Outside of the amazing but already well hyped (at least on the blogs) Charles Bradley and Michael Kiwanuka, Rollo & Grady’s post about the Top 21 New Artists of 2011 highlights an amazing band from Atlanta worth giving a listen called Turf War. They have been compared to the Black Lips in their straight up rock and roll sound and from their fun and raucous shows. From their twitter account, they seem like a good time.

I don’t know if this idea was stolen from Wilco and Billy Bragg in their Mermaid Avenue movie about the lost notebook of Woody Guthrie, but this promises to be more entertaining. Hank Williams, dying at 29, left a series of songs that he never recorded. A bunch of famous artists recorded them, including Jack White, which you can hear over at Rolling Stone.

It is disappointing to only hear about great musicians because they just passed, as with Eugene McDaniels, who passed away this past Saturday. From a post at the great blog Soul Sides, I discovered a couple great songs worth your attention, but only before I came to read where he wrote my favorite jazz song, Compared To What:

Head over to NPR to hear Newport Folk Festival performances from Justin Townes Earle, Secret Sisters, Tegan and Sara, Chris Thile, Gillian Welch, The Devil Makes Three, Delta Spirit, Wanda Jackson, Pokey La Farge and many more.

Whenever the blog Rollo & Grady posts a letter from Bob Lefsetz, I try to read the whole thing.  His latest article raves about a new music service/website called Turntable.fm. It is somewhat like a mix of those old AOL chat rooms and Pandora, where users enter a room (or create one) and then whoever takes turns adding songs to the playlist.  Watch the video below or just go straight there.