With the release of Love Is a War, The Corduroy Road are out to showcase Carman and Solise’s incredible songwriting skills and smooth vocal harmonies. With a toe tapping melody and mixes of some great work on banjo, guitar, and organ, the title track is reminiscent of Avett Brothers.
Even those who love prog rock often understand that its shortcoming stems from putting the head before the heart. While no genre in rock can compete with prog's technical prowess, it's still often dismissed as self-indulgent and light where the true spirit of rock n roll is the exception, not the rule. That leaves any band that takes the prog road with quite an uphill haul.
“There’s something about life that’s worth living,” sings Sarah Siskind on “Worth Fighting For,” one of many standout tracks on her newest album, Say it Louder. Over 13 tracks, Siskind delivers messages on love, regret, and ultimately, hope for the future through vocals that possess seemingly endless range.
The newly reformed The Jesus Lizard will set out on the road for a limited number of comeback dates this year, including appearances at a pair of major rock festivals.
Widespread Panic has been announced as a headliner for this year’s Voodoo Experience festival in New Orleans, merging a pair of Crescent City Halloween traditions. The Voodoo Experience, taking place
El Paso band At The Drive-In have been in talks to reform, according to their former singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala. The band split in 2001, with Bixler-Zavala subsequently forming prog-rock band
Our friends at HeadCount will debut a new music and political trivia gameshow at Bonnaroo called Reality Check with the help of Relix and Jambands. Held at the HeadCount booth
Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring column featuring recordings of shows that took place the previous week. Thanks to phanophish for this week’s photo.
Artist & Title: Cornmeal – When the World’s Got You Down
Date & Venue: 2009-06-05 – Wakarusa Music Festival, Ozark AR
Taper & Show Download: Sam Stratton
It’s apparent to me that Summer Music Festival Season is in full bloom based on all the great tapes that keep coming out of recent weekends and quickly making it up onto the Live Music Archive. Leading off this week we’ve got a track from Cornmeal with a little help from friend Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth. Cornmeal will be playing MANY more festivals this summer and they play tonight in Memphis with Outformation.
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cornmealsauce.mp3]READ ON for more entries from the likes of Drive By Truckers and Fennario…
The schedule for the AT&T Music Bonnaroo Webcasts has been released and sadly Phish is nowhere to be found, although there are some TBA slots namely 11:30PM on Sunday night.
We interupt our disgustingly over-the-top Phish Summer Tour coverage to plug a show featuring our friends The Hue and Wyllys along with Spare Parts and Land of Atlantis at Chicago’s
