June 25: Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson.July 2: Montreal International Jazz Festival report.24: Year-end critics’ roundtable, Part 1 (plus Kyp Malone interview) March 25: SXSW wrap, with James Hetfield interview.April 8: Report from the Rock Hall inductions.Year-end critics roundtable: Part 1 (Dec.May 27: Discussion about the Rolling Stones.June 9: Dave Rawlings Machine, with Gillian Welch.July 7: Pareles and Caramanica on Miley Cyrus.July 14: On Tuli Kupferberg Camilo Lara of Mexican Institute of Sound.July 21: Critics roundtable on M.I.A., and Best Coast live.11: Perry Farrell interview, and José González's Junip plays live 18: On Katy Perry, and a big early jazz find 2: Marty Stuart, and ‘Bitches Brew’ 40 years later 16: The VMAs and Sonny Rollins Marc Ribot solo performance 21: Tamaryn session, plus rock globalism (Shakira, Eugene Hutz) 11: Kristin Hersh reading, plus Shyne and Josh Groban Year-end roundtable: Part 1 ( albums), part 2 ( singles), part 3 ( jazz).RIP: Ronnie James Dio Walter Sear Bob Mercer Jim Marshall Mark Linkous Willie Mitchell Jay Reatard Kate McGarrigle Vic Chesnutt Bess Lomax Hawes Mary Travers Dee Anthony Brendan Mullen Suzanne Fiol Freddy Bienstock Pierre Cossette Mike Seeger Allen Klein Bob Bogle Jay Bennett Estelle Bennett Lux Interior John Martyn.Ticketing meets social media the world of scalpers the online ticketing ‘free-for-all’.Surprise! Music sales sucked for the year, decade.

Old people buy music: Sade, Susan Boyle.

Grammys 2010: Preview live report Beyoncé, the offend-no-one diva podcast the nominations show.

Interview: Philip Glass and Robert Thurman on Tibet.

Ticketmaster’s merger with Live Nation, and its FTC settlement.

Michael Jackson: The movie (and opening night) the ‘new’ song (and Paul Anka’s share) the tangled estate, part 1 (and part 2) the new Sony deal.

Book review: Bill Flanagan’s ‘Evening’s Empire’.

SXSW 2010: Getting that visa a day of Surfer Blood four-word reviews Todd P.’s hopes for MtyMx.

Fillmore no more: Irving Plaza un-renamed.

‘When losers say it’s over with, you know that it’.

Press release of the day: Dave and Pam Mustaine, n.

‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.

Super Furry Animals, “(Drawing) Rings Around the World”ġ0. Chemical Brothers with Beth Orton, “The State We’re In”ĩ.

IronyĪnimals of Africa: Sounds of the Jungle, Plain & BushĤ. Super Furry Animals, Rings Around the World Bright Eyes, Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground Afel Bocoum, Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabaté and Friends, Mali Musicĩ.

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