With the tragic passing of founding member Richie Hayward, Little Feat suffered what is undeniably the band's greatest loss since the untimely death of its mastermind Lowell George. But the venerable group has enlisted some redoubtable reinforcements for its 16th studio album Rooster Rag.
Yet this stuff still sounds like it was recorded on a one-speaker Emerson boom box from 1984. And to remove that sense of scratchiness from the listening experience of material like "Secret Knowledge of Back Roads" and "Bar Scene from Star Wars" would be akin to sucking the soul from its historical importance entirely, not to mention usurping the fun of the challenge in peeling away the fuzz to reveal the true grit of these wonderfully scrappy pop songs.
Medeski Martin & Wood have announced the release of Free Magic due September 25 on the band’s label Indirecto Records. For its latest effort, MMW dip into their archives to
Patterson Hood and the Downtown Rumblers announce a 19-date tour in support of Hood’s third solo record. Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance will be released September 11th on ATO
Martha Wainwright is set to return with her third studio album, Come Home To Mama, via Cooperative Music in the U.S. on October 16th. The album is her first collection
The Mountain Goats‘ Transcendental Youth will be available in stores on CD, LP and digital on October 2nd. Starting today, the first 1,000 pre-orders from the Merge store will receive
Trampled By Turtles turn in a spectacular take on My Morning Jacket’s Wonderful (The Way I Feel).
Check out seventeen glorious minutes of Phish from SPAC.
The WeMo switch offers a quick and easy way of controlling devices from your iPhone and is the first product in what will be a line of home automation devices from Belkin.
Los Lobos multi-instrumentalist Steve Berlin doesn’t have anything nice to say about Paul Simon.
