This has been a good year for Lola Kirke. In January, she released her memoir Wild West Village (Simon & Schuster), and she appeared in the movie Sinners, which hits IMAX theaters in April. And this week, Kirke released […]
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These days, most music memoirs tend to be bleary-eyed and bloated chronicles in which artists recount who-slept-with-whom and tote up the quantity of the most mind-expanding, or mind-numbing, drugs swallowed or injected on tour. There’s a requisite tale of […]
In the 1990s, numerous women rockers emerged on the popular music scene, flooding the airwaves of college and independent radio stations with alternative feminist rock and momentarily elevating these women in the rock pantheon. As Tanya Pearson, founder […]
Mike Farris was born to record in Muscle Shoals. If you close your eyes when you’re listening to Farris’s new album, The Sound of Muscle Shoals, you’d swear you’re listening to Clarence Carter, Wilson Pickett, or Joe South. Drenched […]
The songs of Joni Mitchell saved novelist Paul Lisicky’s life. In his loving ode to Mitchell and her music, Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell (HarperOne, February 25), the novelist declares that […]
On their fourth album, Plus One, The War and Treaty transport us into the sonic stratosphere from the album’s opening track, “Love Like Whiskey,” and never let us down as they carry us through the yearnings, the dashed expectations, […]
Many years ago, a friend of Charlie Peacock’s daughter Molly came to visit her. She noticed the records hanging on the wall and a few trophies displayed here and there and asked Molly, “Is you dad famous?” Molly replied, […]
By turns hauntingly-atmospheric and raucous, Joel Timmons’ debut solo album Psychedelic Surf Country lives up to its name, swerving from layers of head-tripping synthesizer symphonies to Dick Dale guitar boogies. “Just a Man,” a story song that’s an ode […]
As the twenty-first century dawned, Doc Watson looked back over his life and declared—in his typically humble and understated fashion—“If I had planned to do a certain thing and then done it, it’s that I’ve played music that I […]
The title of Roger Street Friedman’s fifth album, Long Shadows, nods to the gloominess that often casts itself over our lives. For Friedman, those shadows may darken our lives for a while but, as he illustrates in many of […]
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