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To say that Bob Brozman is not your everyday, run of the mill guitar player is just a wee bit of an understatement. Aside from the fact he is a highly accomplished and skilled slide player on almost any strummed, struck, or plucked instrument, it’s also impressive the number of them  he is able to pick up and play with equal skill and abandon.

But Bob hasn't just learned other people's instruments so that they sound cool when included in his music.
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July 13, 2007 - DeKalb, IL was the launching point for the first show of a tour on the heels of the release of The Longue Duree which will take Holy Roman Empire through Western Canada and then on to some dates on the West coast of the U.S. I would highly recommend seeing these guys if they roll through your town. Their latest release, The Longue Duree, is a strong collection of well arranged and well-played songs.

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X17 has posted of a video (and pics!) of Brit driving away from a store blasting what sources say is a new tune from the washed up pop starlet. While it certainly is exciting to hear ten seconds of Britney moaning "Yeahhhh" over beats, the real magic happen inside the store when she realizes she’s about to be accosted by a paparazzi swarm. After appearing shocked by the onslaught of cameras, she exits the vitamin shop while groaning like a dying (but still sassy) lamb about to be butchered.

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We’ll Live And Die In These Towns, the debut album from The Enemy has entered the UK albums charts at number one. The Coventry trio hold off new entries from the Interpol with Our Love To Admire at 3 and the Smashing Pumpkins’ Zeitgeist at 4.

In the singles charts Rihanna featuring Jay-Z with ‘Umbrella’ spends an incredible ninth week at number one making it the longest running chart topper since Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’ spent the same amount of time there early last summer.
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All My Loving is the 1968 BBC documentary directed by Tony Palmer that combines the music and news of the day in a sometimes nostalgic, sometimes disturbing manner. Tony Palmer is one of the leading music documentary directors, whose past efforts include CREAM Farewell Concert (1968), 200 Motels – Frank Zappa (1971) and Ginger Baker in Africa (1971).

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Holy Roman Empire is comprised of guitarist Neeraj Kane (ex-The Hope Conspiracy, The Suicide File, Stabbed By Words, Sweet Cobra), guitarist Jay Jancetic (ex-Arma Angelus, Stabbed By Words), bassist Geoff Reu (Killing Tree), drummer Tony Tintari (ex-Rise Against, Shai Hulud), and vocalist Emily Schambra (ex-Longdistancerunner).

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Sony Music have confirmed that Bruce Springsteen is scheduled to release new music before the end of the year and sources close the artist claim that he will be reunited with the E Street Band for the time since 2003’s The Rising.
 
The Boss has released a number of solo projects in recent years such as Devils and Dust and The Seeger Sessions but Fox News reports that the new album will not be another side project or a solo collection of introspective songs.

Hard-Fi Reveal Second Album Details

As expected, Hard-Fi will return on September 3 with their second long player called ‘Once Upon A Time In The West’.
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Back in the mid to late seventies, when I had no hope of ever getting into bars, I was fortunate that a few of the old coffee houses in Toronto still hung on. Though long past its heyday when Joni Mitchell and Neil Young played there, The Riverboat on Yorkville Avenue was still the flagship around which the survivors rallied.

I loved the music and enjoyed the atmosphere of these places; but the things I liked about them most, lack of drunks and intimate space, were probably the very things that doomed them.
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YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE RUTH

After several years of playing shows in both Los Angeles and his hometown of Portland, Oregon, Dustin Ruth tired of trying to do things his own way and decided to commit his plans to God. It took a few more years before everything fell into place, but he soon found himself surrounded by a group of like-minded musicians, and suddenly they were playing shows and selling an EP, before finally signing with Tooth & Nail.

Recorded by the producer/mixer team of Aaron Sprinkle and J.R.
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The Performance

Like Steve Earle, I first heard of Dwight Yoakam via a mid-eighties BBC documentary on what was then being called “New Country." I listened to a lot of the artists I discovered on that program — T. Graham Brown and The O’Kanes are two that spring to mind — but the only two I’m still listening to are Earle and Yoakam.

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