I’m really looking forward to this show. Here’s the info from Fake Four Inc.: Ceschi (pronounced Chess-key) Ramos has been in a lot of bands. There’s the experimental post-psych-rock-hop-jazz-fusion outfit Anonymous Inc.started in the mid 1990s with his brother David,…
Month: June 2011
A new music calendar for the most notable touring acts
Back in February, Paleface played a wonderful gig at The Wormhole on a weeknight. Bill DeYoung gave it a great write-up in Connect ahead of time, but a friend and I were among only a handful who turned out. There…
New York Federal Reserve Bank president expects “a moderate recovery to continue”
Yesterday I summarized Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen’s comments about housing. Today New York Fed president William Dudley spoke in Brooklyn. The bulk of his remarks covered regional issues, but he focused also on the national economy. Like Bernanke, Dudley…
The Pass – Muse Arts Warehouse – 06/13/11
The Pass, from Louisville, can be found on MySpace here and on Facebook here. The Facebook event page is here. The doors open at 10 but the band is not scheduled till midnight.
Anderson East – The Sentient Bean – 06/24/11
An intriguing and charismatic singer-songwriter, raised in Alabama and now based in Nashville. His voice reminds me quite a bit on some tracks of Brock Scott, lead singer for Little Tybee. Pretty sure this is a gig worth checking out.…
Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen speaks about housing woes
Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, who has been pretty sharp in her assessments of the economy in recent years, spoke about housing today in Cleveland. Here’s the entire speech. I’ll pull a few key excerpts out here. No particular surprises…
Next up in Savannah Stopover Monthly Series: Dexter Romweber Duo with Jon Lindsay
The Savannah Stopover monthly series, which has already brought us a great show featuring Givers and another great one with Ashleigh Flynn at The Sentient Bean, continues on June 23rd at 8 p.m. at Cha Bella with Jon Lindsay and…
Georgia state revenues: continued but slowing growth in May
Well this is something that numbers wonks like me could get used to. In Tuesday’s press release about May’s state revenue, the Georgia Department of Revenue included far more graphs and charts than I’ve ever seen. Check out the full…
Cusses / Bronzed Chorus / The Winter Sounds – The Jinx – 07/16/11
The Whigs / Country Mice – The Jinx – 07/30/11
06/23/11 – Cha Bella – Dexter Romweber Duo / Jon Lindsay Band
The Savannah Stopover has scheduled another show that promises to be amazing. Read more here on the Stopover website. I wrote about the show here. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door, so it’s certainly worth ordering early.…
Extended excerpts of Fed Chairman Bernanke’s speech in Atlanta Tuesday
Well, I guess I’m officially in the camp of those who think a) that policymakers are overestimating the resiliency of the recovery and b)that the Fed is erring in its decisions not to take additional measures to boost the economy.…
The strong linkage between new construction and unemployment
For this post, I’m looking at graphs and data from Calculated Risk here and here. The first graph comes with the following description: Credit: Professor Amir Sufi. “This maps the unemployment rate in a state in 2010q4 against the percentage…
An album review: Givers, “In Light”
I’ve already mentioned the Lafayette, Louisiana band Givers a couple of times on this blog, including a short review of their great set produced by the Savannah Stopover at the Jepson Center after TEDxCreativeCoast. This week’s release by Glassnote Records…