The Old Time Jam at Lowlands in Gowanus, Brooklyn Gowanus, Brooklyn is more known for its polluted canal, mafia-related body dumping and the saddest dolphin ever than the changes the neighborhood has seen in the last few years. […]
Month: December 2013
Top Songs of 2013 by Region
For the second year in a row, I’m breaking down the top songs of the year by region. Location and love probably influence songwriting more than anything else and it’d be hard to make a […]
Initial Telluride Lineup Announced
Over the weekend, Planet Bluegrass announced the first round of the 2014 Telluride lineup, which includes the usual suspects as well as Seattle’s Brandi Carlile and both The Lone Bellow and Aoife O’Donovan of our […]
Portland’s Ages and Ages – “Divisionary”
Newly signed to Brooklyn indie-label Partisan Records, Ages and Ages, like Typhoon, is yet another Portland, OR band with a ton of members and choral harmonies that will likely be chanted up on the festival […]
Brooklyn’s Animal Years – Sun Will Rise
Indie rock bands don’t make this blog too often, but when they sound more like Dawes and My Morning Jacket than all of that other stuff, we give them a listen. Brooklyn-based Animal Years released […]
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
It’s that magical time of year when you may show up at one of any of your (or our) must-see shows and find a bass player wearing a Santa costume or hear the band play […]
Poor Old Shine’s Self-Titled Debut
A few months back, our friend Jonah Tolchin gave us a heads up on Poor Old Shine, a young roots band from Mansfield, CT that formed at UConn a few years back and has since […]
Land of Leland – “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”
Brooklyn-based gentle folker Land of Leland (a.k.a. Justin Keller) has been building a Christmas EP for the last few years, releasing one fine new track each year. Tonight he releases his rendition of “Lo, How […]
UPDATED: a very grassy Christmas (2013)
For the three years now, we’ve been perfecting “a very grassy Christmas,” a Spotify playlist of tolerable Christmas music. This year, I’ve made just a couple of updates. Bright Eyes released A Christmas Album (Amazon […]
Jacob Jolliff + The Deadly Gentleman – “All My Friends Blew Up On the Internet”
Greg Liszt, banjoist for the Boston-based bluegrass band The Deadly Gentlemen, also happens to be the man who filmed a video of Brooklyn’s Lake Street Dive covering The Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back.” That […]
Jarosz Scores Two Grammy Nominations
Last night The Recording Academy announced nominations for the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards and Sarah Jarosz made the list…twice. While she trails Jay Z with nine nominations and Justin Timberlake with seven, Jarosz’s album Build […]
Overlooked in 2013: Mount Moriah and The Black Lillies
We’re getting to that time of year when the album release train slows down, so it’s a good time to look back at some of the stuff that we were too busy with our day […]
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