The horses are in the barn, the chickens in the coop, the cat is laying on my toes, and the glow of the fireplace makes this room seem like an old time moving picture as the shadow of the flames […]
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There was a time when playing music live didn’t involve running miles of wire from banks of foot pedals to instruments and amplifiers. Steph Cameron recently released a fine solo debut album that harkens back to that time: recorded in […]
Artists: Phil Madeira, Amelia White, Tommy Womack Witnessing musicians perform in the round can be an unsettling experience, teetering between false starts and impending calamity or onstage magic. What if one artist is having an off night — it happens — […]
If ever there was evidence that the 9-5 grind can only be alleviated by throwing yourself into a tavern where you drown your sorrows to a soundtrack of honky-tonk, Tim Bradford’s CD release show on Friday night was it. Even […]
Donning his signature shoeless and shirtless attire, fiddler and singer Bobby Fitzgerald carries a playful country sensibility as he swaps stories of the road with his bandmates. The members of Whiskey Shivers are backstage at Austin’s Red 7, ready to open […]
King Creosote is the stage name of Kenny Anderson — the Mercury Prize-nominated singer-songwriter from Scotland, who joined the Out To Lunch Festival in Belfast for a much anticipated sold-out gig. Before The King appeared, though, Ciaran Lavery came to the […]
After Nathaniel Rateliff worked through a solid set of “many uplifting songs” presented by a big ol’ voice he wasn’t afraid to use, Gregory Alan Isakov and company took to the stage, swallowing the whole room up in their gorgeous […]
I have got to the point where I can’t walk past it without touching one of its bricks. If I’m within two blocks, I have to take a detour.. It could be worse, as strange customs go (I won’t use the term […]
Wild Ponies was performing a cover of the Patti Smith version of “Gloria” at a benefit show when guitarist and vocalist Doug Williams was struck by the line “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.” “It just made me […]
It’s no secret that Vancouver has earned a nickname over the years: No Fun City they call us. It’s a stigma the city’s been wearing as long as I’ve lived here — almost 15 years — and quite possibly longer. When we served […]
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