Artist: Amy Ray

Your fine Friday frolics: ► Austin's the Strange Boys (pictured at their Troubadour show last year) play a free show at Los Globos (the sponsor wants your RSVP ) supported by the Coathangers, White Mystery and Wounded Lion. ► The Magnetic Fields visit the Orpheum Theatre in supporting their latest, "Love at the Bottom of the Sea." ► Whispertown celebrates the release of its new EP "Parallel" at the Hotel Cafe in a show packed with special guests (Blake Sennett and Johnathan Rice among them). [...]

Amy Ray has produced a damn decent pop/rock record from beginning to end. There's no wheel reinventing here, but certainly some wheel-lubricating. Any artistic output that matches the consistent modesty of the Indigo Girls' could, on the flip side, be criticized for being unambitious -- with every new LP from the 'Girls, you can expect another batch of straight arrow folk pop/rock pearls, but very little if any divergence from the formula they've thoroughly established. But who could really complain? Not only do the Indigo Girls (as well as Amy Ray, individually) fill the classicist folk/rock/pop hole...

It doesn't roll off the tongue with quite the same alliterative ease but let's call this Freeloader Monday. If you're heading down to Austin next week, it's a good bet that you have started to assemble an elaborate SXSW itinerary that will take you all over the city to see ...

Het hart is misschien wel het meest bezongen deel van het menselijk lichaam in de muziek. Het staat immers voor liefde en passie. Amy Ray, een van de twee Indigo Girls, ziet dat anders en stelt de longen op Lung...

Amy Ray - When You're Gone, You're Gone

Lost In The Trees at Housing Works (02/17/12) I usually post the Housing Works events in my monthly bookstore events roundup , but for some reason, I omitted them this month. Well, shame on me, because Housing Works has some killer events in February including shows by Lost In The Trees (tonight, Feb 17), Josh Ritter (Feb 24) and Amy Ray (Feb 27). View more Housing Works Feb 2012 events after the jump. [...]

The Indigo Girls' Amy Ray is releasing a new solo album on February 28th called Lung Of Love . Brandi Carlile and Jim James are featured on the album. Listen to the song "Glow" from the album here . Amy rolls into Philly at World Cafe Live on Tuesday, April 17th. Go here for tickets and more information. Amy was last in Philly with Emily Saliers when the Indigo Girls performed as part of the World Cafe 20th Anniversary tribute shows. You can listen to that concert in its entirety here [...]

amy ray : glow (lung of love, 2012) bleached : searching through the past (7", 2011) mark stewart feat. eve libertine : nothing is sacred (7", 2011) laura gibson : la grande (la grande, 2011) school of seven bells : the night (ghostory, 2012)

• 01 La Grande

The Indigo Girls are back with their fourteenth album, and haven't lost a beat!

The Indigo Girls provide a holiday album that breaks the mold and offers a fresh take on the music of the season.

YouTube vids only today... because I'm afraid of the blogocide . I went to a Brandi Carlile show last night at Knoxville's Bijou Theatre, and a hoedown broke out. More on that later... I have to start my review of the show with a mention of Amy Ray from the Indigo Girls. Amy opened the show with a solo set that completely put me back on my heels. I'll admit to not being too familiar with Amy's solo work, and I went into her [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News On Tuesday, Feb. 9, at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Knitting Factory, the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls will hold its fourth annual Rock 'n' Roll Auction, a fundraiser for the non-profit organization that uses music to mentor girls and women. The event will feature performances by Saffire and Kaki King , well-known guests from the music industry and signed memorabilia by some of the most famous female artists in the world. The big prizes for the evening include a microphone [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Video , Exclusive Brandi Carlile has come a long way since her days providing backup vocals for an Elvis impersonator. After years spent cutting her teeth on the road, the alt-country singer-songwriter can now boast an impressive touring resume and has had the opportunity to play with some of her lifelong heroes, including a recent studio session with Elton John . "The heaviest moment was, I asked him to sing," Carlile told Spinner [...]

Aw, snap. It's time for a leisurely stroll down memory lane with Flashion Backward. Let's wander through UI's archives and see what ancient creaking box of treats lies in wait for our greedy pawing pleasure. Today we're chatting with Amy Ray, a woman for whom self-expression and tellin' it like it is is more than a way of life-it is her life. As 50 percent of the now-legendary folk-singing, guitar-strumming, artsy, vaguely fartsy Indigo Girls , Amy Ray has always managed to distinguish herself through solo albums (which are increasingly getting a more [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Guest Blogger Upon the passing of Les Paul Thursday morning at the age of 94, we asked Indigo Girls ' Amy Ray , an avid Les Paul player, to share her thoughts on the guitar legend and his influence. Ray sent the following words to Spinner from the road. When I think about the passing of Les Paul, I figure he's somewhere in Rock 'n' Roll Heaven. We owe him a lot -- [...]

Choo Choo La Rouge , partly based in Philadelphia, is releasing their new record, Black Clouds , on August 18th and will be playing at Johnny Brenda's the same night as a record release party along with Amy Ray of Indigo Girls fame. On Black Clouds , Choo Choo La Rouge has a good laugh at some of the unfortunate things happening in the world (economic woes, love being a commodity, sex as advertising, etc) and set it to ten catchy numbers. We've [...]

• Choo Choo La Rouge - Its Gonna Happen ... » 10-its-gonna-happen-fast.mp3

Two of Atlanta's greatest musical exports, the Indigo Girls and Mastodon celebrate CD release parties at Criminal Records on Tues., March 24.

• Indigo Girls - What Are You Like

[Happy birthday to silky smooth soul singer Anthony Hamilton, the pride of Charlotte, N.C. ...] Speaking of Charlotte, another one of that city's native sons, Benji Hughes [pictured], is back in L.A., where he's on a first-name basis with many fans of his sprawling, genre-hopping album "A Love Extreme." ("Gonna go see Benji tomorrow?" somebody asked last night.) Hughes holds forth at Spaceland. ... In the bigger rooms, Brian Wilson plays the Wiltern, and City and Colour (with William Elliott Whitmore ) performs at a sold-out El [...]

[Happy birthday to Mike Patton -- who's apparently performing at Coachella in April not with Faith No More but with beatboxer Rahzel. ... No Coachella lineup announcement this morning, by the way. Stay tuned.] Big goings-on at the Echo, where the Voyeurs and Go West Young Man celebrate their album releases, and the Echoplex, where IO Echo headlines, with support from from dreamy NYC art-rockers Zaza . Opening that show is JJAMZ , something of an all-star band. It's the first show for a [...]

The beautiful voice of Jennifer O' Connor will be making its way into Austin tonight. Her folky singer/songwriter set is set to open of for Amy Ray of the I ndigo Girls tonight at Stubbs , but we're sure that the Matador signee O' Connor will be the one who steals the show with her passion-filled harmonies. It's Tuesday, so what do you have to lose? [...]

• Jennifer O’Connor - Valley Road 86