A Bay Area music / urban planning blog
Being There still feels monumental 25 years later. It also announced the arrival of Wilco: The Band That Jams and Takes Risks. Risks like recording a double album, opening it with a 45-second drums-and-feedback freakout, and then spending the next 76 minutes alternating between ennui-filled ballads and surreal-nonsense-filled bangers.
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…
This is like crack for Americana fans, and its been too long since Farrar has given us the good stuff in such pure form.
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.
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…
Last night’s show at the Fox Theater was, I believe, the third time I have seen The Avett Brothers earnest mash-up of folk, pop and…