Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett has announced 12th of June, his first album in a decade. Don’t let the date in the title fool you: The release date for the album, from Verve Records, is the 13th of May. The […]
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Darden Smith’s stunning new project, Western Skies, exquisitely captures the expansiveness of the landscape of Texas and the American Southwest in photographs, essays, poems, and songs. In a book and album of the same title, Smith produces a cinematic […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Anne Harris is a roots and blues fiddle player and singer-songwriter based in Chicago. She is currently raising money to commission a violin from luthier Amanda Ewing via a GoFundMe campaign. We asked Harris to tell us […]
A strong dose of perspective is the driving force behind Nicki Bluhm’s second solo album, Avondale Drive, coming June 3 on Compass Records. In the past few years, she’s gone through a divorce from fellow musician Tim Bluhm, moved […]
Jim Miller, part of the roots music trio Western Centuries and a founding member of Donna the Buffalo, died last week from cardiac arrest while on tour in Boston. “We’re all absolutely heartbroken and speechless right now,” Western Centuries […]
With his new project, Boleros Psicodélicos, Black Pumas guitarist and producer Adrian Quesada pays homage to balada, a genre heavy on heartbreak as well as groove that connected music lovers across Latin America in the late 1960s and early […]
Perhaps improbably in this technological age, cassettes are back, re-emerging from the 1980s and ’90s as a format some artists are using — alongside others — for new releases and reissues. For some, the idea comes from record labels, […]
In his opening remarks, Big Ears Festival founder Ashley Capps said, quoting jazz composer Albert Ayler, “ ‘Music is the healing force in the universe.’ It resonates more now than ever.” After a two-year COVID hiatus, this year’s edition of […]
I’ve always felt that music was a much more reliable teller of history than any texts. Texts are written by the winners. Songs are written by the subclasses. As great as Ken Burns is as a historian, even his […]
Will Smith’s resonant slap of Chris Rock onstage at the Academy Awards will be the headline of the evening, but music had a notable (and far less painful) night too. A moment after Smith strolled onstage to slap Rock, […]
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