You picked The Rave-Ups – Tomorrow as your favorite new release for the week of February 4, 2022. New Releases Readers’ Tops Winter & Spring 2022 David Gideon – Lonesome Desert Strum (75 votes) The Rave-Ups – Tomorrow (19) Eliza Gilkyson – Songs from the River Wind (13) North Mississippi Allstars – Set Sail (11) […]
Sarah Borges – Together Alone
The human psyche is programmed to take comfort from things that are familiar. That plays out in the new record from Sarah Borges, Together Alone. She, and long-time collaborator Eric (Roscoe) Ambel, took the chaos of the pandemic, stitched together an impossible-to-repeat remote recording routine, and produced a record that’s just the Sarah Borges music […]
Mason Jennings on Ford Econoline Vans, Thai Food, and “Moving Blues”
Mason Jennings talks about not trying to fit in and the wildlife that roams around his rehearsal space.
Monday Morning Video – Trey Johnson
Dallas lost one of the cornerstones of its music scene last week with the passing of Trey Johnson. Sorta, the band Johnson co-founded in 2000, quickly established themselves as local favorites and achieved some national recognition before disbanding in 2008. Johnson went on to co-found State Fair Records, the Dallas label that launched the careers […]
Readers’ Pick: David Gideon – Lonesome Desert Strum
You picked David Gideon – Lonesome Desert Strum as your favorite new release for the week of January 28, 2022. New Releases Readers’ Tops Winter & Spring 2022 David Gideon – Lonesome Desert Strum (75 votes) Eliza Gilkyson – Songs from the River Wind (13) North Mississippi Allstars – Set Sail (11) The Whitmore Sisters […]
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Nightroamer
One of my musical discoveries during the lockdown was Sarah Shook & the Disarmers. Their brand of pounding country punk was the perfect soundtrack with which to give fate the middle finger. And underneath the attitude, there were a lot of good songs. So I was looking forward (deservedly so, it turns out) to their […]
Jimmer Podrasky of The Rave-Ups on Finding BBQ on the Road and Taking a 24 Year Hiatus From Music
Jimmer Podrasky of The Rave-Ups celebrates the band’s first new album in more than 20 years by reflecting on secret rehearsals in the basement of A&M Records and the band’s early gigs in Pittsburgh.
Monday Morning Video – Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman was a songwriter’s songwriter whose compositions have been recorded by everyone from Jimmy Buffett to Willie Nelson. Here’s the master performing a few himself, including “Banana Republics” and “City of New Orleans”, the latter of which earned Goodman a posthumous Grammy when Nelson covered it in 1984.
Readers’ Pick: The Whitmore Sisters – Ghost Stories
You picked The Whitmore Sisters – Ghost Stories as your favorite new release for the week of January 21, 2022. New Releases Readers’ Tops Winter & Spring 2022 Eliza Gilkyson – Songs from the River Wind (13 votes) The Whitmore Sisters – Ghost Stories (8) Elvis Costello & The Impostors – The Boy Named If […]
Lord Nelson – Transmission
It’s an oft-attempted, but less often achieved, feat to capture the live sound of a band on a studio album. It’s a shame, because there are many groups that consistently kick it up a notch when they’re in front of a crowd. One of those is Charlottesville, VA-based Lord Nelson. They thought they had the […]