Newport Folk Festival 2013: Day 2
Maybe it was the old Fort Adams canons aimed about the stage that J. Tillman of Father John Misty got all riled up over, but the old Fleet Fox-er opened up the first rant of […]
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Newport Folk Festival 2013: Day 1
The rain was stubborn on Friday to get things going at Fort Adams, but that didn’t stop the good vibes as every slated act found some sort of riot to incite. From The Mountain Goats‘ […]
It’s All Starting Now, Baby Blue: Newport Folk Festival 2013
54 years since its inception the 2013 Newport Folk Festival kicks off tomorrow, Friday, July 25, adding a third day for the first time ever, hosting a bevy of over 50 artists we’re nothing short […]
Listing: Gogol Bordello’s ‘Pura Vida Conspiracy’ in 5 Introspective Sentiments
An on-stage performance with Madonna at Live Earth, an appearance in Everything Is Illuminated, 2010’s Rick Rubin-produced Trans-Continental Hustle – Gogol Bordello’s riotous brand of gypsy folk-punk has regularly threatened to break out into the […]
RIFF’d: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ S/T
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ self-titled, third album is described by lead singer Alex Ebert as their most “liberated” yet. Ebert, partner-in-crime Jade Castrinos and company seek to reclaim the joy of childhood through […]
Streetside: Sub Pop Turns 25 in Seattle; July 13
Sub Pop Records can now legally rent a car. By some accounts, the label is actually 27 years old, but this free, block-party-style festival dubbed the ‘Silver Jubilee‘ officially marked 25 years for the brand that […]
Genericana: Can We Stop Listening to the Hair-Metal Phase of Folk Revival?
Shortly after the global financial crisis began, music’s last genre mutation and subsequent co-option by the corporate powers that be, ‘brostep’ – dubstep emotionally strangled by bros – had worked its way into every form […]
Streetside: Yuna Embraces Chicago’s Takin’ It To The Streets Fest with Regal Grace; June 15
Organized by the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), the 15th annual Takin’ It the Streets Fest in Chicago is one of the few celebrations where music takes a definitive backseat to social politics. Across the […]
Streetside: Jesca Hoop Enchants Adopted Hometown at Manchester’s Deaf Institute; November 3
Raised as a Mormon, previously a Californian homesteader and formerly a nanny to grizzled troubadour Tom Waits, the rainy streets of Manchester don’t seem the most obvious haven for such a free-spirited and genuinely eccentric […]
