Nice weather is right around the corner. Know how I know? 'Cause so many bands are loading up their tour buses and vans and hitting the road. To which I say woo hoo! Some are doing club shows, others are gearing up larger venues including festivals (Hello Coachella and Sasquatch!), and there's something for everyone. Hopefully this list will inspire you to get off your couch and check out some of these bands live. We all need a little rock n' roll to make us feel good. If you have additions to the list [...]
Upon entering the Autry under the windy clear skies in Griffith Park, all that was visible was a lot of jeans and flannel. Devoted Knitters fans were all over the place jovially conversing with their drinks in hand. We all came to enjoy the beautiful fusion of punk and country that both Slang Chickens and the Knitters kindly create for us. Slang Chickens got on stage and without any warning began to play "Club Love" as the sea of flannel flowed towards the stage unable to ignore the loudly western sound. Under the pressure of opening for the [...]
To enter any contest submit an email to contest[at]thebaybridged.com with your full name in the body and the concert you're entering the contest for in the subject line. You may only submit your name once to only one contest. Winners for each show will be decided using the guidelines listed below. Thursday, May 19th Weekend, Clipd Beaks, Jealousy @ The Independent To win a pair of tickets to the show be the THIRD person to enter! The show starts at [...]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Deep Sea Diver's Jessica Dobson ...] Tonight's top outings, and then some: ► The Cars' new album "Move Like This" — their first in 24 years — sounds like ... well, the Cars. Not an old or watered-down version, either, which is gratifying in a time aging hitmakers recycle themselves, or get nicked by younger hitmakers seeking to recycle ideas. On Tuesday, the day the album was released, the band kicked off a big tour in Seattle (setlist [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Images Attending SXSW can feel like a thankless job. You spend five days subjecting your ears to loud music, your liver to free beer and your GI tract to Tex-Mex, and when it's all done, does anyone give you a pat on the back? Exene Cervenka does. "You're all music warriors," Cervenka, longtime singer for the legendary punk band [...]
Jukevox looks back nostalgically to the time spent behind the counter of his local record store when the music was free and a his mad crush turned him on to the wonders of post-punk.
Jerry Jeff Walker was the heat-seeking missile who tore up Luckenbach on Viva Terlingua and once got in a dust-up with Willie Nelson on stage. He has covered several Texas classics and written some of his own, too. He speaks now from Nashville. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
"Country Club is the result of a drunken promise or threat I made to Travis & Dallas [Good, of The Sadies] the first night we played together in Toronto. We're not sure why it sounds like it's from the sixties. Maybe that's our favorite era of country music or maybe that's what we listened to when we first learned how to play it." --John Doe John Doe and The Sadies combine talents for an album of classic country covers and originals written in the spirit of those covers. On paper [...]
For folks who saw the holographic Jerry Jeff Walker in the Austin airport yet still demand the real live thing: LIMITED NUMBER OF RESERVED SEATS JUST MADE AVAILABLE FOR STAGECOACH: CALIFORNIA'S COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL ON SALE THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 27 A limited number of reserved seats have just become available for STAGECOACH: California's Country Music Festival, [...]
I'm in the mood for a skiffly-sounding train song this morning. I guess that calls for a ride on the Rock Island Line . I've heard Cash's version a few too many times. And Lonnie Donegan's famous recording of the song kind of feaks me out. (Maybe it's because Lonnie sounds so much like the jailer from Cool Hand Luke ?). So let's go with this version by The Knitters . It's a gas: The Knitters - Rock Island Line ( buy album ) [...]
X's styles together create harmonies unlike any I've ever heard, and the same goes for their down-home rockabilly side project The Knitters. read more
The Tractor Tavern has booked two rockin' nights of country punk courtesy of rockabilly/folk pioneers the Knitters, this Monday the 19th and Tuesday the 20th. read more
I've had the pleasure of seeing Dave Alvin perform live twice over the past few years. The first time was at the 2004 Americana Music Conference shortly after the release of his 2004 album Ashgrove. His performance came a little later in the night, and by that time the crowd had thinned out a bit at The Mercy Lounge. I was able to score a spot near the front of the stage right next to one of the big stacks of speakers. Big mistake. Don't get me wrong... The show was great. [...]
Part 6 of our 7 part series... The Graveyard (shows I deleted from my season passes, since I don't watch anything on Saturdays) CSI: Miami (CBS) – If you think "House" is too repetitive, don't watch more than one episode of this show. I don't think anyone who's seen the clip below can possibly watch David Caruso do anything without laughing out loud. [...]
Good bands may master one style of music. Great bands, on the other hand, have so much ADD flowing out of every orifice in their heads, even those small spaces in the corner of their eyes, that sticking to just one style is painfully impossible. The Beatles did this with a handful of their albums, and often mixed up the styles within some albums. I never get enough of flip-floppers like those guys. My favorite Bob Dylan album is Nashville Skyline , a stark departure from his traditional fare. [...]
Los Angeles isn?t a city that inspires misty-eyed recollections. There?s nothing soft about the place (unlike, say, San Francisco). While New York City is mythic, larger-than-life, Los Angeles remains earthbound and squat. (Tthe glamorous yet codependently clingy aura of Hollywood remains so much Tinkerbell dust ?merely cosmetic.) We don?t remember it for its vistas (the ocean, the sunsets) but for the sprawl, the congestion, the gritty, sleazoid drama of the place. It?s no wonder it?s the town of Noir. It?s perpetually 1956 in La-La Land. It?s always dusk. It?s always smoky. Exene Cervenka?s a bit of a [...]
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