The is the Original Highlands Festival, with a powerful lineup that include Tift Merritt and Love Jones, among a slew of others. J. L. Puckett at the C-J has a story about it, plus he plugs Grayson Capps and the Stumpknockers, Blue Sky Kentucky’s latest shot at promotion in Louisville.

Jeremy King wants everyone to know that The Dead City Rejects is breaking up; their last show is at Headliners on Saturday.

So you didn’t get tickets to see Vampire Weekend? Not to worry - the C-J’s J. L. Puckett did and he reviewed the show for you.

Now this is a rave.

Jason Bugg over at LEO has his choices in live shows for the week. He likes Six White Horses at Cahoot’s; Tift Merritt and Love Jones at the Original Highlands Fest and the final show for Dead City Rejects at Headliners.

The cover story band for the September issue of Louisville Msuci News, Black Stone Cherry, also got a CD review in the C-J.

Chris Volz posted a blog entry stating that his current Foundation will claim the name of Flaw, his early, more successful band. The post is here.

David ‘Sailor’ Bryant, former leader of My Own Victim and currently fronting Surviving Thalia, has joined Caldera as lead vocalist. His debut with the band will be on September 20 atThe Brewery Thunderdome with Snaked Eyed Savior, Kavehill, Descention and Lucifer Complex.

Record producer Jerry Finn, 39, died on August 21 following a massive brain hemmorhage in July. He was removed from life support on August 9. Finn was the producer for many albums by current performers, including AFI, Bad Religion, Blink-182, Alkaline Trio, MxPx, Rancid, Green Day, Sum 41, The Offspring and Morrissey.

Hatebreed’s publicist sends words that there are four free tracks from the band’s new project posted on their Myspace page. The tracks are as follows:

“This Is Now”
“Destroy Everything”
“I Will Be Heard”
“Live For This”

“All 4 tracks are now posted on the band’s official MySpace page (www.myspace.com/hatebreed) and also on their official website (www.hatebreed.com). The tracks will be available until 8/25/08, after which the EP will be made available on iTunes for purchase.”

Slint’s songs seem to have more legs than would seem reasonable for a band with as thin a discography as Slint, but, hey, that’s why they’re a famous cult band. Now someone has written a scary children’s book around “Good Night Captain.” You can get a PDF of it here. Comments back would be appreciated.