The subtitle signals Entertainment Weekly writer Chris Willman’s interest in a topic that, while maybe not the hot-button issue it was a year ago, till warrants attention. Why, Willman asks, was Natalie Maines condemned by country fans, radio, and conservative […]
There are a few things a musical bio-documentary ought to do well. It should catch the arc of the musical life at hand and focus on it. It should show, rather than just talk about, the key moments and salient […]
This magazine exists largely to draw attention to undervalued artists, and yet in ten years we have managed to devote only one feature and a few small reviews to Gatemouth Brown, who died September 10 at age 81. He should […]
TOWNES WITHOUT PITY: It has probably been said before that the life of TOWNES VAN ZANDT could make a heck of a feature film, but who would believe it was nonfiction? So perhaps filmmaker Margaret Brown’s decision to tell Townes’ […]
Sorting through dozens of options for a photograph that could represent our coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s effect on New Orleans music and culture, Grant spotted an arresting shot that was unlike anything else under consideration. Resting next to a little […]
All that jazz: Bring it on! I just wanted to add my two cents about your Lizz Wright cover [ND #58, July-August 2005]. First, I considered the cover completely appropriate. I purchased Lizz’s album and found it met the expectations […]
1 Sufjan Stevens, Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) 2 White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan (Third Man/V2) 3 Son Volt, Okemah & The Melody Of Riot (Transmit Sound/Legacy) 4 Beck, Guero (Interscope) 5 Nickel Creek, Why Should The Fire Die? (Sugar Hill) […]
The pair of tracks that open I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise, the transfixing new album by soul singer Bettye LaVette, vividly map the record’s prickly yet fecund emotional terrain. The first is an a cappella reading of Sinead […]
In a time when simply making music for ten years can count as a robust career, a near-decade-long hiatus from music may seem excessive. But Ottawa’s Black Boot Trio can honestly account for their time away from the fray. After […]
“Just when it seems like it’s absolutely pointless and useless to continue, there’s that little glimmer of the eternal that shines through and you realize that you’re going to make it through this thing.” The sticker continues to hang tough […]
