Last weekend, after weeks and months of ignoring some band I kept getting emails about from Lafayette, LA named GIVERS, I came face to face with them at the Hi-Tone in Memphis for the Grammy GPS showcase & panels. I had planned to hang out for Cities Aviv and then go home, but once they took to the stage, I became completely engaged with what was happening in front of me. Continue Reading...
It's like The Tallest Man on Earth, Mumford and Sons and The Avett Brothers had a blissed-out, stripped-down baby. And that baby was called Saintseneca. And the baby was good.
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Adding to the plethora of new music I've heard recently, I'm thrilled to have discovered one of Australia's seemingly best-kept secrets The Sea Thieves. Continue Reading...
The 2011 'Album of the Year' contest continues to heat up with Fleet Foxes' highly-anticipated, wistful song collection Helplessness Blues which is out May 3rd from Sub Pop. Continue Reading...
I fell immediately in love with this track the minute I played it. I don't know much about Pepepiano except that (according to their Bandcamp page) "Pepepiano is the recording alias of David Bird, a composer of electro-acoustic music from Laguna Beach, California." Continue Reading...
If you stop to think about it, Ani Di Franco has really done it all, and on her own terms. The one-time campfire song leader has blossomed into a one-of-a-kind independent songwriter & performer who stands above the rest -- seamlessly crossing genres (Folk, Pop and Jazz), influencing two generations of up-and-coming artists, and running a successful independent label, Righteous Babe Records. In the middle of all that, she has found time to be a loving mother to her daughter Petah Lucia and wife to producer Mike Napolitano. She was just in Memphis back in April & I ...
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