WATCH: Grateful Dead – “So Many Roads” (Buckeye Lake 6/11/93)
The latest installment of The Grateful Dead’s weekly video series All The Years Live features a beloved late-era Hunter/Garcia gem: “So Many Roads”. Introduced at a December 1992 Oakland Coliseum show, this world-weary ballad was among the most well-received from the final batch of new songs the Dead debuted in the 90’s. With 55 total […]
Beck, Norah Jones, Lake Street Dive Top Martha’s Vineyard Beach Road Weekend Music Festival
Beach Road Weekend announced the lineup for the 2020 festival on Martha’s Vineyard. The headliners for the three-day music festival will include 9-time Grammy winner Norah Jones, Boston’s own Lake Street Dive and 7-time Grammy winner Beck. This year, the festival will feature three full days of music, spread across two stages. Now in its […]
LISTEN: Archers of Loaf Return with “Raleigh Days” – First New Material Since 1998
Today, Archers of Loaf are excited to share a brand-new song “Raleigh Days,” and it arrives with an announcement of more 2020 shows. Singer and guitarist Eric Bachmann wastes no words describing how the first new Loaf song in over two decades came to be: “I built a birdhouse on the back of my van. The seeds of […]
Dr. Dog Keep Their Rock Eclectic and Catchy for Sold Out Portland, OR Crowd (SHOW REVIEW)
Dr Dog performed to a sold-out crowd at Portland, Oregon’s Roseland Theater on Sunday, February 17th. Hailing from Philadelphia, the band is known for having a hard to categorize eclectic folk rock sound with a decidedly playful attitude. Would you call them Folk-Pop? Glam Rock? Dream Folk? In any case, they find themselves balancing something […]
Alexandra Savior Brings Her Vintage Pop Flair To New York City’s Mercury Lounge (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
New York City was lucky to get one of dreamy (in every sense of the word) singer-songwriter Alexandra Savior’s few US shows before she zips off to a brief European tour to promote her 2020 sophomore release The Archer. Savior has a distinctive voice and most of her songs have a similar atmospheric sound and […]
Wannabe Reviews Tre Burt’s ‘Caught It From The Rye’
In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Caught It From The Rye, the new album from “afterfolk” singer-songwriter Tre Burt, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):
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Soundtrack for Grammy-Nominated ‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’ Documentary Astounds (ALBUM REVIEW)
Some of you have heard the buzz and some may have seen a premiere of the Grammy-nominated “Best Music Film,” Miles Davis; Birth of the Cool, the documentary directed and produced by renowned Stanley Nelson. This is the audio companion. The film’s U.S. broadcast premiere will be part of “American Masters” the award-winning biography series […]
Pat Metheny Continues Progressive Instrumental Vision With ‘From This Place’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Pat Metheny’s From This Place is the best of both worlds. The forward-thinking guitarist/composer/bandleader plays a collection of all-new original material with a quartet of recent and regular accompanists, around which interactions arrangers Alan Broadbent and Gil Goldstein contoured orchestration. The result is deeply evocative music because the production is as restrained as the interplay […]
Blues Belter Whitney Shay Signs with Ruf & Delivers R&B-Fueled ‘Stand Up!’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
In 2018 San Diego-based blues singer-songwriter created quite a stir with, A Woman Rules the World. It was not only an impressive debut of sorts, but she has now leveraged it to sign with one of blues’ biggest labels, Ruf, for her follow-up, Stand Up! Here’s how this writer described her approach with the debut, […]