Jonny, “I Want To Be Around You” find it on Jonny When news spread late last year that Norman Blake and Euros Child were consummating their musical friendship by collaborating on a full-length album it was cause for much celebration. One could perhaps already detect the influence of Child’s late Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci on Blake’s [...]

Bruce Springsteen fanatics are no doubt counting the days until November 16th. On that date, Columbia Records will be releasing The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story, a 3 disc/3 dvd set featuring the remastered Darkness album, a making of doc, current and archived live footage, and best of all, two discs [...]

It is May 2000. The Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco. The fledgling indie-pop band with whom I play is in the midst of a brief west coast jaunt. We are killing time after load in with our Oakland, CA tourmate, who goes by the wonderful moniker From Bubblegum To Sky. Four young women from [...]

The Roots (featuring Joanna Newsom & STS), “Right On” (2010) find it on How I Got Over Look, there really isn’t any way around this: this week’s FTF selection is right in our wheelhouse. A new album from Philadelphia’s The Roots always provides an occasion to perk one’s ears up. But when word leaked that [...]

Welcome to The National Day at Naive Harmonies! The band has already earned this week’s Fine Tune Friday honors. Now it’s time for bonus coverage; what follows is a review of their new album High Violet. It’s easy to forget that, with the release this week of their new album High Violet, The National is [...]

STACKS HQ is still very much buzzing from Wilco’s performance last week at the Music Center at Strathmore in Maryland. If you’re a fan of the band and have the opportunity, this current tour is the ideal time to catch them. The band has been performing extended sets, averaging 3 hours in length and featuring [...]

There was much rejoicing around these parts this week with the announcement of the long-awaited return of Scotland’s Teenage Fanclub. Merge will be releasing the bands’ eighth proper album, entitled Shadows, their first since 2005′s stellar Man-Made. Check the details here and while you’re at it grab an mp3 of a new track, “Baby Lee”. [...]

The weird thing about this week’s edition of STACKS is that I honestly had it all planned, half written in my head, at least 24 hours before I heard the terrible news that Alex Chilton had suddenly passed away at the too young age of 59. I had planned on writing about one of my [...]

Before he was a Rhinestone Cowboy, and he before he teamed with Jimmy Webb to create a string of enduring, timeless international hits, each well deserving of their ubiquitous status, Glen Campbell was the recipient of a gift from another cherished songwriter and producer. That notable collaborator was none other than Beach Boy Brian Wilson. [...]

Obvious statement alert: the music industry at times has a taste for its own young. History is littered with examples, and perhaps few are as tragically poignant as that of the man once referred to as “the one man Beatles”, Emitt Rhodes. Rhodes released a string of fantastic, self/home made records in the late 60′s [...]