When Natalie Maines rated out President Bush with her infamous anti-war lingo, it very nearly caused the destruction of one of country music’s best-selling female groups of all time, (ahem, The Dixie Chicks, back for a 2010 summer tour with […]
Whether or not a country boy can survive is mutually based on hard work and tales of woe and despair that everyone can relate too. Enter the somber side of psychedelic alt-country pioneers, The Sadies, with their 13th album in […]
It’s all about the hair. First it was a Buddy Holly moptop, than a slicked up mohawk, dead give away for what to expect next from the self-proclaimed king of hot rod country, vigilante punk rocker and always country crooner. […]
“If you’re going to bring a knife to a gun fight” should have been a country song written by the Honky Tonk Hero of country music, Billy Joe Shaver. This week, in Waco’s 54th State District Court, Shaver goes on […]
Jesse Dayton‘s brand of turbo country is as clear as moonshine. It reeks of Waylon Jennings steeped in bar-drinking America, he pays homage to the hottest couples of country music circa 1970 a la Johnny and June (with a little […]
Street Sweeper Social Club, fronted by Tom Morello (former Rage Against the Machine guitarist) and Boots Riley (lyrical spinner for legendary hip-hop group The Coup) took a page straight out of the Bob Dylan songbook, mixing medicine and fighting government […]
Listening to She and Him, the brainchild of actress Zooey Deschanel (aka the older sister to Cameron Crowe’s William Miller in Almost Famous) and local Portland singer/songwriter M. Ward (knob-turner for Jenny Lewis and Norah Jones collaborator) is like falling […]
