You don't throw a music festival on the beach and neglect to invite Best Coast . Gulf Shores isn't what Bethany Cosentino had in mind when she named her band, but even she saw the parallels: "This next song, it's about California, but all of the things I talk about in it you guys have here." They then commenced with "The Only Place," one of the nearly indistinguishable (but identically awesome) sunshine refractions they performed at the Chevrolet Stage just after noon Sunday. Cosentino is one of those pop savants whose every lazy melody seems like the product of [...]
Jason Isbell - Traveling Alone
We made it. I made it. Winter could not take us. I want to both berate nature for having inflicted all those cold, hellish months on me and thank it profusely for having whisked them away with chirping birds and blooming iris' and sunshine. This is the conundrum of the Midwest clime and it is one that baffles me every damn year, despite 30 of them here. Here, when it turns cold, you grit your goddamn teeth and steal yourself against the wind and you pray it's one of those [...]
Over the last month, the famed Newport Folk Festival has been announcing its 2013 lineup one artist at a time. Among this year's highlights: Beck (!), Feist, The Avett Brothers, Jim James, The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, Andrew Bird, The Mountain Goats, The Lumineers, Father John Misty, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Dawn McCarthy, Justin Townes Earle, Beth Orton, Amanda Palmer, Phosphorescent, Jason Isbell, Deer Tick's John McCauley, and Hey Marseilles. The festival takes place July 26th - 28th in Newport, Rhode Island. Good luck getting in though; tickets are already sold [...]
Fans of Future Bible Heroes, rejoice: Along with the June 8 release of the band’s third album, Partygoing, Merge is also issuing a remastered compilation of all three FBH albums, including a bonus EP, called Memories Of Love, Eternal Youth, And Partygoing ... Sigur Rós is currently on a massive worldwide tour in anticipation of the June [...]
Today, the Newport Folk Festival , which takes place July 26 - 28 , announced that Jim James will be returning to the festival this summer. As mentioned previously, the festival has been using the trickle method to announce this year's artists. Over the last several days they've announced Michael Kiwanuka , Jason Isbell , Nicki Bluhm & The Gamblers as well as the return of the Spirit Family Reunion who wowed the crowd last year. I recommend getting tickets [...]
hey, howdy, hi! ive been obsessing over the truckers for the past week or so, which is not a bad problem to have and it does happen quite often. when southern rock opera came out in 91 i was living in chicago, and while i loved the record i dont think i necessarily think i got the "southern" thing. granted i had been to the south, but not really experienced the south outside of touristy type places. it wasnt until i moved down here that i really started to get whatever "it" is. the songs definitely resonate more personally now [...]
Is it cheating when your best album is a live release that covers your entire career? Since Jason Isbell emerged as the pup head to the Drive-By Truckers' southern rock Cerberus about a decade ago, it's been hard not to attach the phrase "promising" to the guy. Isbell's first released recordings - amounting to just six songs on the band's Decoration Day (2003) and The Dirty South (2004) - possess a narrative clarity that some songwriters take a career to develop. The rasp and drawl to his tenor makes songs about...
In honor of A.J. McCarron's super-fine girlfriend Alabama's thrashing of Notre Dame, here is Alabama's finest doing Where The Devil Don't Stay And if you were like every other person in America, that didn't go to Notre Dame or has a copy of Rudy on Betamax, and laid the points last night; well then you got some extra coin in your pocket. What better way to spend it than on some good ol' Alabama boys. Cooley, Patterson and Isbell all have fantastic solo albums out now. Go buy them. Cooley [...]
Life was better sitting on the tailgate of a '79 GMC. It's 3:36PM on December 26, 2012. I'm drinking a cup of coffee and listening to Jason Isbell's live album over the didn't-get-his-nap-out cries of my 21 month-old. I go back to work tomorrow for the last two work-days of 2012. I wish I'd taken the rest of this week off. I've been trying to come up with something worth writing for a couple of hours, but a few of the things I want to write about, I don't feel like I can because [...]
I'm not wasting a single second on the intro to this blog post. The world is ending today. I'm so certain that it is going to happen that I'm quitting this job, and spending the day with drugs and hookers. Wish me luck. If you had different plans, here's your weekend rundown. We have a fresh voice speaking out today. Kids, please welcome Josh to the program. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit at Mercy Lounge If you are anything like me, you may have been a [...]
Once again, we're bringing you our roundup of the best live music on television this week. The amount of great performances can be hard to keep track of, so every Monday I'll post a preview of the best and most interesting performances coming up. I'll be sure to give you one essential pick for each night, as well as a runner up or two if there's a lot to great stuff to choose from. Here are the best performances I think you should set your DVR (or check Hulu the next day) for: _ [...]
Release dates on holiday weeks are usually quite slow. As you would expect, today's list of new releases is indeed short, yet there are still a handful of interesting new albums to lure you into record stores before the holiday shopping masses come flooding in. Among them is the long awaited follow up to The Evens ' 2006 LP, Get Evens . Once again on The Odds , husband and wife duo Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi) and Amy Farina (Warmers) pair up on what our Music Director, Don Yates, calls "an often-gripping set of skeletal post-hardcore, [...]
Yeah, it's been a whole week since we last posted something. Sorry about that. We're juggling things at our real jobs, so the blog goes to the back burner. Thankfully, we have boatload of stuff to go through and we'll be posting over this week to catch up. I guess the only thing I can say is, "I'll promise to keep rockin' and rollin'... and making better films." In this edition: Sounds from Black Lizard, Loplop, Majestico, Pond, and The Sweet Serenades. Sights from Jason Isbell and 400 unit, Loplop, Pond, and the Sweet Serenades. [...]
No autumn would be complete without a healthy dose of Jason Isbell tunes. Fresh off well deserved recognition for his beautiful tune "Alabama Pines" and his recent album 'Here We Rest' at the Americana Music Awards, Isbell and the 400 Unit are releasing a live album and a tour. While live albums don't usually excite enough for a full post, this collectionLive From Alabama (Nov 20) plays like a Jason Isbell greatest hits collection featuring his best songs from DBT and his solo career. Not to mention Isbell and the 400 Unit are deft live performers. Tracklisting and [...]
Fifty-two of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s greatest hits and live recordings will soon be available all in one place: Ultimate Creedence Clearwater Revival: Greatest Hits & All-Time Classics. It’s a three-disc set to be released by CCR’s original label, Fantasy (a division of Concord), on November 6 ... Mellon Collie And the Infinite Sadness, Smashing Pumpkins’ [...]
(via @hessismore ) Tickets to see Death Grips at Music Hall of Williamsburg are on sale today at noon. Tickets to see Andrew Bird at The Riverside Church go on sale at noon today. Tickets to see Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit at Bowery Ballroom go on sale at noon today. [...]
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit @ Bowery Ballroom, April 2011 ( more by Chris La Putt ) Alabama's Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit (a one-time Drive-By Trucker) will release Live from Alabama on November 20 and what better way to support a live album than to go on tour. Their trek, which they've dubbed the "Stop Fucking Around and Play Outfit" tour, will hit NYC on December 7 at Bowery Ballroom with openers Communist Daughter . [...]
Ryan Adams has a pair of new studio projects on the way, at least one of which to feature the singer-songwriter in the producer role for the first time since 20062s Adams and the Cardinals-backed Willie Nelson album, Songbird . "Looking forward to producing the new Lemonheads album this weekend," he said on Twitter, adding that Ben Deily and Evan Dando - two of the band's co-founders - will reunite for the record while Dando's It's a Shame About Ray collaborator Juliana Hatfield will play bass on the LP. What's more, Adams said he's set to perform on the [...]
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