There are all kinds of Christmas songs: religious songs, profane songs, silly songs, serious songs. Some are very wrapped up in the sacred meaning of Christmas, as the celebration of the birth of Christ. Some are about finding a boyfriend at the holidays. I like to think that Christmas is big enough to encompass all these meanings. But I really don't care for Christmas songs that are sappy and sentimental. But it is possible to create Christmas music that is honest and true. Over the Rhine is the husband-and-wife [...]
It's understandable if you haven't surrendered to the Christmas music machine quite yet, but if you've been waiting for the right time to infuse your playlists with yuletide greetings, I recommend heading over to NoiseTrade where you can download Over the Rhine's Snow Angels for free (with the option to tip the artist and/or spread the word on social media). Snow Angels is a staple in our house during the holidays (cover art by Clint Reno ). While you're at it, check out some other free Christmas music from [...]
Nashville PBS affiliate WNPT airs an eight episode marathon of Sun Studio Sessions today on NPT "2" (Comcast 241). The first episode airs today at 1pm with Nicole Atkins and the Black Sea. Nicole has appeared on Conan O'Brien and David Letterman and her debut record hit #20 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. Paste Magazine aptly described Nicole's music as a "unique blend of rootsy-folk and
Over the Rhine are touring stalwarts who have shared the stage with artists like Bob Dylan, Ani DiFranco, My Morning Jacket, and have toured as "adjunct" members of the Cowboy Junkies.Over the Rhine's latest album The Long Surrender was recorded with Grammy-winning producer Joe Henry, and contains a duet with Lucinda Williams. The band stopped into Memphis to film an episode of Sun Studio
Over The Rhine: Faithfully Dangerous [ purchase ] I fell in love with Ohio-based band Over The Rhine in the new social media millennium, thanks to various bloggers' fondness for their inimitably beautiful, dreamy lounge-pop of what has been, for the last 15 years, a married singing/songwriting duo. But founders and sonic core Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler had fallen in love long before, way back in the mid-nineties, making it easy to shed their fellow founding members just after releasing this song on their two-CD set [...]
With Christmas out of the way, and the year almost over, it’s time I finally get around to compiling my Top 20 albums of the year of 2011 (in fact, there are 21 entries). Each album is represented on the mix with a song, and each entry has a link to the artist’s homepage or other outlet where the album can be ordered from. Because this list is intended not only to show off my impeccable taste, but also to showcase artists, all data files in the mix have been downscaled to 128kbps. This is not really a chart, but [...]
Over the Rhine has come a long way since the days where they'd play intimate, candlelit shows at Stache's . These days, some 20+ years after OTR's core members Karin Bergquist (vocals, guitars) and Linford Detweiler (multi-instrumentalist) first put the band together (and 15 years since the duo married), Over the Rhine is more suited for large stages such as the one at Lincoln Theatre where they'll be performing on Wednesday night. Earlier this year, Over the Rhine released the Joe Henry [...]
Over The Rhine , though having undergone a few different line-ups through the years, has gone in and out of music consciousness for over two decades. Now made up of married couple Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, the Cincinnati-based group has released record after record of calm—if not a little sedated—coffee house rock. Now in its twenty-third year of existence, the group comes off riddled with self-reflection and the contemplative thoughts that apparently come from growing older. Over the Rhine’s website comes complete with journal entries detailing members’ reflection on older journal entries from way back when, trying to complete [...]
San Francisco's disproportionately large population of ex-Ohioans once again flocked to Great American Music Hall to see the Buckeye State's finest cultural ambassadors -- Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist of Over the Rhine -- perform another exquisitely drowsy set of their infinitely soothing jazzy Americana. There is something profoundly comforting about seeing OtR for ex-Ohioans [...]
Sunday's selections: ► The rootsy raconteurs known as HoneyHoney visit the Troubadour for a hometown date — the duo of Suzanna Santos and Ben Jaffe released their second album, "Billy Jack," in October on Lost Highway Records. [Get a taste of "Ohio" and "Turn That Finger Around," and check out KCRW's post on "LA River." ] ► Big-time rockers go acoustic tonight at the Viper Room , where Everclear's Art Alexakis hosts a bill that includes Scott Russo of Unwritten Law, Max Collins of Eve 6 and Chris Taylor [...]
Fans Bumbershoot 2010 ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Every day for the month of May Bumbershoot will be announcing an act for this year's Festival. You can watch the line-up announcement trickle out live via Bumbershoot's Twitter or Facebook or you can bookmark this post and check back daily. Here's the eclectic line-up announcement by day [...]
Fans Bumbershoot 2010 ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Every day for the month of May Bumbershoot will be announcing an act for this year's Festival. You can watch the line-up announcement trickle out live via Bumbershoot's Twitter or Facebook or you can bookmark this post and check back daily. Here's the eclectic line-up announcement by day [...]
Fans Bumbershoot 2010 ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Every day for the month of May Bumbershoot will be announcing an act for this year's Festival. You can watch the line-up announcement trickle out live via Bumbershoot's Twitter or Facebook or you can bookmark this post and check back daily. Here's the eclectic line-up announcement by day [...]
Barack Obama becomes the latest US president to check out his Irish roots.
Fans Bumbershoot 2010 ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Every day for the month of May Bumbershoot will be announcing an act for this year's Festival. You can watch the line-up announcement trickle out live via Bumbershoot's Twitter or Facebook or you can bookmark this post and check back daily. Here's the eclectic line-up announcement by day [...]
The world is ending today. In fact, it might end before I get to post this, or before you get to download these five songs. It's the day of Rapture. And we tend to get a lot of those these days. Yesterday Any Minor Dude said to me: "You can't predict the end of the world." Like the pedantic shit that I am, I reponded: "Oh, you can predict. You can always make a prediction, but most likely you'll be wrong if you try and predict the last day of the world." So whichever crazy cult said the world would [...]
Fans Bumbershoot 2010 ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Every day for the month of May Bumbershoot will be announcing an act for this year's Festival. You can watch the line-up announcement trickle out live via Bumbershoot's Twitter or Facebook or you can bookmark this post and check back daily. Here's the eclectic line-up announcement by day [...]
This past weekend, I attended Days 2 and 3 of the Nelsonville Music Festival in Nelsonville, Ohio, which took place at Robbins Crossing at Hocking College. The festival's three-day lineup focused primarily on folk artists, but as you'll see, the 2011 slate was a rather diverse sampling of genres. Compared to other music festivals I've [...]
Fans Bumbershoot 2010 ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Every day for the month of May Bumbershoot will be announcing an act for this year's Festival. You can watch the line-up announcement trickle out live via Bumbershoot's Twitter or Facebook or you can bookmark this post and check back daily. Here's the eclectic line-up announcement by day [...]
(Day 2 photos coming soon, courtesy Cary Whitt.) Mud & Music, that was Day 3 of Nelsonville. Lots of both. Mud isn't quite as interesting to photograph, though, so here's some bands. Over the Rhine Wanda Jackson I was a little worried when I saw [...]
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