It’s time again to look at some of the people behind the scenes of radio. Lindsay Reid is promo guy for the highly respected company Thirty Tigers, which does marketing, promotion, and management for some of the best artists around. What got […]
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” -Andy Warhol When Beth Bombara and I […]
It’s time to give a special nod to all the wonderful community — mostly volunteer — radio stations across the U.S. Many of these stations have no outside network feeds, just an eclectic mix of music shows, entirely locally programmed. St. Louis’ KDHX is one of […]
Jay Farrar is what you might call the archetypal journeyman. At age 50, he remains an architect of modern Americana as he continues to fuse the disparate genres of rock, roots, folk, blues and country into his musical amalgam. As a […]
About halfway through Wilco’s set at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland on Sunday, Jeff Tweedy quipped that the band’s show would be followed by a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This was a reference to Wilco’s stage setup, […]
It’s great to see so many “low power” FM radio stations popping up across the country like Richmond, Va.’s WRIR-LP, where Garry Morse does his “Lost Music Saloon” show on. And, for the first time, a DJ mentions classical music as a favorite […]
Here’s a Radio Friendly first: two brothers who share a radio show, “Tangled Roots” on WHUS, and we get answers from both of them. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio and what other stations have you worked at […]
The song “No Depression in Heaven” was originally recorded by the Carter Family in 1936 during the Great Depression. Depending on where you look, it’s either attributed to A.P. Carter or James David Vaughan. Regardless, the song has been recorded […]
Everyone has their own story about how they discovered the music of Doug Sahm. Maybe you first heard of him through tributes or covers of his music from alt-country acts like Uncle Tupelo, the Bottle Rockets, and the Gourds, to […]
Truth to tell, this is virtually a new record to these ears. Though this magazine’s name comes, in part, from the title of the first Uncle Tupelo album — and even though, in some quarters, ND was slagged as little […]
