May 22, 2013
I hear a band layin’ down some deep grooves on the side stage at the Hot August Blues Festival last night. From a far it sounds like it must be about 15 guys kicking it old school. The sound is that big and thick. When I make it over there I find 5 guys from... Read More
Kyle Offidani is one lucky boy.It’s not just that he gets to play his guitar and sing for people all over the country.It’s not even that he gets to showcase his music at the famed Philly Folk Festival this Sunday.It’s more simply that he has found something he loves to do and ...
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe The Bridge are in their 10th year.The Baltimore based Jam band who have just recorded their third album with producer and Los Lobos saxaphonist Steve Berlin have come a long way since the early demo tracks I was lucky to hear so long ago.They have toured extensively ...
Read MoreSo it’s like this. My ten minute phoner I do with Deafening Colors guitarist, Cris Slotoroff, last more than half an hour because we start talking about how much we love Wilco’s Summer Teeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and how much better we think those albums are than the two most ...
Read MoreWhen I go to the band’s website I am immediately drawn in.The screen loads and there is a movie of the band messing around in some basement and playing funky instruments,an accordion and old violin.A shot of someone holding a polaroid of the band.A scene of someone loading 35mm film into ...
Read MoreWhen I get Todd on the phone I can feel his enthusiasm for the festival he is co-promoting with Plus Vibes Productions that takes place this weekend rushing through the phone.”Last year’s festival was only one day and it wasn’t enough so we expanded it to two”.”The ...
Read MoreEric WaldMAN keyboardist from Natural Breakdown took a few minutes from his busy rehearsal schedule to fill me in about the band. I tell him that I noticed from the band’s web page that there are not a lot of dates booked for the summer, which is usually an active time for especially for ...
Read MoreOne of the cool things about what I do is talking to bands at different stages of their development. Shaika is a relatively new band based in Lancaster County. They are named after their guitarist and lead voacalist Jake Shaika and featuring Bonnie Watson on keys and vocals, Brian McCelland on ...
Read MoreOne of the wonderful things about attending a great music festival is not just seeing anticipated sets by bands you are familiar with but of course discovering a great band for the first time.Lexington Ky./D.C. newcomers[not really,four years and four albums]These United States was my nice ...
Read More“Music for a long attention span” is what Birdie Busch’s manager calls it.Not something easily experienced in a twenty second clip on your laptop.Better enjoyed in a comfortable chair playing from old wooden box speakers,heard and savored from beginning to end.Or better ...
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