:: Bon Iver performed two songs on SNL over the weekend. :: Revival Tour (Chuck Ragan, Tom Gabel, Dan Andriano, and Nathaniel Rateliff) was announced . :: Here's some Katy Perry videos of her performance before the Super Bowl. :: In Las Vegas? No? Well, you're going to miss the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Beauties & Beats later this month. Black Lips will headline, with J. Roddy Walston & The Business , Little Hurricane , White Denim [...]

Chuck Ragan, Dan Andriano, Tommy Gabel, and others go on tour.

by Andrew Sacher Hot Water Music Chuck Ragan (of Hot Water Music) is taking The Revival Tour 2012 across the US and Canada this March and April. Like past Revival Tours , the shows feature a number of singers (usually of the punk scene) and their acoustic instruments collaborating on stage in a traditional folk music fashion. This year's tour hits NYC on March 30 at Bowery Ballroom , and in addition [...]
Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it's original air date and is available for streaming here . Also, don't forget to head over to Facebook and like the Ninebullets Radio page . Below is the playlist for February 02, 2012 01. Todd Farrell - Ninebullets Theme Song 02. Shooter Jennings - Southern Family Anthem 03. The Drive-By [...]
Ohne zu übertreiben kann man das wohl eine kleine Sensation nennen. Jahrelang gab es immer mal wieder Gerüchte um eine Wiedervereinigung der Hardcore-Punk Legende. Dieses Jahr ist es nun wirklich passiert: REFUSED sind als Headliner des MONSTER BASH 2012 bestätigt. Fast 14 Jahre nach dem die Band sich im Oktober 1998 aufgelöst hat werden Dennis [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I guess I lose what little blogger cred that I have if I don't post an end-of-the-year "Best Of" list before 2012. I'm getting it in just under the wire. These are my favorite albums on this day, the 31st of December, in the year of our lord 2011, and it is subject to change whenever I feel like it. Seriously, it's been a great year for music, and it was really difficult for me to make this list. Feel free to heap praise on me or call me a pretentious overbearing wretch. [...]

Originally, the podcast and Ninebullets Radio were supposed to (mostly) feature different songs. Then, I was asked to do an extra hour on the show at the last minute and the two ended up being extremely similar track listings. Sorry about that but look at it like this; in a week the archive of the radio show will be gone forever but the podcast is available (for better or worse) forever. The Episode 24 podcast will ring out 2011 here on ninebullets. In preparation for this show I literally (yes, I am properly using [...]
Last night's show was a special, 2 hour, edition of Ninebullets Radio featuring some of my favorite tracks from 2011. I hope y'all enjoy it. Have a safe New Years and we'll see you next week. Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it's original air date and is available for streaming here . Also, don't forget to head over to Facebook [...]

I'm stopping 20 miles short of calling this list a "best of" list. As the stacks upon stacks of cds in my computer room would show, there's so much music from 2011 I didn't hear that it's impossible for me to gloss this list anything other than a collection of some my favorite albums from the year. Everything on the Essential Listening list is worthy of your money and ears but as a blog owner I am obligated to bring you one of these lists at the end of every year so here is mine as I felt [...]

First I want to say that this was one of the hardest top lists I have ever done. Some of these don't deserve to be ranked any lower than the ones above them. While I didn't write as prolifically this year as I did others what I wrote about I really and truly loved. And then the other folks 'round these parts wrote about good stuff too. But the end of the year breeds top lists so I have been struggling for the past couple of weeks to actually rank these albums. I honestly will be doing some of these [...]

Our sister blog has me listening to a lot of Sam Russo lately. I am a bit wary of falling in love with these indie UK musicians that will leave me high and dry in Denver, but sometimes the really great ones slip through. Sam recently did a split with Chuck Ragan, which guarantees that you should be paying attention. Anyway, to push me over the edge, Moon & Back did a session with Sam that churned out this spectacular performance. This is one that I'm going to turn into a low [...]

Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it's original air date and is available for streaming here . Also, don't forget to head over to Facebook and like the Ninebullets Radio page . Below is the playlist for November 17, 2011 . 01. Glossary - Little Caney 02. Merle Haggard - Working Man's Blues 03. Drive-By Truckers [...]

Yesterday a buddy of mine pointed out that our man, Chuck Ragan , contributed music to a new short film entitled It's Better In The Wind . From what I can glean from the project's web site it started out as an idea for a photo book and a trip: Because we read "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, and were taught that art is a path chosen by those who will themselves into the unknown. Because we watched 'Easy Rider' and want to find that for ourselves rather than from [...]
Gainesville, Florida's Chuck Ragan is one of those dudes who just can't go wrong. His more-than-a-decade's work with the still-revered punk act Hot Water Music is often cited by younger punk b... Continue reading "Chuck Ragan Knows Good Road Music, Plugged or Unplugged" >

Date 11/11/11 Location Red 7 Doors 9pm Tickets $10 @ Frontgate Veteran and now legendary songwriter Chuck Ragan is making a stop back into town at Red 7 on Friday night. Local up and comers East Cameron Folkcore and Possessed by Paul James will also be on hand to provide some entertainment. [...]

How y'all doing? It's been a little while since we did one of these. I wish I had a real excuse but, to be honest, I don't. I felt the pressure of doing a weekly radio show and as a result, the podcast got pushed to the background. Well, that's not the case any longer and with that said, let's focus on this show and not the missed shows of the past few months. Once again out good friend from the Northwest, Lollyrae , sent us some beers and I went to drinking them during the podcast. [...]
Chuck Ragan made waves in the punk scene as part of Hot Water Music, but now he's turned the fire into folk perfection that burns no less fiercely. We bro fisted briefly with Ragan and pestered h... Continue reading "30 Seconds With Chuck Ragan" >

Along with his upcoming shows supporting Social Distortion , Hot Water Music co-frontman and solo artist Chuck Ragan has announced a set of dates on his own when SD takes some time off their tour to support the Foo Fighters later this month. Ragan is supporting his recently released album, Covering Ground and just wrapped the European edition of the Revival Tour.

Compilations and split albums are always a treat, but rare these days. So is anonymity and novelty in general. Internet convenience robs some of the impetus for us to expand our comfort zones, when we can easily stay comfortable and just go deeper. That's not a bad thing, you can fall into expertise as easily as into banality. But, from new music, I need both expansion and depth. I bought this album solely because I didn't know the other three artists Chuck brought along with him and I trusted that he'd know where to find some [...]

While on tour in Europe with the Revival Tour, Chuck Ragan was for recorded for the Cardinal Sessions, performing "Nothing Left to Prove" off 2011's Covering Ground .