by Jeff Maisey | Jan 20, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey What happens when you record your debut album more than a year before it’s released? In the case of Athens, Georgia experimental pop group Mothers, you tour with the likes of Of Montreal and garner favorable press exclaiming you’re one of...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Only a couple of years ago, Leon Bridges earned a living washing dishes at Del Frisco’s Grille in Fort Worth. He played the open mikes around town, mostly folkie country stuff. “There weren’t many people doing R&B at open mikes,”...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 16, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison The arresting three-part harmonies flowing from the current lineup of The Wailin’ Jennys were born in a bathroom. Founding member Ruth Moody sought recommendations for the departing Annabelle Chvostek from a friend, Aoife O’Donovan...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 18, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston “The first step―especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money ― the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 9, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Thanks to his critically-acclaimed “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music,” Sturgill Simpson became the first artist to win the Nashville Scene’s Country Music Poll without having a Top 40 country song. He topped the No Depression...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 3, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Rex Rutkoski By the way this Crow flies (into Virginia Beach), true artistry is the wind beneath its (her) wings. Crow, Sheryl Crow, is the artist in question. And there’s little question that she will arrive for her concert, September 6 as part of the 22nd Annual...
