Word was that Pete Droge wanted to record his new album, Find A Door, with the same musicians he would tour with, so as to discourage the impression that he’s some sort of singer-songwriter type backed by a bunch of […]
Word was that Pete Droge wanted to record his new album, Find A Door, with the same musicians he would tour with, so as to discourage the impression that he’s some sort of singer-songwriter type backed by a bunch of […]
Ten years ago, Lone Justice anticipated the current twangcore movement with an audacious sound that drew in equal measure from trad country and the visceral rock ‘n’ roll of Tom Petty, whose “Ways to Be Wicked” provided Lone Justice with […]
Halfway through their spirited performance in Cicero’s intimate lower quarters, The Schramms’ chief scribe/singer/guitarist and namesake, Dave Schramm, asked if he was mumbling too much. Before anyone in the small but enthusiastic crowd could reply, Schramm followed with a smirky, […]
Neil Young’s annual acoustic Bridge School Benefit is always a wonderful array of Young’s musical friends and colleagues. This year’s concert, the ninth, boasted a lineup as impressive as any previous year, with Bruce Springsteen, The Pretenders, Emmylou Harris with […]
It was Friday the 13th — what better time to hear Tom Russell’s tales of hard-luck drifters, hard-bitten souls and hard-drinking romantics? Russell and guitar-whiz accompanist Andrew Hardin performed two acoustic sets at Kansas City roots-rock haven The Grand Emporium […]
About 50 folks (including The Blazers, who played the next night) made it out as the Dead Reckoning collective of Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane, Tammy Rogers, Mike Henderson and Harry Stinson hit the stage for an updated version of the […]
The six musicians in the Continental Drifters all have impressive credentials, yet it is former dBs member Peter Holsapple who really shines, as he drives the band through a combination of solid originals such as “Darling” and well chosen covers […]
Theyd been there for years, those gaudy silver spray-paint stars splashed across the northern and western walls of First Avenue/7th Street Entry, the legendary double-venue situated in the center of Minneapolis and at the heart of the Twin Cities music […]
“People want songs they can relate to. To me, that’s three chords and no bullshit. Wham, bam.” Those words come, with passion, from David Fisher, a 25-year-old Virginia native who fronts Big Blue Hearts, a rockin’ quartet out of San […]
These days are truly the dogs days for Blue Mountain. The Oxford, Mississippi, band is currently touring in support of their second album, Dog Days, and husband-and-wife Cary Hudson and Laurie Stirratt are also raising their six-month-old part-chow, part-lab Willie. […]
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