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Monday, April 16, 2012

Blues Music News--4.16.12

 
Band of Skulls use garage and blues rock to great effect at Coachella festival
San Jose Mercury News
INDIO - Band of Skulls started off its bluesy and garage rock styled performance Sunday at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with "Stone Sour" from their latest album with the same name and continued with a stellar set.
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You've Heard of 'The Birth of the Blues'
Voice of America
Country music? Nashville, Tennessee. Blues? Memphis, also in Tennessee. The soul sound of Motown? The Motor City, of course - Detroit, Michigan. Folk? San Francisco or New York City's Greenwich Village. Now here's a tougher one: How about ragtime?
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Reviews of new pop, country/ blues, jazz and classical releases
NOLA.com
Sidi Toure, from Mali, plays varieties of traditional African blues akin to his late countryman, Ali Farka Toure; they share a musical lineage but not a familial one. His first album for American indie label Thrill Jockey, last year's Sahel Folk, ...
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Blues guitarist Matt Schofield to play Atlanta, so leave your iPad at home
Examiner.com
One of the best blues guitarists in the world is coming to Atlanta this week, so music, guitar and blues/jazz fans should make plans now for Smith's Olde Bar on Thursday, April 19. One request he has for fans, is to leave your iPad at home.
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Dan Aykroyd developing 'Blues Brothers' animated series
Digital Spy
The actor has teamed with Judy Belushi - widow of his former co-star John Belushi - to form Blues Brothers Approved Ventures LLC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A broadway musical, a branded radio network, books and more are planned, ...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers play special show for Obama volunteers-- VIDEO
Entertainment Weekly
... gave it away… for Obama campaign volunteers at Cleveland's House of Blues. As Cleveland's Plain Dealer writes, the band performed a special 45-minute concert for 1200 liberal-minded music lovers. Tickets were free, provided a would-be concert-goer ...
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Coachella 2012: The headcase R&B of The Weeknd
Los Angeles Times
Tesfaye started it by singing the blues. "I left my girl back home." Then he cut to the tragedy: "I don't love her no more." What followed was about a four-minute look into the mind of a hopelessly reckless romantic. There were lies, affairs, drugs, ...
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Critic's Notebook: Coachella 2012 is a snapshot of pop music in wonderful disarray
Chicago Tribune
... a day of nonstop music, including Sacramento band Death Grips' electrifying, hard-core punk numbers, LA folk pop group honeyhoney's banjo-led ode to the Los Angeles River, and Texas blues rock guitar player Gary Clark Jr.'s astounding blues riffs.
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Dan Mangan - Post-War Blues (Official Music Video) - YouTube
The official video for 'Post-War Blues' from Dan Mangan's 2011 full-length 'Oh ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbSr3wq1DYo

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