GLASGOWLIVE: ADAM FICEK @ PIVO PIVO, GLASGOWAdam Ficek wows Glasgow with his acoustic rhythms and witticisms.
LONDONLIVE: READ AND SHOUT 2011: 'WE ARE TIRED OF GETTING DICKED AROUND!'The Read and Shout benefit concert was held this past weekend in London: A night of indie pop in support of libraries being hurt by government cuts - featuring Jens Lekman, A Nice Day for Sailing, The Pocketbooks, A Little Orchestra, Darren Hayman, and Leaf Library.
EDINBURGHLIVE: YANN TIERSEN @ PICTURE HOUSEFrance's first and foremost musical whiz kid visits the UK, leaving behind Amelie, Nino & co.
GLASGOWLIVE: LIVE: DELAYS @ KING TUT'S WAH WAHThe band shined brightest with songs from their latest offering, Star Tiger, Star Ariel.
GLASGOWLIVE: SPARROW AND THE WORKSHOP @ KING TUT'S WAH WAH HUTFolk and grunge combine to woo Scotland with musical magic tricks.
SUFFOLKLIVE: ANGRY VS THE BEAR @ FIRE AND ICEA delightful troll-haired quartet whose female-fronted electro-pop schtick is cuter than a basketful of Hello Kitties.
OXFORDLIVE: THE WAILERS @ THE O2 ACADEMYNew lead singer in tow, the 21st century incarnation of Bob Marley's old group provide an unique and lively spin on their classic material.
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Shuffle Better: Sharing a track a week in various categories that I hope you might enjoy, and that will improve (I hope) your ipod shuffling.
Cats sets a record; funeral for John Bonham; Saturday Night Live debuts; Bing Crosby dies.
The shortest single to go to No. 1 enters the charts; Janis Joplin dies at 27; Van Halen goes Extreme; Jolson makes film history.
David Lee Roth unsuccessfully channels Toshiro Mifune; MJ sleeps in an oxygen chamber; a surprising UK music fact; The Bangles bang no more; Bryan Adams sucks, but apparently not in the UK.
New York Dolls begin to dissolve; the debut of MTV Video Awards; David Bowie wins; and three in the same week from Dire Straits.
Although Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars album was released when I was only about a year old, I would discover it later, at about 15. In my small basement bedroom in our duplex home deep, deep in the painfully straight, white, and conservative suburbs of Calgary
In the world of jazz, Oscar Peterson is such a towering figure that he isn’t considered a Canadian pianist but rather one of the greatest pianists in history from any place.
