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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 ...
Photo GalleryBILLY STRINGS & TROUT STEAK REVIVAL DELIGHT AMERICANA FANS AT KIRBY CENTER
Photos by Sam Watson WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The F.M. Kirby Center's Live From The Chandelier Lobby Series continued July 13 with a performance by stan...
InterviewNEW MASTERSOUNDS BRING THE FUNK TO PEACH FROM ACROSS THE POND
Jazz-funk guitarist and New Mastersounds founder and frontman Eddie Roberts is 46 years old. And the native of Wales had never really listened to t...
InterviewIF YOU GO TO SEE VANESSA COLLIER, ‘BE PREPARED TO FEEL SOMETHING’
For Vanessa Collier, a live show is more than a set delivered by a performer to an audience. No, for the Maryland-based singer and saxophone player, i...
InterviewAKINA ADDERLEY CONTINUES FAMILY LEGACY, REMEMBERS LUTHER VANDROSS
Originally from New York, r&b chanteuse Akina Adderley relocated to Austin, Texas, where she now fronts the Vintage Playboys. Though steeped in so...
InterviewSLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB LOOKS BACK ON ‘CIPHER,’ ‘MORE RELEVANT NOW THAN EVER’
Deeply literary in the Southern tradition and walking the line between wildly unhinged and coolly calculated, Slim Cessna's Auto Club has been making ...
InterviewRICHARD X. HEYMAN GOES ‘INCOGNITO’ FOR 12th ALBUM
Richard X. Heyman is an industry unto himself, recording most of the instruments on his records and releasing them on his own Lower East Side label, T...
InterviewJASON MOLINA’S LEGACY ON STAGE WITH SONGS: MOLINA IN PHILLY, BROOKLYN
Jason Molina, the iconic, idiosyncratic singer/songwriter who recorded under the equally inscrutable name Songs: Ohia, was not an easy man to know. Mo...
InterviewTHE SPINTO BAND PREMIERE: ‘KIND OF A GIRL’ + INTERVIEW
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered the South, Pope John Paul II died and Kanye West released "Late Registration." Meanwhile, six teenagers in Del...
Concert ReviewDON HENLEY MIXES EAGLES, SOLO HITS AT POIGNANT SANDS SHOW
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — If you closed your eyes to ignore the gray in Eagles co-founder Don Henley’s combed-back hair and thin goatee, you’d have a difficult...
InterviewROSELIT BONE’S NIGHTMARISH WESTERN FREAKOUT
In Josh McCaslin’s world, mariachi bands think nothing of hanging out with surf rockers. Yelping rockabillies and Nick Cave are not strange bedfellows...
InterviewSTARBIRD FINDS ITS OWN SOUND AHEAD OF EAST COAST DATES, INCLUDING BROOKLYN BOWL
If you’re a fan of the broadly defined jam band scene and have set foot in a club, theater or festival in the past 10 years, odds are you’ve seen Just...