Kurt Vile has always been a master of the stream-of-consciousness songwriting style, but his latest album, (watch my moves), is peak daydream. Listening to it is like letting your mind just wander. The places it will go are unpredictable, sometimes […]
This week’s new releases have plenty of big names among them, at least in our little corner of the music world: John Hiatt, The Bottle Rockets, Sarah Borges, and The Watson Twins. Elvis Costello, Kurt Vile, and Lucy Wainwright Roche. […]
I have no idea what I think about this record. I’ve been listening to it and listening to it. I listen to it in the car during long drives. I put it on in the background while I’m cooking. I […]
It’s about time I featured another one of ND’s photographer and her work. This time it’s Jill Kettles from Atlanta, who mixes photography with her work as a publicist and her life as a raconteur, shoe aficionado, and purveyor of purple […]
Your ND photographers have been quite busy of late, so it’s an opportune time to share their photographs. Especially so for the two hardest working photographers in the East: Steve Mack and Chad Cochran (both from Ohio). Plus, C. Elliott […]
Here’s a playlist of the new voices taking Alt Country and Americana to beautiful and meaningful places. With great songs, cool voices and real instruments played with feeling. All music released in the last couple of years. This will be […]
There were many tribute concerts in bars, clubs, and performance halls around the country on May 24, 2016, the diamond anniversary of Bob Dylan’s birth. I chose the one that was the second day of a two-night tribute at the Ryman. […]
Kurt Vile at the Pitchfork Music Festival
Most people know that “favorite” and “best” are not synonyms. Likewise, most people, I think, are also aware that the majority of the “best of” lists that pop up towards the end of each year are really the writer’s favorites. With […]
