The inherent lag time involved in magazine deadlines is an ever-present little annoyance, often making moot any concerns about timeliness and frequently requiring rush-jobs on advance deliveries of new releases. Our answer, in part, is to present pieces that are […]
Ugliest band in rock ‘n’ roll: Defending the Bottle Rockets I have never felt compelled to respond to a music review, but Grant Alden’s spin on the Bottle Rockets’ latest effort [ND #23, Sept.-Oct. ’99] left me very confused. I […]
1 Various Artists, Return Of The Grievous Angel: A Tribute To Gram Parsons (Almo) 2 Lyle Lovett, Live In Texas (Curb) 3 Alison Krauss, Forget About It (Rounder) 4 Tom Waits, Mule Variations (Epitaph) 5 Los Lobos, This Time (Hollywood) […]
Knoxville, Tennessee, band the V-Roys, which has released two albums on E-Squared Records in the mid-late ’90s, is calling it quits, drummer Jeff Bills recently confirmed in a post to an internet mailing list. As a parting shot, the group […]
Dear Susan & Mimi: That second week of school, while you two were busy trying to foster dreams of literature in the heads of seventh and eighth graders, you’ll remember that your husbands were gone. This, then, is a reconstruction […]
Gerald Duncan and his band the Accelerators have been AWOL for a healthy chunk of the ’90s. “I needed to survive, and continuing that [the music] was not conducive to survival,” is how the 46-year-old Duncan explains it via a […]
In the land where Lake Wobegon meets the Mall of America, Accident Clearinghouse seems perfectly indigenous. Hailing from a prefab suburb north of the Twin Cities, the group is comprised of six twentysomethings fronted by Quillan Roe, an art-school grad […]
It all began when I was browsing through the atlas one day a few years back, looking for places that seemed interesting and far-removed from the beaten path. Or maybe I was listening to Joe Henry’s song “Sault Ste. Marie” […]
In this era of celebrity, Dolly Parton could be one if she never sang a note. A sign in her Dollywood museum exhorts, “You’re only as big as your biggest dream,” and Parton has always dreamed of being somewhat larger […]
Driving across Arizona at night with the thumping, twanging sound of Flathead in your stereo, it’s easy to imagine your Ford Escort or Mitsubishi Mirage magically transforming into some legendary 18-wheeler — the Phantom 309, the Giddyup Go — tearing […]
