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So if you were going to take directions, would you take them from Bob Dylan?: So if you were going to take directions, would you take them from Bob Dylan? Well its an important question, especially considering that he recenly announced that he had been approached to be the voice for some GPS navigation devices, yes I am serious. Read More...; Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:55 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
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Bob Dylan - Together Through Life: A new Bob Dylan album is not something to be sniffed at, especially if you consider the rich vein of form he’s been in since 1997’s Time out of mind . 2006’s Modern Times was as near to a masterpiece as Dylan has got of late, which left fans eagerly anticipating Read More...; Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:31 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
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Blitzen Trapper - Furr: Portland, Oregon's Blitzen Trapper are a difficult band to pin down. Take the first three songs on their fourth album Furr . The opening song Sleepytime in the Western World sounds like some hybrid of Elton John and Fleetwood Mac, while Gold for Bread Read More...; Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:06 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Filed under: CD, Reviews, Bob Dylan, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fleetwood Mac, Apples in stereo, Blitzen Trapper
Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands -- Cody's Dream: Remember that grunge-affiliated band Screaming Trees, fronted by the enigmatic Mark Lanegan? The drummer in the band was Mark Pickerel and it seems the guy has kept himself busy, recording with Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic in a short-lived band dubbed Read More...; Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:39 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Filed under: CD, Reviews, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees, Mark Pickerel, Chris Isaak
Charity starts at home: The Charity compilation is a double-edged sword. Because it is for a good cause bands often hand over exclusive tracks to the compilers, which is a big draw-card that will have collectors queuing for their copy. But quite often the tracks that sparked Read More...; Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:11 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Filed under: CD, Reviews, Bob Dylan, TV on the Radio, Arcade Fire, The National, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bob Dylan Interview - Together through life: So Bob Dylan has a new album out on 28 April called Together through life . There is an interview with him about the record on Bobdylan.com and here it is. A lot of this album feels like a Chess record from the fifties. Did you have that sound in your Read More...; Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:19 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
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Jakob Dylan – Seeing things: Being born to a musical legend is a tough, when you fancy yourself a career in music. Ask Femi Kuti, Julian Lennon and Jakob Dylan. But the later has broken free of his days of mediocrity as the leader of the Wallflowers, and recorded his first solo album. Read More...; Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:38 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Filed under: Rick Rubin, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Jakob Dylan
Bluegrass Punk: Pernell Reichert and the Hard Drinkers on tour: If working class drinking songs set to a wailing banjo is your thing, then make sure you catch Canadian alt-folk band Pernell Reichert and the Hard Drinkers, who are touring Gauteng and the Free State this week. Their repertoire is mostly made up of country Read More...; Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 4:24 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Filed under: Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Violent Femmes, Pernell Reichert and the Hard Drinkeres
The Ballad of Lucky Fonz III: Amsterdam's award-winning folk singer Lucky Fonz III has returned to Gauteng for a second tour and will be playing at Oppikoppi this weekend. Fonz is deeply rooted in the American song traditions, his influences traversing Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Neil Read More...; Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 4:12 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Filed under: Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Bright Eyes, M Ward, Oppikoppi, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, will Oldham, Lucky Fonz III
Meet The Walkmen: Great free Daytrotter Sessions: So one of my favourite new discoveries this year, is actually not that new at all. The Walkmen are an indie rock band from New York City and they have been around since 2000. Formed out of two other bands, Jonathan Fire*Eater and The Recoys, they have Read More...; Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 5:18 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Filed under: Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Daytrotter, Royal Trux, The Walkmen
In search of the miraculous: Lucky Fonz III @ Back 2 Basix: All Photos: COPYRIGHT Lisa Skinner Last night I witnessed something truly miraculous. I saw one of the finest singer/songwriters walking the planet deliver a performance so spellbindingly beautiful, it made me angry that there were only fourteen other Read More...; Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:04 PM by Lloyd | 4 Comments
Filed under: Johnny Cash, Bright Eyes, M Ward, Bob Dylan, Devendra Banhart, Leonard Cohen, will Oldham, Lucky Fonz III
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Volume 8: Bob Dylan has announced details of the next release in his Bootleg series. Bootleg Series Volume 8 is a two disc collection of rare songs recorded between 1989 and 2006 and will be released by Columbia Records on October 7th. There is also a four vinyl Read More...; Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:33 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
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"The Bob Dylan for this generation": An Interview with Stephen Malkmus: If indie-music icon Stephen Malkmus’s self- effacing attitude is to be believed, it’s merely luck that led him to getting involved with the soundtrack for Todd Haynes’s Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There . “It’s being in the right place at the right time,” Read More...; Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:08 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Filed under: CD, Reviews, Interview, Bob Dylan, Feature, Stephen Malkmus, Pavement
Conor Oberst and M Ward form a band!: So a great bit of news that has me really excited for next year. You see it seems that Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes fame, is forming a new band with one of my favourite singer/songwriters M Ward. That's about all we know right now, but shit that's cool. Read More...; Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:00 PM by Lloyd | 3 Comments
Filed under: Bright Eyes, M Ward, My Morning Jacket, Bob Dylan
Out with the new, in with the old!: Having just completed the majority of reviews I had outstanding for that newspaper that I work for, I have this feeling of overwhelming relief. While discovering loads of great new music throughout the year is a really cool job to have, it’s amazing how Read More...; Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 11:53 AM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Filed under: Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Gram Parsons, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, pink Floyd, Patti Smith

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