Archive: 2017

What happened on the 1st Sunday last week of Jazz Fest – wind and rain – happened again on Wednesday, the day before the 2nd weekend was to open. Just when everything was drying out, here came the pouring rain and it kept raining into the early opening hours of Jazz Fest on Thursday. But […]

[rating=9.00] You would think that at the ripe old age of 84 — an age that would find most people taking full advantage of retirement and the security of home and hearth — Willie Nelson would see fit to rest comfortably on his laurels and focus entirely on his golf game. Indeed, given his prodigious […]

[rating=7.00] March to May is a Seattle-based folk/rock duo whose music is a gentle blend of acoustic instruments accompanying two beautiful voices that manage to become gorgeous together. With the recently-released Through the Night, they have a created an album that is a perfect encapsulation of the Pacific Northwest at its most pensive, haunting, and […]

There is a prevailing vibe that blows around the Manzanita, Oaks and Coastal Redwoods on the top of a mountain at a place called Camp Krem in a town called Boulder Creek on the central coast of California. At a festival called DIO (Do It Ourselves) Fest, that vibe is rad. It’s not just that […]

[rating=8.00] John Moreland blew through like an Oklahoma tornado when his 2015 record High on Tulsa Heat came out, breaking hearts everywhere with his stunningly gloomy prose. The songwriter’s anticipated follow-up Big Bad Luv will continue to break your heart, but it might make you smile through the tears, too. It is clear from the […]

[rating=8.00] Chris Stapleton emerged to national prominence exactly two years ago with the release of his solo debut album, Traveller. To many, his success with a back to basics style of country music marked a sea change in how the mainstream world would perceive the genre. After years of being dominated by pop acts masquerading […]

[rating=8.00] The musical subgenre of power pop arguably began with a mighty Fadd9 chord at the top of the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night.” Since that letter was nailed to the church door in 1964, guitar-toting kids sprung into action, from brilliant 1970s groups like XTC and The Raspberries to the ’90s sounds of Teenage […]

[rating-7.00] The latest in the ongoing series of The Chris Robinson Brotherhood’s live concert releases, Betty’s Blends Vol. 3: Self-Rising Southern Blends, doesn’t exhibit quite all the discernible logic of a memorable live show by this band, but it’s probably not meant to (the last one, Best From the West didn’t either). Still, this collection […]

Ryan Weber and Eric Osterman have been through a lot in the relatively short time they have been making music together as Eric & Magill. The duo has traveled to the deserts of Kenya and explored numerous continents all for the sake of making their unique style of pop music more dynamic and exploratory. To […]