True Blood misses on the southern thing, but gets the music right
The new HBO series True Blood imagines an America where vampires not only walk among us but are fighting for their civil rights. Though still hated and feared by humans, the undead have at last been able to come out of the casket all thanks to the development of a
Man enough: In memoryof Levi Stubbs
Levi Stubbs the man who sang "Reach Out I'll Be There" and "Standing In The Shadows Of Love", "Ask The Lonely" and "Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got" died last week. All of those records were
Jackson Browne
On the song "A Piece Of The Pie" from his new album Harps And Angels, Randy Newman assesses the state of our nation this way: "Jesus Christ it stinks here high and low/The rich are getting richer, I should know/While we're going up
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show have never been the type of band to shy away from rough-and-tumble subject matter such as drug use and grinding poverty, whether in songs written by group members or in 1920s jug-band numbers they've made their own. On the band's first two
The Weepies - No time to cry
"I don't differentiate all that much between movies, music, TV -- it's like all these companion pieces that go along with your life."
--Steve Tannen
Deb Talan and Steve Tannen of the Weepies are having a bit of a disagreement. Speaking by phone cross-country
Robert Forster - The sun's gonna shine in my back door someday
It could be the sun coming through blinds as you play a record (so it's sun on the music). It could be the sun coming through as you practice in the loungeroom of a large Brisbane house of a certain era...It's sunshine imposing on inside