He knew the bride when she used to rock and roll. Back in the day, pub rocker-turned-crooner Nick Lowe put out some of the best rockabilly-tinged, jump-up-and-down drinking music on the planet. “Bride,” which showed up in 1977 on fellow […]
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Its great to have Nick Lowe back again with rockabilly/pub-rocker persona intact. His tours with Los Straitjackets seem to have awakened the skiffle side of Lowe that had gotten stuffed down in the space between the seat cushions of his […]
Does anybody remember the TV and radio ads for Yahoo’s search engines? Well, the guy who did the “Ya-hoo” was the artist in today’s Radio Friendly spotlight, Wylie Gustufson. His fine new album, 2000 Miles from Nashville, includes two Nick Lowe covers. […]
Labels matter. Record labels, that is. I came of age when my go-to labels were Flying Fish, Rounder, and ECM. They had not just an identity, a personality, they had taste. They knew what was good and filled in the […]
Chicago’s prettiest rat-tail nest of American roots music Yep Roc slides out two more in its lovely Nick Lowe reissues series — this time a couple of full-lengths released in the late 80s / early 90s that at the time […]
Most of the time, when you hear “crowdfunding campaign”, you think of a new album. That has been, and still remains, the primary driver of music campaigns. But crowdfunding campaigns can be about much more, from archival releases to funding […]
Southern Fried, the premier Scottish festival of Americana roots music celebrated its tenth birthday at the tail end of July. Held annually in the fair city of Perth, sometimes called the gateway to the Highlands, it’s what one might call, […]
Canadian songwriter David Myles was influenced by several artists’ concerts, but two performances by Tony Bennett really stand out. “A few years ago, I saw Tony Bennett in Chicago at a huge outdoor venue,” says Myles, who will be releasing […]
I’ve been to a few gigs recently by artists who started plying their trade in that 70’s tide of punk/new wave/alternative. There was Kid Congo Powers a couple of months ago, then Tom Robinson the other week, and Elvis Costello […]
On December 4, Nick Lowe brought his 2nd Annual Quality Holiday Revue to one of Atlanta’s finest venues the Variety Playhouse. St. Nick treated an adoring full house to not only an amazing performance backed by surf music champions Los Straitjackets but he also […]
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