Brooklyn's Northside Festival - not to be confused with Denmark's NorthSide Festival - is a multi-day music conference in the vein of SXSW, featuring hundreds of acts playing in various venues across the Williamsburg neighborhood. This year's lineup includes The Walkmen, Black Flag, Swans, Adolescents, Kylesa, Lambchop, Questlove, Solange, Mac DeMarco, The Men, The So So Glos, Twin Sister, Phosphorescent, Rhys Chatham and Oneida, Iceage, Lower, Julian Lynch, Son Volt, Why?, Torche, White Fence, Weekend, Merchandise, The Casualties, Ivan & Alyosha, Chelsea Wolfe, Braids, Jonathan Toubin, Lust For Youth, Milk Music, Sonny & the Sunsets, [...]
Jay Farrar smiled. I'm not joking; he really did. In the middle of Son Volt's remarkably engaging performance Saturday night at the Sons of Hermann Hall, the notoriously impassive Farrar grinne... Continue reading "Son Volt at the Sons of Hermann Hall, 04/21: Review" >
Son Volt is heading down the highway with a new album in tow, Honky Tonk, but instead of lamenting still waters and beatnik poets, Jay Farrar and company have gone strictly Bakersfield, even nami... Continue reading "Son Volt's Travel Guide to Five Bizarre Tour Stops" >
Photographer Blake Howell got some amazing shots Son Volt live at Cats Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC! Here's some of our favs. For the full set, go HERE !
THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Benefit for Justin Green w/ Mlny Parsonz, Terminal Slaughter, Order of the Owl Tuesday, April 9 Basement - 1245 Glenwood Avenue SE in Atlanta 30316 Admission $10 donation On Saturday, March 16th, Justin Graham, a full-time Georgia State student and newly-divorced father of one, was found lying on the side of the road after finishing his shift at Vortex in Little Five Points. While the details of the accident remain unclear, the severity of the injuries are not. Graham suffered broken ribs, [...]
Honky Tonk is exactly what you'd expect from the name. No more, no less. Rounder Records, 2013 6.0 / 10 Son Volt is one of those bands who's been around since I was...
True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today's age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to...
"Two dollars when I'm hard up, religion when I die ..." A delicious take on a thirsty ole folk traditional. Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner And speaking of Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt's finally got a new album out. Entitled Honky Tonk , it looks like Jay Farrar travelled all the way up to Bakersfield this time around. Taste! Son Volt - Brick Walls
Fans on the Jay Farrar side of the "Tupelo Divide" appear to be in for a big treat as the lead single off the album Honky Tonk catches Son Volt at their very finest. Farrar's vocals sound like they did 15 years ago and the instrumentation is accented nicely by well-directed fiddle and pedal steel melodies. It's back to basics for Son Volt and it sounds great. CMT Edge premiered the video last week and Bill Bentley of the Morton Report [...]
On Son Volt’s sixth studio album Honky Tonk, Jay Farrar focuses on exploring, distilling and re-imagining the classic honky tonk sound of the 1950’s Bakersfield, California which was a landing spot for Dust Bowl era migrants primarily from the midwest. The collection of music on this album is full of slow and mid-tempo waltzes, and led by pedal steel guitars and twin fiddles, along with Farrar's world weary laid-back vocals. Standouts among the eleven tracks such as opener "Hearts and Minds", "Bakersfield", "Angel of the Blues", and closer "Shine On" are steeped in sounds of the past while speaking to [...]
Dido – The Girl That Got Away (RCA) Thank You , no auge do seu sucesso, tinha uma aura de "músicas para café da manhã de hotel". A Dido acaba de inverter seu próprio jogo ao lançar um álbum deliciosamente noturno. Outro jogo invertido por Dido dessa vez foi todo o enquadramento de sua música no gênero easy listening. Dido começou sua carreira no desafiante gênero trip-hop, e retoma agora o seu lado afiado ao unir seu estilo pessoal com sutis nuances de dubstep. Sua [...]
Frank Yang Understand that I am in no way, shape, or form complaining, but I was pretty surprised when it was announced that Bob Mould would be playing The Horseshoe this past Friday night. Not that one legendary artist doesn't deserve a legendary venue, but considering that his profile arguably higher than its been in years thanks to a 2012 that included the 20th anniversary Sugar reissues and tour, the publication of his memoirs , and his best-received new album in some time with Silver Age , to [...]
Misery loves company, and Jay Farrar has always proven himself a suitable sidekick. In a career spanning more than 20 years, Farrar has never strayed too far from his beer-soaked country roots. Through Son Volt , he's managed to keep the hurt and anguish alive over the course of six full-length albums, but his seventh, the aptly titled Honky Tonk , feels more in touch with its broken-down country lineage than anything the band has done in years. Son Volt's music has always drawn straight from the well, mining from yesteryear outlaw country heroes like [...]
Two Seattle bands top this week's list of new releases. Since 20112s full-length No Witch , The Cave Singers added Blood Brothers/Past Lives/Fleet Foxes (among others) member Morgan Henderson to their lineup and teamed up with Fleet Foxes producer Phil Ek for their fourth LP Naomi out on Jagjaguwar . Our Music Director Don Yates points to Ek's introduction bringing a "brighter, more easy-flowing sound" to a new batch of "smartly crafted songs that never overstay their welcome." They're joined atop the list by fellow Seattle band Hey Marseilles , whose [...]
In this week's print edition, Senior Writer Roy Kasten interviews Jay Farrar, longtime leader of Son Volt and first-time author, about the band's new album Honky Tonk (due out March 5) and his... Continue reading "Son Volt's Jay Farrar on Honky Tonk, Ralph Mooney, Bending the Rules and More" >
Local band Blayer Pointdujour & The Rockers Galore welcomed the release of their debut full-length The Bull last fall and are already back in the studio working on its follow-up. "Big Haiti's Dream" is a teaser track for the new album, with an up-front horn section and a guest appearance by Kuf Knotz. Stream and ... Continue reading
Filed under: Exclusive , New Music , New Releases Rounder Records Rejoice, lovers of cow punk! Son Volt has returned to put a bit of country-fried rock 'n' roll in your life. The band's upcoming album Honky Tonk is coming to record stores on March 6, and you can hear their new single "Bakersfield" right here. "I wanted to acknowledge and pay homage to the country music that came out [...]
Americana band Son Volt have set a date to return to Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 19th in support of their sixth studio album Honky Tonk, out via Rounder Records on March 5th. The Jay Farrar-led outfit is one-half of the Uncle Tupelo split-up (the other half being Jeff Tweedy's Wilco) although much of the original ... Continue reading
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