Musicguymic has new KoAloha Sopranino ukuleles. Only nineteen and a half inches long. Aww bless. San Francisco’s MoCFA is currently holding an exhibition on the Evolution of the Ukulele. It includes a two day ukulele festival featuring Jake Shimabukuro, The Paper Dolls and many others. If you can’t make it, you can still read another […]

Grass Stains (mp3) You’re In Love Again Dirty Version (mp3) Brains, Brains (mp3)via creebobby.com Jacob Borshard has a few celebrity fans me (obviously), Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. Borshard won a song contest for the film Music and Lyrics (allegedly judged by stars of the film Grant and Barrymore) with the song Grass Stains. As […]

Ukulelenurkka will be celebrating International Ukulele Day (August 23rd) in Helsinki with two days worth of top-notch gigs. Appearances from Ukulelezaza, Pete Howlett, Shelley Rickey and Scheidenbach. After I mentioned the Tay Zonday’s viral hit video Chocolate Rain in connection with this performance, WS64 produced a fantastic ukulele version of the song. Tay Zonday and […]

The 60th Edinburgh Festival Fringe kicked off at the weekend and – amongst the many desperate self-publicists wandering around in lurid, skin tight clothing – are a few ukulele acts. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Sugar Plum Fairy (mp3) My Baby Does (mp3) via UOGB The biggest names in the uke world appearing at […]

The Moonlighters – My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now (mp3) The Moonlighters – Hello Heartstring (mp3) via blissblood.com As much as I enjoyed Bust Magazine’s uku-ladies, there was a glaring omission. Writing about female ukers and not mentioning Bliss Blood is like listing the chalcogens and not mentioning tellurium – unforgivable. Bliss Blood sings in a […]

Rabbit Muse – Sixty Minute Man (mp3) Rabbit Muse – Rocking Chair Blues (mp3) via Digital Library of Appalachia The blues isn’t a genre you immediately associate with the ukulele but the popularity of the blues and the ukulele coincided in the 1930’s and a few, most notably Papa Charlie Jackson and Geeshie Wiley, picked […]

Jake Shimabukuro is to release a new EP entitled My Life. The tracklist includes Over The Rainbow, In My Life, Going to California and Time After Time. Via Honalulu Advertiser. Pre-order on Amazon. La Blogotheque has a series of beautifully shot videos Daniella ‘Rio En Medio‘ Stech-Homsy singing and ukeing in the streets of Paris. […]

Thieves of Kailua (mp3) On The Waikiki (mp3) via Mill Pond Records Thieves of Kailua MySpace It’s a typical English summer; I’m up to my elbows in flood water. At times like this I grab my ukulele, close my eyes, put on some suitably tropical music and imagine I’m sat on a Hawaiian beach. My […]

Warning: Some of these songs contain language and themes not suitable for children. The others contain language and themes not suitable even for drunk Russian sailors. The UkuLady’s hilarious songs are a regular highlight of YouTube’s stream of uke videos but it turns out I was familiar with her work long before YouTube was a […]

Bitch – Two Girls Strong (video) via Bitch Music Bitch first came to prominence as half of the queercore duo Bitch and Animal (tip:turn safe search on before googling ‘bitch and animal). After three albums, the two split to follow solo careers. Bitch released her debut solo album Make This/Break This last year. Highlight of […]