Altsounds — Hear the new Outcry Collective track 'Savior Stranger', a new demo taken from the bands forthcoming debut album that will be recorded and released in early 2009 below. The band plays the Hot Damn Halloween special in Camden, London before they he... more info

Altsounds — Hear the new Outcry Collective track 'Savior Stranger', a new demo taken from the bands forthcoming debut album that will be recorded and released in early 2009 below. The band plays the Hot Damn Halloween special in Camden, London before they he... more info

JamBase — By: Dennis Cook Twistin' one and smokin' it down, skinny dippin' in a lake and generally driving their fingers into fine, earthy stuff, Johnny Neel and the Criminal Element tap into The Mothers of Invention, Dumpstaphunk and some of Neel's earlier... more info

The Daily Mail — As Blue Peter celebrates its 50th birthday this month, one lone figure is destined to miss out on the limelight. more info

All About Jazz — The British composer, arranger and leader Graham Collier has a new web site that should win awards for design, thoroughness and easy navigation. The home page contains a link to a thirteen-minute montage of music from nine of Collier's eighteen album... more info

New York Post — THE distance between Nashville and the Blue Note just got a lot shorter, thanks to a dobro player named Jerry Douglas. At the opening of his eight-show residency at the famed Village club on Thursday, Douglas illustrated why his nickname is "Flux..... more info

All About Jazz — Kind of Blue Turns 50 The Jimmy Cobb Band Honoring Jimmy Cobb Saturday, November 1, 2008 | 7:30pm Perelman Theater Price: $32 and $38 The Kimmel Center’s Jazz Up Close Series during the 2008-09 season celebrates the 50th anniversary of Miles D... more info

All About Jazz — Tom Jobim said that Milton Nascimento was the only singer capable of reaching the original pitches of his compositions. Nothing more appropriate, therefore, than Milton Nascimento joining the Jobim Trio to celebrate bossa nova's 50th anniversary with... more info

PopSugar UK — BBC1 has Strictly Come Dancing and Merlin BBC2 has TMi, Greek and Blue Peter at 50 ITV1 has The X Factor and All Star Family Fortunes with Matt Willis and Emma Griffiths ITV2 has The Xtra Factor and Xtra Factor Results Sky Premiere has Hairspray, Sk... more info

Stereogum — Larkin Grimm was raised in Memphis in The Holy Order Of MANS until the cult disbanded and her parents relocated with her to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia. We're told she's itinerant these days, spending the warmer months living outdoors in the... more info