Boss Alert: New Bruce Tour Dates
A mere 2 days after my wife’s birthday, Bruce hits town with his Seeger Sessions Band. Happy Birthday honey! Check out “Pay Me My Money Down” over at Indie Blog Heaven. ‘We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions’ is released on…
Easter Sunday Soul
As I wait for my wife to have our second little girl (any day now), I throw on some classics from back in the day to help me cope with the anxiety and impatience……. Prince: Soft & Wet [live, March…
The Pointer Sisters – Boss Connection
For those of my generation who spent their adolescence in the 80’s (and 70’s for that matter), you were, at one point or another, exposed to the music of the Pointer Sisters: “I’m So Excited”, “Jump (for my Love)”, “Neutron…
Paris Paris go Away
This may be the most disturbing and yet most transfixing video of all time. Paris Hilton strips down to her skivvies and sings a very-“uhh” horrible-“uhh” version of “Happy Birthday-uhhh” to Viagra poster boy Hugh Hefner on his 80th birthday…..…
Sunday with Stephane Grappelli
Another weekend comes to a close, and Ickmusic focuses tonight on the jazz violin legend, the late Stephane Grappelli. Born in Paris in 1908, he started off his music career as a silent film pianist. Then he met Django Reinhardt,…
Lamizik Sesel (Seychelles Music)
Benn Loxo du Taccu is one of the first music / mp3 blogs I discovered a couple of years ago. Matt is the African music expert of the blogosphere. He was living in Senegal when I first started reading and…
Focus on the Gee-tar
I pulled out this old Eric Johnson CD tonight, threw it on, and began to feel very inadequate, because the Fender Stratocaster standing up in the adjoining room will never ever make sounds like the ones coming from Eric’s Strat…
Marvin’s Temple and Shrine
If you listened to AAA radio in the mid 90’s here in the U.S., you probably heard this tune by Marvin Etzioni. Etzioni released three solo albums under the name ‘Marvin’ after leaving Lone Justice. He was one of the…
Case of the Missing Dead Head
Here’s another story that’s impossible for me to ignore. Someone has gone and lifted Jerry’s porcelain throne! SONOMA, California (AP) — The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia’s toilet. Police say the Grateful Dead leader’s commode was stolen recently…
Boss Alert
Amazon has an exclusive live video of Bruce and his Seeger Sessions Band performing “John Henry” in the studio. Check it out here: Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band: John Henry (video)