VIDEO PREMIERE: Scott H. Biram Blesses Us With Dusty Confessional “Inside A Bar”
Much like a lot of cities in the Southern U.S., Austin, Texas has gone through some major changes. At the moment, it feels like the city is slowly turning into Nashville’s cousin with bachelorette parties and post-college grads flocking to the up-and-coming city in hopes of getting closer to whatever dream is in their head. […]
SONG VIDEO/PREMIERE: The Claudettes Stir It Up With Infectious Jazz-Tinged Single “Touch You Back”
There are very few artists in the modern age that are carrying on a true renaissance. The idea of a renaissance man has taken on a new meaning thanks to the wide range of knowledge and tools readily available at our fingertips, it feels like anyone and everyone can lay claim to the title. Very […]
Happy 74th Birthday Peter Gabriel
VIDEO PREMIERE: Jake Sheppard Crafts Darkly Humorous Indie Folk with “Bird Clock”
Jake Sheppard is a musician, filmmaker, and ex-scientist from Colorado, currently based in Los Angeles, California. Before his pivot, he worked as a cancer geneticist, but he left the lab to go to art school, a move that is still hotly debated over holiday dinners at his parents’ house. Midwest Marlin (due out out March […]
Gov’t Mule Celebrates 30 Years Strong with Super Bowl Sunday Throwdown in Portland, OR (SHOW REVIEW)
Warren Haynes and co. have been tearing up the road with high-caliber blues-rock jams for three decades. Even if the lineup has occasionally changed, the current Gov’t Mule tour is a celebration of this feat. Following up a Super Bowl – especially one with a West Coast team and no shortage of Taylor Swift hype […]
Tuesday’s Gone: Al Green “Love and Happiness” Live 1973
With all due respect to the classic Motown era of the 1960s, you could make the argument that the 1970s were the golden age of soul and R&B music. The popularization of Chicago’s very own music variety show Soul Train certainly had a lot to do with that. After it moved to syndication in 1971, the […]
Earl King’s 1981 Classic ‘Street Parade’ Proves Its Throwdown Modern Worth Via Tipitina’s Record Club (ALBUM REVIEW)
Just in time for Mardi Gras, Tipitina’s Record Club releases Earl King’s Street Parade for the marching masses in the Crescent City and funky vinyl collectors everywhere. Originally released in 1981, the album was recorded in the early 70’s with producer/arranger Allen Toussaint helming the session and The Meters supporting King. Just reading those names […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: Tim Easton Draws on Hazy Experience for Quiet and Dreamy Folk Tune “Find Your Way”
Few poets follow their own arrow as devotedly as Tim Easton, whose songwriting career has woven in and out of folk music and rock ‘n’ roll (and Americana before it was really called that), of erstwhile bands and solo songwriting, of his birthplace of America and all the other places he’s called home. Whether surviving […]
Manic Monday: The Damned “Love Song” From ‘Top of the Pops’ 1979
We don’t like to get too sappy around here, but with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it’s only fitting that we serve something up a little heartwarming in the lead-up to February’s corniest day. But, alas, who are we kidding? This is Manic Monday after all, which of course allows us to offer up […]
Jenny Boyd – Sister In Law To George Harrison & Eric Clapton – Talks About New Book ‘Icons of Rock–In Their Own Word’ (INTERVIEW)
Back in the 1960s, Jenny Boyd and her sister Pattie were top models in Britain, being courted by rock stars and living a jet-set life. Serenaded by Donovan on his 1968 Hurdy Gurdy Man album with the Top 5 UK single “Jennifer Juniper” and marriage to drummer Mick Fleetwood, the middle Boyd daughter ended up […]