[rating=8.00] It was an equally brave and honorable gesture Paul Rodgers made with The Royal Sessions. Offering homage to those artists, like Albert King, Sam, Dave and Otis Redding, that
[rating=10.0] As Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn piloted their battered touring van up the eastern seaboard in the midst of an Arctic-like winter to Boston’s Fort Apache Sound,
[rating=7.00] The honesty in John Butler’s songwriting comes through in his storytelling, both lyrically and instrumentally; it’s a component of his music that is very experience based. In live performance,
David Crosby came down from his Santa Ynez ranch to play a very special concert at the Lobero Theater in downtown Santa Barbara, CA. The recently renovated Lobero Theater was
[rating=8.00] After the Disco, the follow up recording to Broken Bells’ self-titled release in 2010, could be as much a reference to a state beyond happiness as one of a
Arctic Monkeys took the Hard Rock stage obscured by a dense fog and lighting that cast the band in silhouette. The ambiance created a somber mood that lasted until the
With the emergence of CD box sets, two specialties seem to be rising to the top like natural selection. Perhaps one’s a direct result of the other, who knows, but
Full disclosure: this reviewer walked into the Neptune theater in Seattle the other night entirely expecting to enjoy Josh Ritter’s set. As one of many people who would call his
The weather outside was frightful, leaving eager attendees scrambling on the treacherous roads, but the payoff was well worth the risk. The true storm was brewing inside in the form
We all have our own personal greatest hits list. A dozen or so songs that stand out to us either because of the sound, the lyrics, or maybe the memories
