Tag: lead singers

have gun will travel @ slim’s

What an amazing night. Micah Schnabel, of course, y’all know is one of my most favorites, and I am always thrilled to see BJ from American Aquarium do his sad bastard solo act (his words, not mine), but Have Gun Will Travel just blew me away. The energy, the focus, the songwriting, the cohesiveness of…

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if you lived here, you’d be home now: suburban home records

Y’all know that one of the indie labels I write the most about is Suburban Home Records, another outlaw country-ish label out of Denver, Colorado. They’re home to my beloved Two Cow Garage, which is how I discovered them, and Virgil routinely puts out phenomenal albums that skirt, closely, the line between country and punk…

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madi diaz @ local 506

Girl’s got a real set of pipes on her. Her new EP was out last week and it’s excellent. Full set here.

the head & the heart @ lincoln theatre

Seattle’s 6-piece the Head and the Heart slunk their way onto my radar last year, when praise for their luminous self-titled debut started to show up on the blogs I know and trust to recommend to me the best in new indie roots rock; I picked up their album, downloaded their Daytrotter, and fell head…

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the meat puppets @ the cat’s cradle

A strangely apt pairing: like the Cradle, the Meat Puppets have been a rock and roll institution, in certain circles, since the ’80s … and like the Cradle, which recently completed a massive renovation, the Meat Puppets have been through more than one incarnation in those thirty years of music. Whereas the Cradle used to…

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