Artist: Rhett Miller

As part of The Orchard's Creative Licensing team, we're always on the hunt for interesting covers. This month, we've assembled a playlist of some of of our favorite discoveries from the past year, including Albert Hammond, Jr. of The Strokes taking on the Big Star power-pop classic "Thirteen;" The Dandy Warhols' ...

Rhett Miller, playing tonight at World Cafe Live Singer/songwriter Rhett Miller stops by World Cafe Live tonight. His fifth album, The Dreamer , was released last year in June. Miller is also the lead singer for the Dallas alternative country band, Old 972s , and plays in Serial Lady Killers, which you can watch a video of the band performing "Singular Girl" at last year's XPo Fest here . Tickets and information for the all ages show with Cliff Hillis can be found here . Below, [...]

Robyn Hitchcock is turning 60 in style. Be a guest at his birthday party with some of his very special friends!

The Old 97's Rhett Miller is having some major vocal problems recently and some 97's show have had to be cancelled . Here's one of my favorites from the Blame It On Gravity album from 2008 called "Dance With Me." You can find more Old 97's songs to stream on their SoundCloud page .

• Old 97's - Dance With Me

Frightened Rabbit return to Seattle this Friday / photo by Morgen Schuler With the KEXP Spring Fundraising Drive now over (and thank you to everyone who pledged a gift of support), it's time to get down to some live music in Seattle. This week, things start with a couple nice little shows at Easy Street Records in West Seattle with Pickwick on Monday night, and The Cave Singers  on Tuesday  night. Looking for other options on Tuesday night? There's also a SXSW Send Off Show  with  Lemolo, OC Notes, Spac3man, [...]

Your daytime/nighttime activities, starting with three local events: ► The Ranch Party festival in Toganga Canyon boasts a lineup featuring The Internet, Kisses, Races, the Record Company, Jeffertitti’s Nile, HOTT MT, Mansions on the Moon, Zak Waters, Goodnight Keaton, the Dustbowl Revival, Terraplane Sun, Mystery Skulls, the Diamond Light, Eagle Rock Gospel Singers and more. ► The What Cheer! Festival at the Silverlake Overpass offers a long day and night of music including Feeding People, Tapioca & the Flea, Rainbow Jackson, Moses Campbell, the Abigails, Cotillon, Draemings, Criminal Hygiene, Body [...]

Incoming: The Residents, Gliss, Kan Wakan, A House for Lions, Warships, Ramona Falls, Goldroom, Com Truise, the Lions, Anberlin, Reckless Kelly, Flosstradamus, Francisco the Man, Willie Nelson, Califone, Surfer Blood, Dada, Happy Hollows, Hustle Roses, Rumours, Jukebox the Ghost, Galactic, the Breakestra, Bomb the Music Industry, the Devil Wears Prada, Gold Fields, Morrissey, Allah-Las, the Used, Method Man, Dilated Peoples, G. Love & Special Sauce, Snowden, Tiesto, Kitten, Starf*cker, Rhett Miller, the Muffs, STS9, Toro y Moi Above: Who would've thought that Chazwick Bradley Bundick would someday be headlining the Fonda [...]

Local rock 'n' roll trio Lantern headline Johnny Brenda's tonight.  Self-described as "proto-biker-punk-blues," the one thing that will strike any listener upon diving into 20122s Dream Mine EP (Bathetic) for the first time is the sheer amount of blown-out fuzz and noise that distorts the classically punk vocals of front-man Zachary Devereux Fairbrother.  Citing influences ... Continue reading �

photo by Morgen Schuler When Old 972s dropped by KEXP earlier this year, Rhett Miller took a moment to reflect on the impact KEXP has had on his life, and what a rare and precious commodity listener-powered radio is. If you share Rhett's sentiments, please make a gift of support to KEXP. We're in the midst of our New Donor Challenge, and if we can raise $15,000 from new donors by midnight on December 31st, three generous VIP Club members have agreed to double that amount—but [...]

As 2012 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. Rhett Miller cut his teeth with the alt-country Old 972s, but years before the band released Too Far To Care, the catchiest and most compelling distillation of its cow-punk-meets-Brit-Invasion template, [...]

As 2012 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. Rhett Miller cut his teeth with the alt-country Old 972s, but years before the band released Too Far To Care, the catchiest and most compelling distillation of its cow-punk-meets-Brit-Invasion template, [...]

As 2012 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. Rhett Miller cut his teeth with the alt-country Old 972s, but years before the band released Too Far To Care, the catchiest and most compelling distillation of its cow-punk-meets-Brit-Invasion template, [...]

21. Tyvek - On Triple Beams ( In The Red ) 22. La Sera - Sees the Light ( Hardly Art ) 23. Skelator - Agents of Power ( Metal On Metal Records ) 24. Rhett Miller -  The Dreamer  ( Maximum Sunshine ) 25. The Pharmacy -  Stoned & Alone  ( Seayou Records ) Like The Days of Lore on [...]

Rhett Miller at MHOW, October 2012 ( more by Dominick Mastrangelo ) Rhett Miller has only a sprinkle of dates scheduled from now until the early portion of 2013, but that does include a stop on January 9th, 2013 at City Winery . Tickets are on sale for the NYC show and for a December show at City Winery in Chicago . Rehtt Miller recently celebrated the 15th anniversary of Too Far to Care [...]

Three-Minute Records is a periodic feature at Pop Culture Has AIDS where we take a closer look at great, notable or interesting songs in pop music history. By any considered measure, The Old 972s are declining as recording musicians. Their ... Continue reading �

Alt-country heartthrob Rhett Miller turned back time to '97 // Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.

With FYF going on down in LA this weekend, we're getting a decent spillover of excellent shows up here in the Bay Area. Though not quite at Fauxchella levels, it's nice to have a Faux Your Festival going on right now. And since your regular host for this column, Dakin Hardwick, will be enjoying himself at [...]

Earlier this week, Legacy Recordings released We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash  in a deluxe CD/DVD combo format and on Blu-Ray. The album was filmed and recorded earlier this year at The Moody Theater in Austin, TX. Grammy winning producer Don Was directed an all-star roster of musicians in paying tribute to the music of  The Man in Black.  The album features a wide spectrum of artists, from country legends like Willie Nelson and Lucinda Williams to indie rockers like Rhett Miller and Brandi Carlile. You can catch the entire performance tonight as [...]

Rhett Miller and his band, the Serial Lady Killers, concluded this year's XPoNential Fest at Wiggins Park on a high note. Watch Miller and band perform the rocking song "Singular Girl" from his 2006 album, The Beleiver. Video by Bob Giardini – bobg-media.com Continue reading �

Thanks to Rhett Miller for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out his new LP, The Dreamer. Watch the video for "Out Of Love" below.