Welcome to the second carnival of music! Today’s carnival was a themed set. You could write about:

1. Reviews of records (singles or albums acceptable!)
2. Posts about unsigned bands, and
3. Tributes to artists you admire

Here we go….

Record Reviews

• Mark Rayner’s back. And he’s brought some more of those godawful album covers. You’ve got to wonder what store he gets his music from…
• Jon sent in his latest shotgun rock and metal reviews. Can’t say I’ve heard of any of the bands, but it would be nice to see some links to the bands’ MySpace/Virb/whatever pages so we can check them out. Whaddaya say Jon?
• This looks like it might be worth a listen – a collection of surf guitar tunes from back in the day. As reviewed by Richie.

Unsigned Artists

• This post from Adam Pieniazek falls into two categories, as it is a review of the self-titled debut album of Ronald Jenkees, an unsigned artist. Ronald has quickly become an internet phenomenon through his YouTube videos and has recently released an album after a lot of encouragement from his fans.

Tributes To Admired Artists

• This submission is from the suspiciously named Tom Jones with a set of mural tributes to the rapper Mac Dre found in San Francisco.
• New blog on the block, Daily Guitarist has a list of links to great guitar tablature resources. Needless to say, if you want to salute your favourite artist, the best way to do it is by mangling their songs on guitar. For extra back catalogue destruction, try singing at the same time…