Band Weblogs

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen presented a copy of Corrigan Brothers cd single entitled “There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama” to President Obama in the White House on Saint Patrick’s day …

Andrew Marr of the BBC Andrew Marr Show described it as the only Obama video that you have to see. The band breakfasted with Kevin Spacey and Richard Dreyfus after they appeared live on the Andrew Marr show in London and both legendary actors told Irelands’ Corrigan Brothers they loved the song …

Good afternoon. What a week it’s been! What with Obama’s Presidential procession and the world-haltering Inauguration, oh, and the Brit Award Nominations …

The Tommos will be playing an acoustic set at the Obama Inauguration Party at Brookes University (Gipsy Lane) in Oxford, England on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 8:00pm …

The Irish trio, Corrigan Brothers, pay tribute to President-elect Barack Obama’s Irish heritage with the quirky, infectious homage “There’s No One As Irish As Barack Obama” …

I think this is an appropriate song of the day: Jimi Hendrix – The Star Spangled Banner …

Statement From Mickey Leigh (Joey Ramone’s brother):

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Dave Matthews and longtime collaborator Tim Reynolds will perform at the ALLTEL Pavilion at the VCU Stuart C. Siegel Center in Richmond on Sunday, October 26, 2008, to urge Virginians to vote for the change we need …

After spending the summer opening for some of the biggest names in rock music, Virgin Records rock-quintet Saving Abel have announced that they will open for the biggest names in politics, playing at the first Obama / McCain Presidential debate on September 26, 2008 at the University of Mississippi …

Dave Koz – Greatest Hits, the first-ever retrospective album from the renowned instrumentalist/composer, debuts at No. 1 on both Billboard’s Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and iTunes’ Jazz Album chart …

Golden Smog, an alt-country super group by all accounts, is what Soul Asylum’s Dan Murphy calls (a central Golden Smog member) “an ad hoc group of musicians” and is made up of members from Soul Asylum, the Jayhawks, Run Westy Run, Wilco/Uncle Tupelo, and occasionally Big Star, the Replacements and the Honeydogs …

Last night five time Grammy Award winning recording artist and concert performer John Legend premiered his new song, “If You’re Out There,” at the opening of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado …

The Decemberists will perform this Sunday, May 18th, 2008, at a rally with presidential candidate Barack Obama in the band’s hometown of Portland, OR.
The rally will take place at The Bowl in Waterfront Park (at the corner of SW Columbia St. and SW Naito Pkwy., south of the Hawthorne Bridge). Doors will open at 12:30 [...]