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Proud to follow in the footsteps of acknowledged idols Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi, Magnolia Boulevard isn’t trying to fool anyone with its soulful, no-nonsense blues-rock template. A few years shy of the pandemic, former bluegrasser Maggie Noelle co-founded the band in Lexington, Ky., with keyboardist Ryan Allen.
Several weeks ago, one of the Who’s most heavily bootlegged event was officially released in the form of Live At The Oval 1971. This Goodbye Summer concert, in aid of famine relief for the people of Bangladesh, took place one month after the innovative Who’s Next dropped, and to say that Keith Moon, John Entwistle, […]
The proverbial pandemic pivot had a special meaning for Peter Morén. After the anticlimactic 2020 release of Endless Dream, the ninth album from his globally embraced, Stockholm-based indie-pop trio Peter Bjorn And John, he suddenly had all the time in the word to tackle his songwriter’s identity crisis. With COVID as the initial backdrop and esteemed peers like James Yorkston and the Go-Betweens’ Robert Forster top of mind, he headed down the rabbit hole, picking up fellow travelers along the way.
“Bright Yellow Sun” is the latest standout addition to an extensive catalog of road anthems that immortalize the vast distances that define the Lone Star State. “It’s born from the moment you leave everything familiar in the rearview mirror,” says West Texas Exiles singer/guitarist Daniel Davis, who wrote the track. “It begins just outside of […]
“This song is literally and metaphorically about walking in someone else’s torn-up, worn-down shoes and experiencing how uncomfortable they must be,” says Reverse Yr Curse’s Bonnie Staley about the group’s latest single. “It’s about truly seeing someone for who they are and understanding how their life experiences have molded them.”
The latest volume in Bulbous Monocle’s Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 reissue campaign vaults over the Matador years back to the band’s earliest LP. Tangle was released in 1989, prior to TFUL282’s years of rigorous touring. It’s a first album; you can hear styles engaged and influences acknowledged in a partially digested manner that differs […]
Inspired by the likes of John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, Handsome Jack keeps it simple and raw on “Do It! To It!”—essentially doing what the band does best. “It’s built around a heavy shuffle and carries a positive message,” says Jamison Passuite, frontman for the upstate New York garage/blues trio. “It doesn’t matter who […]