The Lullaby League began in 1999, as a bunch of kids who were tired of the same watered-down popular music on the radio. Drawing influence from the beatles, buddy holly, Elvis Costello, aphex twin, and weezer, The Lullaby League works toward… (Read More)
Gothic Theatre
Artists
Lead vocals, washtub bass, harmonica & occasional guitar. Chief songwriter and self-proclaimed “King of the Washtub Bass.” Longest field goal: 45-yards. Marty plays a vintage tub (from Gardens in a Flowerpot, Norfolk, VA) strung with .095 gauge Lawn Chief trimmer cord… (Read More)
Marty Jones & the Pork Boilin Poor Boys
Marty Jones & the Pork Boilin’ Poor boys have been tearing into audiences for the past 4 years, playing such original gems as “I’ll Have Another One,” “Hellbent for Love,” and the brand new "Drivin’ Into Lincoln With Drinkin’ On My… (Read More)
In light of all the attention given Mel Tillis’ infamous speech impediment — he even named his autobiography Stutterin’ Boy - the polished, sincere vocal delivery and songwriting skills that first earned him fame were often lost in the shuffle; nonetheless… (Read More)
Explosive, head-banging, foot-stomping, obscenity-laden, punk charged, sexually fueled, in-your-face — NASHVILLE PUSSY is coming at you full-throttle. NASHVILLE PUSSY’S latest release SAY SOMETHING NASTY on Artemis Records is a souped-up hot rod of musical styles, muscular rhythms, break-neck tempos and balls-out… (Read More)
Neko Case is responsible for a string of acclaimed solo studio recordings, starting with 1997’s The Virginian and ending (most recently) with 2002’s highly praised Blacklisted. Now comes The Tigers Have Spoken—an 11-song, 35-minute live release, recorded mostly at a handful… (Read More)
by Ken Bethea, lead guitarist 11 years in, I still can’t quite believe what I’ve been doing with my life. We just finished recording our sixth album, Drag It Up. It’s the first for our new label, New West Records. After… (Read More)
Some bands blast out of the gate and never recapture their early energy. Other bands establish themselves as models of consistency. Still other bands take a while to find themselves. And then there are bands like the Old 97s, who blast… (Read More)
The Old Crow Medicine Show is made up of six guys from all over the country, with musical influences steeped in many different cultures. They bring it all together to play songs from some of the earliest folk traditions of American… (Read More)
Some bluegrass bands focus on changing the music, but that’s not what Open Road is after. “We’re not here to reinvent the wheel,” says guitarist and lead singer Bradford Lee Folk. "We’re here to make good music, and to stick to… (Read More)
Born in Long Island City, NY., and raised in the small southern town of LaGrange, GA. While in College in the sixties, he began performing at Atlanta folk clubs and it was in that enviroment that Pat began his songwriting career… (Read More)
PAT GREEN has been touring incessantly for the past six years. He has sold over two-hundred thousand independently-released records. He is a legitimate star in Texas, who sells out every venue in his home state, even the cavernous Billy Bob’s in… (Read More)
Inveterate storyteller Paul Thorn credits his gift of gab to being the son of a Pentecostal preacher. "You get to know how to get along with almost everybody. You just have to sit down and start getting to know one… (Read More)
Peter Rowan was one of the major cult bluegrass artists of the ’80s, winning a devoted, international fan base through his independent records and constant touring. A skilled singer/songwriter, Rowan also yodeled, and played numerous stringed instruments and the saxophone. He… (Read More)
Rainville plays hones-to-God American music…part rural rock, part gutter jazz. Sparse and loose like that last night before pay day..stories about falling stars, stolen cars, roadhouse bars and beat up guitars. Their songs get in your head. Hear them once and… (Read More)
Hopefully fate, and perhaps good sense, will provide a more prosperous road for Reckless Kelly than Ned Kelly, the 19th century Australian bank robber from whom the band takes its name. Despite wearing his trademark suit of armor, the original Kelly… (Read More)
Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers
Hot Rize’s alter-ego Western band is Red Knuckles (Tim O’Brien), lead vocal, flat top / Wendell Mercantile (Pete Wernick), electric guitar / Slade (Nick Forester), bass. (Read More)
With his highly stylized, backwoods hick-preacher image, it would be easy to dismiss the Reverend Horton Heat as a poseur. But it would be wrong. Instead of treating rockabilly as a campy joke like the Cramps, the good Reverend rocks the… (Read More)
Clearly the most enigmatic of our bands. Until he was with Bloodshot, Rex led one of the most popular hardcore/math rock bands in the KC area. You would never know it from his serious honky tonk chops. Still, you gotta give… (Read More)
Rexway is a band that formed back in the spring of 1999. After playing with numerous bands around the country, the three founding members wound up in Fort Collins, Colorado. Skot Lain, Mike Mitchell, and Chris Dockter calculated a sound unheard… (Read More)
Texan Rhett Miller is best known as lead singer/guitarist for Dallas’ alt-country band the Old 97’s. The Old 97’s, formed in 1993, issued their debut LP Wreck Your Life in 1995. Their follow-up, Fight Songs, was issued in 1999; the same… (Read More)
If you’re already a bluegrass fan, this is show is for you! Ricky and his band, Kentucky Thunder, bring their red-hot playing, soulful singing, and inventive arrangements to some of the greatest songs from the bluegrass tradition. Since he was first… (Read More)
Robbie Fulks is a country singer who seems to have a love-hate relationship with country music. His Bakersfield honky-tonk two-steps, banjo-backed hoedowns and gruesome murder ballads are more closely tied to the grand country-and-western tradition than any soft rock that comes… (Read More)
Robert Earl Keen mines a line between wry literary delicacy and incendiary roadhouse fervor. Approaching legend in his native Texas and a certifiable force of nature at sold-out concerts around the country, Keen has been many things to many people. Now… (Read More)
With a milk crate full of original songs, Marc Pinansky left The Zips (Espo Records) in the summer of 2000. During his brief tenure as touring guitarist for The Statue Factor in the spring of 2000, an immediate kinship was struck… (Read More)
rust epique guitarist and founding member of;kinesthesia[goth pop],xit[pop cover band],the limit[alternitive new wave band],cliff morrison[jim morrison,the doors son]crazy town[rapcore],rustandthesuperheroes[southern city rock] and vocalist. bobbie-v[bob vaughan] base player teddy porn[teddy barekatt] drums currently firm with v2 records forth coming efforts ’sex drugs… (Read More)
Scott H. Biram sings with the soul and conviction of a real hillbilly bluesman. Seasoned beyond his years, the 29 year old recreates the sounds and songs of the depression era (i.e. Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Son House, Mance Lipscomb, Big Joe… (Read More)
You can attach many handles to Shurman’s music…country rock, cowpunk, rock-n-roll, alt-country, Americana, but none of them really nails the bands sound. The hard-touring Los Angeles quartet played more than 600 shows in 2004-2007, headlining clubs and opening for such diverse… (Read More)
Chapel Hill, NC-based Southern Culture on the Skids has been releasing original, Southern-fried rockabilly boogie since 1985, when guitarist Rick Miller formed the group and released its eponymous debut album. After a lengthy hiatus, in which a few members quit, Miller… (Read More)
Since 1994, the duo of vocalist/guitarist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno have been the authors of an unlikely success story, making the quantum leap(s) from critical pariahs in the mid 90’s, to respected indie rock journeymen by the turn… (Read More)
