Newton Faulkner is a 23 year old English singer songwriter with a wistful smile and phenomenal dreadlocks. But you’ll already know him as one of 2007’s most striking musical arrivals, clocking up a Number One platinum album, sell-out UK tours and… (Read More)
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nicole torres was born in miami, fl in 1983 to her wonderful cuban parents. one day about 18 years later she began to play the guitar. soon after, she found herself on stage in seattle and surrounding areas. after playing host… (Read More)
Nikka Costa (born: June 4, 1972) is no stranger to the music business. Having been raised inside some of the most influential social circles during her childhood, Costa was molded for perfection in her own right. She’s the daughter of famed… (Read More)
Singer/songwriter from Boulder, Colorado, Nina Storey, blends an eclectic sound of blues, rock, funk and pop. She has been compared to a diverse group of artists such as Janis Joplin, Chaka Kahn, Tori Amos, Whitney Houston and Billie Holiday. Nina has… (Read More)
Only Son is the music of NYC based songwriter Jack Dishel. His debut album, The Drop To The Top (Cassette Recordings), is currently available for download on the iTunes music store and will be released on 9/26/06 in US stores. He… (Read More)
With Otis Taylor , it’s best to expect the unexpected. While his music, an amalgamation of roots styles in their rawest form, discusses heavyweight issues like murder, homelessness, tyranny, and injustice, his personal style is lighthearted. "I’m good at dark, but… (Read More)
Liebert has said that “flamenco is a music both romantic and dangerous; it is an attitude as much as it is a musical genre.” Therein lies the philosophy that catapulted him to fame at the end of the ’80s with an… (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)
Boston-based folk artist Patty Larkin is a talented singer/songwriter and guitarist with a large New England following. She considers herself a musical adventurer and desires to write songs designed to invite audiences to share her journeys. She began recording in the… (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)
These tickets are not available at King Soopers or Twist and Shout. Buy online or at the Gothic Box office Pete Yorn is proof that fairy tales do come true. The 26 year old drummer turned singer/songwriter landed a record deal… (Read More)
You have most likely read about Peter Walker here on the Tripwire before. We were familiar with his previous album, Landed, but really didn’t hop on his bandwagon until seeing him perform in NYC this past fall. During that show he… (Read More)
Just who are Petty Booka, and where did they come from? If you’ve wandered this far into our island jungle, then you must know a little something of their legend, which is spoken of in whispers around beachside bonfires and cattle… (Read More)
PH Naffah Of The Peacemakers (Acoustic Duo)
There are two kinds of drummers in this world, ones that are flamboyant and ones that are all business. P.H. Naffah definitely falls into the latter category. Called the “calmest, low maintenance guy I know,” by frontman Roger Clyne, Naffah prefers… (Read More)
Polly Paulusma: Biography 01 January 2004 “When I was eight, I built a raft at the bottom of the garden from a bit of old fence,” Polly recalls. "I nagged my mum to take it down to the river. She eventually… (Read More)
Preacher Boy stands at the crossroads of the blues, country, rock, and rockabilly, howling his tales into the void of human misery, folly, and (possible) redemption. Preacher Boy is Christopher Watkins, a one-man band of epic proportions, playing virtually everything—shy a… (Read More)
it all began in sleepy, rural, bernville, pennsylvania when i first picked up the guitar at the age of 14. i realized i needed to express my teenage anguish in something other than ice sculpting, my prior hobby and artform. i… (Read More)
Putnam Murdock got his start as a dedicated professional musician on the road. As front man for the successful Boulder, Colorado based rock and roll group, Chief Broom achieved great successes such as: earning slots on the 1997 H.O.R.D.E. tour, playing… (Read More)
Randy Newman is both a gifted composer and a scathing social satirist. Churning out hits since the 1970’s, he has developed an idiosyncratic style that alternates between sweeping cinematic pop and rolling R&B, tied together by his nasty sense of humor… (Read More)
Rasputina is a “cello-rock” ensemble. Founded by Melora Creager in 1891, they have long held true to their mission of enlightening the common man as to the power and versatility of the mighty cello. Historically influenced, and constantly costumed, Rasputina keeps… (Read More)
bronx girl by way of moscow who writes songs for the piano, voice, drum stick, and guitar (sort of). other instruments may follow… SOVIET KITSCH was released in stores March 1st 2005 by Sire Records. It can be bought on line… (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)
After starting his musical career as a solo artist and member of various folk groups, RICHIE FURAY formed BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD in 1967 with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin. Buffalo Springfield’s debut album included the hit single "For… (Read More)
1952 Conceived in Stockholm. 1953 Born in London. 1956 I see a dead chicken. 1957 John Lennon meets Paul McCartney in Liverpool. 1959 I get my first plastic dinosaur. 1962 Bay Of Pigs & The… (Read More)
Singer songwriters are a dime a dozen. Among their ilk, few are able to portray a convincing human quality. Underneath the suffocation layers of overproduction, psuedo-cowboy heartache and disingenuous roots-of-rock posturing, such efforts are simply ineffectual. Somehow, believing the sincerity of… (Read More)
My name is Rodney Crowell. I am a songwriter and recording artist. (A Grammy, an ASCAP Creative Achievement award, Rolling Stone Magazine announcing me some kind of can’t miss star of the future after the release of my first album and… (Read More)
Rodrigo (Sanchez) and Gabriela (Quintero) are two fast-fingered, Dublin-based, Mexicans with a unique sound created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with timeless Hispano — classical influences. The fire in… (Read More)
A third generation Arizonan, songwriter Roger Clyne regularly bares his soul in rock ‘n’ roll originals that are often tinted with Southwest influences: a verse in Spanish here or a line about a desert landscape there. However, ¡ Americano! takes Clyne’s… (Read More)
Greetings – I wanted to share some insight into my new release, Retriever. It was recorded mostly in London last August during what the papers were calling “The BIG Heatwave of 2003”. I’m not sure if the weather played a role… (Read More)
ROSANNE CASH, daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash, may be the crown princess of Nashville, but she doesn’t think of herself as a country artist. She is one of her generation’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters—in any genre—and she rightly believes that… (Read More)
