David Wax Museum calls its sound “Mexo-Americana,” but don’t expect a highfalutin cross-cultural experiment. Wax and his wife, Suz Slezak, play exotic-seeming stringed instruments (jarana jarocha, huapanguera) and percussion (donkey jawbone), but don’t prepare for an exercise in dry folklore. […]
Over a decade since David Wax Museum first released their debut, 2008’s I Turned Off Thinking About, the band that built their niche in “Mexi-folk” has evolved in every way. The band’s core members — David Wax and Suz Slezak […]
The 2018 version of David Bromberg’s Big Noise Festival in Wilmington, Delaware, was a blast. I do love these one day festivals. A great lineup of The National Reserve, David Wax Museum, Amy Helm, Betty LaVette, Railroad Earth, Los Lobos, […]
In the heat of summer, in this furnace of unrest, we’re all in need of solace. To paraphrase Maya Angelou, music is refuge. Here are the fifteen songs I’ve had on heavy rotation this season. Most are new releases from this […]
Darlingside’s members hover loosely around a copper-colored disk poised mid-air center stage with their instruments in hand and voices ready for take-off. Once in the air, they become downright cinematic, as their work has been described. That cinematic quality was […]
Savannah, Georgia is a town resplendent with charm. The pre-war parks and dripping Spanish moss make it the perfect setting for the strolling pedestrian. And perhaps this is why Savannah Stopover, the annual festival pit-stop anteceding the music industry’s Roman […]
The title of David Wax Museum’s fifth album, Guesthouse, is fitting for a grass-roots band that depends on the kindness of strangers as it tours the continent in its van and finances its albums through crowdfunding sites. The core of the […]
