I can still hear them blaring in the back of my mind, those gleaming brass trumpets and trombones, thrusting right and left, toward one end zone and then the other, as the University of Texas marching band zipped through “The […]
I can still hear them blaring in the back of my mind, those gleaming brass trumpets and trombones, thrusting right and left, toward one end zone and then the other, as the University of Texas marching band zipped through “The […]
It’s Monday. I’m sitting home alone, watching “Melrose Place”, and I’m not happy about it. But I tell myself it’s for a good cause; I’m waiting to catch the Go To Blazes song hidden somewhere in tonight’s episode. It’s an […]
“[We don’t want to] wear touring as a badge,” Honeydogs’ guitarist Tommy Borscheid clarifies during a recent discussion on the benefits of touring for a young band. “It’s just something that people do.” And although Tommy’s right that most bar […]
If you want to find Kim Docter and Mike Luke’s Wicker Park residence on the near north side of Chicago, do what I did. Look for the Winnebago parked out front and find the apartment with their bloodhound Baloo, standing […]
Oklahoma may be known as the birthplace of Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire and Vince Gill, but the Red Dirt Rangers lay claim to being the state’s real music ambassadors. Throughout the ’90s, this engaging bunch of alternative-country misfits has crisscrossed […]
“I didn’t know there were six syllables in alcohol,” jokes Richmond Fontaine bassist Dave Harding, referring to bandmate Willy Vlautin’s singing style. “He’s exorcising his personal demons,” explains wisecracking drummer Stuart Gaston. Alcohol seems to be one of the more […]
[Editor’s note: In recent discussions with a couple of our contributors, Rob Patterson and Bud Scoppa, we discovered that both had been among a small crowd on hand for a Gram Parsons gig at New York’s legendary Max’s Kansas City […]
Minnesota is a strange place. It enjoys nearly equal fame for its fertile local music scene and its unforgiving winters. In that light, it seems only marginally ironic that the birth of The Billy’s occurred when the infamous “Halloween Blizzard” […]
You almost have to remind yourself that Wanda Jackson is in her late 50s as she works the crowd with co-star Rosie Flores at L.A.’s House of Blues. The “Queen of Rockabilly” breathes new life into four-decade-old scorchers such as […]
Doc Watson may have recorded for many labels over the years, but the folks at Vanguard Records have wisely recognized their cut of the pie (from 1963 to 1971) as some of Watson’s most seminal work. As a result, they’ve […]
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