iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Steve Earle

Steve Earle: An Urban Outlaw on the Low Highway

Joanna Colangelo | Posted 04.24.2013 | Entertainment
Joanna Colangelo

What makes The Low Highway a near instant classic is its natural progression in Steve Earle's musical staying power.

Steve Earle Takes The Low Highway to the Mile-High City

Michael Bialas | Posted 04.23.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Bialas

Steve Earle was celebrating in Denver on Saturday night, and it had nothing to do with the Mile-High puff daddies hanging out near Colfax Avenue just ...

Steve Earle, Our Woody Guthrie, Takes Our Pulse On Low Highway

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 04.16.2013 | Entertainment
Jesse Kornbluth

Steve Earle is a folk poet with a world-class reputation -- he's the successor to Woody Guthrie, with 15 CDs in his catalogue. And he's omni-talented: He's written a novel, stories and a memoir.

O Brother Who Art Thou? A Q&A With Actor/Writer/Director Tim Blake Nelson

Jonathan Valania | Posted 04.03.2013 | Entertainment
Jonathan Valania

If you are scratching your head and asking 'Who the hell is Tim Blake Nelson?', the long answer is you already know his work and the short answer is: He's the guy in O Brother Where Art Thou? who isn't George Clooney or John Turturro.

Live (Barely) From Austin: A Hot Time at the ACL Music Festival

Michael Bialas | Posted 12.15.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Bialas

If the twenty-something woman strumming an acoustic guitar on the corner of 4th and Congress was singing for her supper Thursday, she undoubtedly went home hungry that night. Folks, welcome to Austin, Texas, Live Music Capital of the World.

Catching Up With Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd, Plus Exclusives From Van Ghost and Unstoppable Death Machines

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.27.2012 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

2012-08-27-RandyFoster.jpg

Improvapalooza At Source: HuffPost DC Top 5 For August 21

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 08.21.2012 | DC

TOP 5 FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 1. Improvapalooza 2012 At Source The five-day improv festival begins today. Nine new pieces from the Washington Impro...

Barbara Kruger Exhibit At Hirshhorn: HuffPost DC Top 5 For August 20

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 08.20.2012 | DC

TOP 5 FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 20 1. "Belief + Doubt" At Hirshhorn The new Barbara Kruger exhibit opens today. Gigantic, Orwellian messages that have t...

The Day I Met The King

Michael Sigman | Posted 10.18.2012 | Fifty
Michael Sigman

As a cub reporter for the trade magazine Record World, I got to cover one of the most thrilling music-related events of that spring -- Elvis's press conference at Madison Square Garden on June 9th, just before his first-ever New York performances.

A Hard Day's Night Out With Steve Earle, Los Lobos

Michael Bialas | Posted 10.05.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Bialas

After four songs, Los Lobos spokesman Cesar Rosas, who had the unenviable task of zapping some energy into the crowd, said, "Can y'all breathe all right?... I need some tequila."

Motherload Monday: Chats With Steve Earle, Ravi Coltrane, Jerry Douglas, P.O.D.'s Sonny Sandoval and Marina & The Diamonds

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.06.2012 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

2012-08-06-steveearle22.jpg

Levon Helm (1940-2012): A Thank You Note for the Great Music -- And the Example

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 06.19.2012 | Entertainment
Jesse Kornbluth

The custodian of The Band's music was Levon Helm. It could be no other way. The drummer is the literal heartbeat of a band. Levon was that, and more.

CRIME PLAYLIST: Musicians Who Did Hard Time

Posted 04.12.2012 | Crime

You've been charged with good taste in music. The only way to avoid hard time is to listen to this playlist. Jokes aside, between David Crosby's ni...

WATCH: Tribute Concert Planned For Late Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Founder

Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.16.2012 | San Francisco

Warren Hellman devoted the first half of his life to finance--becoming the youngest partner ever at Lehman Brothers before staking off on his own at t...

Steve Earle: Still Singing, and Acting, Against the Death Penalty

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.29.2011 | Politics
Greg Mitchell

It was hardly a surprise that my favorite songwriter/actor/novelist Steve Earle got involved in activism surrounding the execution of Troy Davis by the state of Georgia last week.

Shannon McNally Celebrates Her Spirit of Independence Days

Michael Bialas | Posted 09.18.2011 | Entertainment
Michael Bialas

Shannon McNally could be like one of those characters in Treme, the critically acclaimed HBO series about New Orleans musicians surviving in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She already knows the part by heart.

Steve Earle: America's Hardcore Troubadour

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.11.2011 | Entertainment
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Steve Earle played "This City" for a New Orleans audience last night, telling us a song is done when you play it for the people you wrote it for. "Now...

Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, Sarah McLachlan Go to Telluride Bluegrass Heaven (Day 1)

Michael Bialas | Posted 08.20.2011 | Entertainment
Michael Bialas

"The first time I played here, which was about 15 years ago I guess, I looked up during the set and saw the waterfall and forgot the entire second verse of the song I was playing."

Return To Return To Forever: Chatting With Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, Plus John Common and Author Dr. Tony Youn

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.09.2011 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

Chick Corea's new album, Forever, is a two-disc set, with the first disc being acoustic, and the second disc with a full band and guests. For the first disc, I asked him if it was a return to Return To Forever.

Snobs in Hippieville: Our Guide to the 38th Telluride Bluegrass Festival

Angora Holly Polo | Posted 08.03.2011 | Denver
Angora Holly Polo

Music festivals are much like the Boy Scouts in that it's very important to be prepared. Here's how we have prepared ourselves for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, June 16th-19th.

Fishin' in the Dark: Chattin' With The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Jeff Hanna

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.27.2011 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

2011-05-27-dfd.jpg

On Our Radar: Best Books Just Out Or Coming Soon We Thought You Should Know About

Posted 07.26.2011 | Books

Here's what's on our radar this week--everything from great summer reads to important human rights issues that we thought you'd want to know about. It...

LA Weekend Agenda: Silverlake Jubilee, Les Nubians, Venice Art Walk

| Katherine Spiers | Posted 07.19.2011 | Los Angeles

This weekend, you will dance. We don't care that it's "cold" outside and you don't feel like it. With great music from the 323 to the 310, you have no...

Treme & Beyond: Conversations with Steve Earle, The Belle Brigade and Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.18.2011 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

Steve Earle spoke to me from Liuzza's in New Orleans, where he had just ordered a Po Boy, and where he is currently filming the second season of HBO's Treme.

Allison Moorer HuffPo Interview: Awaiting John Henry Earle

Michael Bialas | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Michael Bialas

Singer-songwriter Allison Moorer talks about her new album,Crows, the impending birth of her first child and the state of country music.