Slithering Beast gets the cover for May. The print edition is on the streets, the online version will be up on Friday.
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The multi-bar complex known as City Block, on Jefferson St. between First and Second, has closed, according to an item in the Saturday edition of the Courier-Journal. The article cites owner Ward Plauche’s assertion that the primary reason was competition from 4th Street Live!, which benefits from considerable financial assistance from the city of [...] It’s being reported in various placesm, including the C-J that Bob Dylan, John Mellancamp and Willie Nelson will play at Slugger Field on July 8. The C-J asserts that the concert is posted on the Louisville Bats website, but a search there reveals nothing. Stay tuned. Paducah native Steven Curtis Chapman added to his collection of trophies by picking up awards for “Artist of the Year” and “Songwriter of the Year” at 40th annual Gospel Music Association Dove Awards in Nashville Thursday. Chapman has five Grammy Awards and 56 Dove Awards. The Tennessean has details on the ceremonies. The pace of entertainment, both musical and none, picks up with a vengeance as Derby approaches. The C-J has a large section in the Features portion of the paper in today’s issue, with stories about Bob Dylan, who is releasing a new CD on Tuesday; a promo on the South By South End [...] Krekel has emphatically denied, through a close friend, that he has pancreatic cancer, as reported by J. L. Pucket in today’s Courier-Journal.. He says that the tumor that was removed has not been identified as any particular cancer, if cancer at all. According to the Courier-Journal’s J. L. Puckett in today’s paper, Tim Krekel has [...] Louisville-based Lucky Pineapple has inked a deal with Gill Holland’s sonoBLAST! Records for a national release of their latest CD, The Bubble Has Burst in Sky City. Holland, a film producer, founded sonoBLAST! in 2002. The label has an eight-artist roster. Lucky Pineapple recorded five of the songs on Bubble at Steve Albini’s [...] For all you boomers of a certain age (and anybody else into classic rock), The Moody Blues will appear in concert at the Louisville Palace on August 28. Tickets range in price from $39.50 – $89.50 and go on sale on May 15. Over at ye olde LEO this week, Mat Herron has a review of Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution In Ethics, Politics, Spirit And Sound (Revelation Records Publishing), which features sections on Endpoint and Guilt. Herron has extensively quoted from those sections in the article. He also has a long Q&A with Duncan Barlow
Saturday was National Record Store Day; there are lots of comments out and about the country. Herewith, a sampling: From Pam Platt at the C-J: “I read recently that Virgin Megastores in the U.S. will close by mid-June, a victim of paying too much for already pricey real estate and the erosion of the [...] |
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