Sturgill Simpson has always come across as an artist who is more comfortable in the studio than onstage. But the reality of the music business now – even when your
You have to give it to Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer. Instead of grinding the 90’s nostalgia circuit with their band The Posies, they have figured out a smart way
Fans of Brooklyn-based band The Hold Steady have been mourning the departure of multi-instrumentalist and composer Franz Nicolay since he left the band in 2010. The mustachioed musician was an exuberant
Sometimes bands happen to play in bars and sometimes bands are made for bars. Chicago outfit The Black Oil Brothers are the latter. This quartet seeks to draw that age old
My Morning Jacket are no strangers to Austin City Limits, having played the long-running PBS music program in 2006 and 2008. This does not even include the four times frontman
Jared Deck seems to fit the profile of a workingman’s troubadour. He was raised on a family farm in an Oklahoma town with a population of 1,200 and grew up
Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter Anna Tivel classifies her music with her own mash-up word “folkmericana”. Give her a listen and you’ll find this is a pretty damn accurate descriptor. Tivel’s voice
[rating=8.00] Greyhounds are that rare act that with foot in the past and one foot in the future and plenty of style to boot. For 15 years the Austin duo
Maybe I’m out of touch with the reggae scene these days, but if there is one thing I can note it’s the lack of acts embracing the legacy of the
It’s difficult to quantify the expansive influence of Greg Broussard, the producer known to the world as Egyptian Lover. As a kid he grew up listening to acts like Kraftwerk, Prince, Rick
