BRIGGS FARM BLUES FESTIVAL: ‘A LOT OF HAPPY PEOPLE’
It’s an unlikely setting for Mississippi and Chicago blues: a sprawling, 350-acre farm tucked away in Nescopeck, Pa., population 1,583. But for 16 years now, Briggs Farm has indeed been a destinatio...
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NEW BECK SONG: “I WON’T BE LONG”
Beck has offered a stream of "I Won't Be Long," his second stand-alone single of the year. "As with 'Defriended,' there are no current plans for 'I Won't Be Long' to appear on a future album," Beck's...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH GEOFF TATE OF QUEENSRYCHE
The last time Queensryche got this much attention, “Silent Lucidity” was a radio and video staple and the progressive hard rock band was packing arenas. With an acrimonious breakup that culminated la...
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BY THE BOOK: AN INTERVIEW WITH BLUESMAN ROY BOOK BINDER
Roy Book Binder learned blues guitar at the foot of the Rev. Gary Davis. He ran in Greenwich Village circles with the likes of Dave Van Ronk, and he learned songs from one of his heroes Pink Anderson...
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FACES OF THE BLUES THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S LENSE
PR_belfour Robert "Wolfman" Belfour at Red's Juke Joint in Clarksdale, Miss. (Photo by Jim Gavenus) Five years ago, photographer Jim Gavenus ...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH KELLER WILLIAMS
Keller Williams is known as the one-man band extraordinaire of the jam-band world. But that doesn’t make him a one-trick pony. This spring and summer alone, he’s not only taking his acclaimed solo sho...
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DOWNLOAD NEW TEDESCHI TRUCKS TRACK
Tedeschi Trucks Band will release its third album, “Made Up Mind,” on Aug. 20, and below you can stream and download one of its songs, “Part of Me." [soundcloud params="auto_play=false&show_comme...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH CHEAP TIME
Tennessee punk/glam/garage (and you could probably add a few more slashes and adjectives) group Cheap Time are currently on tour with Social Distortion, but on Wednesday – an “off day” – the group wil...
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ALBUM REVIEW: JIMMY EAT WORLD — “DAMAGE”
Seven albums into its career, Jimmy Eat World has developed a formula: driving rhythms, with occasional syncopation; crystalline, clanging guitars; and impassioned lyrics and vocals that frequently r...
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TOM KEIFER AT BREW’S BROTHERS WEST
LUZERNE, Pa. – Anyone that assumed Tom Keifer is simply living on his past successes would’ve been proved gravely wrong if they turned up at Brews Brothers West Sunday night, where the Cinderella sing...
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