Of all the blues trash and primitive rock’n’roll one-man bands in the world today there are a dozen or so that really set the bar, musically speaking, and set it high. One such artist, Swiss singer/songwriter Chrisian Buehlmann, who […]
For the last several years I have worked as a freelance music journalist, publishing regularly with a handful of publications. Mostly I do it for the press passes to shows and free releases for review, etc, because I am a complete music nerd whose tastes include a variety of genres and subgenres. Roots music is one of my favorites, though. And I have done reviews and interviewed a number of today's more worthwhile country, bluegrass, blues, roots rock, rockabilly, psychobilly, folk, folk-punk bands and singer-songwriters.
Of all the blues trash and primitive rock’n’roll one-man bands in the world today there are a dozen or so that really set the bar, musically speaking, and set it high. One such artist, Swiss singer/songwriter Chrisian Buehlmann, who […]
Much like a small handful of specific places throughout the United States, a few parts of the Pacific Northwest are fertile breeding grounds from which so many great bands and singer/songwriters emerge these days, especially in independent and underground music. […]
There are more independent record labels springing up throughout the underground music scenes of the world every year, certainly more than one can keep track of on one’s own, let’s be honest. Only problem is, most of them are either […]
Over the course of the past two years of writing articles and interviewing artists for my One-Man Band Series I have come across singer/songwriters from all over the world. Mickey Pantelous, however, whose Dr. Albert Flipout’s One CAN band project […]
Yesterday night I attended the Reverend Horton Heat and Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band show at the Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was admittedly the best show I have gone to since the Bob Log III show last […]
From the humid, insect-ridden swamps of Florida, Bruno Esposito, also known by the moniker Lone Wolf, has stepped forth as a newcomer to the one-man band scene. With his vigorous banjo playing and gruff vocal delivery, he certainly plays a […]
Recent music history shows that a substantial roots revival came about a handful of years ago. Today it is still going on, indeed on a larger scale than at its onset, with new and unusual bands and singer/songwriters surfacing from […]
One can insert the band Slim Cessna’s Auto Club into a number of different musical categories — dark roots, rustic blues, apocalyptic gospel, and alt-country, to name a few — and in doing so be partly correct in each case. […]
Formed in Los Angeles in 2007, Old Man Markley, a ragtag ensemble of talented artists and miscreants, have since created a catchy, organic sound best described as bluegrass punk, of all things. And that sound has burst through the starting […]
After a rather productive and exciting 2010, independent Swiss label Voodoo Rhythm Records has kicked off the new year with a big ol’ compilation. Featuring twenty-one artists that have worked with the label over the years, this new compilation, the […]