Brian Henneman, Cleveland, Ohio
This week’s new releases have plenty of big names among them, at least in our little corner of the music world: John Hiatt, The Bottle Rockets, Sarah Borges, and The Watson Twins. Elvis Costello, Kurt Vile, and Lucy Wainwright Roche. […]
The cover art to The Bottle Rockets’ Bit Logic LP features an 8-bit outlaw. He’s a mid-1980s, hyper-pixelated Wild West rebel, the stuff of vintage Reagan-era Nintendo Entertainment System consoles. He’s the perfect figure for the Missouri outfit’s latest outing: Twelve […]
This story first appeared in the online edition of the Madison weekly Isthmus. By Marc Eisen Well, that was embarrassing! I nodded off listening to overly ambient music at the Arts + Literature Laboratory, the great new creative space at […]
“We couldn’t do this without you,” Bottle Rockets front man Brian Henneman said after a nearly two-hour main set at the Off Broadway Music Venue on Nov. 26, adding, “We could, but why?” Why, indeed. The St. Louis band’s annual […]
Here’s a Radio Friendly first: two brothers who share a radio show, “Tangled Roots” on WHUS, and we get answers from both of them. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio and what other stations have you worked at […]
Benefit show for the South Broadway Athletic Club
St. Louis, Missouri band The Bottle Rockets have just released its twelfth album South Broadway Athletic Club (on October 2 via Bloodshot Records). The Bottle Rockets hit the scene in the 1990’s and its eponymous debut (1993) and follow-up, 1995’s The Brooklyn Side, have become landmark releases, […]
The Bottle Rockets are back. Not that they ever went anywhere – they’ve been maintaining a fairly rigorous tour schedule for the last handful of years – but it’s been six years since these Midwestern rockers have released a proper […]
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