Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Awards Douglas Mason, Getty Images Levon Helm 's 'Ramble At The Ryman' has won Best Americana Album at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. The former the Band singer and drummer had one the same prize for the Grammy's inaugural Americana award in 2010 for 'Electric Dirt.' Helm beat out country and Americana stalwarts Ry Cooder , Lucinda Williams , Emmylou Harris [...]
Steve Earle : Johnny Come Lately [ purchase ] Lucinda Williams : Changed the Locks [ purchase ] Though "alt.country" wouldn't be called that for a few more years, its big bang moment came in 1988, with the release of two of the most significant records the genre ever produced. In 1988, Steve Earle stood at a career crossroads. He had put out two fairly successful, left-of-center country records, Guitar Town and Exit 0. But, personality clashes and an escalating drug [...]
Fare for your fantastic Friday: ► Lucinda Williams returns for a show at UCLA's Royce Hall behind her acclaimed release "Blessed." Blake Mills opens. ► Cambodian psych-rockers Dengue Fever join Secret Chiefs 3 for a concert at the El Rey Theatre. ► It's one more local show for Wilco , this one at the Los Angeles Theatre ► Vicky Cryer , the latest project from Louis XIV's Jason Hill [ see our post from last July ], headlines the Troubadour, with LP supporting. ► And a [...]
Our review of the stellar new collection of Bob Dylan covers in support of Amnesty International.
The Millions explores the literary pedigree of the television series Downton Abbey . Lucinda Williams talks to Pop & Hiss about her love for Bob Dylan's music. io9 recommends fantasy series to read while waiting for the next George R.R. Martin. Pop & Hiss remembers Etta James. [...]
I do love me some Squidbillies . In fact, I love everything about the show except that it's on in the middle of the night when my old ass is hard at slumber. Anyway, if you're a fan of the show, you know damn well that the music is dazzling. And not only do you get twisted original songs performed by the show's voice talent (Unknown Hinson anyone?), but the creators have somehow managed to wrangle more than their fair share of bona fide musical celebs over the years, including such [...]
I'll remember 2011 as a year with more good music than I had time to devote to it. Because my primary focus is music emerging from SoCal — and because there was so much of it this year — I found myself taking only passing interest in many hyped albums ... and not finding a lot of best in what the interwebs deemed "best new music." So fire me. Many of my favorite albums of the year came artists with whom I'd already developed a listener's relationship. Following are my favorite 20 [ excluding local artists, because I [...]
Shakey Graves has yet to put something to tape that I haven't dug completely. So it is no surprise that his Lucinda Williams cover is the one that stands out to me the most on the great covers compilation ' We All Go Twang ' (the great, country fried blog When You Awake is responsible for the mix tape). Besides the Shakey Graves cover being brilliant, the whole thing is magic. With great, twangy covers of songs from Led Zeppelin to The Magnetci Fields, even if this mix tape wasn't free (which it is), it would be [...]
Vandaveer – Dig Deep DownDownload "Concerning Past & Future Conquests" Chad VanGaalen – Diaper IslandDownload "Sara" Vetiver – The Errant CharmDownload "Can't You Tell" and "Wonder Why" Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My HaloDownload " Jesus Fever" and "In...
Walter Rose California singer-songwriter Walter Rose has a new album set to be released on January 17, 2012. From the album, he has released a duet with Lucinda Williams called "Driving South". Download this track in this post. Walter Rose - "Driving South" (ft. Lucinda Williams) The track also included the performance of Eric Heywood (Son Volt, Ray Lamontange) on steel. Complete album tracklisting below. "To get to play live with just Eric and I in the room, and to have that moment [...]
Over the last 25 years or so, the term country music became something of a joke for those who searched a little deeper for the music they listen to. Somewhere after the movie Urban Cowboy , country music became less about telling the story of the common man and more a commodity being sold to the masses at your local Wal-Mart. Recently, we have seen a shift in country music towards what made the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Loretta Lynn icons in American culture. Movies like Walk [...]
in terms of song as summation, of man / myth, lucinda williams' drunken angel nails it. buncha verses that get to the core of blaze foley and his fucked cosmology (but hell could have been written about van zandt or hank williams, steve earle or johnny cash in the depths of their respective artistic highs/personal voids). some kind of saviour singing the blues / a derelict in your duct tape shoes / your orphan clothes and long dark hair / looking like you didn't care / drunken angel [...]
in terms of song as summation, of man / myth, lucinda williams' drunken angel nails it. buncha verses that get to the core of blaze foley and his fucked cosmology (but hell could have been written about van zandt or hank williams, steve earle or johnny cash in the depths of their respective artistic highs/personal voids). some kind of saviour singing the blues / a derelict in your duct tape shoes / your orphan clothes and long dark hair / looking like you didn't care / drunken angel [...]
The Occupy Wall Street movement has already spurred an offshoot called Occupy Musicians . Now, as the Associated Press reports, a star-studded benefit album titled Occupy This Album is in the works. Due out sometime this winter, the collection will feature a mix of live tracks and new songs from the likes of Devo, Yo La Tengo, Ladytron, Crosby and Nash, Lucinda Williams, Warren Haynes, Third Eyed Blind, and even filmmaker Michael More, who reportedly sings. The album is being curated by a musician named Jason Samel, with all profits going to the Alliance for Global Justice which [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , New Releases Slaven Vlasic, Getty Images It was only a matter of time until the Occupy movement spawned an album. Now the 99 percent can get fired up with 'Occupy This Album,' an environmentally-friendly digital release featuring musical heavyweights like Crosby and Nash , Devo , Lucinda Williams , Yo La Tengo , Toots and the Maytals and Third Eye [...]
The feast on Thanksgiving eve: ► Quite a night ahead on Hollywood Boulevard — Morrissey plays the first of his three SoCal dates at the Music Box, and less than two blocks away the Cure closes out its three-night stand at the Pantages Theatre. ► Lucinda Williams does the second of her two nights at the El Rey Theatre. ► The "Hip Hop & Love Tour" hits the House of Blues, headed up by Murs behind his new album "Love & Rockets Vol. 1: [...]
Good shows big and small tonight: ► Lucinda Williams plays the first of two nights at the El Rey Theatre behind her powerful new album "Blessed." ► Manchester's Wu Lyf hits the Troubadour behind its Pitchfork-approved debut release "Go Tell Fire to the Mountain," with Crystal Antlers supporting. That's Wu Lyf's video for "Dirt," above. ► The Cure is back for a second night of its "Reflections" tour at the Pantages Theatre. ► Just An Animal celebrates the release of its debut album "Lonely Hunter" [...]
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THE WE SHARED MILK, YEAH GREAT FINE, CHARTS ( Beauty Bar , 111 SW Ash) Attention, studio rats: You don't need sterling, crystal-clear production to get your point across. For an example, look to Carole King's muffled, near-indecipherable but hauntingly lovely demo of "The Porpoise Song," which actually sounds like it was recorded underwater. For another example, look to SUH , the brand-new EP from the We Shared Milk, which, according to the band, was "self-recorded in two weeks in a Northeast Portland basement with shitty digital plug-ins and the wrong mics." Its limited production [...]
This weekend's Best Bests have more possibilities than one of those robot Coke machines have flavor combinations. Tonight: Two screenings of This Is Spinal Tap at Screenland Lucinda Williams at Liberty Hall 11.11.11: Murder by Death, Matt Pryor, Six Percent, the Dead Girls, Various Blonde at The Granada 11.11.11: Lazer Sword, DJ Alan Paul, Approach, Nezbeat, Polica, 1,000,000 Light Years, Baiowolf at the Bottleneck 11.11.11: Fourth of July, Suzannah Johannes, Minden, the Generals at the Eighth Street Tap Room 11.11.11: Casket Lottery, Reflector, Drop a Grand, Dry [...]
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