There was romance in the air last Tuesday night at Humphreys as Iron & Wine (aka Sam Beam) serenaded the crowd underneath the brightly lit sky of the fading supermoon. As palm trees quietly creaked in the cool breeze, an eager and smitten audience soaked in as much of the beauty emanating from the stage as they could. Continue reading…
When I first heard that Toad the Wet Sprocket were getting back together to release a new album after a 15 year-hiatus, I was a little worried. Continue reading…
In celebration of their newly released album, Ride the Black Wave, The Donkeys played the hell out of a church in North Park last Friday night. Continue reading…
“Cosmic American Music†was a term used by the late great father of alternative country, Gram Parsons, to describe his mystical vision for a new genre of music. Well on his way to seeing this vision through, Parsons’ untimely death in 1973 put an abrupt end to his path of liberating country music from the confines of Nashville and releasing it into the stratosphere for all to enjoy. Continue reading…
On his 2012 album, Maraqopa, Damien Jurado broke away from his normal sound to explore the psychedelic rock that came out of Los Angeles and San Francisco in the late ’60s. Continue reading…