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InterviewCOAL MINOR CANARY: DAVID HAGE GOES BEYOND ACOUSTIC FOLK GENRE ON DEBUT EP
It sounds like an apocryphal legend, but it’s true. In the heyday of the coal mining industry, workers would bring caged canaries into the mines. More...
InterviewTONY HALCHAK TRACES HIS NEPA ROOTS ON ‘HARVEST SONGS’
When Tony Halchak began putting together his new EP, “Harvest Songs,” he had a theme in mind: a family displaced from its longtime hometown, maybe liv...
Concert ReviewPEACH FEST 2017: MULTI-GENERATIONAL TRIBUTES TO FALLEN ALLMAN BROTHERS MEMBERS ABOUND
Photos by Pati Bobeck MOOSIC, Pa. — Fourteen-year-old Brandon “Taz” Niederauer was spotted backstage at last weekend’s Peach Festival by one observ...
InterviewPHILADELPHIA FOLK FESTIVAL: ‘IT COULD BE 1975’
Philadelphia Folk Fest weekend is upon us, as thousands of fans have descended on the bucolic Upper Salford grounds outside the city for the venerable...
InterviewKING JAMES & THE SPECIAL MEN BRING THEIR NEW ORLEANS VIBE TO DEBUT ALBUM
For most bands, recording a debut album is a bit of a rookie exercise. A group of musicians still finding their sound, feeling out their chemistry tog...
Photo GalleryGENE WEEN DOES BILLY JOEL AT THE KIRBY CENTER
Photos by Sam Watson WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Aaron Freeman, aka Gene Ween, brought his "Geen Ween Does Billy Joel" show to the F.M. Kirby Center in Wil...
Photo GalleryXPONENTIAL FEST PHOTOS: WILCO, SPOON, STRAND OF OAKS, PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
Photos by Sam Watson CAMDEN, N.J. — Some of the brightest lights in indie and Americana converged on the BB&T Pavilion just over the river from...
InterviewKIM RANCOURT TALKS SOLO DEBUT, LOU REED ARCHIVE AND NEW YORK ALBUMS
Coming of age in Michigan in the early ’70s as Iggy and the Stooges pumped out the primal soundtrack, relocating to New York City in time to take in t...
Photo GalleryPROLIFIC CONOR OBERST BRINGS ‘SALUTATIONS’ AND MORE TO KIRBY CENTER
Photos by Alex Seeley 'WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The prolific singer/songwriter and Bright Eyes namesake Conor Oberst and his band, featuring members of ...
Concert ReviewSLAYER, LAMB OF GOD & BEHEMOTH CONQUER PHILADELPHIA
Photos and review by Alex Seeley PHILADELPHIA — Even a thunderstorm couldn’t stop the sold-out crowd from enjoying a night of heavy metal last Sund...
InterviewNICOLE ATKINS GOES TO NEPTUNE AND BACK ON ‘GOODNIGHT RHONDA LEE’
The sound of the Jersey Shore doesn’t begin and end with Bruce Springsteen. Just ask singer/songwriter Nicole Atkins. Like the Boss, she takes ‘60s in...
Photo GalleryBRIGGS FARM BLUES FESTIVAL TURNS 20
Photos by Alex Seeley NESCOPECK, Pa. — Thousands of fans returned to the sprawling site of the Briggs Farm Blues Festival for an annual weekend of ...