As music journalist Stephen Deusner points out in his captivating and insightful new book, Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers (Texas), “in crucial ways the Truckers have provided a rip-roaring soundtrack for a very […]
“I had to change my name to feel more like myself,” Rod Gator says from his home in Austin. He’s talking about his recent transformation from Rod Melancon, the name under which the bayou-bred rocker released all his previous […]
During the month of August, I spent exactly one night in my own bed. I don’t even know if you could call it that since I only slept for about three hours in between laundry, repacking my suitcase, and […]
Back in November, during the tension-riddled time between Election Day and Results Day, the guitar-wielding, Twitter-hot-take-firing Jason Isbell posted a bold claim on the bird app: “If Biden wins Georgia I’m gonna make a charity covers album of my favorite […]
There are lots of reasons, let’s hope, to look forward to 2022, and Aoife O’Donovan announced today she is adding another: a new solo album, titled Age of Apathy, coming out Jan. 21 on Yep Roc Records. Produced by […]
Canceled last year, then postponed from its traditional late April date to mid-September this year, MerleFest arrives this Thursday. But it’s not quite business as usual for the Wilkesboro, North Carolina, megafest. For the safety of attendees, volunteers, staff, […]
One of the things I love most about writing Crowdfunding Radar is finding young artists few have heard of (myself included) and boosting the signal for their first album, or first professionally produced album. That’s what most people think of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ letter, below, opens our current quarterly journal, reflecting on the issue’s theme, “Ghosts.” We invite you to dive into the issue’s 100+ pages of stories about the history, folklore, stories, and legends that […]
Just two weeks before it was set to start, DelFest had to cancel its plans for a 2021 festival in Maryland. A social media post signed by Rob and Robbie McCoury on behalf of the festival and family cited […]
When we think about R&B and soul, Muscle Shoals, Memphis, Detroit, and Philadelphia come immediately to mind as the homes of the sweet grooves that filled dance floors and clubs. The records of William Bell, Carla Thomas, Percy Sledge, […]
