Americana Music Festival announces first Showcase performers
Held Sept. 18-22, the Americana Music Festival will play host to a group of artists that show the wide range of styles that fall under the Americana umbrella. From some of the biggest legends in...
View ArticleSwingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread?
By JACK BOWERS, Jack Bowers Senior Contributor since 1997 A former newspaper writer / editor who has been writing about big-band Jazz for more than fifteen years. Recent articles (1,749 total)...
View Article'Superman' soared for the Clique in 1969
Superman has lent his name to numerous songs over the past half-century or so by artists as varied as the Kinks, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Taylor Swift, Willie Nelson, Donovan, the Flaming Lips and...
View ArticleLily & The Parlour Tricks Headline Underground Arts (Photos)
Lily and the Parlour Tricks released their music video for sleeper hit, "Murder Song" off their 2011 self-titled EP, which you can check out, here: http://bit.ly/1btoPak. To find out more information...
View ArticleSUMMER MUSIC: Buddy Guy can kick your Ass!
Summer is the perfect time for travel, and what better way to spend some time in a new place than at an outdoor concert enjoying a living, snarling, joyful legend? Check out this video. DAMN RIGHT!...
View ArticleAlbum review: 'The Definitive Doc Watson'
"The Definitive Doc Watson" is set to release on July 16 on Sugar Hill Records. The 34 track project is one of those rare career retrospectives serves both newcomers and fans equally well. Spanning...
View ArticleBerkeley Café bids adieu to big room
RALEIGH — A colorful slice of local blue-collar nightlife history came to an end Saturday night. With Southern Culture on the Skids presiding onstage, the Berkeley Café’s big music hall had its final...
View ArticleThe Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend
Credit: Sam Jones Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, June 21 Sea Wolf EL REY THEATRE On the third Sea Wolf album, Old World Romance, lone wolf Alex Brown...
View ArticleKevin Fowler to Headline Ziegfest (Corpus Christi Hooks)
(Source: Corpus Christi Hooks) Kevin Fowler to Headline Ziegfest With Casey Donahew, Reckless Kelly & More October 25 at Whataburger Field CORPUS CHRISTI - Ryan-Sanders Entertainment announced...
View Article'The Legend of the Lone Ranger': A Live Blog
Pretty much everything went wrong with 1981's The Legend of the Lone Ranger. Most notably: the production slapped an injunction on Clayton Moore (who had played the Lone Ranger for most of its...
View ArticleUp & down beats: Steady, sublime blues
DIDN’T IT RAIN Hugh Laurie Warner Bros YOU would have seen Hugh Laurie’s compelling alter ego Dr Gregory House playing blues on a piano or an acoustic guitar, articulating to such circumspection and...
View ArticleThe ArtsCenter in Carrboro has a weekend of folk and bluegrass music
On Saturday, the ArtsCenter in Carrboro presents a double bill of folk-rooted music with the...
View ArticleKenny Chesney doesn't disappoint with hits at Heinz Field
Picture a Steelers tailgate party with young people in summer cowboy wear in place of older black-and-golders. Now subtract the people who come for the football not the drinking. Then, add 50 or 60...
View ArticleTangled up in blues
Counter Culture celebrated the 102nd birth anniversary of Robert Johnson recently. This year also marks 75 years since the devil and his hounds finally caught up with the 27-year old Delta Bluesman....
View ArticleAnnual Americana Festival salutes the 4th With Civil War theme
The City of Centerville will stage its annual Americana Festival on the Fourth of July starting with a parade led by the Centerville High School Jazz Band at 10 a.m. The theme of this year’s festival...
View ArticleSoon to be 77, blues great Buddy Guy shows no signs of slowing down
My favorite Buddy Guy story goes back a few years. It unfolded during Labor Day weekend 1990 in downtown Louisville. This was long before the days of Forecastle, when the top outdoor festival was the...
View Article>Music Review: Slim Loris - "Future Echoes and Past Replays"
Slim Loris is a Stockholm-based indie pop rock/Americana powerhouse. The band consists of Mattias Cederstam on vocals, bass, and piano, Jonas Ellenberg on the drums, and Leon Lindström is on guitar...
View ArticleWheeler Brothers chat backstage at the 2013 Firefly Music Festival
CS: You just finished your set in the middle of a downpour. How did that go? Was it refreshing? Nolan: I think it was nice. It was perfect. It was the right amount of rain at the right time. It kind...
View ArticleNotes from the road: Gijon (Bruce Springsteen)
(Source: Bruce Springsteen) Although it was well after 9pm, the sky was still bright when the E Street Band took the stage at Estadio El Molinon in Gijon, Spain. Bruce spent an extended few moments at...
View ArticleOvrld.com's Texas road trip playlist
The essential Texan soundtrack, from rap and hip-hop to classic rock, from Ovrld.com, an Austin-based website run by and for music fans Welcome 2 Houston – Slim Thug feat. Chamillionaire, Paul Wall,...
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