Weekly Linkup: A Look Back (MCA, _Bitches Brew_, _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_, fun., Jazz Fest…)

May 7, 2012

Here’s your chance to catch up on recent stories and sundry musical tidbits…Brooklyn Vegan rounds up "Adam “MCA” Yauch tributes":http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/05/red_hot_chilip1.html and Paste finds 100 artists who paid tribute via Twitter, Rolling Stone lists Yauch’s best musical moments and Relix revisits our cover story on the Beasties.

NPR interns listen to Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew for the first time

The Washington Post reviews Gregg Allman’s autobiography, My Cross to Bear, while Jambands.com also looks at the memoir.

The New York Times profiles TuneCore, a digital music distributor

PopMatters interviews the "Punch Brothers’ Chris Thile:http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/157872-no-concern-of-yours-an-interview-with-punch-brothers/, while our own piece on Punch Brothers just ran as well.

The Atlantic revisits Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 10 years after its release

The Washington Post interviews fun. as does Jambands.com.

The Village Voice dissects a YouTube pop sensation

Bonnie Raitt performs on World Café in support of her new album, Slipstream

National Geographic reviews Jazz Fest and has a Hipstamatic photo gallery