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In 2014, Joe Purdy put out what I thought was the best (and most overlooked) album of the year. While most were focused on the talk of Sturgill Simpson saving Country music, Joe Purdy wrote, recorded, produced and released Eagle Rock Fire—wait for it—for free. Having been a
Laurel Sprengelmeyer
Really digging the new music I have been hearing from Montreal-based musician Laurel Sprengelmeyer’s project known as Little Scream. The singer was born and raised in Iowa and moved to Montreal to be a part of the city’s rich musical landscape, and the musicians she met helped to
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Denver songstress Esmé Patterson has relocated herself to the Pacific Northwest and now calls Portland, OR home. The musician has been hunkered down in the studio since the move (a year or so ago) and is now readying the release of her new album, We Were Wild, out June 10th
Bloc Party
SXSW is weird. Early on Thursday night, I went to go see Sunflower Bean again (my second time in two days, their 4th show of the day) at Stubb’s. Opening the lineup was Loretta Lynn and her stately 7-piece band. Loretta Lynn wants you to know two things: she
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Wednesdays, they don’t usually have much going for them. It’s just this boring old middle of the week day where you have just battled through the first two work days and the weekend is still a tease on the horizon. That’s why I pretty much hate Wednesdays.
So, I was going to try to stick to one band per night of the Rumble – maybe my favorite for that night, or who I thought might win (not always the same, of course) – but then the schedule came out and shot my plans all to hell. On Night 1,
rock & roll rumble 2016
It’s that time of year again, friends – the annual Rock & Roll Rumble, Boston music institution, is about to get started and guess who, specifically, is getting it started? Our buddies The Digs are very literally kicking the thing off; they are playing in the first slot of the
Jagjaguwar
Each year, as winter bares it’s teeth toward the end of it’s reign in New England—here’s hoping I haven’t just cursed us—I find myself gravitating to songs that will pull me through the last few weeks of cold and darkness. One of the releases
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A disclaimer: Just as it is impossible to see more than the tiniest fraction of all that SXSW has to offer (around 1,800 acts, at almost 100 venues), it feels impossible to do anything more than make some general observations and pick a few favorite moments to write about.
A Tribe Called Quest
There really isn’t any other hip-hop band more revered and respected than New York’s A Tribe Called Quest. I remember the moment I first heard that irresistible beat coming out of my portable boom-box after I got my hands on their first album (it was a cassette tape)
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A quick get-to-know-you, since I’m going to be here with you for the next few days: I’m Andrew. This is my 8th SXSW, over the course of the past decade. I’d point you to some of my past sxsw clips, but they were for print concerns that
Anti-
Only two more months to go before we get a new album from British chanteuse Beth Orton. The first single off of Kidsticks (out May 27th via Anti-) is titled “Moon,” and it’s a delightful trip-hop, skip and a jump back to the style she honed working with the