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Scott Carney in the August Issue

Scott Carney, leader of Wax Fang, is the cover story subject for the August issue of Louisville Music News. Print copies should all be on the street by Friday evening. Web version will be up tomorrow.

Wanna Bid on Some M.C. Hammer Pants?

Getting your credit card ready – you, too, can own a pair of genuine and autographedM.C. Hammer gold harem pants, if you win the auction,which is happening at A&E Auctions. No bids as of 10:30 a.m. EST today. Better hurry.

Checking the Weeklies For Music

Over at LEO, Mat Herron has a short article on The Pass, which is having an EP release show at the Pour Haus on Saturday, plus Herron has an olio of stuff in his B-Sides column.. I’ll post any links to stories in Velocity once I see a print edition.

Chilton Price, Harry Pickens Tapped For Governor’s Awards in the Arts

Songwriter Chilton Price, who co-wrote (or wrote) an number of hits with PeeWee King and Redd Stewart and jazz pianist and composed Harry Pickens will be honored with Governor’s Awards in the Arts, presented by Governor Steve Beshear at a public ceremony and celebration on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. in the Capitol [...]

AC/DC at Freedom Hall

This is already ‘old’ news but in case you missed it, AC/DC will play Freedom Hall on October 6. Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 1.

Music Bloggers in Louisville

Velocity’s Joe Lord got a piece about music bloggers in Louisville in the Features section of Monday’s C-J. Prominently mentioned were the Backseat Sandbar and www.thedecibeltolls.com, both of which are regular morning stops for The Editor. He didn’t mention 37flood.blogspot.com/, which, while intermittent with posts, is also a dedicated Louisville music blog. Missing, too, were [...]

Friday Print Round-Up

In the ongoing Infotainment duel between the C-J and LEO, the C-J has doubled up via the Velocity, which comes out on Wednesday, followed by the Friday Features, which has lately blown up into a Weekender kind of section. So for Friday, Javacia Harris has a phoner with Jamie Foxx, who’s playing Freedom Hall on [...]

Monsters of Folk To Play the Palace

The Monsters of Folk will play the Palace on October 31, according to Lizi Hagan of Production Simple, the promoter of the show. MOF is My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, and singer/songwriter M. Ward. The details:
Saturday, October 31 @ 7:30pm
The Louisville Palace
All Ages
Reserved Seating
$43 / $33

Monkeemobile Mashup

Found this one on Idolator.com – a mashup of Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper” up with the Monkees’ “I’m A Believer.” Amusing.

The Wailers, Rhett Miller Interviewed

Over at LEO,, Dennis O’Neil has a phoner with Bob Marley’s old group, The Wailers, who are set to play the Brown Forman Amphitheater on the Waterfront on Friday.

Also at LEO, Mat Herron has his weekly post of recommended events.

Brent Owen has a pair of roundups on Forecastle Fest.

Digging through the Metromix site, there’s [...]