Where to begin, this ending? With the thing that has always mattered most: The music. In the spring of 1998, the fourteenth edition of this magazine proclaimed Alejandro Escovedo to be Artist Of The Decade. It was a puckish thing […]
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Since the late 1950s, folkies have looked to the past for inspiration, and made connections between the popular rhythms of their day and the ancient excursions of their hip — and often unheralded — forebears. It probably doesn’t matter that […]
Quotation: “I try to not be too conscious of creating music. I just try to let it be. That’s what makes great music, I think.” –Dan Tyminski Dan Tyminski doesn’t do what’s expected of him. After the amazing success of […]
While serving an internship as a sound engineer at Philip Glass’ studio in New York, Dawn Landes got an up-close-and-personal look at how the likes of David Bowie, Joseph Arthur, and Glass himself brought their compositions to life. She kept […]
Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes owes a hefty aesthetic debt to Oklahoma. Not the actual state, but the landmark 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. When Pecknold was young, musicals taught him to sing out and feel at ease onstage. “Doing […]
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 […]
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