Category: Music

Budding label Organically Grown Music serves up "nutrition for your ears" with three albums releasing in 2008; "Remains to be Seen" debuts in Top 100 at New Age radio; label owner-artists Christopher Taylor and Johnny Om launch grassroots performance series.

Christopher Taylor and Johnny Om refer to their label's repetoire as a relaxed, unbuttoned mix of mellow alternative folk/blues sounds. The co-founding singer/songwriters released three albums in the folk rock and new age markets in 2008, including Taylor's Remains To Be Seen and Om's Meet the Beast. Artistic vision, unique voices and a solid approach to business establish Organically Grown Music as an independent label to watch.

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Om andTaylor in the OGM studio.

Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde announce the formation of their new Record Label, TBO Records Ltd., for the release of the concept anthology album "ARK-eology," their first new album in 25 years. Along with long time business associate and music industry veteran Bob Heinlein, TBO Records, the bob organization, was formed to market and distribute the recordings of Chad & Jeremy worldwide.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of their last album for Columbia Records, The Ark, Chad & Jeremy now release ARK-eology, a newly recorded tribute to their legendary classic albums The Ark and Of Cabbages And Kings, favorites long sought after by collectors and fans worldwide. Produced by Chad Stuart, the album is the 25th release of the duo, as they revisit eighteen of the most popular recordings from over a dozen worldwide LP releases in their impressive catalog. The new CD, available now, is the first in a series of new releases planned for the Chad & Jeremy catalog.

A team has been developing music combinations of brainwaves, sonic vibrations, and eastern chakra based medicine. Using these and other methods they create a "tuned" environment for the human mind and body.

Reports from a mother, a student and a medical professional describe the results of the breakthroughs of sound therapy from Meditation DNA.

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CD mixes elements of magical realism, myths, and archetypes into deeply personal confessionals , fusing folk, goth, soul, chamber rock and baroque into a truly eclectic sound.

Boston neo-cabaret band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? plays with love, identity, sexuality, and alchemy on its latest CD, And Other Stories. The band has been a staple in the Boston underground cabaret scene since the early 2000's, sharing stages with bands like The Dresden Dolls, HUMANWINE (in which members of Mr. Fox moonlight) and in the seminal Boston Burlesque Association. On November 15th, the band will be joined by the high antics of Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, the dark romantic Calycadenia and a quintet from the acclaimed string orchestra, A Far Cry. The night will also feature an animated short from award-winning film-maker Ruth Lingford, numerous special guest performers and various fiends in fox masks. The CD is available for sale at performances, CDBaby.com, eMusic.com and iTunes.

A Dalhousie University math professor solves the mystery behind the opening chord to The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" using mathematical principles like the Fourier transform.

It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. It evokes a Pavlovian response from music fans as they sing along to the refrain that follows:

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Math prof Jason Brown and his Ibanez guitar.

Arlo Guthrie teams up with the Dillards to record some of Woody Guthrie's best songs.

Over ten years ago Arlo Guthrie entered the studio in Branson, Missouri, to record a traditional album of his father Woody's most enduring songs. Woody Guthrie was fêted in 1998 by the U.S. Postal Service, having a thirty-two cent postage stamp issued in his honor, and Arlo surmised the timing was ideal for his CD 32¢/Postage Due to be a celebration of that high distinction.

Here we go again folks. Seems like some things just won't go away. It's been 41 years since "Sgt. Pepper," and some people still believe Paul is dead. We guess that leaves Ringo as the last Beatle standing (or was it Ringo that Lorne Greene killed-off in the song that bears The Beatles drummer's name?).

A college English professor and Americana Luke Powers songwriter sorts through the evidence of the world's greatest urban legend - that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by an impostor or fake labeled "Faul." Powers comes to an amazing conclusion in song.

His new enhanced album, "Cosmix," blends Ram Dass' celebrated words and chilled electronica beats mixed by Down-under DJ Kriece. CD enhanced with video of Ram Dass' final recorded conversation with Timothy Leary.

From his Maui retreat, cultural icon Ram Dass embraces modern music and innovative new media to reach out to devotees across the miles and across the years. His new enhanced album, Cosmix, was released today on Waveform Records. Ram Dass' commitment to sharing personal experience is as great as ever and his sense of compassion heightened, as felt during his regular satsang webcasts and periodic Hawaiian conferences.

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Ram Dass.

With the world's eyes turned towards China for the start of this week's Olympic Games, ears turn towards two albums from today's Chinese punk-rock scene. This is underground China.

When Chicago-based musician, producer and label owner Martin Atkins visited Beijing in the fall of 2006, he had no idea what to expect. What he found was a thriving underground culture of rock bands that reminded him of his time in London in the late '70s, and of the downtown scene in early '80s NYC. He signed several bands while he was there, shot 80 hours of video footage, and rented out High End Sound Studios, where he recorded tracks from well over a dozen bands. He recorded live shows at the D-22 club - a venue that embodies the spirit that CBGBs had when Martin arrived in NYC over 25 years ago - just as news of the final show at the legendary NY nightclub was breaking on CNN.

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The Wrecking views their music as a means to end child sex trafficking and other crimes against children. Their CD, "A New Abolition," releases August 19.

Gearing up for their national debut CD in late August, The Wrecking is releasing the music video, "In Your Eyes," a remake of the Peter Gabriel hit. The video was produced in conjunction with Love 146, a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of child sex trafficking and exploitation.

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The Wrecking.