EDITOR’S NOTE: Look! Here’s our first installment of Notes from the Coast in partnership with THE BLUEGRASS SITUATION. Here’s Amy’s take on Telluride. By Amy Reitnouer For as long as I’ve been involved in the […]
Month: June 2012
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
New York gets double-lucky this week, as Glen Hansard plays back-to-back shows Thursday and Friday at le poisson rouge and Beacon Theatre. For anyone who hasn’t yet, check out his first solo album, Rhythm And […]
Seattle’s Bryan John Appleby
Over the weekend, I spent a fair amount of time listening to Seattle based songwriter Bryan John Appleby, who released his debut record, Fire on the Vine (AmazonMP3 & Spotify), after he spent two seasons […]
Telluride Bluegrass Kicks off Today
Tell-U-RIDE. The 39th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, one of the most important and influential events in bluegrass all year, starts today. As noted earlier, We’ll be featuring on-site coverage from Amy at THE BLUEGRASS SITUATION this […]
Introducing: Notes From The Coast
Well here’s something very exciting: starting today, LA’s THE BLUEGRASS SITUATION is teaming up with New York’s grass clippings blog to bring you “Notes from the Coast.” In an effort to create a dialog between […]
clippings calendar: This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
Tis the season of record releases … two of those being the albums of local Brooklyn acts Spirit Family Reunion, whose release show took place this past weekend, and Jus Post Bellum, whose own celebration […]
New Jersey’s Sleepy Man Banjo Boys
Most bluegrass musicians can only dream of playing a high profile festival before they hit thirty. Three brothers from rural New Jersey got a head start. This summer The Sleepy Town Banjo Boys, the Mizzone […]
film clippings: ‘Big Easy Express’ Slices Off a Piece of Americana Pie
It very well may be the draw of an idyllic train trip across the states that captured my attention, one in which the ‘music never stops’ and everyone seems so gosh-darned, bloody happy as they […]
clippings calendar: This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
Whoa, man. Who has a purse full of gummybears, a soft spot for riesling and is super excited to see Sara Watkins live for the first time? Duh. Me. The fiddling singer plays City Winery […]
Spirit Family Reunion’s No Separation
Brooklyn’s Spirit Family Reunion releases No Separation, its long awaited full-length album, this Friday, June 15th with a special celebration at the Mercury Lounge. If there’s any band that we’ve watched grow over the few […]
Banjo’s Manifesto
A short break from the regularly scheduled programming for this PSA… Back in 2005 when I was 25, I found out that I had sarcoma cancer in my neck. After an intense surgery to remove […]
clippings calendar: This Week’s Must-See NYC Shows
One of the bands I’m most excited to see at this year’s Newport Folk Fest is the above band — Portland-based Blind Pilot. I’ve had their latest album, We Are the Tide, in constant rotation […]
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