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  8. Official Bluesfest 2011 Lineup

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    Official Ottawa Bluesfest Lineup

    A Perfect Circle

    Ben Harper

    Billy Talent

    The Black Keys

    Buck 65

    Blue Rodeo

    Bootsy Collins

    Caravan Palace

    Death From Above 1979

    Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

    Erykah Badu

    The Flaming Lips

    Infected Mushroom

    Jennifer Hudson

    Joe Satriani

    John Butler Trio

    John Fogerty

    Peter Frampton

    The Roots

    Soundgarden

    Steve Miller Band

    The Tragically Hip

    Arkells

    Bedouin Soundclash

    Big Sam's Funky Nation

    Blue King Brown

    Bluestone

    Braids

    Brothers Chaffey

    Buddy Guy

    Cage the Elephant

    Callers

    Cavaliers

    Chali 2na

    Cheap Trick

    Courtyard Hounds

    Danny Michel Band

    David Clayton-Thomas

    Dawes

    Dennis Coffey

    Diamond Rings

    The Dirtbombs

    Folklore Urbano Orchestra

    Funky Meters

    Galactic

    Girl Talk

    Girls with Guitars

    Gomez

    Greenhornes

    Harper

    Huey Lewis and the News

    Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

    Jesse Greene

    Jim Suhler

    Jimmy Bowskill

    John Primer

    Josh Ritter

    Justin Nozuka

    Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

    La-33

    Leon Russell

    Library Voices

    Luyas

    M. Ward

    Manny Makris

    Mark Kozelek of Red House Painter & Sun Kil Moon

    Michael Powers

    Mother Mother

    My Morning Jacket

    Nicole Atkins

    Oli Brown

    Paul Thorn

    PS I Love You

    Ra Ra Riot

    The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

    Rise Against

    Rosie Ledet

    Sierra Maestra

    Shpongle

    Skrillex

    Smokin Joe Kubek Band featuring Bnois King

    Spam Allstars

    Tegan & Sara

    The Beauties

    The Sheepdogs

    Theory of a Deadman

    Three Days Grace

    Trampled by Turtles

    Wanda Jackson

    Yukon Blonde

  10. Twitter?

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    I've been disappointed with Louis CK's output on Twitter. He's generally pretty quiet except for the odd gig announcement.

    Agreed, but every once in a while you get a nugget like this.

    "If you drink two cups of parrot diarrhea, your night vision increases by 17%"

  13. RIP Augustus Owsley "Bear" Stanley III

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    Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia

    (2011-03-13)

    (Reuters) -

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Owsley "Bear" Stanley, a 1960s counterculture figure who flooded the flower power scene with LSD and was an early benefactor of the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash in his adopted home country of Australia on Sunday, his family said. He was believed to be 76.

    The renegade grandson of a former governor of Kentucky, Stanley helped lay the foundation for the psychedelic era by producing more than a million doses of LSD at his labs in San Francisco's Bay Area.

    "He made acid so pure and wonderful that people like Jimi Hendrix wrote hit songs about it and others named their band in its honor," former rock 'n' roll tour manager Sam Cutler wrote in his 2008 memoirs "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

    Hendrix's song "Purple Haze" was reputedly inspired by a batch of Stanley's product, though the guitarist denied any drug link. The ear-splitting blues-psychedelic combo Blue Cheer took its named from another batch.

    Stanley briefly managed the Grateful Dead, and oversaw every aspect of their live sound at a time when little thought was given to amplification in public venues. His tape recordings of Dead concerts were turned into live albums.

    The Dead wrote about him in their song "Alice D. Millionaire" after a 1967 arrest prompted a newspaper to describe Stanley as an "LSD millionaire." Steely Dan's 1976 single "Kid Charlemagne" was loosely inspired by Stanley's exploits.

    According to a 2007 profile in the San Francisco Chronicle, Stanley started cooking LSD after discovering the recipe in a chemistry journal at the University of California, Berkeley.

    The police raided his first lab in 1966, but Stanley successfully sued for the return of his equipment. After a marijuana bust in 1970, he went to prison for two years.

    "I wound up doing time for something I should have been rewarded for," he told the Chronicle's Joel Selvin. "What I did was a community service, the way I look at it. I was punished for political reasons. Absolutely meaningless. Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different."

    He emigrated to the tropical Australian state of Queensland in the early 1980s, apparently fearful of a new ice age, and sold enamel sculptures on the Internet. He lost one of his vocal cords to cancer.

    Stanley was born Augustus Owsley Stanley III in Kentucky, a state governed by his namesake grandfather from 1915 to 1919. He served in the U.S. Air Force for 18 months, studied ballet in Los Angeles, and then enrolled at UC Berkeley. In addition to being an LSD advocate, he adhered to an all-meat diet.

    A statement released by Cutler on behalf of Stanley's family said the car crash occurred near his home in far north Queensland. He is survived by his wife Sheila, four children, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

    (Reporting by Dean Goodman, editing by Peter Bohan)

    © Copyright 2011, Reuters

  21. Who is Arcade Fire??!!?

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    I haven't had the time to research it but I'm curious what the Arcade Fire and Spaulding wins say about the Grammy voters besides what seems like an obvious backlash against youtube and twitter metrics being equated with talent. Likewise though Lady Antebellum beat out some strong contenders (almost all hip hop) for song or performance of the year in a kind of quizzical move- I'm not sure who's performance of the year that represents except maybe another bias of the voters towards New Country and successful radio outings.

    It looks like the NARAS are hedging their bets. On one hand they're attempting to appear cool and relevant by opposing the mainstream bullshit by voting for AF and Esperanza while at the same time continuing to suckle at the teat of record companies and continuing to reward auto tuned lipsync'd pablum for the masses.

    But hey, at least AF got a Grammy out of NARAS's current bio-polar disorder

    As for Lady Antebellum, it looks like new country is the hot genre these days, just look at all the country folks in the list of top money makers.

    http://www.billboard.com/#/features/music-s-top-40-money-makers-2011-1005031152.story?page=2

  24. I fell in love with Mumford and Sons

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    Seems we're not the only ones who enjoyed Mumford's performance

    Here are their post Grammy Itunes sales stats

    Mumford & Sons

    "Sigh No More" - 31,189 +156%

    "Little Lion Man" - 42,664 +88%

    "The Cave" - 37,899 +114%

    iTunes Stats

    #1 Album on the store

    "LLM" and "The Cave" #1 and #2 Alternative Tracks "LLM" #13 track overall "The Cave" #15 track overall

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