• Blues

    Required for Music Lovers: Ten Days Out

    Pinetop Perkins. Willie “Big Eyes” Smith. Bryan Lee. “Wild Child” Butler. “Honeyboy” Edwards. Etta Baker. These are names that could go forgotten if not for projects like Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s new CD/DVD release, Ten Days Out. I can’t tell you…

  • Prince

    Prince Week Continues: Acoustic Awesomeness

    This MTV special eluded me a few years ago during the Musicology tour. Cream I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man Sweet Thing Sometimes it Snows in April Update: like most Prince stuff on YouTube, this one has…

  • Prince

    Howard Debuts Prince

    Okay, well, it very well may be morphing into Prince week here on Ickmusic. I was pleasantly surprised when I turned on Howard Stern this morning to hear them listening to some new Prince tracks. They were listening to (and…

  • Prince

    One Week til Super Bowl Prince

    One week to go until Prince does it Super Bowl style. Rumors so far have the Florida A&M University ‘Marching 100’ marching band involved somehow. If you caught the Grammys last year, it’s the same marching band that played with…

  • Giveaway,  Jam,  Miscellaneous

    Dead at the Cow Palace Contest

    If you didn’t win this in Hidden Track’s recent contest (they took the best post title, “A Dead Giveaway”), here’s a chance to pick up Rhino’s recent release of the Grateful Dead’s New Year’s Eve 1976 show at the Cow…

  • Roots Rock

    Steve Earle at Tradewinds, Part Deux

    “They’ll let anybody in here!” – Steve Earle, as The Boss joins him on stage Well who do you think was lurking in the crowd that fateful New Jersey night? The Boss joined Steve and the Dukes for the last…

  • Roots Rock

    Steve Earle at Tradewinds, Part 1

    I haven’t posted about my favorite left-wing Tennessee via Mexico via East Texas outlaw in a while. Steve Earle hasn’t been quiet lately though. He’s a modern-day renaissance man: musician, poet, protester, playwright, you name it. He jokes that he…

  • Punk,  Rock

    Ist

      This is IST from the UK. They mass-mailed the music blogging community with their latest single, and I’m biting. The reasoning is this: if someone sends me a song called “I am Jesus (and You’re Not)”, well, I’m going…

  • R&B,  Rock

    Harlem Shufflin

    I’ve always loved the Stones version of “Harlem Shuffle” (and the video above, particularly the fine female dancing with Mick – rarrrr – feel like I’m 16 again). Silly thing is, I don’t think I had heard another version of…

  • Old School

    Old School Friday

    I’m not going to knock Diddy for this one. If I was standing next to Jessica Biel, I’d probably gaze at her golden globes too. Well done Diddy! What a great segue into another Old School Friday! Schooly D: Am…