THROUGH THE LENS: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2025 — All the Roots Music Stars Descended from the Heavens
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Breaking news out of Woodstock, New York this week illuminated deep fissions among the ownership of Levon Helm Studios. Levon, of course, was a beloved, co-founding member of The Band and established this space, affectionately just known as The Barn, in 1975. In the early 2000s, as he was
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Maya de Vitry, Rio Tripiano, and David Wax Museum
Most months, all three of my featured campaigns come from Kickstarter. That's because Kickstarter is, by far, the biggest crowdfunding platform around for music. But there are others, including some unconventional ones, which deserve attention as well. This month they get it as all of my featured campaigns
THE READING ROOM: Craig Havighurt’s ‘Musicality for Modern Humans’
We often refers to certain pieces of music, usually popular songs or albums associated with memorable experiences (whether happy or sad) or significant swathes of time, as the soundtrack of our lives. Every now and then, a song comes on the radio and in that moment we’re transported to