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Get into the Holiday Spirit with Delta Nove, Blue Turtle Seduction and more.
Holiday_Jam_2008_poster_webHoodathunk Entertainment presents the 4th annual Holiday Jam taking place Wednesday December 17 at the Blue Cafe in downtown Long Beach, CA. A complete evening of festive decor, merry fans and music featuring a headlining spot by the new-grass rootsicana sound of South Lake Tahoe's Blue Turtle Seduction, who recently held their own festival in California featuring other acts such as Melvin Seals with JGB, ALO, Tea Leaf Green, and Delta Nove to name a few (read the review here).

Getting things warmed up at the Holiday Jam will be a special drumming performance by Long Beach's own Delta Nove. Also performing will be Mojow & the Vibration Army featuring John Whoolilurie and his wife Moriah. Opening the show will be Delta Nove's drummer Dominic Feedam on guitar performing his solo looping side project.

Music starts at 8 p.m., so please plan to arrive early. Festive attire is encouraged and admission to this event is only $10. For more info on this show and other Hoodathunk events go to: www.myspace.com/hoodathunkentertainment.
Holiday Jam 2008
Wednesday 12/17
@ The Blue Cafe
210 The Promenade
Long Beach, CA 90802
doors: 7 p.m. show: 8 p.m.
21+ Cover: $10
Muscle Shoals, AL - Lightning Rod Records will release Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit's eponymous album on February 17, 2009.


"...confident, charismatic songwriting that just can't be taught." - Pitchfork


"...a gorgeously whisky-soaked country-soul masterpiece." -Spin Magazine

  Isbell is a former member of the Drive-By Truckers and this is his second solo release isbell(his first release with his band The 400 Unit). The 400 Unit is Derry deBorja (keyboards), Jimbo Hart (bass) and Browan Lollar (guitar). Matt Pence (Centro-matic/South San Gabriel) lends his talents as co-producer, drummer and engineer.

The album was co-produced by Isbell and The 400 Unit with Matt Pence. "I want it to be known that it's a band record," says Isbell. "I want it to be known that it's something we all did together. Even though I wrote the songs, it was a very inclusive project." Isbell has posted the new track, "Seven-Mile Island," on the band's MySpace site.

The album was recorded at the renowned FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL. Isbell, who Details Magazine calls "one of America's best young songwriters," is following in the tradition of American songwriters who have recorded in North Alabama. Much like Arthur Alexander, Eddie Hinton and Spooner Oldham, Isbell mixes a soulful vocal style with songs that are passionate and unrepentant in their sense of place and direct in their stubborn Southerness.

Isbell and The 400 Unit have played over 200 dates since the release of Sirens Of The Ditch  (including All Points West, Voodoo Music Experience and WXPN Freedom Fest) and will announce the first round of their 2009 dates soon.

 This is the second release for Nashville-based Lightning Rod Records whose US distribution and marketing is handled by Thirty Tigers/RED.

TRACKLIST

1.  Seven-Mile Island                       
2.  Sunstroke
3.  Good
4.  Cigarettes and Wine
5.  However Long
6.  Coda
7.  The Blue
8.  No Choice in the Matter
9.  Soldiers Get Strange
10. Streetlights
11.  The Last Song I Will Write

http://www.myspace.com/jasonisbellmusic

http://www.lightningrodrecords.com

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Jango Monkey - Jango Monkey

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2008 Loki Festival

Posted by: Robie | October 31st, 2008

The first ever Loki Festival dawned on the scenic Deerfields Camp Grounds of Asheville, NC to ideal weather and colorful hints of autumn along the forest skyline. For a start up Loki’s musical line-up boasted one of the heftiest funk forecasts all season and the colorfully adorned campers in attendance seemed antsy to groove. With funk heavy weights like Lettuce, Porter Batiste and Stoltz (PBS), and George Clinton on board, there was undeniable sense of boogie in step.

Words & Photos by Brian Zickafoose

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