All posts by Former Staff

  • DeadEye Dawn in a Dark December

    Not even the sage Robert Hunter, with a case of red wine and a sheet of Owsley’s finest magic carpet, could have foretold the events of this 2020 shit show. Long and strange don’t even begin to...

    • Posted December 28, 2020
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  • Review: Marc Ribot Scores High With Charlie Chaplin’s “The Kid”

    If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Unless you’re Marc Ribot. And in that case, you were commissioned by the New York Guitar Festival to pen a solo guitar score for Charlie Chaplin’s silent film masterpiece, The...

    • Posted March 10, 2020
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  • Pierce Edens: Three chords and the truth. Dig it.

    Pierce Edens hails from a small town in North Carolina that couldn’t get any bigger if it wanted to. It’s a landscape peppered with hollers and canyons cut with whitewater. And it was there, steeped in the...

    • Posted February 18, 2020
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  • Shovels & Rope, Austin TX

    Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, better known as the duo Shovels and Rope, have been stitching their hearts together with song since before the 2008 release of their self-titled debut record. And in that creatively intimate space,...

    • Posted November 8, 2019
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  • Tyler Childers ACL

    Coal may be a dying industry in Appalachia, but the region’s musical heritage remains stronger than three fingers of aged bourbon. One state in particular though, Kentucky, stands alone on the top shelf. Unfortunately most often in...

    • Posted October 24, 2019
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