I loved this record so much that when they announced a couple of shows back in September I drove 15 hours each way from Minneapolis to Pittsburgh to see the show in the video below. Unfortunately, I was so […]
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I first came to roots songwriter Kristin Andreassen’s music through Uncle Earl, a seminal alt-country stringband that reinvigorated my interest in the tradition. Their albums on Rounder in the early aughts were must-haves in the community, and they brought a […]
For more than two decades, Berkeley’s own world-class bluegrass artist Laurie Lewis has rounded up the annual Holiday Revue at the Freight and Salvage, a fundraiser for the 47-year-old roots music institution. While 2015 marked the year Lewis handed over […]
The last edition of The Reading Room included a list of forty music books of 2015 worthy of attention. Although I didn’t think of the list as a “best-of” list, the first ten titles do represent my personal Top 10: […]
If you live in an area that still has a locally owned record store, you are truly fortunate. I hope you buy music from them. Record stores like Fantasyland, Wuxtry, and Wax N Facts in Atlanta introduced me to underground […]
For this week’s DJ interview, I’m featuring Jessie Scott from Sun Radio, a newer non-commercial Texas station that serves Dripping Springs, Fredricksburg, and the greater Austin area. Scott was there 20 years ago at the original “In The Pines” weekend that led […]
Toronto’s Choir! Choir! Choir! and telephone/media company Koodoo recently teamed up to record The Cure’s “Friday I’m In Love” to welcome to the city a family of the Syrian refugees now arriving in Canada. When they approached Robert Smith for permission, […]
I woke up this morning around 3 a.m. with a four-day trip facing me, a deadline for this column, and … no ideas. The New England winter we use as an excuse to go to Florida for a couple of months […]
This week, we continue our month-long look back at 2015 by digging into some albums that our community and staff reviewers think deserved more attention. Leading the pack this week is some fine live-in-concert Aussie Americana from Neil Finn & Paul Kelly, […]
Cruz Contreras had just written “Hard to Please,” the song that would eventually become the title track for the Black Lillies’ fourth studio album, when he asked his son, Cash, to give it a listen. “I had originally written it […]
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