Tim O’Brien compares his flare for blurring the lines between new and old music to, well, vegetables. Like a musical chef, O’Brien pinches from one genre and drops it in another, creating a succulent dish of traditional and modern forms. […]
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Twelve years ago, long-haired Tom Armstrong was banging a guitar for the Iowa-based Hollowmen, opening gigs for bands such as Big Black and Sonic Youth. Although he’s come a long way from those angst-filled years, his DIY attitude is still […]
If you’ve not yet heard Las Tres Chicas — the sweet-voiced trio of Whiskeytown’s Caitlin Cary, Hazeldine’s Tonya Lamm and Glory Fountain’s Lynn Blakey — you’ll have plenty of chances soon. Various incarnations of the Chicas will tour the U.S. […]
Watching Bill Mallonee perform solo one evening at Eddie’s Attic in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, it’s hard not to conjure obvious comparisons to his two heroes, Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Peering out from his round glasses and down […]
This hefty tome was assembled by the author himself. Spanning over 30 years, it mixes, fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and is connected with newly rendered annotations prefacing some of the entries. What links all of this writing — from musical […]
And they sat quietly. The whole house, full. Nearly silent, applauding often, rapt through 28 songs, except when Ralph Stanley took the stage and then they all stood, and when it was all over they stood for that, too, and […]
When the title of last year’s “Country & Roots” festival changed for this year to “Rhythm & Roots”, some people feared the quality of the lineup might suffer. After all, rhythm could mean any number of things. Thankfully, their fears […]
“We’re sharing a van, a band and a dog on this tour,” Kelly Hogan told a sold-out audience on hand at the Horseshoe to see her share the stage with Neko Case. “And pretty soon we’re all going to be […]
If “Nineteen” had become a hit, the prospect of a Rhett Miller solo tour may have sent young America into a frenzy. Millions of teens would have wondered, “Is Rhett pulling a Ginger Spice?” Alas, the world is still normal. […]
Rock critics suck. They’re cynical, jaded elitists who take pleasure in panning the popular and touting the purposefully obscure. How else to explain the avalanche of unambiguous praise heaped on the Magnetic Fields’ 1999 album, the triple-disc 69 Love Songs, […]
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