There was a time, before Hurray for the Riff Raff had built anything close to a national audience, when frontwoman Alynda Lee Segarra and longtime fiddler/drummer Yosi Perlstein would hop trains, busk on street corners, crash with scruffy, activist punk […]
Sunny Sweeney is grinning, leaning across the conference table at her publicist’s Music Row office to display an image on her phone. She’s pulled up her website and navigated to a particular T-shirt she sells as merch. “There it is,” […]
The King Wilkie of 2009 is not the same King Wilkie that heartened fans of traditional bluegrass with their youthful prowess five years ago. Nor is it the same King Wilkie that offered weighty, polished acoustic fare even a couple […]
The fact that this is a review of new albums by both Seth Walker and Clarence Bucaro isn’t meant to suggest that they’re collaborators, ex-bandmates, part of the same regional music scene, or anything of the sort. They’re not. But […]
If ever there was a time when a song about a man giving up on life because he can’t support his family made a disturbing sort of sense, that time is now. Whether it’s due to timeliness or just a […]
“City of Refuge” is a name claimed by plenty of charismatic churches who want to market themselves as oases of comfort. That clearly wasn’t what Castanets brainchild Raymond Raposa had in mind when he selected the title for his fourth […]
The considerable mystique surrounding David Eugene Edwards music with 16 Horsepower or with Wovenhand, which appears to be his primary gig at the moment isnt entirely of his own making. Most of us dont really know how to take a […]
It takes a mixture of generosity and suspension of disbelief to want to hear what Jamey Johnson has done since “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” (he was one of the three writers who gave Trace Adkins that particular joke-gone-obnoxious). But anyone who […]
In case you’ve missed the current pop-culture fascination with vampires (the dead) coexisting among us (the living) see the teenage forbidden love movie Twilight or the HBO series True Blood Jolie Holland’s fourth album, The Living And The Dead, offers […]
Grayson Capps is not just a seriously good songwriter if one who has relied quite heavily at times on the exaggerated color of deep-south character sketches he’s also an entertainer of the rarest sort: a master of variety, humor and […]
