Superchunk have festival dates planned this summer and now east coast dates in September. Details are emerging about their long-anticipated new album, which now has a title: Majesty Shredding! Superchunk
Athens, GA trio THE WHIGS are very excited to announce a massive tour that will include a headlining run and opening slots with Kings of Leon, The Hold Steady and
Martin Sexton is one of the most unflappably earnest musicians on the planet, and he always manages to stand out in a genre that is unmercifully crowded. His latest release, Sugarcoating, brings listeners more of his positive, folk-tinged acoustic rock and stirring lyricism. Sexton’s music has frequently centered on themes of personal fulfillment and the tenuous existence of human happiness, and Sugarcoating does some of the same, simultaneously addressing materialism, success, and other trappings of the modern world.
The barren landscape served as an appropriate backdrop to Jakob Dylan’s live performance at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. It depicted the overall tone quite well, which was simple, with images and landscapes of a rural and forlorn country. However, the show was sometimes a little jaded and monotonous.
There's a tremendous irony arising from the plethora of posthumous Jimi Hendrix releases following his unexpected death in 1970. The early Alan Douglas productions, a steady stream of shoddy bootlegs, the MCA repackages in 1993 (followed closely by the first Experience Hendrix releases in 1997 and their own Dagger series) as well as the deluxe packages of the newly-introduced Experience Hendrix/Legacy Recordings partnership, to a great degree reflect the restless creative urge of the guitar icon. That said, it's hard to resist the temptation to ask when is enough enough, particularly when it comes to ostensibly official releases.
