Happy Birthday Alessandro Alessandroni

Remembering the composer/multi-instrumentalist who is perhaps best known for his whistling on Sergio Leone's films. 

MTL's Golden Tombs opening for New Horizzzons @ Handlebar, Saturday

Check out Golden Tombs' brilliant rework of Europe's The Final Countdown as a spaghetti western theme.

Menahan Street Band preview new album

The Menahan Street Band, best known as Charles Bradley's backing group – whose song Make The Road By Walking was famously sampled for the track Roc Boys by Jay-Z thinking the Brooklyn ensemble's 2008 recording was some obscure funk 45 from the late 60s (d'oh!) – has announced their new album is finally finished and coming out in October.
In advance of the release of the forthcoming instrumental set called The Crossing, group leader Thomas "TNT" Brenneck has thoughtfully made available the album's title track which he describes as "music to an unreleased Sergio Leone western starring the Wu Tang set in 1992." Or conversely, like an El Michels Affair tune for a planned Wu Tang collabo shelved after a disagreement between the principle members. In any case, you can check it out right here