By Brent Owen
LEO: You’ve always been critical in regards to the current state of country music. What exactly do you think is the problem with the way things are?Shooter Jennings: It’s not that I’m critical, man. It’s just the state that radio is in right now is a very strange place, and it’s not [...]
By Brent Owen
When I talked to Evan Cranley, bassist for the Canadian group Stars, last week, the band had celebrated the kickoff of its North American tour playing “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” the night before. He chatted about the band, their influences, and the latest album, In Our Bedroom After the War.LEO: You all [...]
By Brent Owen
When I talked to Evan Cranley, bassist for the Canadian group Stars, last week, the band had celebrated the kickoff of its North American tour playing “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” the night before. He chatted about the band, their influences, and the latest album, In Our Bedroom After the War.LEO: You all [...]
By Mat Herron
Ten hours in a car will get to anyone. For California Guitar Trio and their soundman Tyler Trotter, it’s getting them hungry. They’ve just sat down to at Rich O’s Public House in New Albany, Ind., — ground zero if you want crafted, top-shelf beer, and the only place where one Bud Light [...]
By Mat Herron
She’s a bit Grace Slick and a whole lotta evil. Amber Webber, the backing vocalist for Vancouver collective Black Mountain, lends her talents to the group’s second album, In the Future, and for the first time, sings lead vocals on its denouement, “Night Walks.” The band is out touring the country, sometimes with [...]
And now, a word from Coliseum singer/guitarist Ryan Patterson:
“Hello everyone - Coliseum is heading out this week for our first tour of 2008! We’re meeting up with a lot of great bands and playing South By Southwest along the way. We have a lot of great tours coming up, as well as an awesome headlining [...]
Some collaborations are just meant to be. Kyle Noltemeyer (ex-Guilt, Endpoint) and Alex O’Nan’s latest incarnation is called Interstates. The two previously played together in a past life as the progressive instrumental trio Of Asaph, and now have photos and tunes up on their VIRB site. From their tour dates, it looks the pair is [...]
