With the release of his album Manning Fireworks, the young Asheville, North Carolina guitar slinger Jake Lenderman aka MJ Lenderman has experienced a meteoric rise. Lenderman has been chugging along
In these Caustic introductions, we talk a lot about how each week feels like it could compete to be the most exciting collection of new releases in 2025. You may
Everybody has holiday traditions, and for this writer that tradition has been catching Patterson Hood perform solo in Portland, Oregon. Each December, the co-frontman of the Drive-By Truckers embarks on
On December 29th, Jerry Joseph welcomed Patterson Hood of the Drive-by Truckers to the stage in Portland, Oregon when he kicked off his New Year’s run.
Drive-By Truckers have announced plans for a US spring tour. Headline dates get underway March 9, 2023, at Indianapolis IN’s The Vogue and then travel through mid-May.
As we read the comments from David Barbe on his post-punk Athens-based trio, Mercyland, from the mid-eighties and early nineties, we note that the award-winning producer/engineer and co-founder of the
After a double shot of political inspired anger on 2020s two releases (The Unraveling and The New OK), the Drive-By Truckers have promoted this new album as looking into their
Patterson Hood puts his entire being into his performances and the crowd is always assured of getting its money’s worth.
Patterson Hood excels at crafting lyrics about southern despair and human fallacy. His third solo album, Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance, is a gripping listen, full of the desperate and downtrodden characters he’s so adept at understanding. Much like his work with the Drive-By Truckers, the songs here are full of hard times, hard liquor and hard lessons; the titular weather occurrence is just about the least dramatic thing that happens during this loose 12-song narrative.
Patterson Hood sure likes to keep busy. After releasing albums in back to back years with his full time band the Drive-By Truckers, the front man for the hard touring
