew McIntosh, an associate professor of biomechanics at the School of Risk and Safety Sciences as the University of New South Wales, calculated that “Head-banging to a song with a tempo of 146 beats per minute can make you dazed [...] Production Simple has announced that Joan Baez will perform at the Lyons Brown Theatre on March 10, with a guest to be announced later. Tickets are $28, $35 and $50 and are on sale now. Late word that Ray Rizzo is hosting a Holiday Hootenanny at the Rudyard Kipling on December 26, featuring Les Debutantes, Sandpaper Dolls, Brigid Kaelin, Todd Hildreth, Ray Rizzo, The Hedges (Simon Furnish and Lethia Nall), Scott Anthony, Malcolm McLaughlin, Matt Scobee and Andy Hurt, among what will likely be others. Hours are 9 p.m. [...] |
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