This may be less a story about a solid band than about a great city close to my heart.  And it’s not because the band is less deserving.  It’s because the story of the city is tightly interwoven with the raison d’etre of the band. The city is Detroit.  The band is KNIFE. You’d have to be living under a rock to be oblivious about the incredibly hard times D’town’s endured over the last several years, even before the bottom fell out of the auto industry in 2008.  Boarded up factories.  Boarded up schools ...

Was just watching some TV when this new Honda CR-V "Marathon" leaplist commercial came on. Naturally my first reaction was to start laughing as I watched this poor girl awkwardly walk back to her car bow-legged like she had just run backwards through a corn field naked. I could only imagine the many scenarios that would make her walk in such a manner until the end of the commercial showed that she had actually just finished running a marathon, which makes a lot more sense and is a little more inspiring than where my mind had began to wander. One ...

"And I think I'll call it morning from now on... why should I survive on sadness and tell myself I got to be alone..." Presenting a six pack for early risers. Wakey wakey, people. Gil Scott-Heron - I Think I Call It Morning Rob Galbraith - Jezebel Of The Morning Doug Sahm - Catch Me In The Morning Lighty Singers Of Estill, SC - In The Morning When The Trumpet Sound Youngbloods">The Youngbloods - Four In The Morning Blind Blake - Early Morning Blues

Trabajamos con la mejor música de la galaxia . En Galaxy fm ® siempre tenemos los sonidos más nuevos del mundo, directamente llevados a ustedes para animar el alma... Este 2011 —casi por terminar, nos ha dado increíbles muestras de arte expresadas en música... editores, programadores, músicos, investigadores, ejecutivos, técnicos y especialistas que integramos el equipo de Galaxy fm ® hemos recopilado las mejores 100 canciones del 2011 ... Vamos a transmitir en estos días de fiesta gloriosa, desde hoy viernes 23 y sábado 24 de diciembre , repetición viernes 30 y sábado 31 de diciembre , la lista más esperada por los fieles radioescuchas de ...

photos by Eric M. Townsend "Went to The Hold Steady & Titus Andronicus at the BK Bazaar. Effing brill." - Kevin Plunkett Craig & Patrick @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar The Hold Steady, Titus Andronicus, Wakey! Wakey!, and W/O played the...

Recommended Show: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2011 X-RAY EYEBALLS, K-HOLES, STALKERS, and more @ GLASSLANDS 289 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 $10, 8:30PM It's another night with another Jonathan Toubin benefit. This one lacks the big names of last night's, but the venue of Glasslands with the likes of bands such as X-Ray Eyeballs and Stalkers also feels very appropriate. Autodrone @ The Delancey Stylofone @ Brooklyn Bowl The National @ Beacon Theater Joseph Arthur @ Bowery Electric Kim Ann Foxman & Colin Rogister @ Cameo Gallery The Dirtbombs & White Mystery @ Gramercy Theatre Walter Schreifels & A Balance Between @ Maxwell's Escort & Midnight Magic @ Music Hall ...

Recommended Show: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2011 WHY? @ FLORENCE GOULD HALL 55 E 59th St New York, NY 10022 $20, 7PM & 10PM Florence Gould Hall (which is apparently part of the French Institute) seems like a pretty fancy place for a show. We're not quite sure how Why? fits into the grand vision of the venue, but that doesn't really matter much to us! The National & Wye Oak @ Beacon Theater Serenades, XNY, & Inky Jack @ Knitting Factory Psychic TV, Bryin Dall, & Cult of Youth @ Europa Radical Dads, Hilly Eye, EULA, & Libel @ Cake Shop My Best Fiend, ZAZA, & James Ambrose @ Shea ...

The Family Records Holiday Show (12/15/11) The good folks at The Family Records are putting on a little big holiday shin dig this Thursday (Dec 15) at the Bowery Ballroom featuring some of bumpershine favorites including Pearl and The Beard, Wakey!Wakey!, Casey Shea and new signee Rosi Golan. In addition to some great music, we [...]

Family Records Holiday Extravaganza is happening at the Bowery Ballroom in a week! Catch Wakey!Wakey!, Rosi Golan, Casey Shea, and Pearl and the Beard on December 15, 2011. Tickets

The first surprise one encounters when listening to Almost Everything I Wish I’d Said The Last Time I Saw You, [...]

I have featured Billy Cotton several times and happy to do so again - being a strong memory of my childhood and youth when his radio and TV shows seemed to be all pervading! Very nostalgic memories of Sunday lunchtimes with the family sat down at the dining table and this playing in the background usually followed by Round The Horne or Ken Dodd. "William Edward Cotton (May 6, 1899 – March 25, 1969), better known as Billy Cotton, was a British band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestra survived the dance band era. Today, he is mainly remembered ...

One victim of the August riots was the independent music scene. The burning down of the PIAS distribution centre in Enfield destroyed huge amounts of physical stock from over 70 record labels. Label Love is the umbrella movement to support those labels and towards the end of the month The Ruby Lounge hosts the Manchester Label Love fundraiser night with The Narrows, Trojan Horse, Nine Tail and Tribal Fighters. A very different showcase for the independent and DIY music scene is the Carefully Planned Festival – two days of music over four venues in the Northern Quarter for the insanely cheap ...

Last June Rosi Golan toured the US with Matt Duke. Now she announces to tour the US with Jason Reeves in August. Afterwards she will head overseas alongside Joseph Arthur and Wakey!Wakey!. If that is not enough her new album "Lead Balloon" will be released on September 27th via Family Records.

Relentless Garage | Highbury, North London | 27 July 2011 All three of the London Ruckus ladies are partial to a little To Kill a King. Even so much that we will brave a boiling hot Relentless Garage in Highbury to see the band. They are recently signed to Virgin Records and have some Autumn tour dates with Wakey Wakey! If you've not heard of the band, embrace the glorious Americana-Folk with some pictures and a cheeky little SoundCloud embed. To Kill a King drew a big crowd to the sweaty pit that is The Garage, there was definitely a load ...

I grew up… underneath a grand piano that my mom taught lessons on. It was a very musical household, so by the time I was five she was teaching me. Now you can find me in… Brooklyn. Or on tour. We seem to tour a lot right now. And I love it. It all started [...]