This is like crack for Americana fans, and its been too long since Farrar has given us the good stuff in such pure form.
It was worth the price of admission just to watch the girl, maybe 9 years old, in the front row—her mouth agape, her eyes filled with wonder—bewitched by the story of a young woman struggling to control both the powerful magic and emotions roiling inside her.
The boys from Duluth play a sort of blunt-force bluegrass, pounding out notes with all the brutal honesty of a garage band that has just discovered Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.
Here’s Wisconsin Minnesota (oh, how embarrassing—truly, I do know the difference between Wisconsin and Minnesota) alt-bluegrass band Trampled By Turtles and opening act Honey Honey…
What can I say? My favorite albums contain my favorite songs. Go figure.
Here is this year’s obligatory list-making, by the numbers: 3 Bay Area acts 6 solo female artists 2 re-united ’90s bands A ton of vaguely…
John Darnielle didn’t avoid the issue. He met it head on. When he came out on the stage in San Francisco on Friday, before he…
Sad circumstances brought me back to Michigan last week. My grandfather passed away at the age of 91. If there was a silver lining to…
Greetings from Michigan, everyone. I’m back in my home state, checking in with one of my favorite groups. Flatfoot is a fine alt-country band from…
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…