The summer may be over, but there is plenty of dancing in the street that will greet this fall’s outstanding slate of releases from a variety of folks. A couple of legends, a couple that should be legends by now, some […]
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Mipso’s charming and vivacious fiddler / vocalist / songwriter Libby Rodenbough, who’d been dressed in a startlingly tight, dazzlingly white outfit for their earlier Red Wing performance, said she almost burst (her) eardrums for a front-row dose of Dawes. at […]
“In the magic hour, when the moon is low and the sky’s the kind of blue that you think you know”… As the lady and I ascended the stairs to The Sinclair I have an overwhelming sense of anxious tension […]
We talk a lot about the balance of tradition and innovation here at No Depression and within the FreshGrass Foundation. The balance and blend of those two things is what, we believe, makes this music we love so vibrant and […]
When you are driving from Cork city heading for West Cork, there is a road sign that says simply ‘The West’. It doesn’t give any clues to towns or villages on the way; that is on a need to know […]
In a previous column on the Grammy awards, I noted some differences between the movie and music industries. Another significant difference occurs during the first two or three months of each year. While Hollywood dumps its dogs during those months, music labels purposefully release many […]
Aoife O’ Donovan at Americanafest 2013.
There is a sensation of almost living out of the context of time as the first track of singer-songwriter Aoife (pronounced EE-fah…get it right, people) O’Donovan’s latest record hits. As ‘Stanley Park’ enters through your ear canal, the rewinding of tape is […]
Aoife O’Donovan is sitting in a coffee shop in Brooklyn’s South Slope neighborhood as the last shreds of sunlight begin to shift from view in the cafe’s front windows. It’s an appropriate scene, considering her new album, out this week, […]
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