It’s clear from the first listen that Cary Hudson has a deep love for his roots in Mississippi,where he was born 47 years ago in Sumrall.Hisnow 25-year career is full of dedications to the great songs of the Deep South, […]
It’s clear from the first listen that Cary Hudson has a deep love for his roots in Mississippi,where he was born 47 years ago in Sumrall.Hisnow 25-year career is full of dedications to the great songs of the Deep South, […]
Cary Hudson first became recognized as a pioneer of a new music movement in the late eighties while joined in songwriting partnership with John Stiratt (WILCO) in The Hilltops, an alt-country band born out of Mississippi. When Stiratt left The Hilltops […]
Fresh, entertaining, curious, eccentric and capable of jumping from a genre to another: it’s the Noise Revival Orchestra. This 12 piece large-band lead by Nathan J. Felix pushes the limits of the musical mixture, typical of groups such as Animal […]
Weird is the tale of an EP, and mysterious is the path of an artistic resurrection. The true story is that the beautiful (because she IS beautiful…I’m human after all) Kelly Steward from Rockford, IL, debuted with a “home-made” EP […]
Garage-rock has been primarily an American cultural phenomenon that exploded principally in the areas of Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis from 1965 on. The standard-bearer of the movement were a bunch of bands who on one hand were […]
The word of the day is bounce, which stands for bounce (obviously), jump, leap, but also for elasticity; for example the mental and physical one that babies have when they bounce on their parents knees at the rhythm of some […]
The desert has always fascinated rock musicians: both the American desert and the Australian one (aka “outback”). If the primordial essence of songwriting (like literature writing) resides primarily as a solitary act, in solo effort, therefore desert – the place […]
Shane Tutmarc is definitely right: it’s really hard to make an easy getaway. Therefore there’s no use in trying, better live in reality and admit to unconditionally love Tom Waits and try to pay him a tribute from time to […]
When entering the studio to record his first solo album, Neil Young had the world at his feet. Canadian from Toronto, born on November 12th 1945, he arrived in California (illegally: he obtained the green card only in 1970) to […]
In the last few years, I don’t know how many times I’ve read about someone’s attempt to merge classic songwriting with a modern approach, and every time I’ve found myself labeling it yet another “Nothing-New-Under-The-Sun”—a solemn piece of junk that […]