News Bits
- Old Crow Medicine Show – New Album & Tour Dates Announced… Its about time boys!!!
- Woody Guthrie Centenial Commemorated with Smithsonain Folkways Release – Book, Poster, 3CD set, Shirt, 6 Never Before Heard Original Songs
- Audio Fidelity Showers April with Phil Collins Gold, Ten Years After Vinyl, and a Genesis Rarity for “Record Store Day”
- Levon Helm 1940 – 2012
- Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” Gets Film Adaptation
- American Cadence Records Set to Release Charlie Abbott’s “Brand New Weather”
- Charleston Trio Heyrocco Prepares for Album Debut, COMFORT
- T-Bone Burnett Produces New Lisa Marie Presley Album, Due Out May 15
- James Taylor’s Mud Slide Slim and The Blue Horizon, Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions ‘Go Gold’ Again in New Audio Fidelity Reissues
- Natalie Merchant’s Acclaimed Final Album with 10,000 Maniacs Gets Special Vinyl Treatment
Country Music Pride
- Stagecoach 2012 Review – Miranda, Blake, Aldean, Paisley, Alabama, Band Perry, Steve Martin & 20,000 Jason Aldean Posers.
- Keith Urban Surprised with Invitation to Join Grand Ole Opry
- CMA Fest Is Packed With Country Music’s Brightest Stars-Win Your Way In!
- Carter’s Chord Releases “Love A Little Bigger” Video and an Invitation to Chat with the Group Live April 17, 2012
- THOMPSON SQUARE WINS “VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR” at the 47th Annual ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS
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Old Crow Medicine Show – New Album & Tour Dates Announced… Its about time boys!!!
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Woody Guthrie Centenial Commemorated with Smithsonain Folkways Release – Book, Poster, 3CD set, Shirt, 6 Never Before Heard Original Songs
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Deer Tick at the Yost Theater – Cee Lo and McCauley’s Grill’s! A Show Review
May 11, 2012 11:05 -
The Brothers Comatose – “Respect The Van”
May 6, 2012 17:05 -
Alabama Shakes – “Boys & Girls” – (ATO)
May 4, 2012 23:05
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Colin Hay is a lovely guy, we supported him at a gig in Edinburgh a couple of ye -
Kim:
I hadn't heard of Colin Hay since Men at Work...and I got to see him just recent -
ATF:
You mentioned Imelda May. I saw her here in Atlanta a couple of years ago. She o -
Jennwith2ns:
Thanks for this great review of my Uncle Phil's album. I've heard the demos and
Archive for the ‘Album Reviews’ Category
Album Review: Bastard Lovechild of Rock n’ Roll – “Bim Bom” (Self Released)
Bastard Lovechild of Rock n’ Roll (BLORR) are the humbuckin’ pickups on an old reliable Telecaster and the bottleneck sliding up and down the fretboard. But they’re also the melancholy chords that take you back to a certain summer in a certain secret garden with a certain someone you lost long ago. Oh, and this [...]
Album Review: Way Yes – “Herringbone” – (Independent)
By Lindsey Austin Herringbone, the debut EP by Way Yes is just waiting for the goofy impromptu dance parties that sometimes happen when long-missed friends reunite for the holidays. Glenn Davis and Travis Hall hail from Columbus, Ohio and refuse to be anything but true to their weirdo selves in their self-released EP. Way Yes [...]
Charlie Louvin: The Battles Rage On
New Album The Battles Rage On — Interview with the Legend Himself — Music Video for “Weapon of Prayer” A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the longest living member of the Grand Old Opry, Charlie Louvin is a true legend of country music. His work has influenced The Beatles, Gram Parsons, [...]
Album Review: Led to Sea – “Into the Darkening Sky” – (Eleven Records)
From the opening pizzicato notes of “Dark Like Night,” Seattle-based violist/vocalist L. Alex Guy (Led to Sea is her solo project) guides us to a very organic world full of icy skies, rocky shores, rust, forests, and mountain streams heeding the the ocean’s call. Guy’s vocals are captivating — and she plays a mean glockenspiel. [...]
Album Review: Sonny & The Sunsets – “Tomorrow Is Alright” – (Fat Possum)
If Lou Reed had lived in California, worked in a surf shop and smoked weed instead of bopping his crazy ass around NYC shooting heroin, he would have formed Sonny & The Sunsets instead of Velvet Underground. Honestly, we’re glad this did not occur, but you get the idea. Sonny Smith, the frontman of this [...]
Album Review: Railroad Earth – “Railroad Earth” – (One Haven)
By Brian Lightfoot Railroad Earth’s self-titled release is a comfortable and confident layering of Southern rock, country and bluegrass. It is an undeniably American record with very naturally performed and recorded songs. Mixtures of sparkly acoustic instruments and twangy-to-growling telecaster tones matched with driving drum beats, semi-bluegrass bits, and some surprisingly funk- and rock-driven rhythms [...]
Album Review: Jandek – “Toronto Sunday” – (Corwood)
By Luke Winkie Ever since Jandek made his ever-so-precarious crawl from utterly unknown, near mythical status to somewhat unknown, somewhat mythical status (on the back of a small handful of previously unheard-of live shows each year since 2005) his presence and insanely-engaging mystery has become somewhat of a commodity. Documentaries have been made, shows have [...]
Album Review: Cheyenne Marie Mize – “Before Lately” – (sonaBLAST!)
By Melissa Haklitch Cheyenne Marie Mize’s debut solo album is anything but amateur. Channeling vocals similar to that of Cat Power’s Chan Marshall and Julie Sokolow, Mize challenges the best women singer/songwriters of the indie/folk scene. While Mize has performed with numerous known musical artists including Arnett Hollow and the Carter Family, Before Lately is [...]
Album Review: Silje Nes – “Opticks” – (FatCat)
By Brian Lightfoot Silje Nes’ newest release Opticks is a serene and sleepy record that sonically draws images of wintry landscapes and glassy waters. Like other Northern European songwriters, Silje’s pronunciation, lyrical delivery and vocal style come across as innocent, child-like and sometimes even magical. Vocal layering techniques, instruments played at just above whisper level [...]
Album Review: Josh Ritter – “So Runs The World Away” (Pytheas)
By Brian Lightfoot Josh Ritter’s latest release So Runs the World Away is an emotionally rich reflection on life, death, disillusionment and pain. Though it is largely a record centering on the tragedies of broken love and human loss, it is also one of hopefulness and joy in reflection on the overall human experience. On [...]
Album Review: Marshall Chapman – “Big Lonesome” (TallGirl Records)
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. — Marcel Proust Dedicated to [...]
Album Review: The Moaners – “Nocturnal” – (Holidays for Quince Records)
By Melissa Haklitch Embodying their Southern geography, The Moaners’ third release Nocturnal captures the loveliness that is bluegrass, while adding a certain element of garage rock and whimsy. Nocturnal ranges across the spectrum of many genres within its ten tracks. Having been previously compared to The White Stripes, The Moaners maintain their two-person ensemble of [...]
Album Review: Trevor Alguire – “Now Before Us” – (Trevor Alguire/SOCAN)
The former frontman for Mercury Pickup, Alguire has a vocal style that’s relaxed yet dominant, akin to Greg Keelor and Declan McGarry. Now Before Us, his third solo album, is a stripped-down, squeaky clean production with some very enjoyable moments; unfortunately, those moments are too few and far between. Algure has beginnings down pat (many [...]
Album Review: “From The Land of Ice And Snow: The Songs of Led Zeppelin” (Jealous Butcher)
By Melissa Haklitch Having grown up in a house where Led Zeppelin set the standard for what is Music (with a capital M), I was excited to see Jealous Butcher Records is releasing a compilation covers album with some of the band’s greatest hits. Normally, I have some trepidation about modern bands trying to reproduce [...]
