Sis Deville is a supergroup of undiscovered gems.
The act personifies talent as a collective and in each member’s solo career, though it isn’t currently selling out stadiums. Each show is a rare reunion–catch ‘em while you can.
Listening to Susan Cowsill sing about her home in New Orleans, it’s difficult to believe that she got her start in a pop group with her brothers during the ’60s.
While The Cowsills and their Top Ten singles served as inspiration for the Partridge Family, Susan’s new record, Lighthouse draws from years of experience and the heartbreak experienced after Hurricane Katrina.
The Bad Livers co-founder Danny Barnes is at it again with Pizza Box, his latest release that soothes our longing for John Hartford-style humor mixed with soulful banjo pickin’ and a fresh injection of inspiration.
Each character Danny sings about, each situation and every feeling is multi-dimensional with personality and meaning. The songs are short stories with beginnings, middles and ends.
The latest roots recording, Things That Fly, is a 13-song vehicle by the Infamous Stringdusters. It is an acoustic, blue-ribbon winner from a proven bluegrass band. Within this third release, the septet displays a velocity of wise beyond their year’s creative craftsmanship.
Their innate ability is to alter the traditional mind-set of a string band within the established context. Their fingers-to-frets ratio is precise, pulsating, rapid, and appears like drifting rainbows against the blue sky.
With Dear Companion, a new record and collaboration with Daniel Martin Moore and produced by Jim James, on store shelves and another leg of their “Appalachian Voices” tour set to begin in July, Ben Sollee is plenty busy.
Luckily, he was able to take a few moments to talk with us about the album, the ballet, and building a fan base.
There are no broken promises on Anne McCue’s latest record, Broken Promise Land.
With her authentic, Lucinda Williams-flavored vocals, guitar chops and a near-live recording process without extra layers that would be difficult to replicate on the stage she charges full speed into a bluesy, swampy, slightly psychedelic mix of rock ‘n’ roll that she describes as “cosmic biker rock.”
It’s festival season again… the Austin City Limits line-up was finally released after weeks of guessing and speculating and full-schedules are rolling in left and right. Here’s our list of select festivals across the country with artists like Stevie Wonder, Calexico, The Dead Weather, The Avett Brothers, Richard Thompson and The Dave Rawlings Machine all hitting the festival circuit.
Say what you will about the B-52s with their catchy tunes and decidedly wacky presence, they still get the crowd hoppin’. Even thirty years after “Rock Lobster” hit the charts Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson, Keith Strickland and Fred Schneider fearlessly break out the kitsch (what else can toy pianos and cowbells be called?) for a nonstop dance party.
