I am Fuel, You are Friends has a scoop on a new Damnwells song called “Down With the Ship” you might want to hear. Of course, music like this never just lands in my inbox so it’s clear I have some work to do. Thankfully someone managed to snark a copy.
It’s a good [...]

I just got an email from Clay Eals, author of a recent Steve Goodman bio called Steve Goodman: Facing the Music. Weighing in at 800 pages and featuring over 1,050 sources including some of Goodman’s closest friends, the book is clearly one to have in your collection.
That may have to wait as [...]

Owen Temple is a Texan songwriter and like his predecessors he has a healthy respect for the past to match an independent streak that defines his home state. That duality lead Temple to release his latest record, Two Thousand Miles with an unconventional approach.
Temple eschewed the normal process of releasing an album by getting [...]

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention one of our correspondents-in-the-field and pals, Steve Hassenplug’s great YouTube videos. He’s always sent me great videos and with the eruption of YouTube I don’t have to wait on a DVD or tape.
Sparky, as some of us know him, is well-known to many musicians and fans alike. [...]

While I am an admitted reader of No Depression and I generally subscribe to the same musical tastes to which they cater, I’m far from an apologist for the popular magazine. I often find the writers looking down their noses at most of the readers–an unforgivable sin for an author.
But this Idolator post seems [...]

For Christmas I received a very nice gift–Sirius radio. Being that I love music, having such a great source of a variety of musical genres was akin to giving the keys to a vintage wine cellar to a drunkard. There are days I look for excuses to drive around endlessly listening to the [...]

I’ve recently openly professed my love for the Austin rebel-rousers known as The Gourds. After seeing a show in Jacksonville, Florida recently, I am a convert to the flock of fans that seemingly follow the guys around the country.
This morning as I updated my Mac with new music for my wife, I imported The [...]

It’s hard to really claim to be entirely original as an artist of any type as we’re continually influenced by our own entertainment needs. I know as I write music or this blog, I find myself thinking of how others would approach it.
Today that leads me to Chris Knight. I met Knight briefly [...]

WFUV has a streaming interview with Todd Snider in which the barefooted artist describes his efforts on his upcoming yet-to-be-titled album.
The best news to me is that Snider will cover the classic Robert Earl Keen song “Corpus Christi Bay.” The song laments the life of a rigger and his brother caught in the Corpus [...]

Steve Jobs already scares the major record labels. Universal is slowing pulling all content from iTunes–NBC shows have vanished, Universal films wont’ be available in the upcoming video rental service. I can’t imagine music being too far behind.
Well here’s one to make the majors shake: Appleinsider claims Jay-Z and Apple are starting [...]