The June Edition of LMN is on the streets, with young bluesman Nick “Hambone” Hamstra on the cover. Also, Eddy Metal has his usual stack of show reviews, gossip and rants in his “News From the Pit.”
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With the new, People-friendly Friday edition of the Courier-Journals entertainment section, the daily is getting closer to what it used to be way back in the day, when there were several pages devoted to music. (It was the reduction of same in the late Eighties that inspired the creation of LMN.) We approve. However, [...] On May 28, 1949, WNAS FM 88.1 (New Albany High School) went on the air as the first high school FM station. The student-made promos tout their musical diversity in their playlist. Jay Walter Bennett, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer and singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Wilco, died on May 24, 2009. The cause of death has not been released. He was forty-five and had developed a solo career after parting company with Wilco. As the lists of festivals start to appear, we’ll try to keep track of mentions of Louisville festivals. For starters, Pitchfork.com has the Forecastle Fest on their list, along with a slew of international festivals. Ditto for Lastfm.com. Rolling Stone mentioned it back in March. In case you don’t get the deadtree edition of the C-J, here’s today’s big article on the Abbey Road on the River event, which the Courier-Journal sponsors. Digital Music News.com has a terse commentary on the state of traditional music magazines, reproduced here: “Are traditional music magazines quickly becoming history? Blender quit the pulp game in April, Rolling Stone shrunk its famously large frame in October, and Paste is now holding a tip jar for survival. Meanwhile, traditional newspapers and [...] Jeffersontown-Crusade Blues Festival will be held Saturday, May 30 at Veterans Memorial Park, 10707 Taylorsville Rd., Jeffersontown, KY, Noon to 9:00 pm Seven Bands! All Proceeds to benefit the Crusade for Children Hard core Tim Krekel fans likely already got this news, but for the rest of us, this tidbit from Phil Ragland: J. L. Puckett’s Wednesday column at the C-J is about … wait for it … Abbey Road! What a surprise! |
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