Online resources and features

For those bluegrass/banjo fans in the Cheshire region of England, there is a new magazine available for free. Bluegrass Seeds Banjo Magazine is intended to be a British version of Banjo Newsletter. Bluegrass Seeds Banjo Magazine is complete with interviews,

The Gibson Brothers visited WAMU's Bluegrass Country studios on Friday afternoon (February 27) to introduce their new mandolin player, Joe Walsh and to talk about their upcoming CD, Ring the Bell. A recording of their studio performance, during which they sang

BluegrassRadio.org has announced that they will shut down their 24/7 online bluegrass audio stream online at the end of March. President Clyde Scott has this message posted on the site's front page: It is with deep regret that I must announce

No Depression, the alternative country music publication, is to discontinue its editorial budget. Following the launch on October 1, 2008, of NoDepression.com, now finds that it has to make a further tough decision regarding the format of its publication. Publisher, Kyla Fairchild,

Brand New Strings, fresh off their win in the SPBGMA band championship earlier this month, will perform live tomorrow (2/28) on a special Saturday edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX. The band consists of Randall Massengill on guitar, Mike Ramsey

Three-time Grammy-winning jazz bass icon Charlie Haden along with actor and son-in-law Jack Black will make their debuts on the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday night. (February 28). Leading the two shows on the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman

Acoustic Guitar magazine has launched a social networking site specifically for... well, acoustic guitarists. The site is called Acoustic Guitar Community, and offers many of the features familiar to users of such culture-shifting sites as Facebook or MySpace. Members create a

The Gibson Brothers are scheduled to feature on Tennessee Shines this evening (2/25). The show is broadcast from Knoxville, TN on WDVX 89.9 FM, and via live audio streaming online. Tennessee Shines is a monthly live broadcast from the Bijou Theatre,

Special Consensus' Greg Cahill will join Katy Daley on WAMU's Bluegrass Country on Tuesday morning (2/24) at 9:00 a.m. Katy tells us that Greg will be calling in from home in the Chicago area before they head down to Florida for

Ignorance on parade... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Lge8J-s7wIs there anything more obnoxious than people who believe something is worthless if they haven't heard of it? Of course, I've never heard of these guys, or their YouTube show, but it seems to be a popular online video