Next Tuesday Seattle’s Hey Marseilles releases their new album, Lines We Trace (read more here). Yesterday the band put out this damn fine video about the making of the album. It’s like a mini Wes Anderson […]
Month: February 2013
Chesapeake’s The Last Bison
Northeasterners have never been good at waiting, but that hasn’t stopped our friends in Newport from announcing the Folk Festival lineup one band at a time. Since we broke the news about the addition of […]
Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Trayvon Tribute
A couple weeks back, New Orleans-based Alynda lee Segarra (a.k.a. Hurray for the Riff Raff) jumped on the badass-bill-so-far for this summer’s Newport Folk Festival. Alynda was an addition I asked Jay Sweet for last August, […]
Mumford & Sons Return to Telluride
This week, Planet Bluegrass announced the final lineup for Telluride this June. Besides the newbies we’ve already discussed, the lineup includes a lot of the usual suspects (not that that’s a bad thing), but we […]
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
It’s a short-and-sweet list of must-sees this week, but they pack a punch. At the top of the list is The Wood Brothers, whose set takes place at Bowery Ballroom on Friday. Opener Rayland Baxter […]
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
UPDATE: Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale play the Bowery Ballroom on Thursday, February 21. How we missed this doozy of a show, we don’t know. Since we’re not fans of revisionist history, consider this a […]
The Quiet American’s Wild Bill Jones
The Hood River, OR-based husband and wife duo, Aaron and Nicole Keim, recently released their third album under their banner – The Quiet American. Wild Bill Jones (Amazon MP3 & Spotify), a dusty old time […]
LA’s Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
What’s a gospel band without 8-12 members? The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, a self-proclaimed “country-punk gospel” band from the Eagle Rock section of LA, will release a new self-titled EP at The Satellite in LA […]
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
Y’all know “25 Degrees of Kevin Bacon”? Sure ya do. In an effort to reduce the amount of sh@$ I’ll get for advocating a non-traditional artist as a top pick for us bluegrass lovers to […]
gcb global tour: Notes from Seattle
One week down on the grass clippings global tour, nine more to go. I spent last week in Seattle, a place that my day job has taken me dozens of times in the last decade. […]
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
Not many bands could get away with sounding just as earnest writing about the esoteric traits of JCPenny, Kohl’s and Little Caesars as they do penning emotive, banjo-laden ballads about buried memories. But, Taylor Swift […]
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Bird Added to 2013 Newport Folk Festival Lineup
EDITOR’S NOTE: Check it! I got to write the announcement below on the Newport Folk Festival’s blog to break the news of Andrew Bird’s spot on the bill this summer. Bird’s addition follows Shovels & Rope and The Lone […]
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