Steve Earle

GREEN DAY 21st Century Breakdown www.greenday.com Dist: Warner Music Canada **HITTING STORES THIS FRIDAY, MAY 15! Green Day ’s long-awaited eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown , is the trio’s first studio disc since 2004’s Grammy- winning Best Rock Album American Idiot , which debuted at #1, spawned five hit singles, and sold more than 900 thousand copies in Canada. Produced by Butch Vig ( Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage ), 21st Century Breakdown continues American Idiot ’s punkrock opera format. Divided into three acts- Heroes And Cons, Charlatans And Saints , and Horseshoes And Handgrenades -the songs follow a young couple, Christian and Gloria, ... Read Full Story

Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place Essays on politics, culture and ideas about Israeli-Arab peace and world music Muslim and Jewish Women in Nazareth 'We can live in peace'...John Lennon (photo: Dafna Tal) Mahzor New York Public Library Sarajevo Haggadah Mah Nishtanah Antaea Darom Israeli women's art Torah as music Ben Heine ceramic bowl Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit (photo: Ilan Amihai) Punch and Judy/Pinchas and Jamila Avi Katz David Grossman Ben Heine Eldrige Street shul Lower East Side Dove Ben Heine Two birds Hoda Jamal Israeli and Palestinian boys from documentary, Promises Cat in the Hat Yiddish version Daylight ... Read Full Story

Friday night I had the chance to experience a performance that symbolizes all that is right about music and the music business. Steve Earle is one of those performers who is the reason folk music exists and thrives. Earle said he learned his musical outlook from the great Townes Van Zandt , Earle's idol and mentor and whose songs he covered on his latest album: Be true to yourself and sing what is true to you. And Earle has followed that. Before we get to the Earle specifics, let me say a few words about Joe Pug , since I was invited to this ... Read Full Story

Recently while set on shuffle, my iPod keeps playing tracks from the Steve Earle album Townes , which in turn keeps reminding me of how much I love the songwriting of Townes Van Zandt. Earle, who famously proclaimed "Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table, in my cowboy boots, and say that”, recorded Townes as a tribute to his mentor and friend, and the album features fifteen Van Zandt originals and contains some really interesting arrangements of some of the great songwriters best loved songs. MP3: Townes Van Zandt - Colorado Girl ... Read Full Story

Admittedly, I’m not really a fan of Steve Earle, outside of his role as Waylon, Bubble’s N.A. sponsor, on the greatest television series ever, The Wire . So when Steve Earle’s newest album, Townes , arrived in my inbox I wasn’t expecting too much. Townes is a tribute album to one of Steve’s greatest musical inspirations, Townes Van Zandt . There will be plenty of other far more knowledgeable publications writing about this album in the coming days/weeks, so I’ll leave the stories to them. I wanted to write about this album only to tell you that I am not a Steve Earle fan ... Read Full Story