Rocky and Balls – I Heart You Online (Chords) When Sophie Madeleine gets as famous as she’s obviously going to be, I fully intend to take all the glory for discovering her. Seeing as how I get none of the credit (or blame if you’re so inclined) for discovering Julia Nunes. I’ll try to resist […]

I wasn’t going to write a review of the Mahalo Flying V. My brother got me one for Christmas. It was a nice thought and he wasn’t to know it’s the WORST UKULELE IN THE WORLD. The Good Stuff The Look: It does look good. Even close up. The way the neck attaches to the […]

Madame Pamita – Do Whatever You Please (Chords) Listen on her website. For her latest album, Wax Works, Madame Pamita eschewed modern recording techniques like Auto-Tune, digital manipulation and, erm, electricity. Instead she sang and played down tin horns on to wax cylinders. Then, like the old-timey musicians of yore, released the album for digital […]

I’ve only been here a few months, but I’m already starting to hate Derby. For one thing, there are only ten people in the entire city with good taste in music. I can say that with some authority because that’s how many turned out to see Peggy Sue recently. But those of us who did […]

Sesame Street (Easy Chords) Jayne left a comment on the original chords for Sesame Street suggesting an easy version of the chords. And, since it’s a song the kiddies might be interested in playing, I thought I’d go for it. Suggested Strumming For the first part you can use: d – d u d – […]

It looks like Soko has retired from music making. Judging from her MySpace you’d think she’s given up on everything. But before that Shoot the Player recorded a session with her. Fittingly enough in a graveyard. If you need cheering up after that, check out StP’s session with the adorable Ben Lee and Tallest Man […]

Ukulele Friend has this interesting Martin 2M from way back in 1916. It’s interesting to see the things that aren’t set in place yet: such as the sideways stamp in the soundhole and the bright white binding. You can see the differences against this later Martin 2M. Dolphins seem to be the sea creature of […]

GoChords is a new web app for making your own chord sheets (for ukulele, baritone and guitar). If you’re going to the New York Uke Fest, you’ll be able to chat with them there. New classical ukulele tabs site. Armelle’s round the world trip of ukulele languages continues with Asia, the British Isles and Latin […]

Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend… (Chords) I do like a good bit of shounting so I couldn’t resist writing up the ukulele version of Black Kids’ I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend To Write Songs With Really Long Song Titles That Go Off the End of the Line and Makes the […]

The blog officially became two years old yesterday, so it’s time for my annual self-indulgent, navel-gazing, rambling post. It’s very long, quite personal, occasionally pretentious and I won’t hate you for skipping it. Last Year’s Goals In last year’s post I set a few goals for the blog that I thought were impossible. So let’s […]