Watch as Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers play their super-catchy original Till I’m Blue while riding a San Diego trolley
Grateful Dead / Furthur / RatDog guitarist Bob Weir got into it with obnoxious talkers last night
Soulive has revealed that Booker T. Jones will guest with the band at a Stax Tribute on March 12th
Watch the REAL story (not really) behind how The Postal Service came together
We preview this month’s SXSW Music festival by detailing 10 bands you should check out
Watch Warren Haynes jam on a B.B. King song and a GSW original with God Street Wine
Review and photos from the final Bill Evans’ Soulgrass show of the band’s Blue Note residency
The seemingly unlikely pairing of Adam Green and Binki Shapiro is a curious one. Adam Green of “Moldy Peaches” fame teams up with Binki Shapiro with her sultry and sometimes even smokey vocals. In their debut self titled album Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, they try their hand at the seemingly crowded genre of ‘60’s throwback pop’ and for the most part, succeed in creating a fun little album full of strange love songs. It’s a welcome distraction, but doesn’t leave a long lasting impression.
Allentown, Pennsylvania, was once known as one of the foregrounds of American industrial manufacturing, especially in the silk and textile markets, not to mention Mack Trucks. But while they closed many of the factories down, as Billy Joel once fastidiously proclaimed in his ode to the blue collar metropolis on 1982’s The Nylon Curtain, the spirit of the town’s metal-on-metal spirit lives large in the DNA of their local sons Pissed Jeans, who may have since relocated to more contemporary digs in Philadelphia but hasn’t lost an ounce of the post-hardcore edge they’ve branded into their creative psyche since 2005.
Jay Farrar and his reconfigured Son Volt lineup draw upon the elemental genre of country music for Honky Tonk. Without a shred of contrivance, they achieve and maintain an ever-so-precarious balance of euphoric music offset by deceptively despairing lyrics.
