All About Jazz — The North American premiere of Billy Bragg's version of Ode to Joy, the choral finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will take place Saturday, August 29th at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, 7:00 10:00 p.m. The Asia America Youth Orchestra will perfor... more info

JamBase — NPR Offering Music Samplers That Feature Bands Playing The Newport Folk And Jazz Festivals Sam Beam - Iron & Wine In the interest of providing music lovers with free music, NPR Music is currently offering two free 12-song samplers for download. ... more info

My Old Kentucky — Deer Tick is largely the brainchild of Providence, RI's John McCauley III. He makes music that at times feels like it was written for young lovers necking for the first time at a Sadie Hawkins dance and at others like it belongs right alongside Billy... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — This year will be my first venture out to Newport's annual Folk Festival, which has featured the likes of Bob Dylan, Howlin' Wolf, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash and hundreds more over the course of its 50 year history. This year's gathering marks that 50 y... more info

All About Jazz — By: Dennis Cook So easy to warm to and full of steaming depths once you snuggle in, Vinny Peculiar and The Blue Poppies of Ambrosia's new long-player finds the U.K. pop craftsman in his best form yet, a gently swaying encapsulation of slightly left ... more info

Guardian Music — Swells's lurid imagination would have laughed at the idea of himself as the meat in a Farrah Fawcett/Jacko sandwichTo those wending their way sorrowfully to Steven Wells's last published article in the aftermath of his recent death, the fact that his... more info

The Newsroom — Pete Seeger, John Mellencamp, Tom Morello, Emmylou Harris, Billy Bragg, Richie Havens and Kris Kristopherson talk about Seeger's music backstage at the Seeger 90th Birthday Concert at Madison Square Garden on May 3, 2009. more info

Totally Fuzzy — Mr Tear said...Beatiful ghazals from Pakistan, sung by Ghulam Ali.http://snapcrackleandpops.blogspot.comZoooma!! said...· The Dead -- 4/25/09· Madison Square Garden, NYC· Soundboard @ 320 kbpshttp://musicneverstopped.blogspot.comEkko said...... more info

Guardian Music — The bard of Barking performs his new protest song in our Glastonbury camper van more info

Guardian Music — Kasabian, Florence Welch, White Lies and, er, Andrew Marr cosy up for a chinwag behind the scenes at GlastonburyMaximo ParkWe just opened the festival, playing the Queen's Head. It was very, very exciting; there were 5,000 people there. But the music... more info