Archive: 2016

On October 21st the Dallas-based band Vandoliers release their new album Ameri-Kinda. The title is fitting considering this band is an eclectic mix that goes beyond your standard Americana pigeonholing. With lead singer Joshua Fleming’s background, rock influences are evident, but the band also brings Tejano and bluegrass into the fold, all while playing anthems about […]

Hoots and Hellmouth’s fourth album In The Trees is coming out October 28th, and this is an effort that has felt like an expedition. The new album began to take shape over two years ago in a transformed silversmith mill in the little Philadelphia suburb of Clifton Heights, PA. Listen to In The Trees and it should come […]

Austin FIlm Festival returns with another batch of films that focus on the script portion of the movie making process.

Between a jaw dropping new trailer and beautiful new poster, there’s plenty to dissect from the upcoming Star Wars film.

The legacy of the great Bob Dylan continues as the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Dylan, for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” We can spend all day naming the songs where he takes songwriting to an other worldly level, but well let the songs speak […]

Days after playing the Desert Trip festival in Indio, Calif., Roger Waters has announced a huge U.S. tour. It’s his first since the 2010-2013 tour of The Wall and starts in May of next year, with stops in more than 30 cities in the U.S. and Canada. Waters has named it the “Us And Them” tour after the song he wrote […]

Doyle Bramhall II has never really been your average Joe musician. He cut his teeth on blues, added rock, funk, R&B and Jazz intonations into his playing as he evolved from the kid at not only his legendary father’s feet but family friends Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan as well. He took a love for […]

It had been raining hard in Boston for over twelve hours straight. It was cold and it certainly wasn’t any kind of weather that anyone would have wanted to venture out in without having a good reason. However, on October 9th, the ragged Orpheum Theater was hosting one of today’s most genuine artists to leave […]

[rating=6.00] Norah Jones’ solo albums have always been reliable, well-crafted collections that never disappoint though never really take any risks, either. Listeners know what to expect: an album full of soft, mostly slow piano pop with intricate melodies and good songwriting without much deviation from the formula. That is, until Jones teamed up with Danger […]

Plus, Shane Black’s The Predator loses its star.

After recently hinting at an imminent new album in recent interviews, Cloud Nothings is back to announce its followup to 2014’s Here And Nowhere Else. Due January 27th for Carpark Records, Life Without Sound is the band’s new 9-song LP. To celebrate its announcement, the band is sharing lead single “Modern Act”, which can be heard below.. The album news […]

On October 28th Chicago-based quartet The Youngest will release their sophomore album See It Through. Compared to their debut Feral Road, this album finds the band taking a more progressive, grown-up approach to their music, even if their band name suggests otherwise. See It Through is thirteen shimmering, fleshed out folk rock tunes. With each song the band taps into […]

Luke Winslow-King had a lot on his plate when he began writing songs for his new album I’m Glad Trouble Don’t Last Always, which recently came out on revered Chicago label Bloodshot Records. The New Orleans singer-songwriter had recently been through a prolonged ugly divorce with his wife and frequent collaborator. Before that, he did a […]

[rating=9.00] Pardon the pun, but for better or for worse, this new album of all star duets isn’t necessarily prime Prine. His other talents aside, he’s rightly hailed as one of Americana’s greatest living songwriters, and any effort that doesn’t include at least a couple of his compositions may lead some to consider it a […]

[rating=8.00] His thriving solo career aside, Glen Phillips has been involved in many diverse and dynamic enterprises, chief among them Toad the Wet Sprocket and the super group of sorts, WPA, as well as one-off projects Plover and Remote Tree Children. The constant remains Phillips ability to write and record songs that bear a cheerful […]

In the newest installment of Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle does things a little different as he makes his way to the Roots N Blues N BBQ in Columbia, Missouri. Read (and view) on to see his take on this fest in his signature six-panel comic strip form… Just recently I had the pleasure of attending “Roots N Blues N BBQ” in Columbia, Missouri […]

Plus: an ill-advised spinoff of Bad Moms and Fraggle Rock gets the remaster it deserves.

Brian Wilson has been touring all over the place in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds by playing it in its entirety that are billed as the “Final Performances” of Pets Sounds.  If you missed it the first time around, the tour will not be hitting all spots in between again with U.S. […]