The Hangover & Daily Show star (and amateur banjo player) Ed Helms is launching the LA Bluegrass Situation festival (March 18th – 22nd) featuring Steve Martin, Emmylou Harris, The Steep Canyon Rangers, Nickel Creek. See the somewhat silly video introduction of the festival from Helms.
Canadian roots/surf rockers The Sadies will release their new album, Darker [...]
Terry Clark follows Gretchen Wilson and Tim McGraw with frustration with the management and distribution practices of the Nashville big label system. I keep hoping this new found independence will result in these undeniably talented performers taking some risk with their material. Bit after hearing Wilson’s bland ‘Work Hard, Play Harder‘ (produced on her own [...]
Country music pioneer Hank Williams III and flavor-of-the-moment ‘tween pop cash machine Taylor Swift will collaborate on a song they wrote together entitled “I’d buy you a drink if only you were 21.” The song was constructed over the last week by text messages and goat hide parchment and blood ink. All proceeds will be [...]
Bill Chapin at MLive Music is posting his “entry in my Albums of the Aughts series, highlighting 50 great or near-great albums released since Jan. 1, 2000.” Albums of the Aughts No. 5 is the old time music juggernaut from Dec. 5, 2000 the T-Bone Burnett produced “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack featuring Alison [...]
Doyle and Debbie (Bruce Arntson and Jenny Littleton), comedy’s answer to George Jones and Tammy Wynette, will return to national television appearing on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien tonight, Monday, January 5th . The Late Night appearance will kick off a two night run in New York at Joe’s Pub January 7 and 8.
Doyle [...]
Merry Christmas Y’all!
That bastion of righteous irony, Stephen Colbert, will celebrate the impending consumer slump this Sunday with A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All.
Colbert fights the “war on Christmas” with this surreal bit of spiked nog that sxews Christmas specials of the past. Think Andy Williams in a cabin in rural Michigan and the town [...]
Ever wonder what Cheech and Chong would sound like if they were a couple of rednecks from Tennessee with a partiality for Jim Beam and PBR instead of Acapulco Gold? Ever wonder what Daniel Lawrence Whitney (Larry the Cable Guy, not Joe the Plumber) would sound like if he weren’t a retarded douche bag? [...]
Stacy Chandler at Hickory Wind has posted her husband Geoffrey’s matrix of a vision of an alt-country video game detailing artists, settings and powers. A sample:
Artist: Ryan Adams
Setting: A back alley behind Quizno’s at 4 a.m. or The Austin City Limits stage
Powers: Two fighting modes – “Greasy dopemups mode” where he [...]
Two things I hate is reality TV that doesn’t involve bounty-hunting and trucks driving on ice and and musicians from other genres that think Country Music is some slum where they can make some easy money on the gullible fan base. Needless to say, I hate CMT’s “Gone Country.”
Of course I haven’t seen the [...]