and make it a good one
DURHAM For the third year in a row, the world-famous 34th Annual Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival returns to the 200-acre Walsh Farms in Oak Hill, and guitar pickers everywhere are rejoicing.
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Jammin under the stars
Serious music fans got two for the price of one at Massey Hall on Tuesday night as acclaimed singer-songwriter John Hiatt opened for The Bands beloved drummer-singer Levon Helm.
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Helm, Hiatt - two for the price of one
When the Modern Skirts are on stage, the masses tend to gather unfortunately, the masses may have been misinformed. While the Skirts were busy banging drums and further distancing themselves from their prime, the 40 Watt was playing host to a performance of complete and utter musical mayhem a super-band known only as Powers. Comprised
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Experimental band plays rare show chaos ensues
Success and fame, even at the indie level, comes with a price. People will find the most ridiculous illogical ways to criticize you.
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Bear In Heaven At Music Hall of Williamsburg
When people say something is over the top, what exactly is the top they’re referring to? The top of good taste, of acceptable behaviour, of societal norms?
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'No More Heroes 2' goes way over the top (Toronto Sun)
You know you’re doing something right when fans start chanting your name before you’ve even struck a note.
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Don Giovanni Showcase at Bowery Ballroom (New York Press)
For almost 30 years, Athens’ small size has not accurately reflected its immense and nationally influential music scene — and the members of Brooklyn indie-rock foursome Boy Genius, who has previously played in Athens at 2008’s PopFest, recognize this fact as much as anybody else. “Athens is my Mecca,” Marisa Cerio, Boy Genius’ lead guitarist, said.
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Boy Genius calls Athens its ‘Mecca’ (The Red and Black)
It’s a tradition as unavoidable as fruitcake: Around this time every year we produce a video gamers’ gift guide, in the hopes of directing holiday gift buyers away from the hokey plastic Wii tennis racket attachments and toward game-related gifts that the recipients might actually, y’know, enjoy.
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Budgeting game-related gifts (Toronto Sun)
Most teens gripe when their dad gives them a to-do list. Of course, most teens don’t have Johnny Cash for a father.
With roughly three dozen studio albums under his belt, it took more than four decades for Van Morrison to return to one of his and rock music’s landmarks.
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Van Morrison's show a rare sweet thing (Toronto Sun)