Managers rarely achieve notoriety beyond the backrooms and boardrooms of the entertainment industry, but the rotund Colonel Tom Parker would have been a compelling character had Elvis Presley and rock ‘n’ roll been the flash in the pan everybody once […]
PERSONNEL: Shortly after WILCO announced in August that they were leaving Warner Bros. and taking their completed but unreleased album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot with them, the band confirmed the departure of longtime guitarist Jay Bennett, who had been with the […]
Ordinarily we don’t discover the connective tissue of each issue until these late moments, when certain words or songs or ideas reveal themselves to be themes running through our pages. Not this time, of course. Friday night, September 14, was […]
Adams’ Gold: No foolin’ I usually don’t take issue with critical reviews. I find aesthetics arguments pointless. I try to take what I can from a review and leave it at that. But you guys lost me on the Ryan […]
1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway) 2 Lucinda Williams, Essence (Lost Highway) 3 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (Acony) 4 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite (Rounder) 5 Various Artists, Down From The Mountain […]
I once read an interview with Ashley Judd in which a reporter asked her how she felt about music. “Oh, music is the balm,” she said. Now I have to agree that truer words were never spoken. In the days […]
Read what you will into a band’s iconography, but in the case of Milwaukee’s Aimless Blades, seeing is believing. Displayed on the cover of the band’s debut disc, Land Of Souvenirs (Madcity Records) are Catholic votive candles topping a Day […]
Neal Casal is at the wheel of a fifteen-passenger government baby blue van. It is a late grey morning just before autumn’s official reign begins. The dog days of summer appear to have fled early. Gear has just been loaded […]
Search high and low among the articles and programs about “Women In Rock” and you will be hard pressed to find a mention of Cindy Bullens. Despite over two decades as a girl with guitar, touted as a female Bruce […]
The Derailers deliver one hell of a honky-tonk Saturday night. The band’s hard, swinging shuffle is nailed down tight by drummer Mark Horn, a flawless timekeeper in the Buddy Harman mode; Horn smiles so broadly throughout the Derailers’ sets that […]
