It’s that time of the season again. Baseball and flowers blooming, fresh cut lawns and morning dew, new albums being released and music festival travel plans being made. Here in the beautiful Lower Hudson Valley it’s an eighty degree day […]
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Last year, 4AD released The Day of the Dead, a 59-song tribute to the Grateful Dead curated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National. In keeping with the label’s roster and Dessner brothers’ musical pedigree, the album credits read like […]
“The dirt beneath a migrant’s feet is worth the least of all” sings folk artist Robin Adams in his song “The Devil’s War and God’s Blue Sea”. The song is his musical contribution to the compilation album Refugee that he […]
It was a cold Belfast Sunday afternoon at Cathedral Quarter’s Out to Lunch Festival. The fare was two-course. There was Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and composer Emily Barker, who’s now based in London. Barker has written award-winning music for TV and […]
After going to and performing in quite a few festivals this summer, I was introduced to the music of Bonnie Prince Billy for the first time at his recent show at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, CA. A […]
A recent trip into Manhattan and a stop at Strand Books yielded a $6.95 trade paperback edited by Alan Licht and titled Will Oldham on Bonnie “Prince” Billy. It wasn’t hard to miss. There must have been at least 100 […]
The little prince takes on the wonders of true love in The Letting Go, which means that his eerie, atmospheric lamentations sound…well, not much less lamenting than usual, just with a few more spots where the sun bursts through the […]
The historical record would argue that almost nothing I have to say about Will Oldham, and his various incarnations, should be believed. Years ago I reviewed an early Palace release for Spin, and while I can’t remember which record it […]
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