The Guardian are letting you stream the new Tune-Yards album w h o k i l l. Mark Gutierrez experiments with fingerpicking. You can win tickets to a Ukulele for Dummies session at the London iTunes festival (and, no, I will not be there – I’m hoping for Mogwai tickets). Make a cardboard ukulele (thanks […]

After all the hullabaloo, the Grammys have dropped their Best Hawaiian Album category along with a number of others. Uke Geeks has a couple of doodads that help you pretty up your chord charts and make your plain-text tabs more handsome. In Videos: Nellie McKay did a Tiny Desk Session for NPR, Tiny McItchyface‘s follow […]

James Hill has launched his new ukulele teacher certification course. Amanda Palmer sings the funniest tweets of the year. Charles Shultz’s plans for newborns. Johnn Carson and Bob Newhart get a ukulele lesson from George Segal. Jim D’Ville‘s series of ‘3 Questions with…’ videos are well worth watching. Particularly the one with Bosko. And what […]

Lots of excellent photos this week: Senior ukulele club (via Ukulelia), Nancy Hamilton (via Humble Baritonics), the man on the table, Ukulele Lady (warning: contains boobs). UkuleleTim has a new site Ukulele Secrets that promises to teach you to play ukulele like a badass. Definitely worth subscribing to. Scarface seems to be the uke player’s […]

Eddie Vedder’s much rumoured ukulele album is to be called Uke Songs and you can listen to the first single, Longing to Belong, here. Ukulele for Dummies is available for pre-order on Amazon US. If you haven’t picked up your copy of Bosko and Honey’s Ukulele Safari CD, now’s the time to buy it. All […]

“The hell with that damned guitar. It’s a haole-made instrument. And how’s my ukulele playing?” Kahauanu Lake died last Sunday. He’s most famous for writing Pua Lililehua (which I tabbed a little while back) and was a militant supporter of traditional Hawaiian music, Hawaiian culture and the ukulele’s place in them. As you can see […]

Fretboard Journal heads to the movies. Agathe’s self-titled EP is available on iTunes and on eMusic. Successful February Album Writing Months for MJ Hibbett and Tally ‘live2tivo’ Deushane. And while we’re on the subject here’s Tally’s How I Met Your Mother song as it appeared on the HIMYM DVD. Emergency ukulele: every jeweler should have […]

Molly Lewis sings her Stephen Fry song to Stephen Fry and here she is as The Bride from Kill Bill. MP3s: Download Jen Kwok’s EP Kwokulele free on her website. Hooves on the Turf has mp3s of a wonderful collab between Tune-Yards and Roomful of Teeth. Lengthy video of Ooks of Hazzard performance. Valentines Day […]

Molly ‘Sweetafton23’ Lewis is raising money for a top secret mission. You can commission a signed CD, a doodle, or a cover song. Which is exactly what I’ve done. And you can help me decide by voting at the bottom of this post or here (it’s just four songs I want to hear covered on […]

There’s a big hoo-haa over the Hawaiian music Grammy award – turns out someone cares (via Ukulelia). Daniel Ho, whose all-ukulele album is nominated this year, has won every year since 2006. He’s the living embodiment of the elevator-musicification of Hawaiian music and people aren’t happy. AV Club interview ukers including Aaron Keim and Danielle […]