I haven’t been this excited for a batch of new releases in a long time. Today three incredible albums hit the stores and your favorite download portals. This is just
Composer Lee Johnson unveiled a recorded version of his orchestral tribute to the music of the Dead, aka Dead Symphony #6, to raves from Deadheads everywhere. Yet, everyone wondered “when
Now that Evil Urges has finally been released, we can fully focus the HT fluffmachine on Apollo Sunshine’s new album, Shall Noise Upon. Luckily, we don’t have to wait until
They didn’t attempt to eulogize their own magazine so much as exemplify all it accomplished in 13 years, so I’ll spare Grant Alden, Peter Blackstock and Kyla Fairchild the indignity of treacle. But I finally finished the last print issue of No Depression—which I’ve been advised will still be on stands for another month—and it’s clear a unique critical voice will be missing from the pack from now on, at least in print form.
What is No Depression’s legacy? Great music, sure, and writing about it with infectious, sometimes uncritical (and that’s OK), passion. What I like most about its finale is how long it took me to get through it: weeks, digesting stories one at a time, at my leisure, and extracting salient points. I’m as impatient as they come; I bitch heartily when a favorite blog isn’t updated minute-by-minute, or a setlist report is incomplete, or a story on a well known artist doesn’t tell me anything beyond cursory fluff. No Depression’s greatness is that to the end it feels unhurried. This magazine isn’t a shouter; it’s a raconteur.
READ ON for more of Chad’s review for the final issue of No Depression…
Is there anything better than dirty Southern Blues? You know, the kind where you turn the radio down so your mother won’t hear the lyrics and knock on your bedroom door…
“We fucked on the table, We fucked on the floor, We rolled down the stairs and we fucked a little more”
While you’re trying to think up the answer to that one, just remember that from where this bands hails, the Deep South is an hour flight north.
Well, JJ Grey and Mofro came out hard at the Williamsburg Music Hall on May 30 with the title track from their latest album, Country Ghetto. With the horns blazing behind him, JJ Grey took center stage first on the harmonica and then later on the electric piano, as the crowd sang along to his stories of hard living and good eating in the lands of swampy Jacksonville, Florida. READ ON for more of Jeremy’s words and photos from JJ Grey and Mofro’s show at the Williamsburg Music Hall…
Some interesting news came out of Camp Bonnaroo yesterday, as it was announced that rapper Kanye West will become the first artist to play a late-night on the main stage.
You can count on very few things to happen year after year at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester. Two of those things include brutally hot weather and
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club drummer Nick Jago has split with the band for a second time, just prior to the launch of a European tour. However, core members Robert Levon
Portishead have revealed that they will not play any further live shows in 2008. Speaking to BBC6Music, the band’s guitarist Adrian Utley said that their recent gig at the Bacelona
Coldplay has been forced to postpone the start of its North American tour by two weeks due to unspecified "production delays which mean that the show simply won’t be ready"
