Reposted from Now This Sound Is Brave. Listening to Patrick Sweany’s albums is like reading his life. In between and over top of melodies that are sometimes sweet and sometimes rough, deftly finger-picked on acoustic and electric guitar, Sweany uses […]
Reposted from Now This Sound Is Brave. This week, Jennifer visits with a couple of old friends, watches Sam Beam rock out (and get Dylan’d for his trouble) and has some choice words for the monkeys at the circus. […]
Reposted from Now This Sound Is Brave. A confession: this is the first time I’ve really listened to new Over the Rhine material in over a decade. When I first heard OtR, they were a four-piece (with Ric Hordinski on […]
Reposted from Now This Sound Is Brave. Crazy and the Brains Imagine: You’re in a chilly punk bar, the kind with band stickers all over the walls, along with a little graffiti, and bike quarter pipes along the back of the […]
Reposted from Now This Sound Is Brave: The release date of Nicole Atkins’ new album Mondo Amore has been pushed back to February 8. While you wait, check out the first of three vignettes Atkins and filmmakers Mandy Bisesti and Lucia […]
Reposted from Now This Sound Is Brave : This past Christmas marked the one-year anniversary of the death of singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt, a legendary and singular figure on the Athens, Georgia, music scene. In the second installment of “The Nomad Series”, called Demons, […]
Reposted from Now This Sound Is Brave: Once upon a time, in the relative infancy of rock ‘n’ roll, rock instrumentals were such a popular form that some artists were dedicated entirely to instrumentals and some who, while having a few […]
reposted from Now This Sound Is Brave: I’ll admit that it was only very recently that I began getting into the music of Captain Beefheart (a.k.a Don Van Vliet) and his Magic Band after realizing how many of the musicians I […]
Reposted from Now This Sound Is Brave: They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but ‘they’ are generally full of shit. A study of the cover for Nicole Atkins’ forthcoming album, Mondo Amore, will give you a […]
Reposted from Now This Sound Is Brave: The terms “gritty”, “raw” and “real” have been used so many times to describe blues musicians throughout the decades that it almost seem insulting to use them now, but when a 90-year-old (according […]
