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 […]
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 […]
Talking about middle-class white kids and how they first got into music, producer Jim Dickinson once said, “Everybody learned it from the yardman.” Well, not quite everybody. “My first experience with country music was actually watching ‘Hee Haw’ when I […]
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 […]
Country Dick Montana, drummer and vocalist for the Beat Farmers, died November 8th, 1995, after collapsing onstage at the Longhorn Saloon in Whistler, British Columbia in front of a sold-out crowd. He was 40. The cause of death was a […]
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 […]
It’s almost too easy to get Ronnie Mack’s hackle standing on end. This usually mild-mannered promoter of the Barndance, L.A.’s long-standing roots-rock showcase, gets all riled up by the mere mention of Nashville and its local arm, radio station KZLA. […]
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 […]
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 […]
