On April Fool’s Day in Chicago, Ray Davies stepped onstage as Max, his alter ego vaudevillian comic who freely admits he’s the “lowest common denominator” in a society that continues to make them precious commodities. The guise was one of […]
“This is our second show ever,” said Silver Jews frontman David Berman, standing a bit sheepishly in front of the microphone, looking the part of the just-emerged recluse, his beard uncoiling every which way and his greasy black hair matted […]
Editor’s note: Film producer Laura McCorkindale interviewed Buck Owens in September 2005 and January 2006 at his home in Bakersfield, California, and at his Crystal Palace nightclub. Other than a mid-March phone interview with a Long Island radio station, these […]
Country music had never seen the likes of Cindy Walker before, and doubtless never will again. One of just four non-performing songwriters in the Country Music Hall of Fame — the others being Harlan Howard and Boudleaux & Felice Bryant […]
Maybe New York and Nashville simply are doomed never to really see and hear each other without distortion, for all of the pre-set images and ideas each has of the other standing stubbornly in the way. New case in point: […]
Our history with Alejandro Escovedo goes back a fair ways, as those of you who have been with us since the early days likely remember. Grant wrote a feature story about him in our second issue back in early 1996, […]
On our jazz show on WNUR, the Northwestern University station, my co-host John Corbett and I wheel happily among styles, forms and accents: swing, bop, free, harmolodic; Dutch, German, English, Ethiopian; honkin’ saxes, laptop squiggles, transportable schlock. Never mind “April […]
Many happy referrals: One new reader at a time I learned about No Depression magazine in a rather strange sort of way. I have been a subscriber to Bluegrass Unlimited ever since it began in the 1960s. A couple of […]
1 Cat Power, The Greatest (Matador) 2 Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love) 3 Rosanne Cash, Black Cadillac (Capitol) 4 Neil Young, Prairie Wind (Reprise) 5 Ryan Adams, 29 (Lost Highway) 6 K.T. Tunstall, Eye […]
HER AIM IS TRUE: To date, singer ALLISON MOORER has made art in spite of her difficult background, but her next record, Getting Somewhere, promises to draw on that troubled past. The album, due June 13 on Sugar Hill, addresses […]
