It was a packed house at the Black Box. Anais Mitchell was in Belfast supported by Rachel Ries, and tickets were scarce. Ries was the first on stage. Her album Ghost of a Gardener was released early this year. On […]
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Lucinda Williams with Doug Paisley live at Massey Hall – Toronto, ON – Nov. 21, 2014 Right as the clock struck 9 p.m., the grand dame of alt-country strolled to the centre of the stage and picked up her acoustic […]
Jim Marshall was no hippie. To his credit, Marshall, the foremost rock photographer of the San Francisco scene, cast a cold eye on the wondrous goings on he documented, the better to capture, and share, Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moments.” Best known […]
To say Suzanne Vega was skeptical that her song “Luka” could be a hit would be completely understating it. “It was my manager at the time, Ron Fierstein, who heard in it a possible hit,” Vega says by telephone before […]
Lucy Wainwright Roche normally travels alone. When reached by telephone in Minneapolis recently, she had already spent several weeks in a car with her dog, Maeby, and her mother, acclaimed singer-songwriter Suzzy Roche (The Roches), in tow. “We’ve been spending a […]
MacArthur fellowship-winning alto saxophonist-composer-arranger Miguel Zenon (foreground) lights the fire. Zenon is the only extant founding member of the 11-year-old SFJAZZ Collective. Courtesy all about Jazz.com A Westerly Cultural Travel Journal — Part 3 (This concert review concludes a cultural travelogue first […]
Sunday was a beautiful day, all about dear and talented friends celebrating that dearness and talent all day long. It was also Abbot Kinney’s 164th birthday, and what way to honor the founder of our wonderful town than by dreaming […]
Dr. John has been playing New Orleans jazz, blues, voodoo rock, what have you, since the late 1950s. Now, at the age of 74, he reckons it is touch-and-go whether that special Big Easy culture and sound he so loves […]
Sizing up the room, Chuck Prophet described how he uses smell and broken glass to find most of the bars he plays in. Surveying the Hamilton, he described it as something between “The White House and a PTA meeting.” Could […]
I learned to trust the muse a long time ago. So long, in fact, that I can’t remember when it occurred. Music speaks to me in ways that I cannot speak for myself. When words are log-jammed and my brain […]
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