There’s a lot to say in reviews of this week’s batch of new releases. We’ve got a Holler, a Strange Conversation, and a bit of Bad Mouthin’ too. We’ve also got some insights from the artists themselves on those albums. We’ve also got the scoop […]
The International Bluegrass Music Association held its awards show last night, a glittery affair (but really — men and women alike rocked sparkle on their red carpet outfits, and it was truly fabulous) hosted by Hot Rize that celebrated the […]
Beck at The Bowl! You know I wasn’t going to miss this one … though I did miss opening act St. Vincent doing a D.J. set as “St. Vicious” … but we weren’t in a big rush to see someone […]
Up until this past January I doubt that I’ve actually sat in a movie theater more than dozen times in the past six years. It’s not because I don’t enjoy watching films, but here in New York where tickets are […]
At a panel on representing Appalachia in Americana at the recent Americana Music Conference and Festival, West Virginia musician Kathy Mattea observed that “music is what led me back into the culture I lived in.” As she described the ways […]
Where better to tell a story than a bookshop? That’s how Canadian singer songwriter Tia McGraff and co-writer, fellow musician, producer and husband Tommy Parham closed their UK tour on Thursday night. The venue was The Bookshop in the Sussex […]
To script it on paper, it might seem an unlikely matchup. Linda Gail Lewis, piano player and rockabilly singer, paired with one of the more famous songwriters to come out of the alt-country era, Robbie Fulks. And yet, their new […]
To script it on paper, it might seem an unlikely matchup. Linda Gail Lewis, piano player and rockabilly singer, paired with one of the more famous songwriters to come out of the alt-country era, Robbie Fulks. And yet, their new […]
It might be fair to call Toronto’s Craig Robertson a late bloomer as far as the singer/songwriter game goes, but he has certainly caught up to his peers with his brilliant third album Late Mornings, produced by Michael Timmins of […]
Kristin Scott Benson, who’s been named the International Bluegrass Music Association’s banjo player of the year four times and nominated for a Grammy with her band, The Grascals, can now add another item in her list of distinguished achievements: The […]
