The short answer to “What’s up with ear X-tacy?” is that owner John Timmons has two more months at his current location before he has to do something: move, close or renegotiate the current lease, which, he said, is too much for him to pay. The problems he’s facing are the familiar ones: the economy [...]
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The last surviving member of The Clancy Brothers, Liam Clancy, died in Ireland on December 4 at 74. NPR has details. The Louisville Irish Fest has returned to Bellarmine College for this year’s staging on September 25-27. In addition to a strong array of musical talent, the organization is sponsoring the production of the Irish comedy The Shaughraun. Performers this year include: The all-new LEO website, running on Joomla!, looks much better than the old one and is faster as well. This week, they have reviews of the new Lords CD, Fuck All Y’all Motherfuckers; My Darling Asleep’s eponymous release; Broadfield Marchers The Inevitable Continuing; OK Zombie Do The Zombie; the Villiebillies’s newest From the Belly [...] The October cover story for Louisville Music News is the Troubadours of Divine Bliss. Check that out, along with all the latest columns, performance and CD reviews in the print edition. The deadtree copies will be on the street beginning today – later than usual, due to the problems caused by Hurricane Ike. It’s dueling weekly pubs on music time – LEO’s Music issue is out and Velocity has a sampler for the cover. LEO gets the call, though, as they have a cover story on none other than Travis Meeks, a feature certain to cause some disturbances in the ether. Seems Meeks’ has Asperger’s Syndrome. It’s [...] Are you a fan of Celtic Woman? If so, get out your wallet for EMI/Manhattan Records recording artists The High Kings, an all-male Celtic group. The quartet is the real deal, in that they are all Irishmen. Tickets go on sale March 17, at $42 and $57. Your friendly editor has been busy, busy this weekend, putting together the March issue of Louisville Music News, which will feature the Celtic group My Darling Asleep. More posts later… J. L. Puckett has the story of another benefit for the victims of the LAVA House fire, this one on Thursday at Flanagan’s Ale House on Baxter. It’ll be a Celtic night, with My Darling Asleep and Guilderoy Byrne doing the entertainment honors. Tix at $5, showtime is 6 p.m. The idea that selling permission to listen to recorded music is the foundation of the possibility of earning one’s livelihood from music is at most 50 years old, and it is a myth. |
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