
I'm saddened to learn to the demise of the soulful wicked dirty Denver two-piece American Relay . Nick and Al are great dudes and incredible musicians and while this is a loss to the alt-blues scene (whatever that is) I firmly believe that inspite of a door closing two will open. Cheers fellahs! More info HERE

Last Friday I announced the line-up of bands for this years Deep Blues Festival . Earlier this week I bought my plane tickets for Minneapolis. I tell you that so you don't think I am just pimping the festival for some nefarious reason. I buy a ticket just like everyone else. That said, I really do believe in DBF, in what Chis is doing and in the bands playing it so I will take every opportunity to pimp it. Hence Deep Blues Fridays. On select Fridays between now and the festival I will feature [...]
Yay, we're back for the 14th edition of the Radio Exile mp3 Mixtape. Today, we present to you Side A and we'll have Side B up on Friday morning, which is great, so come check out what we've been listening to the last two weeks. It's a nice sampling of some really great indie stuff and a few "name" acts as well, so take a listen and let us know what you think below. In this edition: Kanye West , Calico Horse , Vertigo , The Wrens , Heritage [...]
The reality of it all is that I have so much music I need to listen to before it is time to compile my year end best of list and so few hours to do all that listening. This is in addition to replaying all my favorites of the year and trying to actually put 'em in some sort of logical order. Maybe? For the last few years I've posted my top 50 albums of the year but I might just expand it to a top 100 this year. Would that be overkill or would you be [...]

So begins the segment where I start talking about bands I saw and fell in love with @ the Deep Blues Festival. We'll start with American Relay. These two hit the stage Sunday evening and I was totally captivated by them. American Relay comes out of Denver, Colorado with a monstrous guitar driven punk blues sound that brings to mind Soundgarden as much as it does Burnside. Really, I could go on and on trying to fill screen space telling you about the sound these guys create but I think I pretty much just summed it up. American [...]

American Relay will be playing The Deep Blues Festival on Sunday July 20th. Nick Sullivan(guitar)and Alex Hebert(drums)took time out of their busy schedule to emerge from their bunker-like blues fortress in the bowels of Denver's historic Armory building to answer a few questions via email: How long have you guys been playing together? Nick Sullivan- We played our first show just over three years ago as American Relay. Alex Hebert - Before that we spent about 8 months banging on various instruments, trying [...]

American Relay will be playing The Deep Blues Festival on Sunday July 20th. Nick Sullivan(guitar)and Alex Hebert(drums)took time out of their busy schedule to emerge from their bunker-like blues fortress in the bowels of Denver's historic Armory building to answer a few questions via email: How long have you guys been playing together? Nick Sullivan- We played our first show just over three years ago as American Relay. Alex Hebert - Before that we spent about 8 months banging on various [...]
Centuries ago, Academy writers fine-tuned the art of leisure in all its manifestations–opium haze lounging, harem collecting, scrapbooking. Here they pass that knowledge onto you; the result is a highly-polished calendar of events called The Problem of Leisure. Angora Holly Polo: Nintendo Night at Lion's Lair! I don't know about you guys, but I'm going for the "mystery box"! Widowers' Mike Marchant dropped us a line, and he says: "Music will be made [...]

Imagine spending the better part of a year planning. Shelling out tons of money over said year. All to bring the best of the punkass-blues scene together for a weekend somewhere in Wisconsin. Only to have record rains show up; on your weekend . Attendance falls well below what you expected and you lose a lot of your own money. What do you do? Chris Johnson will tell you- you make that muthafucker even bigger the next year...and that's just what he's done...2 days become 3 and the Deep Blues Festival of 2007 blossoms into the [...]

Sunday, October 28th: Roky Erickson @ The El Rey The legendary 13th Floor Elevators', Roky Erickson, gives a rare performance in Los Angeles, this is a must see show. w/1990's 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me ( mp3 ) Also recommended: Quasi @ Detroit Bar Monday, October 29th: De Novo Dahl @ House of Blues Anaheim De Novo Dahl (that band that used wear those 'Where's Waldo" looking jumpsuits ) and [...]