Following the spring release of his seventh studio album, Something in the Water, roots-music hero Pokey LaFarge has spent most of 2015 on the road, taking his blend of rockabilly, Western swing, jump blues and honky-tonk to audiences from Amsterdam to Bonnaroo. LaFarge’s impeccable showmanship and slick traditionalism harkens back… Source: RollingStone Link: See Pokey […]

For Toronto’s Dilly Dally, spring awakening sounds less like bees buzzing than like chainsaws revving. The band’s leaders, Katie Monks and Liz Ball, are old friends who have zero patience for double standards or sexual frustration. The first track on their killer debut LP alternates between a hush and a… Source: RollingStone Link: Sore

“I shot an angel with Father’s rifle/I should’ve let it free, but I let it bleed/And made it into taxidermy,” Canadian artist Nicole Dollanganger sings. First impressions are hard to shake: From that opening line onward, she sets a course of Flannery O’Connor-style meditations on violence, small-town paranoia and strained… Source: RollingStone Link: Natural Born […]

Some songwriters pen clever lyrics but vocalize them awkwardly, or compose intricate melodies yet package them in mundane arrangements. John Grant isn’t like that. Possessed of a smooth but aching baritone, this Colorado-raised, Iceland-based expat evokes the lushest masters of Seventies rock while delivering sociological commentary and self-deprecating wit offset… Source: RollingStone Link: Grey Tickles, […]

You wouldn’t normally lump baritone country crooner Joe Nichols into the same category with Lady Gaga — he always remembers to leave the house with his pants on, after all — but with his new single “Freaks Like Me,” he admits the two actually have a little something in common. Namely,… Source: RollingStone Link: Joe Nichols […]

There have been many bitter and awkward moments at the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony during the past three decades. It’s an event that brings together bandmates that have sometimes not spoken in many years, often times after brutal lawsuits and mudslinging in the press. Few situations, however,… Source: RollingStone Link: John Fogerty […]

A renegade with a bottomless bag of dance moves helps put the final contemporary touches on the 2015 remix of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson’s “Say Say Say,” off the newly remastered edition of McCartney’s 1983 LP, Pipes of Peace. Ryan Huffington directed and choreographed the clip, which premiered on Facebook and… Source: RollingStone Link: Paul […]

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Wyclef Jean, the assiduously eclectic ex-Fugees member, has gathered an all-star line-up to collaborate on eight studio album, Clefication. Though the album is still in its beginning stages, Jean has worked with superstar EDM producers Avicii and Afrojack, DJ Khaled, Emeli Sandé and emerging Bronx singer Jazzy Amra, who Clef… Source: RollingStone Link: Wyclef Jean […]

An otherwise routine stop on Miranda Lambert’s Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars Tour became something of a family reunion on October 2nd, when Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley joined Lambert in Augusta, Georgia. The country trio, who recorded a pair of acclaimed LPs earlier this decade as the Pistol Annies, returned… Source: RollingStone Link: See the […]