Walter Salas-Humara’s new release, RADAR, is not a drastic departure from his previous records, but it does bring some new elements into the fold. There’s a quirkiness in the first three-quarters of the disc that lends itself well to the […]
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The rumor’s been goin’ ’round town for a while now: Those happy-go-lucky Golden Smog dudes are gettin’ serious on us, fer chrissakes. I guess being a comedic cover band on a lil’ ol’ indie label just warn’t good enough for […]
Who came first: The Tupelo chicken or the alt-country egg? In a letter to the editor in issue #4, Bosco of Austin, TX, contended that Uncle Tupelo should not be viewed as “some kind of starting point for a growing […]
New recordings from three bands of particular interest in these pages –Son Volt, the (formerly) Jayhawks and the Bottle Rockets — are basically wrapped up and should be forthcoming in the record racks this spring. SON VOLT holed up with […]
“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 […]
Music can be approached from many vantage points — from academic pursuit to intoxicant-fueled rave-up. The Dalhart Imperials are capable of entertaining those who come to them from either end, and points inbetween. The Dalhart Imperials are not, as the […]
Iris DeMent is belting out a protest song called “Wasteland Of The Free” to a packed house in Lawrence, Kansas, and even though the song is downright radical in a way that’s hardly heard in this country anymore, the response […]
I can’t recall the year. Steve Forbert is playing a solo show at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, North Carolina, and in the front row sits a man and his two sons. Dad’s in a Beatles T-shirt, and the two boys […]
This one came along like any other: I was approached by a friend and given the usual pitch about the Gourds’ debut CD, having never heard a single note of this band — never even heard of them, for that […]
With no soapbox in particular upon which to climb on this late Sunday night before we ship this issue to the printer in Minneapolis on Monday morning, some scattershooting thoughts on ND #6 and our world in general: When we […]
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