Lotus, Lettuce and Eddie Roberts @ Fuji Rock Festival 2013
A trio of jambands will play the Fuji Rock Festival this summer along with Mumford and Sons, NIN and Bjork
A trio of jambands will play the Fuji Rock Festival this summer along with Mumford and Sons, NIN and Bjork
Everyone Orchestra, JoJo Hermann’s Down On The Bayou and more Jazzfest late-nights announced
News about Jeff Tweedy’s letter to the editor of his hometown paper and details of Wilco’s first set of 2013
Listen to The Black Crowes debut their version of Medicated Goo by Traffic
Watch young alt.folk act von Grey make their network TV debut on the Late Show with David Letterman
Rilo Kiley mine their own archives and those of their fans for a new video
Award-winning songstress Dido will make two television appearances this week
Eric Clapton has spent the better part of his solo career populating his albums with the material written by composers he admires. It would be safe thinking Clapton would devote the debut recording on his own label with a clutch of self-penned tunes, however on Old Sock, Slowhand continues in the vein of standards he mined on its predecessor Clapton.
For over the past decade, Jay Collins has been blowing his sax in the Gregg Allman Band. What you may not know is that Collins also has his own group called The Kings County Band and that their latest CD, Rivers Blues & Other People, features Collins not only doing what he does best but singing as well. His voice, tinted with a husky old-timer’s good-time vibe, brings new life to tunes by Bob Dylan and Robert Johnson as well as to foot-tapping originals like “Mighty Mississippi” and “Mary Ann’s.” He is a renaissance man in more ways than one. A master on horns, he has a jazz and blues shaded heart that compliments Allman’s southern blues rock almost perfectly. And his story of how he got this far is not well known.
Listening to a They Might Be Giants album can be a bit like homework. That's probably not what the two Johns (Linnell and Flansburgh, respectively) envisioned when they started the band over thirty years ago. By now though, as the duo have released their 16th studio album, Nanobots, there's no denying that it takes some work to fully appreciate this band.