[rating=9.00] Is it really any coincidence (some of) the best live playing in the Grateful Dead’s career took place during 1974? This period represented a culmination of the burst of
[rating=7.00] A lot has changed for Brandi Carlile since she released her last album, Bear Creek, in 2012. Professionally, she left her major label deal with Sony for a new
[rating=8.00] Gill Landry is on a roll, making music with Old Crow Medicine Show and now releasing his third full-length solo record. The self-titled release finds the multi-talented singer, songwriter
[rating=7.00] When Oasis taped an MTV Unplugged performance in 1996, it wasn’t meant to be Noel Gallagher’s first solo album. But the stripped-down set was exactly that, an unintended classic
[rating=8.00] Touring relentlessly in support of their first three releases (over 2,000 shows in the last ten years) Blackberry Smoke has built a well-deserved reputation as the heirs to the
[rating=9.00] Andrew Combs is a dynamite artist who just keeps getting better and better. On his second full-length record All These Dreams, a follow up to 2012’s Worried Man, he’s
[rating=9.00 Labeling Diamond Rugs a “supergroup” is almost too small a concept to hold the explosiveness of what they create together. Though each part of the whole came from an
[rating=7.00] Colin Hay, best known for his role as the singer for the immensely popular Australian pop rock band Men At Work (“Down Under”, “Who Can It Be Now?” and
[rating=8.00] “Quirky” is a word that has often been used to describe the North Carolina-based chamber/pop band, Bombadil. But their fifth studio release, Hold On (Ramseur Records), doesn’t include the
[rating=9.00] Ol’ Glory provides vigorous affirmation—as if any was needed—of the level of sophistication to which JJ Grey and Mofro have progressed from their days as an earthy little swamp
