Jay Mazz & Threadhead Release Up Front and Center: New Orleans Music at the End of the 20th Century04/11/2012  Up Front and Center: New Orleans Music at the End of the 20th Century by writer, Jay Mazza, is out today via Threadhead Press. As the title suggests it is about music in New Orleans, specifically Jazz. Mazza has been a fixture at clubs, concerts and festivals for over 20 years. Kermit Ruffins, trumpeter, provides the forward. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is the glue holding the story together—the history of the festival is explored at length. There is analysis and anecdotes and also the history of other parts of the city’s musical history. Many of the musicians that are the focus are those who have been under-appreciated. Add Comment  Yellow Bird Project, a Montreal-based arts organization, and illustrator Andy J. Miller joined forces to create The Indie Rock Poster Book. The book consists of posters from 30 illustrators and inspired by indie rock songs. The book comes out May 7, 2011. Proceeds benefit a variety of charities chosen by the musicians. Some of the songs inspiring posters are BonIver’s Skinny Love, Iron & Wine’s The Trapeze Swinger and more. This effort follows the previous, and successful, Indie Rock Coloring Book. Prints in the book are removable for framing. Or you can leave it as a book. Hell, buy two of them and frame one and keep the other one as a book The Yellow Bird Project began in 2006 and has been raising money for a variety of charities since then. For more information head to www.yellowbirdproject.com   Turntabling.net is heading out on a cross-country trek, Vinyl Road Rage Two. August 12 proprietor, Joe Wallace, will hope in his vehicle (we assume it is a personal vehicle) and travel from indie record store to indie record store. The first of these efforts took place last year and was, in the main, a trip between Chicago and San Antonio. This time out Wallace is heading from Chicago to New York City with stops at at LEAST nine record shops and probably more. He will also hit other places related to the music industry. Multiple blog updates daily. Follow the madness at Turntablinng.net. And feel free to email Joe at jwallace(at)turntabling.net  One of the longest, still-standing and best music magazines out there (maybe even the only one that is any good these days) is Big Takeover. And they have a new website. The website has been around for 13 years but (having been relaunched once before in 2004…) it is now new and improved. www.bigtakeover.com The categories are now easier to navigate and include; recordings, concerts, interviews and top ten. The site will also include an archive of shows from big takeover on breakthruradio.com. I have been a fan of this magazine for more years than I can count. I haven’t bought a music magazine for I have NO idea how long—excepting only Big Takeover. Support them in print and online.  | Musical Odds & Ends
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