Pedal steel guitar is a lot like a movie soundtrack in that the more you notice it, the less effective it is. In its overwrought variation, waves of pedal-steel weeping is one of country music’s hoariest cliches. But if wielded […]
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There may be no more impenetrable roadblock to the enjoyment and evaluation of music (and art generally) than the matter of taste. Yet while it’s always lurking about even when it goes unmentioned — call it the Taste Card — […]
The Whipsaws may be the most popular bar band in Alaska. Certainly they have logged the most miles across the tundra, with the deepest repertoire of original music, routinely playing four-hour gigs in the live-music-starved watering holes of the hinterlands. […]
“I don’t differentiate all that much between movies, music, TV — it’s like all these companion pieces that go along with your life.” –Steve Tannen Deb Talan and Steve Tannen of the Weepies are having a bit of a disagreement. […]
Unexpected riches — like ordering basic cable but getting just about every channel there is — don’t come too often. For the Waybacks, once is enough. All the San Francisco-based band asked for was a fiddle player. What they got […]
“The first few times I played I couldn’t open my eyes. I was terrified. I’d mumble. I didn’t want people to know what I was saying.” –Sera Cahoone Sera Cahoone is the first person to tell you she is shy. […]
It could be the sun coming through blinds as you play a record (so it’s sun on the music). It could be the sun coming through as you practice in the loungeroom of a large Brisbane house of a certain […]
You want to talk first-rate pedigrees, the Rite Flyers have connections to some of Austin’s biggest and best bands of the past two decades. The group’s genealogical chart goes all the way back to key 1980s-era Austin acts including Big […]
It is difficult to imagine any man three months shy of his 95th birthday looking more regally insouciant than Pinetop Perkins does from his backstage perch at an out-of-the-way roadside joint known as Circle B Recreation in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. You’d […]
Like so many songs by the Old 97’s over the years, the last song on their new record Blame It On Gravity spins a yarn about a love affair, but this love doesn’t go bad, and for once, the object […]
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