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Well, like most Louisvillians, we are stuck inside, with ice and snow covering everything, bringing down trees, limbs and power lines. I’m posting this over a dial-up line, as the cable is down somewhere upstream, though I do have power and a phone line. (Hurray for land lines!). The February print issue of [...] LEO editor Stephen George has a post on his blog suggesting the the C-J should cease print publication immediately, which, of course, it won’t do until Gannet has wrung the last penny of profit out of it, but way down at the bottom of the post, George says to “Watch This Space” on Wednesday [...] Saturday night at Petrus, Hugo Ferreira of Tantric will be on hand – along with a number of other rock star types, plus scantily clad men and women – for a TV shoot for a program called HugoTV. The backstory on this is a bit convoluted, but the upshot is that producer Greg [...] C-J music writer J. L. Puckett reviews the Kings Of Leon show at the Palace and plugs tonight’s Dailey and Vincent show at the Shepherdsville Country Music Place. In all the excitement in the run-up to the inaugural, I forgot to mention the two pre-teen bands from Louisville were showcasing at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Show in Anaheim on January 17. The Hi-Tops and The Trouble With Boys both made the trip to California, under the guidance of Mark [...] Yesterday’s 332-point decline by the Dow-Jones Index included a number of music-related stocks. Final closings looked like this: Warner Music Group (WMG), skidded 10.39 percent to $2.07, an all-time low. Apple fell 5.02 percent to $78.20, the lowest since December of 2006. Live Nation (LYV) dropped 7.09 percent to $4.85, Ticketmaster (TKTM) [...] The post-inaugural period begins with a new President, but most things keep right on going the way they were. Over at LEO, Mat Herron previews the Lambchop show at the 930 Listening Room, T. E. Lyons talks up Future Rock, appearing at Headliners with Disco Biscuits and, finally, Herron has his usual short takes [...] Reuters reports that Clear Channel will cut 1,500 jobs, mostly in advertising sales, and replace more local shows with syndicated content. Will Coyote be the last to go? Recent articles in the media have suggested that Clear Channel Communications is on track for some restructuring, particularly of the cost-cutting variety. This recent article in the New York Post claims that the cost-cutting will begin on Tuesday, January 20 – inauguration day. Precise numbers were not available, the Post says, but the company [...] Noted Louisville drummer John Roy is eighty and his friends and family are having a celebration of his life at Mom’s Music on Mellwood on Sunday, January 25, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Should be quite a crowd. |
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