The Bad Livers were a band from Austin, Texas whose inventive musical style defied attempts to categorize them according to existing genres. The original lineup, formed in 1990, included Danny Barnes on banjo, guitar and resonator guitar, Mark Rubin on upright bass and tuba, and Ralph White ...
This Austin, Texas-based band has been wowing audiences since 1999 with their unique fusion of indie rock, electronic, and experimental sounds. The Octopus Project's engaging live performances often feature theremins, glockenspiels, and samplers, showcasing their unwavering commitment to musical innovat...
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Michaelangelo Matos, Tom Moon, Tom Nawrocki, Jon Pareles, Parke Puterbaugh, Mosi Reeves, Jody Rosen, Robert Santelli, Austin Scaggs, Claire Shaffer, Bud Scoppa, Rob Sheffield, Hank Shteamer, LC Smith, Brittany Spanos, Rob Tannenbaum, Simon Vozick-Levinson, Barry Walters, Alison Weinflash,...
The club has hosted everything from infamously sweaty Motown Monday dance parties to Derek Hoke’s Two Dollar Tuesdays, where a banjo-fronted country band might be followed by a punk trio. It’s the sort of venue that draws patrons who are there not to see a favorite band, but rather, ...
New Orleans-based trad jazz band, ten or more albums since 2012, nine members, Sarah Peterson the main vocalist, three horns (Charlie Halloran on trombone), lots of banjo. Thirteen songs, twelve from 1926-40 singles, mixed per title. ** 83. Paul Mottram: Seven Ages of Man (Ubuntu Mus...
This time she did so solo, with “Texas Hold ‘Em,” a stomping, banjo-led hoot-along made for (and in tribute to) the dive bars and dancefloors of the South. The song was devised as the lead single to her acclaimed Cowboy Carter album, which featured Bey road-tripping through ...
Second solo album, no reason to file this under folk -- well, bits of banjo and French, but the hooks are pop, and the barbs pointed. Hits its stride with "Eve Was Black." ** 37. Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Amusement/Island) I played this last year...
matter-of-fact, transmitted through sketches of lovers and other strugglers. The emblematic song is “Got Soul,” which June croons over Stax/Volt horns, banjo and bluegrass fiddle, celebrating cultural intersection as it’s lived, and defining America’s sustaining greatnes...
Austin, Texas musician opens his third studio LP, This Land, with a song of the same name that immediately socks listeners in the jaw. Thesong, inspired by Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land”, is a mesh of rock, blues, and trap that puts the dark crux of American history...