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.
Posted 04.12.2012
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...
Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.16.2012
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...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.29.2011
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.
Michael Bialas | Posted 09.18.2011
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.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.11.2011
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...
Michael Bialas | Posted 08.20.2011
"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."
Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.09.2011
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.
Angora Holly Polo | Posted 08.03.2011
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.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.27.2011
Posted 07.26.2011
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...
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Posted 07.19.2011
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...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.18.2011
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.
Michael Bialas | Posted 05.25.2011
Singer-songwriter Allison Moorer talks about her new album,Crows, the impending birth of her first child and the state of country music.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
Perspective's hard to come by in the heat of the moment, but it's already clear that this week's election is profoundly important. The forces of smal...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
I have a rather unusual history with Hall, going back about 35 years. Because of that, I was probably the first to write about Hall for a national news outlet long before his first campaign took off in 2006.
Michael Bialas | Posted 05.25.2011
After years of wrangling with record company executives, the soulful singer-songwriter with the smooth pipes and bricklayer mentality is a solo artist in every sense of the word.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011
Slash's first solo album shows continuity and expert songwriting despite all of the musical influences involved. But despite its being a solid release, the old school rock 'n' roll can sometimes get a little too reliable.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011
Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011
He has been compared to Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits, yet the very prolific singer-songwriter Matthew Ryan has eluded pop stardom.
David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011
To put myself in the proper mindset to enter The Pacific, I've come up with a playlist of great songs that speak powerfully to war and peace from a variety of perspectives and eras.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
Wolf co-authored 12 of the 14 songs, but you'd swear none of them is new -- though original, the music has the authority of classic R&B, old-time country, Philly soul, Mississippi cotton-picker blues and more.
Michael Bialas | Posted 05.25.2011
Over a span of three hours on February 19, Justwin Townes Earle and Joe Pug were shining examples of how far-reaching revisionist folk can be. Earl scored in front of a crowd that turned rowdy during his 90-minute exploration of hillbilly mamas, old-fashioned honky-tonks and an older but wiser redhead from Georgia who
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
Steve Earle left his wife when Justin was two or three years old, but just as he towers over most of the musicians in Nashville, he was a looming presence in his son's life.
Michael Bialas | Posted 05.25.2011
Close to delivering her eighth record and first child (in that order), Allison Moorer seems far removed from her previous life as a Country It Girl. I...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 04.19.2012