“There’s more and more concrete getting put up across the country, there’s huge urbanization going on, and it’s harder and harder to get out into the woods,” Adam Greuel says, as he’s standing next to the Wisconsin River, the wind […]
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I’ve long since lost the ability to be unbiased when it comes to the Whiskey Treaty Roadshow: two years ago, when I was playing writer on weekends, and they were playing band more often than that, they welcomed me into their homes, and let […]
This fall, Philly-based, R&B dynamo Son Little will release New Magic, his second full-length album on Anti- Records. But to lead off the summer, Son Little has already given a taste of the wizardry we should expect to find on […]
It’s Christmas Eve, and I’m balanced on a stool, my back against the freshly-sprung bar in my parents living room, facing outwards. A carousel of gifts circles the room, and soon, my younger sister presents me with a thin, neatly […]
Frank Turner steps out of Bull Moose Records into Portland, Maine’s midday sun. He’s taller than expected, some 6’2, 6’3”, and clad entirely in black—black Nikes, black cut-off shorts, black t-shirt, a black paneled hat. He lights a cigarette, as […]
From beneath deep, black wayfarers and tall, Stetson hats, the Vandoliers play with the smooth-harshness of an unfiltered cigarette, clearing the musical sinuses with the efficiency of room-temperature whiskey: they’re genre-bending, Tex-Mex punk that sounds like someone dropped NOFX in […]
“The mood in the band’s never been better,” Blake Christiana says, his contented confidence detectable even over a shaky cell phone connection stretching in from Bozeman, Montana. “I think we got too comfortable there for a few years. We just […]
The Lumineers write songs with pores, songs that age, and songs can sustain meaning—or diversify meaning—over the course of years. Over the course of four years, to be precise. Proof of that exists on the band’s rustic, self-titled debut, which, […]
Since their incarnation, the Whiskey Treaty Roadshow has been more recognizable on film than on record: last year, the band was the subject of director Tim Bradley’s documentary of the same name, a praise-worthy project selected to 17 national film […]
This past May, in advance of his new concept album South, West, North, East, Stephen Kellogg played shows in Boston, New York, and Chicago, made up of “just songs [he’d] never played off an album that [wasn’t] out yet.” Kellogg […]
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