Oh shit. Punk rock meets 60s surf rock and is then compressed into lo-fi obscurity. That’s what you get with Guantanamo Baywatch. No joke. Their new album, Chest Crawl, pairs more accessible instrumental tracks like “Barbacoa” and “Massage My Taj Mahal” (I nominate for best song title of the year) with those containing vocals. And the vocals you get…? Well, think Elvis had he grown up in the 60s and 70s, drank a bit too much, smoked a bit too much, enjoyed trashy sex and had a predilection toward drowning ...

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The last remaining acts have now been named for this years Hop Farm Festival. UK bands I Am Kloot and Athlete will join names like Primal Scream, Peter Gabriel, Suede and Bob Dylan in Kent on the weekend 29th June – 1st July with other new additions to the bill being Taj Mahal, Jose Gonzalez and Nitin Sawhney. Tickets for the weekend are priced just £162 with day tickets coming in at just £65 and most importantly no booking fees! Head to the official site for more details. Festival Fact: The television programme The Darling Buds of May was filmed at ...

Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon [Kye; 2012] by Paul Haney Rating: Since the dissolution of one of my favorite noise/drone acts of the 2000s, the incomparable Double Leopards, founder Marcia Bassett has continued to release infrequent yet superb recordings under her solo alias Zaimph, with these particular collections stripping away the density that came with the Leopards’ collaborative barrage into something balancing that project’s crunching cacophony with a more explicit, singular minimalism. Samara Lubelski, on the other hand, has left her imprint in many varying musical modes over the course of the last decade, releasing material that stretches everywhere from contemplative instrumentals ...

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One the last tracks the late Levon Helm contributed to will be released this Thursday as a tribute track Amnesty International’s 50th anniversary. Entitled “Toast to Freedom” and timed to coincide with World Press Freedom Day, the song includes nearly 50 guest stars and musicians such as Ewan McGregor, Kris Kristofferson, Warren Haynes, Keb Mo, Simon">Carly Simon, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull and Rosanne Cash.

Turns out Levon Helm had one more inspiring moment to give. The former singer and drummer of the Band helped facilitate a new all-star recording commemorating 50 years of Amnesty International in the time before cancer took his life. Nearly 50 artists contributed to this project, including Kris Kristofferson, Warren Haynes, Rosanne Cash, Donald Fagen, Shawn Mullins, Taj Mahal and [...]

Legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is still going strong at the age of 77. Cohen has just announced a North American tour that will visit theaters and arenas this fall in support of his new LP, Old Ideas. The tour begins in Austin on Halloween and runs through a pair of shows at NYC arenas (MSG & Barclay’s Center) in mid-December. Head to Consequence of Sound for more details. List Time: L Magazine’s 8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear Bob Dylan will be awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom Cover Alert: Best Coast tackles Fleetwood Mac Stereogum reflects on ...

One of the last studio recordings by Levon Helm was also one of the closest to his heart. Helm and longtime producer Larry Campbell recorded the rhythm track for a new Amnesty International 50th anniversary commemorative song "Toast to Freedom" last summer and recruited stars like Ewan McGregor, Kris Kristofferson, Warren Haynes, Keb Mo, Simon">Carly Simon, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, Rosanne Cash and others.

Taj Mahal/Toumani Diabate: Queen Bee [ purchase album ] Taj Mahal first came to my attention on account of George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh. No, he didn't play in the concert - that was Ravi Shankar - but the (however misguided) Indian subcontinent reference quickly led me to Taj, who was coming in to his own at about that time.   When I delved deeper, I came cross Taj as a blues musician in his own right (and purchased most of his albums through the late 60s and early 70s - Satisfied NTickled Too ! Wow !) I also learned that one of Taj's ...

Hennessy have launched Be Found, Be Heard - a new search for unknown talent. It's been one hundred years since the blues first emerged from the Southern states of the USA. Yet there's something timeless, something immortal about the blues which gives it a relevance, an immediacy which doesn't surrender. Swapping the deep South for the South of France, Blues Passions Festival matches a blissful location with an all star line up. Refusing to limit themselves to the blues, organisers have broadened out into soul, hip hop, dance and more. Previous editions have included appearances from B.B ...

U2: 40 [ purchase ] Raised as the child of UCC (United Church of Christ) missionaries in a Moslem country where proselytizing was a crime, I come at religion from a different perspective. (Don’t we all?) I haven’t had much to do with formal religion for nigh on 40 years, but I did get a healthy dose of Protestant ethics and teachings in my childhood. And although I hardly ever even make it to Christmas Eve services any more, I still consider myself to have a religion. However, in the words of Taj Mahal : “ain’t nobody’s business but ...

Last night at Carnegie Hall in New York City, 21 acts from an assortment of musical backgrounds came together to pay tribute to The Rolling Stones at a charity event called Hot Rocks 1964 – 1971 put together by impresario Michael Dorf. Jim Fusilli of the Wall Street Journal goes over the high points (John Darnielle’s Paint It Black, Rickie Lee Jones’ Sympathy For The Devil, Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Midnight Rambler) and low points of the evening (Juliette Lewis’ Satisfaction, Peaches’ Heart of Stone, Rich Robinson’s Play With Fire) for the Speakeasy blog . A number of fantastic videos from ...

Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band April 19-20 - The Allen Room Who/What: Taj Mahal has travelled the globe for decades representing the blues genre. His life has been a 50 year journey to take the blues to every corner of the world while absorbing different cultures into his music along the ...