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Last summer Toad the Wet Sprocket opened for Barenaked Ladies on that band’s Last Summer on Earth tour. Glen Phillips, lead singer/guitarist in Toad the Wet Sprocket, came away impressed by what he saw from that veteran Canadian band. “We got really inspired going on the road with Barenaked Ladies. I loved seeing how they, […]
Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s recently released DVD, “Straight to You Live,” is the first concert DVD he’s released in a career that now stretches back more than 25 years. But it’s not like he’s been trying to avoid doing such a project all this time. “The fans have been asking for a live DVD for decades,” […]
The pandemic, for many touring musicians, was a rare chance to take an extended break and recharge their creative batteries. Not the Kitchen Dwellers. The Montana-based string band wanted to make a new album (which became the 2022 release “Wise River”) that made a statement about the group. “We kind of took that route in […]
Whoever says the full-length album is a dying art form hasn’t been watching the Christmas music. This year brings another sleigh full of full-length albums. Here’s my take on this year’s albums vying for your Christmas music dollars. Lindsey Stirling: “Snow Waltz” – Stirling brings her unique signature mix of classical, electronica and pop to […]
Ever since Mt. Joy made a big splash in the music world with “Silver Lining,” the single from the band’s 2018 self-titled debut album that became a No. 1 hit at adult alternative radio, the band has been widely labeled as a folk-rock act and frequently compared to The Lumineers. Mt. Joy singer/guitarist Matt Quinn […]
Lindsey Stirling could hardly have experienced a more abrupt and dramatic stop to her music activities than what happened when the pandemic hit in early 2020. She was on a plane with her dancers, band and crew heading to South America to start a leg of her “Artemis” tour, when word came that the tour […]
When guitarists/singers Miles Doughty and Kyle McDonald started Slightly Stoopid in 1994, they were out front of a second generation of bands that wanted to build on the reggae-rock sound that was starting to take hold thanks to the success of groups like Sublime, 311 and to a lesser extent, No Doubt. Now some 28 […]
Lyle Lovett has just released “12th of June,” his first album of original material in 10 years. In yet another example of the pandemic getting in the way of best laid plans, Lovett had things all lined up for a much earlier arrival of his latest batch of music. “We recorded these tracks in November […]
Most musicians found their activities curtailed during the pandemic. For the Indigo Girls, the past two years have been a particularly busy season. The duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray just released a livestream project, “Look Long: Together,” that took a year and a half to complete, they’re the subject of an upcoming documentary […]
ZZ Top’s “Raw” is as close to being an accidental album as it gets. The album, which is set for release on July 22, is drawn from a session at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, in which singer/guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard played versions of such familiar songs as […]
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