PopSugar — Jessica Alba clearly got all the memos about Fall trends in her purple and gray for an appointment at Cedars Sinai in LA yesterday afternoon. After an enthusiastic trip to the DNC in Denver last week which inspired her to blog about her work with de... more info

The Music Slut — Catch the band this fall at:11.1 Buffalo, NY - Asbury Hall11.2 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom11.3 Omaha, NE - Slowdown11.5 Tulsa, OH - Marquee11.6 Little Rock, AR - Revolution Music Room11.7 Columbia, MO - Blue Note11.8 St. Louis, MO - Gargoyle11... more info

The World Forgot — Once in awhile along comes an album that I unceremoniously foist upon anyone within earshot of my current home.  Once there was an album called The Colour and the Shape, then there was The Blue Album, followed by Is This It, followed by Greetings ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Levin said... Domenico Scarlatti - Sonatas Vol.2. (1991) Dana Gillespie - Blue One (2001) Alvin Lee & Co. - In Flight CD 2. (1974) Joan Armatrading - Back To The Night (1975) Dinah Washington & Brook... [Visit the blog for the full post] more info

Soul Sides — (Editor's Note: This comes from Matt Rogers, one of the contributing editors at Wax Poetics and someone who I thought could do an excellent retrospective on the late Jimmy McGriff (who we lost earlier this year). With his death, alongside that of Jac... more info

McGuinn's Folk Den — This is another song that I learned at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. The song originated in Irish Creek, on the Blue Ridge Parkway near South River Virginia in the early 1800s. Joe Clark had a daughter who jilted her [...] more info