Shinyribs looks like it’d be a band as much fun to be in as it is to listen to. If you were the frontman, you’d get to wear a hooded cape that not only glows in the dark but flashes […]
Shinyribs looks like it’d be a band as much fun to be in as it is to listen to. If you were the frontman, you’d get to wear a hooded cape that not only glows in the dark but flashes […]
Kevin Russell-led Shinyribs is more an event than a band, more a force than a show. But music and feeling good are at the heart of it all, and the magic that the Austin swamp rockers blast out on stage […]
One of the “bright spots” in Americana radio is the success of Austin’s Sun Radio, an all-music non-commercial station that’s broadcasting on no less than seven frequencies throughout central Texas. The station features many speciality shows and live events like radio […]
Forget everything you know about Béla Fleck for a moment. The banjo master has just released his latest album, a symphonic composition that’s often chaotic, sometimes esoteric, but overall innovative for its use of the ol’ five-string in conjunction with […]
From the first soulful burst of warm horns from the Tijuana Trainwreck Horns on Shinyribs’ new record I Got Your Medicine, we’re put at ease. The title track opens the album and gives us a taste of the swamp-country band’s […]
When we first heard Kevin “Shinyribs” Russell as a solo artist on 2010’s Well After Awhile, he was taking a short break from his Austin band, The Gourds. Since that time the group regrouped for Old Mad Joy, starred in […]
MerleFest 2016 was bookended by something I had never experienced there before: car troubles. On Friday my battery died and on Sunday, after a full night of rain, I had a flat tire. While those inconveniences prevented me from catching […]
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