As any musician or live music fan will tell you, the past few years have almost seemed like an eternity. And now that live music has...
Shake and Howdy with the Stars It’s part of the “bluegrass way” for even the biggest stars to step off the stage after a show to...
Carlos Santana was three well-received songs into his set in front of an exhilarated, sold-out crowd when he paused for a moment. Darkness had finally stretched...
Aaaaah, the singing saw. With the delicate tone of an angel’s cry, the saw has been enchanting unsuspecting audiences for generations. Similar to the sound of...
Jason Ricci is easily one of the greatest blues harmonica players in the world, a master of the difficult “overblow” technique that allows this New Orleans-based...
Vortex is the third CD release from jazz saxophonist Kenny Shanker on the Wise Cat record label. The New York City-based performer rotates between alto and...
Book Review It is sometimes difficult to place popular musicians in a larger cultural context, and this was not the goal of Marc Eliot’s The Hag,...
Considering all the systematic imbalances within our culture it surely isn’t much of a stretch relating to that great philosopher Randy Newman when he spits out...
Pawns: Not for the Ordinary is the most recent CD from 24-year-old Philadelphia pianist/composer Micah Graves. All eight of the original tracks (except the track “When...
