During the past eight years, the world has know A.J. Croce (yes he is the son of the late singer/songwriter Jim Croce) as a piano man, banging out soulful blues, jazz and roots influenced music to substantial critical acclaim and growing… (Read More)
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Aaron Rothe started playing the piano when he was 5 years old. In the 13 years he’s been playing, he has awed hundreds of thousands of people whether it had been at piano recitals, talent shows, worship teams, or in the… (Read More)
Singer/songwriter Abra Moore begin composing music at the age of six, and studied piano while a teenager living in New York. After playing small clubs along the coast of Britain and performing on the streets of Paris, Moore enrolled at the… (Read More)
Adam Hood, 28, hails from East-central Alabama, but you’d be out-of-luck trying to pigeon-hole his style geographically. First picking up a guitar at age ten, by fourteen he was playing live in church bands. By sixteen, Hood had dropped off the… (Read More)
In a key song on her eagerly awaited new album, Aimee Mann poses the eternal $64,000 question: “How Am I Different?” To which besotted fans, admiring critics and her felicitous fellow musicians might all be inclined to answer: Let us count… (Read More)
The daughter of jazz chanteuse Ann Marie Schofield and the late jazz pianist Walter Davis, Jr., Alana Davis made her own stand as a singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York’s Greenwich Village, Davis learned to play the guitar… (Read More)
Amy Correia believes in ghosts. That’s not what accounts for the otherworldly quality of her remarkable voice, but it may have something to do with the timeless-sounding ambience of her exquisite new album Lakeville (Nettwerk America). The singer/songwriter’s sophomore effort comes… (Read More)
An Evening With The Richard Thompson Band
No artist to emerge in the second half of the ’60s—a remarkably bountiful period—has gone on to have a more productive and vital career than Richard Thompson. While still a teenager, he founded and led Fairport Convention, which was to… (Read More)
Forget the violin. Forget the classical background. As troubadour Andrew Bird puts it, “At this point the violin just happens to be the instrument I have on hand to make the sounds that I hear. I like to abuse it… (Read More)
Angie Stevens delivers a time-warped trip through America’s backroads, a melange of rhythms and sounds that tap into populist (as opposed to “pop”) music past and present. Shades of slow swing ballads playing in 3/4 time on the jukebox at the… (Read More)
Anna Nalick is beginning to live her dreams. As one of the new breed of singer-songwriters for the new century, the 20-year-old California native has put the finishing touches on Wreck of the Day, her debut album, and the result is… (Read More)
there is a story here—the phrase reads like a writer’s note to self after a journal entry and, in fact, that is how Annie Stela’s first EP came to be named. Flipping through her journal one day, Stela came… (Read More)
As the miles roll by the driver’s side window of singer/songwriter Ari Hest, he’s learned that touring is part art, part marathon. “After playing a Saturday night show at Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA, talking to the students well into the… (Read More)
Arlo Guthrie was born with a guitar in one hand and a harmonica in the other, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York in 1947. He is the eldest son of America’s most beloved singer/writer/philosopher Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a… (Read More)
“This record is a love letter to my children, to my mother, to everyone who ever taught me a hymn, to the Presbyterian Church and my Scotch-English roots, to all those who love hymns and (perhaps particularly) to those who have… (Read More)
There’s a shocking intimacy to singer-songwriter Aslyn’s debut album, Lemon Love. That’s not to say that it’s full of titillating sexual imagery or blistering diatribes. Listening to the album, which was produced by Guy Chambers (Robbie Williams, Jewel) and Eric Valentine… (Read More)
Denver, Colorado—Aubrey Collins may be the fastest-rising artist in mainstream country today. In the past year this 18 year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist from Denver, Colorado has wracked up a string of successes artists twice her age dream about. Collins released her debut CD… (Read More)
Bambi Lee Savage began her musical expedition in Denver, where she played guitar with the short-lived Pagan Cowboys, a country punk band heavily influenced by The Birthday Party and Johnny Cash. She moved to London and released one EP with the… (Read More)
With the release of her debut album, Tanto Tempo in 2000 and a remix volume issued a year later, Bebel Gilberto introduced the world to an important new voice. Previously the singer had appeared alongside some of the most respected artists… (Read More)
Bebo Norman has crafted so many spirited songs over the years, yet his creative energy reaches new peaks on his latest release, Try. Bebo soaked up newfound inspiration and poured it into an album filled with honest, compelling music. The Georgia-born… (Read More)
BECK seemed to spring from nowhere—from a handful of hometowns, odd jobs, and late-night donut shops—to bring a completely fresh sound to pop music. As influenced by Leadbelly and Blind Willie Johnson as he is by rap… (Read More)
Singer/Pianist Ben Folds is best known as the leader of the power pop trio Ben Folds Five, but has also struck out on his own as a solo artist. Proving his multi-instrumental talents, Folds also played drums in as a session… (Read More)
My name is Ben Kweller. I was born in San Francisco, CA on June 16th, 1981. I grew up in Greenville, TX. My whole life I have loved music. My dad taught me how to play the drums when I was… (Read More)
In a music culture where bands dominate, Ben Lee is the youngest singer/songwriter to make an impression on Australian music. Even before his solo career, in his early teens, Lee came to attention as a member of Sydney band Noise Addict… (Read More)
Ben Taylor Say you’re a gifted young artist – someone like BEN TAYLOR, for instance. You’ve written a pile of great songs. You’ve got a way with melody and a mastery of the understated lyric. You’ve got a voice that… (Read More)
Authentic. That’s the first word that springs to mind when you encounter Brandi Carlile. From her rootsy bell-clear voice to the palpable emotion that seeps through every song on her stunning debut album, everything about this 23-year-old from rural Washington state… (Read More)
Some people collect newspapers. Some people wash their hands 30 times a day. Some people think Star Trek is real. Brandon Wiard writes songs. It all started when he sang Hall & Oates’ “Maneater” in a stroller at JC Penney’s, but… (Read More)
Brendan Benson and the Wellfed Boys
Brendan Benson is an artist whose name evokes vague recognition among some, but drooling, obsessive enthusiasm from those who truly know his work. “One Mississippi”, his 1996 debut, is a semi-secret treasure, the sort of record that’s bound to get lavish… (Read More)
Brian Sofer is a singer/songwriter from New York who is now based in Denver, CO. Brian stepped out from behind the machine and onto the stage as an acoustic solo artist in late 2002. Sofer’s music combines driving guitar rhythms with… (Read More)
