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Rustic Overtones to release new album, Let's Start a Cult.
Tour dates to follow.
An interview with Dave Gutter.
The patience of Rustic Overtones fans will be rewarded after a long wait. A lot of time has passed since the release of the 2009 album New Way Out. The eight song Let's Start a Cult is in the can and the band hopes to release the album in mid June. We had a chance to catch up with lead singer and principal songwriter Dave Gutter, to get his thoughts on the album and on life in general.
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Freekb
ass releases guitar lessons through Truefire.com
Cincinnati's funk master Freekbass joins forces with Truefire.com to release 50 Funk Licks You Must Know. An easy way to learn how to play the bass, either through direct download to your computer or via DVD that can be delivered to your home. Freekbass makes it easy and fun to learn the funk.
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Lettuce to release new album on Velour, new tour dates
Velour Music is to release a new album titled Fly by the band Lettuce. The funk masters who have toured coast to coast over the last several years and contain members of the bands Soulive, Rustic Overtones and more. A list of upcoming tour dates is also released, so check the article for a download of the latest single and some video of their Brooklyn Bowl appearance in 2010.
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Alan Lomax, America's first taper, goes digitial.
The most extensive collection ever of international folk music goes online.
Long before the Dead introduced their taper section, decades earlier in fact, Alan Lomax was learning the art of audio field recording from his father John A. Lomax. He spent most of the next six decades from the 1930s through the 90s recording, interviewing, curating, and collecting the most diverse and extensive collection of folk music the world has ever seen. That collection has gone digital and online- thousands of recordings representing music from every corner of the globe from Appalachian cabins to islands in the Georgia sea.
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Billy Martin and Wil Blades to release new album, Shimmy. 
Tour dates to follow in May in the West.
Billy Martin and Wil Blades wanna make you Shimmy. The organ/drums duo waste no time getting right down to it on their debut album due May 22 from The Royal Potato Family in collaboraton with Martin's own Amulet Records. Martin and Blades go old school in the tradition of essential organ-groove sides by the likes of Charles Earland, Brother Jack McDuff and Groove Holmes.
This article includes streaming mp3 links, video from a performance in SF with Eric Krasno guesting, and upcoming tour dates.
JoeG interviews Jason Dunn from Boston band, The Luxury.
JoeG is back with another submission from Beantown. As a local scenester, JoeG has his fingers everywhere lately, including founding the recent New England Music Awards. He catches up with one of his favorite bands, the Luxury, and their main man Jason Dunn to discuss the band's hiatus and their future.
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Inn on Main announces Top of the Hill Music series, Wolfeboro, NH
Two series to feature both folk and rock concerts announced for Spring and Summer at the Inn on Main in Wolfeboro, NH.
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Boston's rising stars Gentlemen Hall
Announce tour dates to SXSW and beyond.
by JoeG
Boston, the Hub of the Universe according to locals. The city has been a launching pad for decades for some of the greatest bands in rock and roll from the band that took its name from the city itself to boy bands to perhaps the greatest American rock band ever, Aerosmith. That tradition of rock and roll continues to this day, with the Hub's latest rising stars, Gentlemen Hall.
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New England Music Awards
Winners Chosen
In the week leading up to SXSW in Austin, TX, the lone star state was not the only place for young bands and industry folks to gather and network. At the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston MA the first ever New England Music Awards premiered with regional rock stars and behind the scenes players all gathered together to fete the scene and to celebrate music. Presenters included regional DJs and scenesters, and the winners were announced.
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Dave Keller wins!
Takes home trophy for best self produced CD in Memphis, TN
Taught by Paul Rishell, employed by Ronnie Earl, mentored by Mighty Sam McClain, protégé of Johnny Rawls, Keller's ‘Where I’m Coming From’ mined from remarkable soul-blues lineage, establishes him as leading voice in future of soul music.
"Doctor Woo's Jazzy Funky Orchestra"
Hall of Famer Bernie Worell premiers his orchestra in NYC.
It would be hard to find an American keyboard player and composer as important to modern music as Bernie Worrell. First as a child prodigy, then as a band leader and player with Parliament / Funkadelic, and then as a contributor to the post punk rock movement and the Talking Heads, and more recently as a revered guest for bands as diverse as Headtronics, Spiritual Rez, Volts Per Octave and Steve Kimock and friends.
Guest contributor Brian Pace brings his Pace Report to Live Music News and Review to tell us of all that is funky and nasty with Doctor Woo.
YES releases new album, our man Ron Moses reviews it, and the band announces tour dates in USA and Europe:
Seminal art rock band YES have been at it for nearly 5 decades, with a whole cavalcade of band members who have come and gone. When they were touring in the early 1990s, there was a band on tour called Yes, and a band that I saw in Boston called Anderson Buford Wakeman and Howe, four original members that was not called Yes.
The New Deal Interview:
Dan Kurtz answers our questions about their final dates.
In a surprise announcement to their fans and the scene, The New Deal announced their final dat
es as a band to be spread from now through Fall of 2011. After that the band will be no more. This came as a bit of a shock for a band that had a solid following and were known among a crop of bands to be the original pioneers of the jamtronica scene. Along with their compatriots in the Disco Biscuits, Sound Tribe Sector Nine and many other bands that have followed them, the New Deal blazed a trail from the jams of the 1990s into the beat driven sounds of the new millennium and electronic music.
The New Deal announce the end of the band.
Final shows planned for Fall 2011.
The New Deal has decided that 2011 will mark the end of a spectacular 12- year career.
Back in the early 2000s, I was backstage at the Somerville Theater, when the band ulu is playing a bill with the New Deal. It was around the time that the New Deal was just starting to take off from a small club band to being a festival force, and ulu was blazing the jazz funk trails big time.
Camp Zoe Follow up:
Will land forfeiture endanger US festivals?
The seizure of the 352-acre Camp Zoe property in Southeast Missouri has so far garnered substantial attention both in America and internationally. That's because this is no ordinary seizure; without (so far) being charged with a crime, the property owner, musician Jimmy Tebeau, is having his land taken from him in a process that strips him of his rights under both the US and Missouri constitutions.
