Music
Scotland sojourn: Pro Musica Colorado retraces Mendelssohn’s misty journey
"It’s really amazing to me how atmospheric this wonderful composition is...
Wilder by the day
One lesson Alexander Beggins says he and his musical partner in Wild Child, Kelsey Wilson, learned early in their careers was not to get...
Two Man Gentlemen Band get intimate at Oskar Blues
It’s rare to witness true music nerds performing. It’s even more rare to find music nerds who prefer hysterical swing and kazoos to intense sampling and laptops. That’s why people who are lucky enough to see the Two Man Gentlemen Band should know that the stars have ...
All-star collaboration
There’s a great moment from an audience video shot last October at the Rock ’n Roots fest in Amsterdam of Joe Satriani, Sonny Landreth and Davy Knowles gang-tackling the old blue-rock warhorse “I’m Going Down,” one of those easy-to-rehearse standby numbers that gets ...
Indie madness meets sincere cuteness
Deerhoof concerts have always been uniquely fun, but lately more of a festive connection between band and audience has been on the quartet’s mind, according to singer/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki, who lived in her native Japan until the mid-’90s...
Taarka: Seeking Americana
On Taarka’s fifth studio album, Adventures in Vagabondia, the band’s well-traveled sound puts down a few solid roots for the first time...
Getting through the jungle
For a band that’s spent the last decade writing about the pitfalls of technology, the recent revelations about data harvesting aren’t all that shocking...
Heavier than hell
Before it was a common stop on most major touring schedules, Ethan McCarthy had a hard time convincing heavy bands to come play the...
