John Doe & Kathleen Edwards
At the conclusion of John Doe and Kathleen Edwards' November 8 performance at Carnegie Hall's elegant Zankel Hall in New York, the duo stepped in front of the microphones and monitors they had been using all set, walked to the edge of the stage, and unaided by
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'
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