2012

Phil & Friends Debut Two New Covers at Crossroads

Scott Bernstein February 15, 2012 1 Comment

Terrapin Crossroads presented a free webcast of Phil and Friends last night.

Lettuce, Head and the Heart, Avetts, Fitz and the Tantrums, Gary Clark Jr. to Open For Dave Matthews Band Summer Tour 2012

Scott Bernstein February 15, 2012 3 Comments

The Dave Matthews Band have announced their first tour since 2010.

Otis Taylor: Contraband

Chad Berndtson February 15, 2012 No Comments

It's hard to describe Taylor, nominally a bluesman but, like James Blood Ulmer or another inscrutable picker, he;s more a mutant of the genre. He' won't get lost in something primal — a repeated phrase, worked to the point of exhaustion like Richie Havens singing "Freedom" — or keep things even-paced and laid-back, yet he finds himself pocketed with menace and portent.

Dave Matthews Band Returns To The Road, New Album On The Way

February 15, 2012 No Comments

Dave Matthews Band returns to the road this summer with an extensive North American summer tour launching on May 18 at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX. The group

38 Special: Hard Rock Live, Biloxi, MS, 01/14/12

Leslie Michele Derrough February 15, 2012 No Comments

Chock full of rockers that got the heart pounding as well as the fists, 38 Special appeared to be having fun. Vocalist Donnie Van Zant roamed the stage with a noticeable hitch in his giddy-up, playing around with Chauncey and flashing a million watt smile. Barnes was more the calm-cool-and-collected guy, unlike his 1980’s persona, but his playing was not cold by any means. For his spotlight solo that kicked into “Trooper With An Attitude”, he led the audience on a finger-tapping scatfest. “Oh man, I love this job”, he said midway through.

Islands: A Sleep & A Forgetting

Brian Foy February 15, 2012 No Comments

Nick Thorburn is more confident in his craft which is evident in his back to basics approach. Thorburn's candor does not mean he has lost any of his trademark catchifisity (prolific catchiness). For Canadian born Thorburn, A Sleep & A Feeling comes out between Lincoln and Washington's birthdays, which is fitting because it might be Island’s Jay Treaty or even Emancipation Proclamation.