Roaming Roots Review: A Tribute to Tom Petty
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In his novel The End Of The Affair, Graham Greene held that “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” In 2016 Willy […]
Seems the fat lady hadn’t sung after all. 2016 brought down the final curtain on Richmond Fontaine after two decades, 11 albums, unremitted touring, minimal staff changes, and an international fan base that grew unswervingly in number and devotion over […]
Fluff & Gravy Records is a Portland-based label and recording studio that has an eclectic roster of artists, about two-thirds of which are from the Northwest. John Shepski runs things with the personal touch that comes from also being a […]
Between Richmond Fontaine, The Delines, and his own work, it’s been one hell of a year for Freddy Trujillo. This video premiere for his new single “Little Birds” continues that run. The single is from his album Amexica – a […]
It was a night full of contradictions. I’d never heard of Richmond Fontaine until just a few months ago. The Portland band has been around over 20 years. On Saturday, May 14, they played a final show in Seattle. I’m now a new […]
Back in the aughts, there was another legendary off-kilter music magazine, though its reign was short-lived. Comes With A Smile was a UK fanzine that sported stylish design, complemented by writers who fashioned incisive profiles of up-and-coming bands. And that name? Grand. Turns out they nicked […]
“Is that the one about the dead hooker?” It was a question from the crowd for Richmond Fontaine’s Willy Vlautin as he introduced the next song. It may have been a sincere request for clarification; however, in all probability, the […]
The seventh Richmond Fontaine album arrives with news that frontman Willy Vlautin has simultaneously published a novel. Which means he has a sort of franchise documenting the world of drifters, cheap motels and bordertown malaise. That just may be the […]
If you’ve been to Reno, Nevada, recently, you know that the “Biggest Little City in the World” is long past its heyday — as much as it ever had one. Even in its prime, Reno (pop. 180,000) was best-known for […]
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