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Ryan's Smashing Life — TREATS UP FOR 1 DAY ONLYThe Jesus and Mary Chain - Just like HoneyBow Wow Wow - I want Candy(the Kevin Shields remix)The Maze - Faberge EggThe Yeah Yeah Yeahs - The SweetsLucero - Sweet Little ThingMorphine - CandyThe Grateful Dead - Sugaree (live)O... more info

All About Jazz — Bob Dylan is on a roll. After taking seven years to pen "Time Out Of Mind," another four to make "Love and Theft," and then touring for half a decade while musing on "Modern Times," he is delivering a follow-up album of new material faster than at an... more info

Guardian Music — He was a central figure in the Stax sound of the 60s, but Booker T always wanted to play his own tunes. He tells Richard Williams how he found his musical identityThe first time Booker T Jones set his eyes on a Hammond B3 organ, it was one of three i... more info

Undercover, Australia — Bob Dylan says that his influence by the lad comes from his mystical nature. more info

The Telegraph Blog — I have been struggling to review Bob Dylan's new album, 'Together Through Life', trying to get beneath the surface of songs that, at first listen, can seem almost prosaic to the point of banality. He is not using language in a rich, explosive way her... more info

JamBase — A Stranger Here - Elliott's Interpretation of Depression-Era Blues, "His Masterpiece" - out April 7 Ramblin' Jack Joins Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews & More to Honor Pete Seeger's 90th Headlines Select Shows on Both Coasts Ramblin' Jack Ellio... more info

All About Jazz — Grammy-award winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson released Closer To You: The Pop Side this week via Blue Note / EMI. Closer To You: The Pop Side celebrates the finest pop covers from Wilson’s seven albums recorded with Blue Note during her ... more info

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