I’ve never met Malcolm Holcombe, but he used to call me late at night. The phone would ring in the hours between midnight and 2 a.m., and I wouldn’t pick up. Calls at that hour normally involve romance, intrigue […]
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Macon Greyson was born in the Wylie Lama’s head in late 1999. “We were finishing the first record, which Ray Wylie Hubbard produced, but I didn’t have a band or anything,” says frontman Buddy Huffman. “I wanted an album I […]
Former Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg is modern rock’s tenderest songwriter and its thorniest character, a contradiction journalists have been laboring for twenty years to reconcile. That author Jim Walsh, a longtime Minneapolis music journalist with ties to the band (he […]
Ha Ha Tonka State Park, which rests near the center of the Ozark Mountains, is a sprawling testament to how awe-inspiring highland natural phenomena can be. Culturally, the Ozarks’ scattered population shares many traditions with the Appalachian region: rugged individualism, […]
We’ve been bombarded for months — years even — with all the gloom-and-doom that surrounds the music industry in the 21st century. The word has become a ceaseless mantra: CDs are dead. Downloads were a giant asteroid that will demolish […]
“To get to belt out songs every night is the most euphoric experience, and I can’t believe I didn’t try it earlier.” — Ben Bridwell Pre-show sound check is not the most exciting part of a band’s day. On the […]
Of all the homemade Britney Spears videos on YouTube, one of the harshest isn’t a Britney video at all. Images of the pop-diva-in-disgrace then and now accompany “Pretty Runs Out”, the title song from Amanda Shaw’s debut album for Rounder […]
THE FINE PRINT: We asked critics for their top 20 new releases and top 10 reissues; shorter lists were also accepted. We asked readers for their top 10 new releases. In the reader poll, common-sense measures were taken to protect […]
Eilen Jewell: “Ticked all the right boxes” As someone who has recently discovered your good selves (I’ve lived a sheltered life), I was inspired to purchase Eilen Jewell’s new album Letters From Sinners And Strangers on the strength of Scott […]
This issue’s Screen Door piece on the reopening of Houston’s venerable Cactus Records store got me to thinking about a lot of the other record stores that have meant something to me at one point or another over the past […]
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