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Old 97's frontman offers forth a set of covers to celebrate the venerable L.A. club Largo. Best known as the frontman for alt-country stalwarts Old 97's, Rhett Miller has been unassumingly making great music for about 18 years now. An adept songwriter whose keen mind illuminates the plight of various hard-luck lost souls with clever word play and deft turns of phrase, Miller makes a strong first impression, with songs burrowing themselves into your psyche and staying there for long periods of time. In contrast to annoying earworms that lodge in...

I discovered At the Drive-In by accident. Jim Ward , one of ATDI's founding members, was opening for Rhett Miller a few years ago at the Black Cat (you can see the shots from it here ). It was one of those "get there early/fall in love with the opener you know nothing about" instances that I love. Ward played with this incredible combination of delicacy and metric ton of power that I was dumbfounded. I can count on one hand the number of musicians playing acoustic guitar and singing that have held [...]

Rhett Miller: [ Nobody Says I Love You Anymore ]

• Rhett Miller - Nobody Says I Love You Anymore

Rhett Miller The Interpreter: Live At Largo Maximum Sunshine Records [2011] Fire Note Says: Rhett Miller is best when he is at home on the stage! Album Review: The live stage has always been a place that Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller has shined and on this 14-song set, recorded during his final two live performances at the original location of Largo in 2008, Miller gives [...]

Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller keeps his solo career rolling with the upcoming release of The Interpreter: Live at Largo, a dozen live acoustic covers of some of his favorite songs by David Bowie, the Pixies, the Kinks, Elliott Smith and more. The release, the first for Miller's new label, Maximum Sunshine, was recorded over two nights in April, 2008 at the original location of Largo, the intimate, much-loved L.A. venue. Read more »

There's a lot of history in Rhett Miller's The Interpreter: Live at Largo . The new set, recorded at Largo's former Fairfax location - the best concert venue I've ever been to, R.I.P. - during its final days, finds the Old '97s singer laying into covers of the Pixies, the Kinks and more, but you'll want to skip to his impassioned take on Elliott Smith's "Happiness." Smith himself was a Largo regular in his early days in Los Angeles, of course: his only official live release, available with Autumn de Wilde's wonderful book , was also recorded there. [...]

It's FRRRRRIDAAAAY! What better reason to celebrate than a Friday afternoon. With every Friday comes free tunes that Orchard artists have released over the previous week. This week we have free streams from Frenchkiss' new signing, RACES, and Stereogum's "Band To Watch", Zambri. We also have new tracks from Devin ...

​There are loads of great shows this weekend, but probably the most notable is the Cystic Fibrosis benefit concert at Granada Theater on Saturday night. For the fifth year in a row, Rhett Miller... Continue reading "Rhett Miller Benefits Cystic Fibrosis Research at The Granada & Other Weekend Shows" >

You can listen to Rhett Miller's performance in its entirety here .

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Harper Smith Photo of Amos Lee by Harper Smith This weekend WXPN is broadcasting all three World Cafe 20th anniversary shows . Friday night's live broadcast starts at 7 p.m. with The Little Willies (featuring Lee Alexander, Jim Campilongo, Norah Jones, Richard Julian and Dan Rieser), Indigo Girls and John Hiatt. Saturday evening's broadcast starts at 7 p.m. with Dawes, a very special guest and Feist. Sunday's Campaign for the Music Party broadcast with Amos Lee, Rhett Miller, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks begins broadcasting at 1:30 p.m. All the [...]

The Roots have announced the December 6 release of undun (Island Def Jam), a conceptually based album about the life of "one Redford Stephens" ... The remastered versions of Gish and Siamese Dream, the iconic debut and sophomore releases from the Smashing Pumpkins, will be reissued with bonus content and special features November 29 via [...]

​ In case you were wondering, the above tweet from Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller on Saturday afternoon was not a joke. Honestly, we thought it was at first, too. Then we ran into Miller in the b... Continue reading "The Best Story You'll Hear Involving Rhett Miller, The Texas Rangers and The DOMAs." >

The Orchard is thrilled and honored to join efforts with Theatre Within this year to release The 30th Annual John Lennon Tribute. The album is a live recording of last year's concert event which gathered legendary music icons Patti Smith, Jackson Browne, Cyndi Lauper, Aimee Mann, Keb' Mo', Joan Osborne, The Kennedys, Rich Pagano of the Fab Faux, as well as YouTube sensations ...

DOWNLOAD: Jim Ward - Take it Back (MP3) Old 97 Rhett Miller , currently working on a new record , is going on a solo acoustic tour in October, but first you can catch him with his full band The Serial Lady Killers at a big headlining show at Highline Ballroom in NYC this Saturday night (9/24) . Tickets are still on sale. [...]

• Jim Ward - Take It Back

From September 7th to 11th, music obsessives in Portland, OR trekked between 21 venues to see nearly 200 bands, fighting dehydration, worn heels, and sticky wristbands, all for the glory of Musicfest NW (MFNW). What were the highlights? Every person will give you a different answer. Was it Seattle radio station KEXP's free day shows at the Doug Fir including the Horrors, Sebadoh and the Antlers? Watching the sun set with Band of Horses, Iron & Wine, or Explosions in the Sky outdoors at Pioneer Square? The Thermals stagediving and blowing out their amp at the EMP Backstage? Legendary [...]

Anthrax, Death Angel, Testament: Sun., Oct. 30. Warehouse Live. Billy Joe Shaver: Sat., Sept. 24. The Firehouse Saloon. Brent Nettles, Literary Greats, Poor Pilate: Sat., Sept. 24. Continental... Continue reading "Upcoming: Anthrax, Joe Walsh, Rhett Miller, Zac Brown Band, Etc." >

​Considering that this upcoming September 11th will serve as the ten-year anniversary of the day the Twin Towers fell, the fact The Atlantic is using its September issue to look back on 9/11 isn... Continue reading "Rhett Miller Shares The First Two (And Never Before Released) Songs He Wrote After 9/11" >

No it's not named after the retriever, but it will leave you howling until its release date. Rachael Yamagata wants to offer us more of her moody balladeering on this one, but this time with a more mainstream twist. This pledge-backed album is set to make Rachael Yamagata a household name. Chesapeake is the record Yamagata always wanted to make. "In a funny way I think this might be a more commercial record for me in terms of reaching a broader audience because there was no attempt or requirement to be anything but what we felt like doing in the room," she [...]

Hayes Carll @ Summerstage ( more by Chris La Putt ) Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll recently opened a Central Park Summerstage show for Levon Helm and Emmylou Harris. Hayes will headline his own NYC show at Music Hall of Willimasburg on November 4th . Tickets go on sale Friday (8/7) at noon with the AmEx presale beginning Wednesday (8/5). Meanwhile catch Hayes for free in NYC today (7/30) [...]