If you were to Weird Science the prototype for a technically perfect, ethereal female singer, you’d come up with someone like Mikaela Davis. Petite, young and blonde, she’s a harpist with a high, dreamy, limber voice who boasts an affinity for […]
The Other Half is a collaboration between star-crossed lovers’ country duet My Darling Clementine (Lou Dalgleish and Michael Weston King) and crime writer Mark Billingham that exists as an album and a stage show incorporating spoken word, forlorn country songs […]
Sit Kitty Sit came into New York City like a storm on Saturday, September 3rd to play an ambitious show at Fat Baby. The notable duo of Kat Downs and Mike Thompson took to the stage like the pros they […]
Bumbershoot has changed quite a bit the past couple years with the management of AEG now booking and planning out the musicians and bands performing at Seattle’s longstanding music and arts festival. Lots of the bands are geared for a […]
Jeff Lynne’s ELO and the L.A. Philharmonic just shared a three night stand at the Hollywood Bowl and those shows were something to behold. The truly nightmarish Friday night traffic (Thanks, Vice President Biden!) came close to road rage inducing, but […]
Chris Stapleton is a killer! He’s the one instance whereby I can think murder is gorgeous. He gets into the guts of an electric guitar like few I’ve ever seen. He grabs at the resonant heart of the powered box […]
Armed with my records and a sharpie I piled into my car with my daughters, Caitlin and Elizabeth, and made the 1.3 mile journey to one of my favorite places, Buffalo Records in Kearney, NE to hear one of my […]
The first of two nights in London, this was a keenly awaited pleasure for what looked, and soon sounded, like an audience of long-standing fans. It’s been five years since the Jayhawks played here and longer still, before that. Last […]
About halfway through Wilco’s set at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland on Sunday, Jeff Tweedy quipped that the band’s show would be followed by a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This was a reference to Wilco’s stage setup, […]
Composer John Williams is known as the “Maestro of the Movies”, so it was fitting that he conducted the L.A. Philharmonic in a celebration of film music for three nights at the Hollywood Bowl this Labor Day weekend. Williams has been nominated 50 (!) […]
