Santa Fe Bandstand 2008
July 7-August 21, 2008 Monday-Thursday nights at 6 PM
Project 101.5 is proud to support another year of fine music on the Plaza with Santa Fe Bandstand 2008. Enjoy free music live on the Santa Fe Plaza four nights a week on the community stage with both local and national acts including Alex Maryol, Y Que, Jono Manson, the Santa Fe All-Stars, Sean Helean, 100 Year Flood, national headliners Chris Smither, The Gourds, Po Girl, Buffy Saint Marie, plus other great jazz, blues, country, alternative, and world music acts! For the complete lineup visit www.santafebandstand.org and look for Project 101.5 for Coca-Cola sampling and other freebies too! See you on the Plaza!

Thirsty Ear Festival
Friday August 29th, 2008 thru until Sunday August 31st, 2008
New Mexico's premier roots music event features Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin, Buckwheat Zydeco, Shemekia Copeland, Junior Brown, Rosie Ledt & the Zydeco Playboys, Samuel James, Alex Maryol Band, Santa Fe AllStars, Bill Hearne's Roadhouse Revue, Roger Landes, Pleasure Pilots, Round Mountain, Random Family, Joe West, Traditional Irish Session & dozens more folk, blues, bluegrass, Cajun, zydeco, alt-country & roots rock artists on three stages all weekend long. For more info...

• Randy Newman eyes own ghosts on "Harps and Angels" (Reuters)

  Reuters - Randy Newman's musical world has always been populated with unsavory characters -- racists, rapists, sociopaths -- and dark themes that often belied the songwriter's gift for a compelling melody and a love for blues, R&B and rock 'n' roll.

  
  

• Elvis demoted in new Billboard historic chart (Reuters)

  Reuters - Poor Elvis. Random sightings of the King of Rock 'n' Roll have tapered off in recent years, and now he has mysteriously disappeared from the upper echelons of a new list that ranks the artists with the most No. 1 hits on the U.S. pop singles chart.

  
  

• Rising star Jonathan Groff lets his `Hair' down (AP)

  AP - Jonathan Groff races up and down the aisles through the audience, dripping with sweat, singing his heart out and shaking his long wig with manic glee.

  
  

• Elvis' peacock jumpsuit sells for $300K (AP)

  AP - Elvis Presley's favorite performance costume, the peacock jumpsuit, sold for $300,000 Thursday, making it the most expensive piece of Elvis memorabilia sold at auction.

  
  

• Keith says 'Beer' movie set was all business (AP)

  AP - One could only imagine the pickin' party they could have thrown on the back lot of Toby Keith's new movie, "Beer for My Horses."