Paul Thorn & Elfish Presley: From Tupelo, and the Heavenly Choir
|Few entertainers have Paul Thorn’s particular skill set: songwriter, storyteller, humorist, rock ‘n’ roller and Holy … Read more
Few entertainers have Paul Thorn’s particular skill set: songwriter, storyteller, humorist, rock ‘n’ roller and Holy … Read more
Flow Tribe, a six-piece funk/rock band from New Orleans, has been celebrating their Louisiana roots via their music for ten years now, since forming in high school. After K.C. O’Rorke … Read more
Weezer is a band with a complicated history. They have spent most of their career alternating between … Read more
As NPR tastemaker Bob Boilen so pithily described CMJ: “60 something bands in five days. Lots of pizza & friends.” Though our tally of CMJ performances may not quite match … Read more
When discussing Robert Plant’s solo work, all reviewers worth their column space must be as stone determined not to fall into hollow Led Zeppelin comparisons in their writing as Plant … Read more
I acquired this deceptively simple CD during the Americana Music Festival in September, and am just now—with difficulty—taking it out of rotation. Matt the Electrician pens lovely tunes with hooks … Read more
Text and photos by Ali Kaufman This past April, I made my first trip down the “Blues Highway” (US Route 61). That trip took me as far as Clarksdale, MS … Read more
Hot on the heels of becoming the International Bluegrass Music Awards’ Banjo Player of the Year, … Read more
I’m a big fan of the Milk Carton Kids, two young singer/songwriter/guitarists who punctuate their performances with … Read more
We caught up with the peripatetic and ebullient Whiskey Shivers just before their album release party in New York’s Lower East Side and got a good jolt of why I … Read more