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  My first stop this sunny Austin afternoon is the Schuba's/Lincoln Hall party out back of the Yard Dog Gallery […]

  I arrived in Austin this morning for the 2010 edition of SXSW: the annual musical summit where just about

 Speaking of ageless musicians, Happy 85th birthday to Roy Haynes: one of the most expressive drummers in the history of

 What is it about the blues that keeps these guys playing well beyond the age most folks are laid up

 Guitarist Honeyboy Edwards, who won a lifetime Grammy earlier this year, is one of the last remaining original Delta Blues musicians.

 "I could play and sound like Charlie Parker note for note, but I was only playing it from method. So,

 Just read the terrible news that Mark Linkous (a.k.a. Sparklehorse) took his own life on Saturday near his home in

 The Blue Note, on 3rd Street in the Village, likes to refer to itself as the "World's Finest Jazz Club

  The mad circus that is George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, B.B. King's, 2/21/10. More pics at the