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 [...]
Recommended Show: MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012 STEVE EARLE @ CITY WINERY 155 Varick Street New York, NY 10013 $45, 7PM Steve Earle has been at City Winery for a few consecutive Monday nights now. He probably won't be there for much longer! Go see him while you can! New Look @ Cake Shop Diane Birch @ Joe's Pub Liam Finn @ The Rock Shop Rev Vince Anderson @ Union Pool Laura Gibson & Alexa Wilding @ Mercury Lounge [...]
This week in NYC shows is another mellow one compared to the normal onslaught of great concerts, but there are definitely some interesting happenings, including the New York Guitar Festival, Girls and Real Estate at Terminal 5, and Brother Past's return to Brooklyn Bowl...
Recommended Show: MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012 STEVE EARLE @ CITY WINERY 155 Varick St New York, NY 10013 $45, 7PM Folksy country rocker Steve Earle is a true original. Though the $45 price tag for his City Winery show tonight may be high, but it is worth every penny. Liam Finn @ The Rock Shop Rev Vince Anderson @ Union Pool Herculaneum & Tomas Fujiwara @ Zebulon Big Bad Voodoo Daddy @ B.B. King Blues Club [...]
Happy 2012 live music freaks! Hope you all had a killer 2011 and finished it off with a bang and some good shows! Last week was obviously a busy week for live music fans in the New York metro area, so naturally, the concert calendar slows down a bit this week as we start the new year. But that's not to say there aren't some great shows to hit...
This year in music has been quite impressive. While 2010 gave us clear-cut, stand alone winners, it was much harder to determine which album was Top Ten worthy, let alone the best of 2011. Most sites have published their lists already, and while many albums appear on the same lists, the top ten varies greatly from list to list. Don't expect us to be any different. Read more » http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ ping
Death Songs – Death SongsDownload "Water in the Eyes of Man" The Decemberists – The King is DeadDownload "Down by the Water" The Decemberists – Long Live the King [EP] Delay Trees – Delay TreesDownload "Cassette 2012" and "About Brothers"...
Marcelo Krasilcic The Magnetic Fields are back. But wait, you might argue, they never really went away. Sure, three albums in the past decade doesn't really match the rate of output that Stephin Merritt was maintaining in the '90s - particularly when you take into account his other projects - but it ain't nothing. And yet it's accurate on many levels that The Magnetic Fields are back: they're back on Merge , the label that released their greatest records including the risky and magnificent 69 Love Songs [...]
Listen to all four discs of new Dylan covers from My Morning Jacket, Patti Smith, Kesha, Queens of the Stone Age, the Avett Brothers, the Gaslight Anthem, and dozens more!
A far liste non sono capace ma più o meno ci siamo, 15 dischi + 1 dove i primi sono i migliori e gli altri solo belloni. Essendo io un emotivo è tutto molto soggettivo e ricco di doveri morali, poi sarei anche pieno di mancanze e i dischi migliori li ascolterò l'anno prossimo ma che importa, mica siamo qua a fare Pitchfork. (Se cliccate sulle immagini ci stanno le canzoni preferite) The Low Anthem | Smart Flesh Feist | The Metals [...]
David HannersDavid Hanners sings for the doomed and the thoughtful "It's kind of a joke amongst my songwriter friends that I kill off a lot of characters in my songs," says David Hanners, Pulitz
Over at The Hits Just Keep Comin' , JB notes the reaction of listeners to Mannheim Steamroller's A Fresh Aire Christmas during a stint DJing at an easy listening station in the late '80s. ("You wouldn't think that the elevator-music audience would use language like we heard on the telephone.") I remember A Fresh Aire Christmas being released for the holidays in 1988. I was a junior in college and it was my second Christmas working in a record store, having earned the [...]
"Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance..." If you like your Americana way raw, you'd better start reading Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil All The Time right away. Unputdownable's the word. Soundtrack below. Palace Brothers - Idle Hands Are The Devil's Playthings Sam Collins - Devil In The Lion's Den The Box Tops - I Must Be [...]
Josh Ritter at BookPeople in Austin in October ( more by Tim Griffin ) Singer/songwriters Josh Ritter , John Wesley Harding (aka Wesley Stace), and Steve Earle are also authors, and all three of them put out novels this year. They'll be teaming up for "a night of talk and songs" at the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library on Tuesday (12/6) . Tickets for [...]
by Andrew Sacher Mountain Goats at Bowery Ballroom in March ( more by Ryan Barkan ) Michael Dorf's (founder of Knitting Factory) series of tribute concerts to benefit music education programs for underprivileged youth (which last paid tribute to Neil Young in February) will continue on March 13, 2012 at Carnegie Hall , when 21 different artists will perform the 21 songs from The Rolling Stones ' massive document of the early part of their long [...]
Get the Full Tracklist on the Upcoming Bob Dylan Amnesty International Tribute Album.
As a kid, the family usually made at least one trek annually to visit relatives in Western Pennsylvania. To mitigate the need to navigate traffic, we would often set off on these trips in the wee hours of the night, getting the first couple hours in before the sunrise. It was thrilling to be up in the middle of the night, at an hour whose existence was wholly unknown to me at the time. As my younger brother and our mother would be asleep in the backseat, I was accorded shotgun, road atlas [...]
Beck I wrote, and deleted, my original Thanksgiving editorial. I'm opting for this instead: a collection of live videos of artists that I like as much as I like cornbread dressing (no, not stuffing, dressing). Happy Thanksgiving. Steve Earle - "I Feel Alright" (Live) Son Volt "Catching On" (Live) Nikki Lane - "Gone, Gone, Gone" (Live) Merle Haggard - "Misery and Gin" (Live) Vern Gosdin "Chiseled in Stone" (Live) Jason Isbell - "Alabama Pines" [...]
Impressario Michael Dorf has put together a benefit concert in New York City each and every year since 2006 that feature some of our favorite artists paying tribute to legendary performers such as Neil Young, Elton John and Joni Mitchell. Today we found out that the next year's concert will be a Rolling Stones tribute that will be held at Carnegie Hall on March 13. All in all, 21 artists will perform 21 songs from Hot Rocks 1964-1971, a greatest hits album put out by ABKCO Records in 1971. For [...]
Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer : The Mountain [ purchase ] Steve Earle with The Del McCoury Band : The Mountain [ purchase ] A mountain is the product of geological upheaval, but it represents solidity. Dave Carter, in his song The Mountain, finds a symbol of spiritual truth here. Carter referred to many different spiritual traditions in his writing; I don't think divisions between them were important to him. The Mountain refers to Native American beliefs with [...]
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